While Teched North America 2011 officially starts tomorrow, day zero or better known as the pre-conference day is done. Several hundreds of people attended these technical one-day workshops which varied on subject from System Center Configuration Manager 2012 previews to Windows Phone 7 development. The Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) is a massive venue, which has been colored blue to the Teched NA theme this year. Somewhere between around 10,000 attendees are expected to fill up the GWCC in the next 4 days.

Attendees who registered today found a flyer in their conference bag telling them that Teched North America 2012 will be held in Orlando, Florida next year in June. In the meanwhile crews were working on setting up the keynote (behind the scenes) for tomorrow morning, and ofcourse the expo floor. Just in time Microsoft released the official Teched app for Windows Phone 7 to guide the attendees to their sessions and rooms during the week. While everything seems to be perfectly organized, their might be a delay in the bus transport in the coming hours.

Teched NA 2011 is no doubt -the- year of the social media. Quite some people are already fiercely tweeting using the #msteched hashtag and this will probably increase even more in the next days (and might even become a trending topic on Twitter?). There are some talks on what to expect tomorrow and the days after, but one thing is sure: it’s going to be cloud, cloud, cloud! This is going to be an exciting week even if you can’t physically join!

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