I know everyone is still gaining strength after VMworld US and rooting for VMworld Europe, but here is another conference which came to my attention. When I get asked about online training on VMware and AWS, Pluralsight is one of my main choices. Great trainers, great content, good platform (both desktop and mobile), not too pricey.
Pluralsight Live 2017 will take place in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, between 19 and 21 September. Pluralsight made available their “Top 10 Reasons”, I will not go that route. I will just list the speakers that caught my attention, there is little merit in saying why you should listen to them:
- Michelle Obama, former First Lady
- Joel Spolsky, CEO @Stack Overflow
- Tim Campos, Founder of Pulsra and former CIO @Facebook
- Steve Young, co-founder @HGCC and former NFL MVP
- Hadi Partovi, CEO @Code.org
- Scott Guthrie, EVP @Microsoft Cloud
- Brad Rencher, EVP @Adobe
Pluralsight Live 2017 Breakout Sessions
In terms of breakout sessions, the list is subjective of course, these are my “to-attend” sessions:
- What a Functioning DevOps Team Actually Looks like, Don Jones, Pluralsight
- Get Ready for the Web in 2018, John Papa, Microsoft
- Building an Awesome Product Team, Martin Eriksson, Founder, Product Tank
- The Future of Data Center Management, Don Jones, Jason Helmick, Jeffery Hicks, Greg Shields
- Shape the Future with Containers, Nigel Poulton, Pluralsight Author
- Rethinking Development: What If Compute, Storage and Networking are No Longer a Concern? Wes Higbee, Pluralsight Author
- The Role of Certification in 2017’s IT: A Guided Conversation, Greg Shields, Pluralsight
- Effective Mentoring 101, Patrick Neborg, Pluralsight Author
- Rearchitecting for the Cloud, Scott Allen, Microsoft MVP
- So You Are Technical Expert, Where Should You Go Next? Jose Paumard, Pluralsight Author
- From Han Solo to Jean-Luc Picard: A Nerd’s Guide to Technical Leadership & Career Growth, Ben Day, Pluralsight Author
- 30 Terrible Habits of Server and Cloud Administrators, Orin Thomas, Microsoft MVP
- The Engineering-Manager Transition: Turn Great Engineers Into Great Technical Leaders, Courtney Hemphill, Carbon Five
There is no conference without good parties, right? Main point of attraction this time: X Ambassadors!
