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Hi guys,

I’m going to be in Austin for a social event Oct 10th and I was actively looking for IT events in the area while I was here. I’m coming from the UK on the weekend so I wanted to really make it worth it!

I’ve been a contractor for 7 years now, specializing in developing and integrating Microsoft .NET applications, though I’m looking at moving into Dynamics from an ERP angle in a year or two so meeting and talking to folks in this space would be “awesome”.

From what I can tell, this looks like it might be more targeted at your network admins, IT managers etc - think someone from my area could get much out of this? Don’t believe the sessions have been announced yet so I’m guessing a little at the minute!

Managed to find one video from last year on YouTube on Wireless Security which looked pretty good so general IT will always gets me interested too :slight_smile:

Thanks in advance and have a great day,
Andrew

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It targeted at the everyday IT Pro. I don’t think there will be any session for developers, but it’s a great time with a bunch of great people

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There is an active coding community. It’s alwayd worth at least looking into.

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Since you’re going to be in Austin (HQ of Spiceworks), you might reach out to communitymanagers@spiceworks.com to see if there is anything cool you can check out with Spiceworks in the area.

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If you are interested in Security, then there are two keynote speakers this year you might be interested in:

Frank Abagnale / Introducing Frank Abagnale - Notorious con man and SpiceWorld featured speaker!

Bruce Schneier / Bruce Schneier: SpiceWorld's second featured speaker

Last year we had Kevin Mitnick and Stu Sjouwerman of KnowBe4. Great talk by Kevin, although I did have my smart phone turned off. :slight_smile:

Hard to find a better IT conference at the price. Most others that are any good cost about 10x as much. And, aside from the content, always a good time. A good collection of vendors are always on hand (at least 60, some years as many as 120 or so), and many of them have hardware/software engineers on hand.

The social function wouldn’t be RSI related would it?

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I find the best feature of SpiceWorld, is the networking with other Spiceheads. This is why I’ve paid my own way to Austin (from the UK too in previous years).

I have a good circle of friends throughout the world, thanks to Spiceworks, and get to meet some of them at SpiceWorld.

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MarkT94 Haha, yes it is RSI related, over at the Long Center. Best damn space sim ever :wink: You going?

Aye, heard Bruce Schneier was going - read some of his articles in the past, love to see that talk. Did not know Frank Abagnale was going though. I think those speakers alone have probably convinced me to pick up a ticket!

Price is decent to be honest, I’ve been to a few before and this is definitely good value.

@marktinder

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Unfortunately no. The 10th is Wednesday, which is the BIG day for Spiceworld. Can’t be in two places… Since the company is paying, guess I need to keep it business. Perfect location, bad timing. Had it been on Monday or Thursday I would have definitely picked up a ticket.

Likely I will run in to a great many of the attendees in the evenings. Already spoken with a few who are attending and will likely meet up with them at some point Tuesday or Wednesday evening.