We’re in the process of emailing speaker invitations to those whose sessions were accepted for the 2017 agenda. **Please check your email and promptly follow the instructions to complete registration. ** In the event that a speaker is unable to confirm their invitation in time, we will move on to other speakers and sessions - that’s why, if you haven’t presently received an invitation, you still might. Once we’ve confirmed everyone, we’ll send out notices to any speakers who were not selected, so that you’re in the loop. We do appreciate your patience as we work through this process. Registration will open November 1st, and a draft brochure is available at http://PowerShellSummit.org. This brochure does include session highlights that may not have been confirmed, so they’re still subject to change. The Registration link at PowerShellSummit.org will show you the current confirmed agenda. For speakers who were regretfully declined, you’ll be able to register on November 1st. In the event we have a late speaker dropout - which happens - we may contact you about jumping in as a speaker after all, at which time we’ll sort out the finances if you’ve paid for your registration, typically offering a full refund of your registration fee. You’ll notice that Summit has become a full 4-day event - we’re unsure, at this point, if 3-day passes will be offered or not. We won’t make that decision until February 2017, assuming any space remains by that point. So we hope you’ll consider joining us for the full 4-day event, including new hands-on experiences on Sunday, a wider variety of deep-dive half-day sessions on Sunday, attendee-driven “Side Sessions” on Tuesday and Wednesday, and an amazing lineup for Monday.
Due to unforeseen circumstances we’re a bit late getting out notifications of the sessions accepted for the 2017 Summit. Apologies to everyone who submitted sessions. We hope to have the notifications out in the next few days
The deadline for the submission of proposals for the 2017 has passed. We are NOT taking any new submissions. if you’ve been in communication regarding a submission thats fine its still under consideration and I’ll be in touch.
The PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit is the number one conference where PowerShell enthusiasts gather and learn from each other in fast-paced, knowledge packed presentations. PowerShell, and DevOps, experts from all over the world including MVP’s, community leaders and PowerShell team members, will once again join together for a few days in Bellevue, WA. to discuss and learn about maximizing PowerShell in the workplace.
It’s also the place to explore and further your knowledge of DevOps principles and practices in a Windows environment. It’s a place to make new connections, learn new techniques, and offer something to your peers and colleagues. If you want to share your PowerShell or DevOps expertise, then this is your official call to submit presentations for selection!
Putting on an event like the PowerShell and DevOps Global Summit involves a lot of planning. We started the planning process for the 2017 Summit BEFORE the 2016 Summit started!
We have to work so far in advance that we’re taking guesses at the topics that will be of high interest next April – remember that we fix the agenda 6 months before the actual Summit.
Part of the process of creating the agenda is that we publish a ‘Call for Proposals’ where we ask potential speakers to submit session proposals. We then use those proposals as the basis of the agenda. Session proposals can be taken as they are or we may suggest changes to the speaker to ensure a more cohesive agenda.
We’ve uploaded the results of the Verified Effective: PowerShell Toolmaker exam, which was administered at the recent PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2016. Note that this exam has, for a couple of years now, been available only as an on-site, in-person, proctored experience - we do not offer online delivery. We had our best pass rate ever - about 20%. That said, nobody hit 100%. I had actually done a pre-con, full-day session on the very topic being tested - writing advanced functions - and had more than a few folks tell me that the session wasn’t as “advanced” as they wanted. Notwithstanding, 80% of the people who took the test didn’t pass (and I wasn’t the one grading the tests, either, so it’s not just spite!). Unfortunately, a lot of us think we’re “advanced,” but in fact are missing a lot of details. In some cases, having reviewed the graded tests, folks are missing some of the basics. If you took the test, head over to VerifiedEffective.org and enter your candidate ID to see if you passed. I want to stress that I personally don’t have access to the graded tests with names attached - I only have anonymized copies. We’re not going to offer the exam again at Summit 2017. We’re considering making some schedule changes that won’t accommodate the time and space and personnel needed to administer the exam and - to be frank - I think education would benefit a lot of people more than a test. Whether we offer the test again in future years hasn’t yet been decided, although I’ll share our general feelings at the end of this article. In fact, with that “education” in mind, I’m going to break a rule. I’m going to post the entire exam packet, exactly as it was given to the attendees who took the exam. I did something similar after PowerShell Summit Europe 2015, but this is the exact exam packet. Go ahead - give yourself an hour to finish the test, and then check back here. I’ll wait. Exam
The session recordings are now online! We did miss a few of the videos. The few 2-hour sessions scheduled in Room 406 were not recorded (and weren’t planned to be; we only have two sets of recording equipment, although for 2017 we’re adding a third set). And, we had a couple that had video problems on-site and weren’t recordable. We hope you’ll appreciate that our priority on-site is to provide a great experience for the people who were there, and stopping everything to make sure we get a recording isn’t always practical. As always, recordings are on a best-effort basis. As far as we know, we missed one of Matt Graeber’s sessions, Lee Holmes’ session, and the Microsoft general session from Kenneth Hansen and Angel Cavelo. A new experiment this year should come online by July 2016. Pluralsight showed up with two film crews, and captured live HD video, and audio right from the speakers’ mic, in rooms 404 and 405, which were our main session rooms. Those recordings, which will combine the live video with our screen captures, will be available in the Pluralsight library for all Pluralsight subscribers. Registered attendees of the event will receive free access to those as well, by means of a “slice” of the Pluralsight library. Note that last-minute registration transferees will not be automatically included in that, as we’ll be sending the library information to the originally registered person. In addition, for attendees who did not provide complete contact information (like, if someone else registered you), the notification will go to the contact information we do have. We don’t have the ability to update that list at this point, sorry.
The agenda is available on the official event page! Please note that this is subject to change, but we’ll update that same copy so you can just refer to it. We’ll have handouts on site, but we recommend having an offline copy of the PDF, or your own printout, as a backup. It’s worth reviewing this in advance, so you can start planning your own personal agenda. Don’t forget that the registration site (https://eventloom.com/event/home/PSNA16) allows you to set your own personal agenda (after logging in), and provides a mobile-friendly view at the event.
So, we have 3 seats left, which isn’t much - and we contacted our venue, and they said they they’d let us bring in those people more last-minute (in terms of us setting food and space requirements), but there’s a small uncharge of $100 per person. So those last three seats are on sale at PowerShellSummit.org, through the morning of March 11th, and the new pricing should go into effect sometime tonight. In the meantime, if you happen to show up and the lower price is still there, go for it. But… only three seats. Good luck!
Here’s a sort of last call: Registration ends on March 1st, 2016, giving you just about ten days from today (Feb 18th). Additionally, we’ve got just around 24 seats remaining. About 5 of those are available as 3-day seats, and about 19 as 4-day seats. We’ll try and slide that availability around so you’re not forced into one or the other, but this is basically last call for attendees either way. Hope we’ll see you there!
