Alternative to large tech conferences #vDM30in30

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hi chief thousand from C to advisor calm with date number eight of vdm 30 and 30 30 tag videos 30 days yes it is tough but we committed to doing it so we're getting through things come on by for encouraged me to go ahead and push through and getting this video in we're going to talk about the value of meetups and small conferences we're not talking about small conferences on a scale of vmworld or oracle world or dmz world those are large conferences that are some

type of if you're not in that local area even if you're on that local area let's say that you just have to live in Vegas a conference like AWS reinvent is still a couple of thousand dollars like twenty five hundred dollars to attend vendors like van where with their v forums or Google hosting a kuba Denny's meet up or cubic on which thinking's not I haven't checked on the price but these traveling conferences and meetups are extremely valuable places to go and get access to both

new technology from a knowledge perspective in access to a lot of great people resources for example viewers be forum I run into folks like browser Rivera who's in the CT oval office of vmworld vm of VMware's stored be you and I get to talk to him one-on-one and he's hopefully available to any customer who's willing to sit in and chat or a meet-up I went to a few months ago back in seattle where blue box jet ski bum from ibm's bluemix crew was there and just

you know casually having conversations with developers in infrastructure people these intimate settings are a great way to get free to cheap access to really really great content so you didn't the reason why I you know I'm making this video on talking about this a lot of these events such as a Vemma or meet up a lot of times we'll get restaurants for this these events and not only around thirty percent show up it is a really great or a missed opportunity to gets really great knowledge

and develop some really great relationships within the industry so that was the you know the video is as you're looking to transform yours scale your business where you're going to need access to the information and these critical people resources throughout the industry and I don't want you to miss the opportunity with these small impromptu them sometimes and a lot of times we'll planned events that's it for the CTL advisor check and this video 30 and 30 video of talk to you guys tomorrow