Edit: This post has a dead link to a conference from many years ago. I still love going to the IBM technical universities. In this post I mention how in the olden days we were given a CD with slides etc, I think I prefer being able to download .zip files these days, it seems like more of the last minute slides make it into the .zip files vs the CDs.
Originally posted September 4, 2007 on AIXchange
It’s already time to start thinking about IBM System p, AIX and Linux Technical University. In some organizations, you need more lead time than this to plan to attend such an event, but if you still have some flexibility and budget available, you should really consider attending. If you’ve never been to this event, you should try to attend. If you are unable to go this year, start planning for next year. No, I don’t work for the marketing department. I just found that this was a beneficial event when I attended, and I have always heard the same from friends that have gone to the conference in the past.
This year’s IBM System p, AIX and Linux Technical University will be held Oct. 1-5 in San Antonio, Texas. The list of available sessions includes 94 at the time of this writing and IBM is still finalizing the content. By looking at the agenda, you can see that great material will be presented each day. In years past, attendees received a CD that contained the slides that were presented in all of the lectures. This means that in your copious amounts of free time, (machines never need to be built or fixed do they?) you can at least look over the slides to get an idea of what went on in any of the sessions you might have missed. Many of the slides also contain contact information for the presenters, so you could e-mail them to try to get more information about a given topic.
When I attended this conference in the past, I found it to be worthwhile. If you go, let me know what you think by posting a comment here.