Which tech conference do you intend to attend in person next year or have already participated in this year, and what motivated your choice?

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IT Manager7 days ago

Microsoft Ignite.
I have found it very useful and insightful for new topics and technologies

Director of infrastrucure and operations in Services (non-Government)12 days ago

London Tech Show

Head, Software Engineering, Cloud and Digital Transformation14 days ago

Microsoft Ignite

Enterprise Platform Architect in Insurance (except health)14 days ago

Gartner Security Conference (US), Gartner/Evanta CISO Community (Ohio Regional), Codemash (great security track and other tracks), APISecCon (virtual), BSides (local), Information Security Summit (local); as well as more monthly virtual/local meetups (OWasp, BSides, ISC2, etc..)

Motivated mostly via current opportunities / availability / interest - tied to cost and timing

Tend to leverage more community driven conferences where colleagues/peers are challenged by same "opportunities" for perspective

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Director of IT21 days ago

Gartner I&O conference in November.

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