Sun Tech Days is the biggest developer Tech Days of all - both in terms of the number of attendees and tracks/sessions. This was my first ever visit to a Sun Tech Days. This might sound weird as most of the people there were atleast second timers. Oh what an ambience. Believe it or not once you enter the main conference hall, it's hard to differentiate between a seven star hotel and Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC). Starting from the entrance, conference rooms, audio/video facilities and the crew is just amazing and very helpful.
The main convention hall can accomodate upto 5000 people at a given time and it was packed for the opening keynote by Rich Green (Executive Vice President, Software, Sun Microsystems).It was a pretty funny situation with the Vice President being in a black t-shirt and most of the attendees in Blazers.
Followed by the key note the crowd dispersed of into one of the tracks 5(in all). There were three stunning sessions before lunch(Ohh that was better than one you could lay hands on in a 5 start hotel.)
There were lots of cool demos ranging from JavaFX, & jMaki(Some Chineese word don't confuse with hindi).
The evening concluded by a great performance by Euphoria - one of the most popular Rock bands in India.It was a great experience to see corporates jump and dance to showcase their other side.
Sun Tech Days Hyderabad 2008 - Day 2
We reached a little late for this day as we were preparing for the presentation we were about to give.So we missed on the key note and some part of the breakfast.
We attended two sessions before lunch. Then came the most interesting thing of my life. Our presentation about the project we are working on.The kind of response it triggered of from the audience(java gurus.).was just amazing. David Lindt gave us his card and asked us to send him our presentation and to keep up with the good work.
Stacy David Thurston (http://www.linkedin.com/in/tigerfarm)one of the pioneers of the dot com world had a private talk with us after the event when he told us that James Gosling(Father of java) meets him once in a while and had once suggested about an idea like one of our plugins..We were in 7th oh no the eighth heaven. This was followed by some other sessions which were quite interesting too.The day culminated with a fashion show.
Sun Tech Days Hyderabad 2008 - Day 3
There were 3 days of which we could select one. Obviously we choose the netbeans day.
The lectures by Roumen Strobl were not only eye opening but also was pretty much fun.
We also got to meet Amit Kumar Saha (NetBeans Community Docs Coordinator) someone we were quite aquainted with in the virtual world but got to meet him personally.Also got to meet Rohan Ranade one of the Sun guys who used to help us during the Code For Freedom Contest.
Is that all oops... i forgot the most intersting thing the gifts we got T-shirts,bags,Duke..... the list goes on...
