#Splunk .conf 2016 cost upgrade

My PM and Eng friends, myself and my SE and Strategist buddies on the field side - we are who staffed those booths. YES! That's my favorite part, and I can assure you, you are the whole reason we do it, honestly. The most I got was from speaking to the Splunk teams directly at the stalls Built that into the plan, almost.Īlways the way it goes, but we will be publishing all the sessions for later viewing. A chance to chew their ears 1 to 1 was invaluable, found a lot of answers for my difficult questions, and discovered things I had no idea existed like the SPL2 project.īiggest disappointment was realising fears that on prem is heading towards becoming second class, a huge worry for the future for those where cloud just simply is not an option, and will certainly make many large customers start to think hard about their long term vendor choices.

The most I got was from speaking to the Splunk teams directly at the stalls, only discovered them on the last day having walked straight past the tiny 4 sided stations earlier. However the hands on labs were great, they all seemed to be booked up, but there was always spare spaces at the time. I also agree with the clashing of many similar ones. I was quite disappointed by some of the remote/prerecorded sessions, and also I had misunderstood that many sessions were management and not technical focused. So if Vegas hadn't got me the flight certainly would have! Again, only person with mask. Flight back was just hundreds of people with bad coughs, including myself. Didn't bother when at Vegas as I considered it 'inevitable'. )Ĭovid here too, but I mean, what should I expect, going to Vegas?! Flight over I was the only person with a mask, lots of sniggers, but I thought 'start on the right foot'.

Also, I'll see what I can do about fixing the pandemic. To those that did not have such a great experience, just know that we do read the comments, we try our best, and we'll continue to do that. I'm super glad that the folks who enjoyed the show had a great time, and I did as well. We all do our best, but this one was as I said, especially challenging, given the environment outside that we can only control so far. Maybe takes 2-3x the people at the event (and we send a lot of folks) to make it all happen. It's fun work, but it's a ton of work, every time. Not trying to brag, but just to establish some credibility here, I've done a bunch at these shows: Turns out that putting on a global event in 2022 is pretty hard!Īctually, having been involved in all 11 of them in the 10y 4m I've been with the company, I can say /hands down/, this certainly was the hardest. Hey everyone, thanks for providing your honest feedback, positive and negative. Sorry for the bad words - but this week has been worse for me.

#Splunk .conf 2016 cost upgrade

Oh and one last thing: maybe splunk shouldn’t drop a major security issue right before a start of their largest convention and the only fix is to upgrade to a completely new major version! After that experience I think this will be the last conf I will attend to. Covid restrictions should have been tighter and less marketing BS would be nice. So here is my wrap up: Organisation could have mentioned that there will be recorded sessions (I get why a lot of presenter’s didn’t want to got there).

And most of the guys that went to the conf and flew back to Europe also got it. Let’s get to Covid restrictions: as you may have guessed, the changes to get infected where extremely high. That’s it, I felt extremely valued as a partner :D Partner Session at the Partner Booth was an absolute joke - the guy spoke 5 minutes. So mainly I flew to Vegas (13 hours) to watch some videos - NICE! This happend in all of the SEC sessions I attended. So a PM stout there to say “the presenter couldn’t make it - so here is a video” and hit the space bar. So I went to my first sessions only to find out, that most of the SEC sessions have been prerecorded. But hey it’s the MainStage and the keynote - it has to be in there for everybody. Tuesday kicked off with a cool keynote - but version 9 was mentioned once the rest was “marketing bs”. Monday I picked up my badge and was excited for the first timer session. So I said to myself: wear a mask and try not to touch everything. I entered the hotel to find out it’s just one big superspreader event. I arrived Sunday and had no idea what Vegas would be like. First of all, this was my first conf and I didn’t know what to expect. conf I wanted to write a post to express my feelings about the last week.