After a 5+ hour freezing cold flight from Halifax to Seattle (without any food), which included a connecting flight from Vancouver to Seattle in a tiny DASH 8 aircraft, I finally checked-in to Grand Hyatt Seattle this evening. I spent the last two days with my friend, an ex-MVP and a current Microsoft full-time employee.
The 2007 Global MVP Summit starts tomorrow with the registration. Some unique stats for this summit (gracfully stolen from MVP Jason's blog) are as follows:
- The MVP Summit is the largest event held at the Microsoft campus
- 1889 attendees are registered to attend
- 88 countries will be represented (based on registrations)...including for the first time: Algeria, Andorra, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cyprus, El Salvador, Gibraltar, Honduras, Latvia, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Rwanda, Tunisia, UAE, Uruguay and Vietnam
- 533 Sessions will be delivered
- 956 Microsoft employees pre-registered as speakers/attendees
- 10 Microsoft Executives and 4 Technical Fellows
Bill Gates kicks off the summit on Tuesday with his keynote at the Washington State Convention Centre. Looking forward to the next week !