TechEd Bangalore - Day of DemoJam

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Today is the opening day of TechEd but I had gone to office to take care of a Go-live related issue. Anyway it was possible to catch the live stream of the Keynote session by Peter Zencke followed by Partner sessions of Sanjoy Bose of IBM and Sanjeev Vohra of Accenture. The theme of keynote was 3 Co's - Connect, Collaborate and Co-innovate. Although the keynote address was full the turnout to TechEd was much less compared to last year (4100+ versus 6000) signs of tough times.

In a way I did not miss much from the keynote as I along with two other Mentors Dipankar Saha and Rajesh Banka were taken to a Press Conference by Michael Bechauf. You can read about Kiruba Shankar's blog covering TechEd. I had planned for a four hour Hands-on Session LCM160 System Performance Tuning for Beginners by Ashok Hake and Pragnesh KRV. I missed a good part of the Hands-on session while attending to the Press Conference but overall the Hands-on session gave enough inputs to take back to my project and apply.

The opening day of TechEd is also the most happening day with Demo Jam in the evening. Having been to last years Demo Jam I knew what to expect and made sure those I knew attending for the first time did not miss this event. As usual it was Craig Cmehil and Ian Kimball to set the context of the evening, introducing the Top Contributors to the huge crowd before finally kicking off Demo Jam.

Rather than being just an audience enjoying Demo Jam from first row, I was tweeting live for a change 🙂 and later on ESMEd to a global audience. It was simply thrilling to see Community Members from around the world wanting to catch proceeding from Demo Jam "live".
So here is an offline report of Demo Jam as it unfolded through the evening ....

heading over to Demo Jam need to grab a seat in the front 5:42 PM Nov 12th from web   

front row of Demo Jam among the presenters - all tensed but charged up wireless signal strength: Very Good 5:53 PM Nov 12th from web   

ok now @ccemhil is loud and clear 5:56 PM Nov 12th from web   
 
@ccmehil is still not on @ijkman is on 5:55 PM Nov 12th from web in reply to ccmehil   
 
blue shirt and jeans - he is not on though no mike 5:54 PM Nov 12th from web   
 
wow @ccmehil in semi-formals 5:54 PM Nov 12th from web   

demojam has a trophy in centrestage - @ccmehil jokes its his beer glass 5:57 PM Nov 12th from web   

3rd time Demo Jam in Bangalore. joking about trophy 5:58 PM Nov 12th from web   

oops @ccmehil did not carry out a sound check of the applausemeter centre of Demo Jam 6:04 PM Nov 12th from web   
 
ok @markyolton on stage now while the first team is getting ready 6:04 PM Nov 12th from web   

@markyolton talks about InnoCentive / newly redesigned SCN / Feeding Knowledge UN WFP 6:08 PM Nov 12th from web in reply to MarkYolton   

only 10% of SCN MEmbers are contributing, 1/2 of 1% are Active Contributors >250 points and 1/100 of 1% truly extraordinary people ME ... ... 6:13 PM Nov 12th from web   

@marilynpratt @ccmehil on stage to recognise Top Contributors first one up @abesh 6:15 PM Nov 12th from web in reply to marilynpratt   
 
photo op at Centrestage - Abesh, Lakshmipathi, Nirav, Ayyapparaj, Swarup, Prateek, Jitesh and Dipankar 6:16 PM Nov 12th from web   

@ccmehil did a jig with the cue music - lights dimmed so no one see it 😉 6:17 PM Nov 12th from web in reply to ccmehil   

Demo Jam abt to start ... he is now going to do the applausemeter 6:17 PM Nov 12th from web   

very few people in audience have been to Demo Jam earlier 6:19 PM Nov 12th from web   

now Demo Jam coverage parallely in esme.us also 6:26 PM Nov 12th from web   
 
audience still not loud enough ... the meter is coming up now 6:28 PM Nov 12th from web   

first DJ team ready to go Saksham Finding Abilities Not Disabilities 6:30 PM Nov 12th from web   

first application using computer without monitor or mouse second apps voice based ineraction with SAP demoed by visually impaired Harshit 6:33 PM Nov 12th from web   

@rhirsch yes DJ is full people standing at the back first team time up 6:36 PM Nov 12th from web in reply to rhirsch 

next on DJ - SAP Business Connect with Facebook - erecruiting using social network portals 6:37 PM Nov 12th from web   

social networks and SAP e-recuitment mashup using SAP Business Connect 6:39 PM Nov 12th from web   

voting on for the second team - lower noise than first team 6:43 PM Nov 12th from web   

third team Flex-ible: Enabling ABAP Developer to Develop in Flex ... this looks to be really a cool demo 6:44 PM Nov 12th from web   

ESME team getting wired up they will be 5th team i guess 6:47 PM Nov 12th from web   

ok third team is getting solid noise 6:49 PM Nov 12th from web   

4th DJ team CSN Spellchecker 6:50 PM Nov 12th from web   

ESME team near the stairs to go up @ccmehil giving last minute insights ? 6:52 PM Nov 12th from web   

ESME team on stage finally 4th team presentation over 6:54 PM Nov 12th from web   

@ccmehil doing his bit to prep up audience on ESME they roll 6:55 PM Nov 12th from web

ESME does not get solid response 7:01 PM Nov 12th from web   

last team Geospatial Analystics on stage 7:03 PM Nov 12th from web   

ok DemoJam is over and results being readied 7:08 PM Nov 12th from web   

DJ results out - FLEXible, CSN Spell Checker and Geo-Spatial Analytics are among top three 7:11 PM Nov 12th from web   

final results 1st Geo-Spatial Analytics, 2 FLEXible, 3 CSN Spell Checker - bit surprised 7:16 PM Nov 12th from web  

shutting down running out of laptop juice and need to head back home - wife screaming over mobile. see u all tomorrow 7:17 PM Nov 12th from web   

That was it for me at TechEd Day 1. Had to rush back home to take care of my baby. Those staying back enjoyed Vikram Sathaye's antics on stage + Networking + Dinner