So I just happened to see the finals of the Speaker’s Idol contest at Tech-Ed. I haven’t seen any of the first rounds, but saw two of the final speakers. The idea behind Speaker Idol, is that anyone can do a 5 minute presentation on a topic of their choice. And to a well-known similar sounding show on television in each round only one can continue to the next. So there were three people left in the end.
One of them was talking of new features in ASP.net which was a bit too much content for 5 minutes and he did overflow on his time. Bert who was the last presenter actually had no slides and just coded a Cmdlet (for Powershell) from scratch. I hadn’t done one myself so it was all new and very interesting. The presentation itself was very interactive and in the end his won the contest. Now he will be back at Tech-Ed as a Speaker next year. (The other finalists all got a ticket to Tech-Ed 2007 but only as a delegate.)
Tags: TechEd-Developers
