The countdown timer on the web pages for registered delegates for teched EMEA 2008 is showing just over 22 hours, so all over Europe (and possibly the world) delegates are on their way to Barcelona for the Developers week.

I have not been to Teched before, so this is a great opportunity for me to see first hand what it is all about. I am already making impressions, as mentioned in my previous posting the lead up involves picking sessions so that they can arrange the rooms to anticipate attendees. At the one Microsoft conference I have been to before there were popular sessions that were full as soon as the doors opened. If you were unfortunate enough to be at a session at the other end of the conference centre then you missed it.

Looking at the agenda builder, a really useful page to select what item to attend in a particular slot, they have recently added an Outlook Synchroniser. Better than downloading the files individually in ICS form, which I did before, it manages all the entries that you have picked and adds them in to your outlook diary. This will then appear on my phone which synchronise over the wire to Microsoft Exchange. While deleting the items I had already placed in my diary (ok, its not perfect) I noticed changes to room numbers so it has already proved useful.