Taking the Old Approach to Cisco Live 2014
I was just reading through Bob’s blog post from today and wanted to give a rebuttal of sorts. In his post, Bob tells us that’s he’s going to be at Cisco Live US in San Francisco this year but he won’t be coming on the Full Conference pass like he usually does. He’s going with the Social Event pass this year, which is actually a great, great way to attend. I know several people who are thinking about scaling back to the Social Event pass as well, and there’s nothing wrong with doing it like that. There are some things that it doesn’t get you, though.
The Social Event pass means no breakout sessions. These are the bread-and-butter of the conference and the real technical reason that I try to go each year (listen to me talk like I’m a 20-year NetVet…LOL). Yes, most of the sessions are available on Cisco Live 365 afterwards, but that leaves two problems for me. First of all, I will never actually make the time to go back and sit through these sessions after the event. It’s just something that won’t happen with life and work and everything going on. Secondly, I cannot sit Continue reading