As I mentioned before, I'm going to TechEd because I won a scholarship through INETA.  The terms to the scholarship are volunteering in the INETA booth during the week, last week a schedule got passed around for us to sign up for our desired volunteer slots.  To do this I had to churn through the hundreds of presentations and narrow it down to the most likely and work volunteering around this.

I used the scheduling tool on the TechEd site and saved the ugly html version here.

I'm double booked in a couple slots and I'll still have to narrow the focus a little.  I'm very interested in things that apply to me now, or in the very near future, so that message might come across in my scheduling.  If it's blank, it's likely I'll be at the INETA booth, or very close to it.

Despite TechEd's apparent popularity (how quickly, or just that fact that it sold out) there still seems to be some people questioning its value.  Admittedly there is a lot of FutureTalk going on.  I'll also concede that everyone attending won't walk away with lucrative contacts for lucrative follow on consulting work just by attending and chatting with a few people, but there are probably a few deals struck.  Personally, I've never been to a big tech conference before.  At least not this big.  I made it to Devscovery in DC last year, FOSE a time or two, but not a TechEd, PDC or COMDEX.  Hopefully I won't be disappointed.