Microsoft in Open Space


Most Valuable Invitation at Microsoft:

Techie is proud to have been invited to this year’s Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2008 at at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center in Seattle and at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

What is the MVP Global Summit?
The MVP Global Summit is a four-day invitation-only event hosted at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center in Seattle and at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. With more than 400 sessions and a variety of networking opportunities, the MVP Global Summit enables Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and Regional Directors (RDs) to:

Connect with other MVPs and RDs
Engage with Microsoft product managers
Provide valuable feedback directly to Microsoft on its products and technologies.

Highlights for 2008 include:
Event closing technical discussion by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect
Keynote by Steve Ballmer, Microsoft chief executive officer
Deep technical sessions by competency
Cross-competency electives
Highly dynamic and interactive sessions, designed based on Open Space Technology, where you’ll be able to define topics, attend, or even host
Additional activities designed to promote networking and meet attendees’ diverse informational and business needs

UPDATE: Harrison Owen posted this today to the OSLIST… looks like another Microsoft open space:

Seems like the folks at the annual Microsoft Professional Development Conference are intending to open a little space. Definitely cutting edge, innovative – Cheers for Microsoft. For the details. Don’t have any idea who is doing it, but I am sure they will have a grand time.

I especially like this bit from a Microsoft blog:

Not only are we doing Open Space at PDC 2008, we want to make sure it is a _real_ Open Space. None of this “Microsoft doesn’t understand, they don’t grok it, they entirely and utterly butchered the whole Open Space concept”.

 

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Very reassured that Jason Olson, who is responsible for the upcoming Conference within a Conference at PDC 2008, seems to be serious about doing Open Space, not the – um – alternative version that was done at the MVP Summit.

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