I was lucky enough to attend Microsoft’s first local partner conference in Auckland this week with a team from Provoke. The two day conference was a good mix of sessions and networking.

My favourite sessions were delivered by Bruce Rasmussen (owner of Carpe Diem Consulting in Australia.) He delivered very common sense sessions about sales and marketing. Its always good pulling things back to first principles. Other sessions I enjoyed included 30 demos in 60 minutes (showcasing lots of “Microsoft bling” including heaps of cool silverlight demos), Microsoft’s partnership with the public sector and a session delivered by Gartner about IT trends around the world.

The hands down highlight of the conference was the black tie awards dinner, and Provoke winning the Partner Solution of the Year award (as well as an award for business productivity solution of the year). It was awesome gaining recognition from Microsoft for all of the amazing work that the Provoke team have done over the last year. Congratulations to Provoke, and of course all of the other award winners on the night

Filed under: Work by Louie Date 22 September, 2007