My hat off to the Danish/Nordic VMUG Leaders for pulling off this line up, of speakers at the small conference VMUG.DK, that’s being held at Scandic Copenhagen Hotel at December 1.st

If you haven’t signed up already, please do so here:
https://www.vmug.com/p/cm/ld/fid=10935

It will be an amazing event. And if you’ve never been to VMworld this will let you experience a small bit of that, as the conference is set up as a small VMworld, with a small Solutions Exchange where VMware partners will showcase some of their products. There will be Keynotes and break-out sessions so you can pick those that are most to your interest. Or do something different and pick some of those that you don’t know about, but could learn something new.

Besides that you will have the opportunity to meet and talk to a lot of other VMware customers from the Nordic countries. And it’s usually very rewarding talking to other customers about their setups and comparing that to your own. And your own setup might not be as outdated as you might think, you’ll be amazed.

After the event there will be a #vBeers event where you can get a drink with all your VMUG friends. details will be posted on #vmugdk on twitter and an invite is usually given at the conference as well.

As for the line-up of speakers try to look at this list. That’s a huge line-up of prominent speakers. And along with these there will be a number of community sessions where VMware costumers do a presentation on a subject of their choosing. (I did one once too)

William Lam @lamw from VMware is famous for his scripting and automation abilities. And has been a speaker at VMworld numerous times. Including the very famous “Ask the Expert vBloggers” which always is full and has a big waiting list. I must say a major scoop bringing William to Denmark, for the first time.

Duncan Epping @duncanyb Duncan probably needs no introduction, having been voted #1 vBlogger for past 8 years running. Also a part of the famous Dutch vMafia crew, which also includes giants like Frank Denneman from PernixData and Eric Sloof. Duncan works as a Chief Technologist at the office of the CTO at VMware.

Cormac Hogan @CormacJHogan from VMware also know as Mr. VMwareStorage, has the last few years been talking about VSAN and VVOL‘s Always a pleasure to hear Cormac speak, very down to earth approach to speak at VMworld and VMUG.

Paul Strong @pauldstrong VP & Chief Technology Officer, Global Field at VMware. Famous for Cloud and Grid Computing communities. I’ve actually never heard Paul speak, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about his presentations, so looking forward to that very much.

Paudie ORiordan @oriorp from VMware. Managed to get 1000 followers without a single tweet. Has tweeted a lot since then 🙂 Has spoken at VMUG’s in Denmark twice before, and especially the first one about VMware support and what customers called in with, made a huge impression.

Joerg Lew @joerglew from VMware is an Orchestration and Automation Guru from Germany. His page vcoportal.de has tons of stuff for vCenter Orchestrator and vRealize Automation Center.

And last but not least, the Danish VMUG Leader team has been able to get Andreas Mogensen @Astro_Andreas, Denmarks first Astronout, speak at the event. This will bring Geek to a whole new level. Guess we’ll hear some insights from his trip to the ISS, and hopefully get to ask some questions too!

A truly  amazing line-up. So if you haven’t signed up yet, hurry up and do so now!

Links:
https://www.vmug.com/p/cm/ld/fid=10935
https://vterkel.dk/2014/09/18/vmugdk-presentation/
http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/
http://www.yellow-bricks.com/
http://www.dutchvmafia.com/
http://frankdenneman.nl/
http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/
http://cormachogan.com/
https://blogs.vmware.com/cto/author/paul_strong/
http://paudieoriordan.com/
http://www.vcoportal.de/
https://twitter.com/Astro_Andreas?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor