This is an AWESOME Event. I have been attending all VTUG events for years. They provide a wealth of knowledge on many topics. This is a not your typical user group event. It is more like a small scale national event but it is put on by the community for the Technology Community. Any other event of this caliber would likely cost $1200 or more. In order to provide this excellent event at an unmatched facility this community organization usually lines up 40-50 sponsors to pay for everything. There are breakouts for many of the sponsors so you can pick a few of them to visit to go deeper to learn more about their offerings. You could also visit them at their booth which is held in the concourse used by the season pass holders of Club Seats. If you have not seen a Patriots game from the RED section 
this is your opportunity to see how plush the environment is for those expensive seats. The breakouts will take placed in the Box Seat rooms! In addition, you could actually win TICKETS TO THE AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME!!! (Assuming Pats are still in the race ) Anyway, there is also a great opportunity to win incredible prizes from all of the sponsors as well as meet, get pictures, autographs from some of our past super stars, Patriots Alumni Deion Branch, Patrick Pass and Kevin Faulk during Happy Hour! Definitely stick around for happy hour and if you like, bring your (or your kids) signature ball/Jersey to get signatures the easy way .
All this and we have not even talked about the awesome training. This is a first class event with top of the line speakers from companies like Microsoft, VMware, Docker, EMC and Red Hat as well as a community speaker representing GitHub and AWS. Yes, lessons from all of these companies at a single event. WOW!
Covering Topics such as:
- GitHub for Newbies [Jonathan Frappier]
- Taking an Application from an Idea to Production with Docker [Docker]
- vSphere 6.5 Security [VMware]
- Herding Cats in the Cloud; Maintaining Operational Sanity in a Cloudy, DevOps World [Dewey Sasser]
- Containers: DevOps Enablers of Technical Solutions [Microsoft]
- Virtualization for the Hybrid Cloud [EMC]
VTUG Winter Warmer 2017
When: January 19, 2017, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Location: Gillette Stadium, Patriot Place, Foxboro MA (GPS 1 Patriot Place)
Please register to make sure we have enough food for everyone. Please join m (many people travel for this event)
Register to attend Winter Warmer 2017!
see below for Agenda and terms on full post at http://events.vtug.com/
Winter Warmer 2017
Date: January 19, 2017
Location: Gillette Stadium, Patriot Place, Foxboro MA
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM Registration and Networking – East Side Club – E4 Entrance
Sponsor Expo Open ALL Day – East Side Club
9:00 AM – 9:55 AM Keynote #1 – West Side North
Presenter: Jonathan Frappier, Sr. Tech Consultant, User Presentation
‘GitHub for Newbies’
Keynote #2 – West Side Center
Presenter: Mike Coleman, Technology Evangelist, Docker
‘Taking an Application from an Idea to Production with Docker’
Keynote #3 – West Side South
Presenters: Mike Foley, Sr. Technical Marketing Architect, VMware
‘vSphere 6.5 Security’
10:00 AM – 10:55 AM Keynote #4 – West Side North
Presenter: Dewey Sasser, Cloud Computing Architect, AWS User Presentation
‘Herding Cats in the Cloud; Maintaining Operational Sanity in a Cloudy, DevOps World’
Keynote #5 – West Side Center
‘Containers: DevOps Enablers of Technical Solutions’
Presenter: Dan Stolts, Chief Technology Strategist, Microsoft
Keynote #6 – West Side South
Presenter: Jon Benedict, Technology Evangelist, Red Hat Virtualization
‘Virtualization for the Hybrid Cloud’
11:00 AM – 11:55 AM Keynote – West Side Center
‘TBD’
Presenter: Chad Sakac, President, VCE-Converged Platform Division EMC
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch Buffet – West Side Center
1:30 PM – 2:20 PM Breakout Session 1 – East Side Club – Blue & Red Levels (Abstracts Link)
2:30 PM – 3:20 PM Breakout Session 2 – East Side Club – Blue & Red Levels (Abstracts Link)
3:30 PM – 4:20 PM Breakout Session 3 – East Side Club – Blue & Red Levels (Abstracts Link)
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Happy Hour & Prize Giveaways – East Side Club
Be sure to stick around to meet Patriots Alumni Deion Branch, Patrick Pass and Kevin Faulk during Happy Hour!
You can find me (Dan Stolts) at the Microsoft booth (when not on stage :))
Huge thanks for your help and support at this event. MVP’s:
- Robert Borges (Bay State Integrated Technology) Azure MVP
- David Klee – Windows Server MVP
Please Join, Me, Robert, David and Mary at the Microsoft Booth. We will have some giveaways 🙂