SQLAuthority News – MVP Summit 2009 – Day 1 – Summit Welcome and Keynotes

My regular blog readers must be aware of my tour SQLAuthority News – Author Visit – MVP Global Summit 2009 – Seattle and Redmond. Today was day 1 of MVP Summit and we had started it with big gala event.

In morning few of Indian MVP visited Seattle Space Needle and had too much fun there. The Space Needle is a tower in Seattle, Washington, but similar to the one in tokyo, Japan, and is a major landmark of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and a symbol of Seattle. Located at the Seattle Center, it was built for the 1962 World’s Fair, during which time nearly 20,000 people a day used the elevators, with over 2.3 million visitors in all for the World Fair. The Space Needle is 605 feet (184 m) high and 138 feet (42 m) wide at its widest point and weighs 9,550 tons.

Our main gala event started with Summit Welcome.
Toby Richards, General Manager of Microsoft’s Community Support Services group will welcome MVPs to the event.

This session was followed up by another excellent Keynote Session.
Rich Kaplan, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft’s Customer & Partner Advocacy group gave excellent Keynote.

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Following is my travel itinerary so far:

Feb 27, 2009 – Departing Ahmedabad to Mumbai
Feb 28, 2009 – Departing Mumbai to Seattle Sheraton Hotel
March 1, 2009 – Day 1 at MVP Summit
March 2, 2009 – Day 2 at MVP Summit
March 3, 2009 – Day 3 at MVP Summit
March 4, 2009 – Day 4 at MVP Summit
March 5, 2009 – Departing Seattle to Toronto
March 6, 2009 – Tech User Group Meeting, Markham, Canada
March 7, 2009 – Departing Toronto to Mumbai
March 8, 2009 – Missing Day due to Day Line Crossing
March 9, 2009 – Arriving to Ahmedabad

Reference : Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)