vScience, LLC provides workshops and conferences on the science of virtualization and cloud technologies.  With classroom-style, technical hands-on training, taught by highly respected industry experts that facilitate deep-dive technical sessions, vScience fills the virtualization training gap currently not being addressed by other venues.  vScience workshops are vender-neutral with events and activities sponsored by leading industry technology companies.

vScience is the first industry conference to include the audience in a group-wide “live-design” exercise that works to solve in real-time, a complex virtualization problem.  The live-design activity leverages all technical aspects of the workshop in order to produce a “real-world” working virtualization implementation design that will then be made publically available.

Location

Austin Convention Center

Who should attend?:

vScience workshops are highly technical training workshops that feature well known individuals who can go incredibly deep into a subject to educate the attendees on the intricacies of virtualization and cloud technologies. As such, this is not a workshop for the beginner, but for one who has already gone through basic training.

The audience will be skilled and motivated individuals who wish to learn more or sharpen their skills in virtualization and cloud computing technologies.  The audience is expected to be a mix of architects, developers and administrators of virtual and cloud environments.

Workshop and Conference Formats:

There will be a limit on the number of attendees at each conference so that the best level of training can be achieved while providing a large enough audience. To that end, each vScience workshop will be limited to 300 individuals.

Workshops will last approximately three days and will include the following:

• Breakfast and lunch during all workshops
• 8-9 Technology Deep-dive Sessions: presented by the workshop headliners
• Live-Design Panel: headliners will design an environment accounting for the aspects covered by the previous deep-dives.
• Optional Troubleshooting Panel (of the six headliners): 30 minute presentations on troubleshooting virtual environments, followed by questions and answers until the end of the session

Since, we are looking at destination cities to hold the workshops we will begin looking into Spousetivities which plans activities that spouses and family members can attend while the workshops are in session.

Workshop Headliners and topics follow:

• Automation with Cody Bunch
• Backup and Disaster Recovery with Thomas Bryant
• Platform-as-a-Service with Dave McCrory
• Security with Edward Haletky
• Storage with Scott Lowe
• Live Design with all headliners

We hope to see you there.