London - Day One

I was intending some kind of live blogging from Convergence 2007, but I didn't catch up with it. I wrote memos for the sessions I went to and after that went out in have something to eat and some (4 people - 26 pints - I don't quite know the right measure for .5 liters glass) danish beer. I will write about each day and the session I thought were interesting later and postdate them. This morning I had breakfast, packed and went to the Copenhagen airport to get my SAS flight to London. The flight took about 2 hours... In Copenhagen weather is cold (3-9 ^o Celsius) and I had thick clothes on me and I had to run to get to my boarding gate because I arrived a bit late. It was not a confortable thing to do. From the airport I used the underground to get to Picadilly Circus (22 stations), got the wrong ticket (zone 6, and I had to get to zone 1), but i could get it refunded and in Picadilly got the right one. Cloudy weather, but it's not so cold as in Copenhagen. Now I am pretty tired and I'm having some coffe (no sturbucks near, but it's a good coffe); also I checked my email and wrote this blog post. So, stay tuned; as soon as I have some time, I will write about some really nifty things like the new Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Dynamics AX 5 and 6, Enterprise Portal and so on...

Convergence 2007 Day 1

Monday, we arrived about noon in Copenhagen. Wanted to take the train/metro to the hotel, but the system was down... We searched for a taxi. A verry interesting thing is that most taxi are Mercedes (E-Klasse, C), later we saw a Crysler 300C and a VW Passat. The charge is between 10 and 15 kr (1 eur is 7.3/7.4 kr). We paid 12.5 kr per km. Was about 30 euros to get to the hotel. The conference is held at Bella Center, which is quite close to the airport. The first day is Partners Day, so I had no access. We got to the hotel; one room for non-smoking wasn't ready yet, so got only one room and we said we will come back later to get the other one when is ready. After more than a half day on the road, went to get someting to eat. A nice restaurant close to hotel (in Vesterport) was the chosen place. Had some chineese soup (chicken, mushroom, sweat and spicy) and I had some salmon steak with patatoes. Really good, but the lunch got to be quite expensive (about 25 euro). And of course drunk Tuborg. Went back to the hotel, got the other room and went for a walk in Copenhagen... First we went by metro to Bella Center. Surprizes in Copenhagen: - when you take the metro, you get the tickets, but you are not forced to use them; you can get in without any restrictions; from time to time there are some check-ins; - the front of the metro has no "driver", it's glass and you can have quite a view staying in the front; - lots of people on bicycle; youngs, middle age, older people, all on bicycles; - there is no traffic, verry few cars (found out later that the cars are very expensive: 2-4 times more than in other countries - VW Touareg is about 1.5 mil kr ~ 200.000 euro); - everyone speaks English; better or worse, no matter the age everybody understands and speaks English; It's an amazing city. Anyway, got to Bella Center, registered, got a nifty bag and marketing materials, a pen from a partner and a notebook (paper notebook :D). Walked in Copenhagen, almost got to the Little Mermaid, but got there when the area was closing, so we were turned around; got home around 21, and went to sleep. Pictures taken will be posted later...

Convergence 2007 Copenhagen, Denmark

2007 Convergence it is held in Copenhagen Denmark. More details can be found on Conference Website - Convergence 2007. Details about what you can find at the conference are posted at Inside Convergence section. For 3 days there will be General Sessions, Chat & Talks, Presentasions, Networking (registered users can search other participants for establishing meetings - your own facebook/myspace sort of thingy) and others. Besides Dynamics AX and Microsoft CRM 4 I'm interested in the new version of GP (there is some workflow feature in it so that's nice and has a nice Vista like look) and I still have no clue what C5 does... So, meet me there :). PS: From Friday to Monday next week I should be in London to see my niece...