Looking for Conference with SKIING

[M@]

People at work seem to be getting the green light for Conferences and Training type stuff... couple guys went to PDC without asking me... so the payback will be me going to some conference where there is MAJOR skiing potential.

So: Anyone know of any topics around the following -
Windows Development
Dot Net Programming
Graphical User Interface Design
BizTalk
XML

And the big requirement is it has to be near some good skiing - like Seattle or Colorado or Utah type skiing... a conference in Boston is gonna be worthless.

Or anything like that - it has to pass the "I might use it at work" type test - so most any microsoft thing would fly.

M@

[BeerMouse]

Ok so this is a stretch... Are you into any type of data processing/ analysis or merchant services? The Outdoor Retailer Winter Market actually has all kinds of new technology at it for that type of stuff. There's a whole room dedicated to software and such. (Can you tell I don't do anything in that realm?) Jan 27-31, SLC, Utah. Jan 26th is an on snow demo where you can demo every ski on the market for free (even ones that won't be out until next winter!) Check out: http://www.outdoorretailer.com/or/index.jsp

[M@]

OOutdoor Retailer Winter Market
Arg! If they maybe called it sometthing a little more technical I might be able to... but keep em' coming! That's excatly the type of feedback I'd hoped for.

Rep to you.

M@

[BladeGirl]

I don't know of any for you, but I got to go to an environmental law conference one year at Keystone that was awesome. The sessions all ended at noon each day, and as I was working for the state at the time they even paid for my tuition. Bizarrely, the conference lodging near the conference center was super expensive so my boss told me to find cheaper lodging. I did: slopeside! Man, THAT was a good year!

-BG :skifemcool:

[clg898]

Conference (http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/vslive/2006/sf/)

It's in San Francisco... you could tack on a few days before and/or after at Tahoe. Actually, I may be in San Fran around that time and hope to sneak off to Tahoe for a few days. Did it last spring and it worked out great except for the traffic heading up there on a Friday evening...

[PWDR8S]

Start your search here....
2006 Conferences (http://search.zimply.com/conferences----windows-development.html?keyword=conferences%20-%20%20windows%20development)

You could put in whatever you're looking for... It's so so but it finds things that google doesn't find. It's worth looking around.

[M@]

Is San Fran -> Tahoe doable? I was looking at VSLive there in San Fran (the one you mentioned) and Tahoe didn't occur to me.

M@

[pepperdawg]

Is San Fran -> Tahoe doable? I was looking at VSLive there in San Fran (the one you mentioned) and Tahoe didn't occur to me.

M@


2.5 hours or so?? (too lazy to mapquest it)

[BladeGirl]

We did SF--> Tahoe twice and found it closer to 4 hours.

-BG

[ATP]

What BG said; don't expect to make it in under 3.5. You can forget about cutting out at lunch and getting some tracks.

SLC is where you want to be for ready access to skiing before or after the "important" part of a conference. Next best:

As you know, Seattle to Snoqualmie in under an hour.
Denver to Loveland or Winter Park in uner 1.5.
Vancouver would put you about 2 hours away from Whistler.

If you could find a conference in Sacramento or Santa Fe, they would get you to Tahoe in 1.5 or so.

[clg898]

Tahoe from SF took me forever heading up (5 hours) but I didn't listen to my friends who told me to get out of the city by 1:00 p.m. I left around 4:00 p.m. and it took forever. I made it to the airport on my way home from Sugar Bowl in about 3 hours. It would probably be about 3.5 from Squaw. I'd say do-able if you tack on a few days to devote to skiing... if not, then SLC, but SLC itself is s#ck town USA and doesn't really attract the conference crowd.

[skicdave]

M@ are you still looking for a conference?

How about the CPE & Ski 2006 at Vail in January... various accounting and computer topics included. See http://www.k2e.com/co/ski.htm

or maybe you need to tone up on your data compression in March while skiing at Snowbird...

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc/

Or expand into Human-Robotics at the Human-Robotics Interaction Conference in Salt Lake. See http://www.hri2006.org/

[M@]

M@ are you still looking for a conference?

I'm pretty sure I'm gonna do VSLive in San Fran in late Janurary and maybe tag a day on to goto Tahoe.

Thanks for that list though! They all have excellent locations, but the guy who'se gonna approve/deny it is a little more savy than all that.

M@