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PowerShell Summit

Community Lightning Demos – Call for Proposals

If you’ve been to a PowerShell Summit, chances are you’ve seen the awesome lightning demos put on by the PowerShell team members. It’s a fun format - each team member gives a quick 5-10 minute demo of something they’re working on, one after the other.
In a few weeks, the PowerShell + Devops Global Summit will kick off, with a Community Lightning Demo session scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. We’re looking for community members like you to sign up and present! Demo something cool that you’ve written or used - a module, function, tip, trick, etc. - just keep it under 10 minutes.
If it helps, here’s a longer bit on the community lightning demos, including an example demo recording.
Sound interesting? Want to jump on stage for a few minutes and show us something fun? Sign up now! Not attending the summit? We’ll have recordings for presenters who want to be recorded, and ideally, demo content from everyone.
We’ll be looking forward to some awesome demos; hope to see you there!

Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

Join Us in Thanking Ed & Teresa Wilson at Summit 2017

We’re pleased and proud to announce that Microsoft’s “The Scripting Guy,” Ed Wilson, and the wonderful Scripting Wife, Teresa Wilson, have agreed to join us at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017 (which as of this writing is almost sold out). They recently announced their retirement, so we wanted to bring them out for one last Summit so we could all wish them a comfortable and relaxed time! This’ll likely be one of our last chances to grab a photo and a hug, so be sure to do so!

Don Jones
PowerShell Summit

Summit 2017 Agenda & Program Guide Online

We’ve posted the first draft of the Program Guide, including the Agenda, for PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2017. You’ll find it linked near the top of the Registration Page. If you’re attending Summit, please check back a few days before the event to download the final version. We’ll have some hardcopies on site, but you’ll want to have the PDF downloaded to your pocket computer for easy reference.
The Guide includes a bunch of tips and information beyond the Agenda, so we heartily recommend that everyone take the time to peruse its 12 pages of goodness.

Richard Siddaway
Announcements

Summit 2017–seats going fast

Seats a the PowerShell Summit -  https://eventloom.com/event/home/summit2017 – are going fast.
We’ve sold over 70% of the seats – they’re current 55 seats left split between 4-day and 3-day passes. The 3-day passes don’t go on sale until 12 February and we’ll be moving 3-day to 4-day as sales happen between now and then. We have a number of sales in the pipeline that will reduce the number of available seats as well.
We are at maximum capacity for the venue – and probably for the event in its present format.
We are expecting a rapid sell off of the remaining seats when open registration of 3-day passes. We don’t maintain any sort of waiting list and when the seats are gone – they’re gone.
If you are thinking of attending the 2017 Summit I’d advise you to get your seat booked quickly – I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we’d sold out by the end of February.

Richard Siddaway
Announcements

Community Lightning Demos

We are continually evolving the content we present at the PowerShell Summit. This year we’re bringing back something that was a feature of the early PowerShell Deep Dives and Summits - the Community Lightning Demos. We have a session set aside on Wednesday afternoon for this. Timescales will depend on the number of people wanting to show something.
In the words of PowerShell MVP Warren Frame who’s organising this for us: