Getting Technical

Earlier this year we (a couple of SAP Mentors) put on an Inside Track event in London. As the SAP TechEd series of events is coming around now I am starting to think about what we could do for next year. Here are a few questions for you:

Did you enjoy the event this year?

Would you recommend it to a friend?

What went well?

What could we improve?

Given there is an event in Bonn in the first half of next year would you come to both?

What dates work for you?

What topics would you like to see covered?

Answers in the comments please.

For more information about the SAP Inside Track series of local events follow http://twitter.com/sapinsidetrack/

Note for the lawers amoungst us: SAP Inside Track is a community run event organised by SAP Mentors in various cities around the world. It is not officially endorsed as an official education channel by SAP AG or any of its local subsiduaries. Having said that the people who come to these events know what they are doing and you 1. might learn something and 2. might meet someone. You should come.

Darren Hague and I had a odd idea last year.

“Why not run an unconference for SAP developers and consultants in London.”

SAP Inside Track London 2009

We had both been to SAP Community Days and thought we could pull something off. So we hustled together a venue and a wiki page to handle the signups and sessions.

It was a lot of fun. So much so that this year we are repeating the whole process.

This year we have managed to secure IBM Southbank as a venue. Thanks to a lot of help from Zoe Slattery. 

The date is April 4 and there is a small charge of £10 to cover the lunch. (Signup quickly in March for the early bird rate. In April it will rocket to £15!)

There are several SAP Mentors coming to the event from Europe so it is a great chance to hear from them and particularly the ESME team.

Ant Phillips from IBM will be presenting a session on connecting SAP up with Project Zero, the community version of Websphere sMash. The other sessions planned for the day are on the SDN Wiki.

One of the  sessions is a discussion on certification. This has been a hot topic in the SAP community lately. New Mentor Michael Koch is currently running a survey on how certification relates to contractors. You can complete this survey here and it would be great to see some good results from that survey at the unconference.

You can follow the fun in twitter at @SAPInsideTrack.

One of the great benefits of these days is the networking and conversations with people in trenches.  In credit crunched times such as today these can be even more valuable than official training sessions and (dare I say it) certification.

If you would like to come along to meet the mentors, participate in the sessions, run a session for yourself there is still time to signup.