Vineet Gupta

Today is May 14, 2007, and exactly a month later, Microsoft India would be kicking off its biggest event ever for Architects, Developers, IT Pros and Designers – TechMela. TechMela 2007 takes the content from four major events Microsoft India has been doing – TechEd, MEDC, IndiMix and ITPC – and adds even more content to tell for the first time the full Microsoft story of Software, Services and Experiences.

Over three days and across seven streams we are going to conduct almost 150 technical sessions, over 15 chalk talks and over 50 self-paced HOLs. We are getting speakers from all parts of the world and all parts of Microsoft – experts who have developed the technologies, technicians who are working with some of our biggest customers to adopt the technologies and consultants who are helping our partners build products and solutions on the technologies. It’s a galaxy of technology super stars all under one roof coming together at such a large scale for the first time. And to top it all, we expect over 3000 technical professionals from all over the country to join us at Mumbai where the event will be taking place.

As we begin the countdown to TechMela, thru this blog I will try and take you behind the scenes into the motivations behind doing some of the key sessions and the background to the technologies we will be covering in these sessions. I will also try and provide links and references to other material which you will find useful to read thru before attending the sessions. Stay tuned in and you will discover even before you get to TechMela what all would be covered there. Of course to experience the real thing, you would want to join us at TechMela!!