PowerShell Deep Dive Recap

Here’s all you need to know about the upcoming first ever official PowerShell conference collected by me from multiple websites and put here in one place. 🙂

When & Where

April 17-19 2011, Las Vegas

Price

Hugely discounted $850 if you register by March 31, and full $1825 starting April 1. To get the discount  register here and use code ATGNJR6E.

[UPDATE] Note that this discounted price is good if you limit yourself to the PowerShell session. If you want full flexibility of all of TEC – you need to pay for the regular full conference pass. Also note that there is an extra fee involved if you sign-up for the pre-conference training.

What People are Saying about the Conference

Video:

Jeffrey Snover	Don Jones	Dan Harman	Hemant Mahawar

Audio:

• Jeffrey Snover and Kenneth Hansen talk about PowerShell Deep Dive at the PowerScripting Podcast
• Jeffrey Snover on RunAs Radio
• Travis Jones on Get-Scripting podcast

Agenda

April 17: 4 hour pre-conference hands on workshop with Don Jones – everyone will get a computer lab and Don will make sure that you are up to speed with PowerShell, and ready for the Deep Dive on April 18 & 19.

April 18-19 two days of lots of PowerShell contest including a scripting party, and sessions. Sessions will consist of regular 75 minute “using PowerShell to manage X” kind of sessions, and deep PowerShell sessions related to the PowerShell language per se. The latter will be shorter and will include a lot of discussions with the actual PowerShell product team so you know why they implemented the system in a particular way, and they will collect from you the feedback they need to make things better!

Here’s the current quick list of just some of the session names – full descriptions can be found here.

• Jeffrey Snover:  Proxy Function Party
• Bruce Payette:  Why does it work that way? A look inside the PowerShell runtime
• Kenneth Hansen & Don Jones:  The cliffs of PowerShell
• Darren Mar-Ella:  Advanced Managing Group Policy with PowerShell
• Brandon Shell:  An intro to PowerShell and Why You Need It
• Jerry Camel:  Automating BPOS Exchange Administration with PowerShell and C#
• Kirk Munro:  Defining domain-specific vocabularies using Windows PowerShell
• James Booth:  Files, FIM, & PowerShell
• Kirk Munro:  Managing Hyper-V with Windows PowerShell
• Jeffrey Hicks:  Mastering Format and Type Extensions
• Richard Siddaway:  WMI Gotchas and Hidden Gems
• Craig Martin:  FIM PowerShell Deep Dive
• Sean Kearney:  Leverage PowerShell with vbScript and vice versa
• Jeffrey Hicks:  Mastering Format and Type Extensions
• Kirk Munro:  Defining domain-specific vocabularies using Windows PowerShell
• James O’Neil:  The PowerShell Library for Hyper-V: How it was Built, and How it is Used

Who is Coming

More or less all key people from Microsoft’s PowerShell team, PowerShell MVPs, most active PowerShell bloggers and forum stars. Here’s an incomplete list of those who I know are coming:

• Jeffrey Snover – the father of PowerShell and Lead Architect for Windows Server
• Travis Jones – Program Manager on the PowerShell Team at Microsoft
• June Blender – Lead Tech Writer on the PowerShell Team at Microsoft
• Dan Harman – Program Manager on the PowerShell Team at Microsoft
• Jim Truher – co-creator of PowerShell 1.0 at Microsoft
• Ed Wilson – the Scripting Guy at Microsoft and author
• Roberto Farah – Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft, author of PowerDbg
• Andy Schneider – PowerShell blogger
• Glenn Sizemore – PowerShell blogger and author
• Dmitry Sotnikov – the father of PowerGUI, QAD cmdlets and PowerShell MVP
• Adam Driscoll – the creator of PowerGUI VSX
• Don Jones – PowerShell MVP and author
• Jeffery Hicks – PowerShell MVP and author
• Richard Siddaway – PowerShell MVP and author
• Sean Kearney – PowerShell MVP
• Brandon Shell – PowerShell MVP
• Richard Giles from Idera, the makers of PowerShell Plus
• Steven Murawski from UsePowerShell.com
• Gent Hito – President of /n Software who is currently heading www.powershellinside.com
• Brian Butler – From www.powerwf.com
• Joe Pruitt – Senior Architect at F5
• Chris Piper – lead developer for the Intel vPro PowerShell module

Let me know if you are coming and I will add you to the list!

What is TEC?

PowerShell Deep Dive will be co-hosted with a bigger and more established The Experts Conference. You can read about other tracks and sessions of The Experts Conference here.

Is there any other information that I missed? Please leave your comments and I will update the post.

Register here and use code ATGNJR6E to get the discount (remember: the discount expires in just a week – starting April 1, the price will go from $850 to $1825 so register today).

See you in Vegas!