VMUG Welcomes Steve Wozniak

Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak to speak at VMUG User Conference in Kansas City on 11-Dec-2012

Steve Wozniak, aka Steve Woz, the man behind the design of Apple’s first line of products and co-founder of Apple Computer, will speak at the VMUG Kansas City User Conference on December 11 at the Overland Park Convention Center. Wozniak, a Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist helped shape the computing industry with his design of the Apple I and II, which eventually led to the popular Macintosh and spurred the microprocessor revolution. Wozniak, along with Steve Jobs, went on to found Apple in 1976.

Wozniak will open the Kansas City User Group Conference with an interactive discussion with the Kansas City VMUG volunteer leaders. Attendees will have the unique opportunity to hear from Wozniak on his experience working with Apple and more recently, with Fusion-io.

“We are thrilled to bring such an influential industry icon to the VMUG community at the Kansas City user group conference. Our members strive every day to solve problems and create new opportunities through technology. Steve Wozniak epitomizes the contribution that the computer programmer can make by building something that changed the face of the industry and even the world,” says Victor Bohnert, Executive Director of VMUG.

The Kansas City VMUG User Conference will take place December 11 from 8:00am-5:00pm.  Registration is complimentary. Visit www.vmug.com/KCconference  to register and for more information  

Regional Meeting Agenda

As with all things, the agenda is subject to change, but we feel pretty good about what we’ve got planned for this year.

As always, the event is free, and anyone in the virtualization community—or curious about it—is invited.

Happy Hour before Regional Event

EMC and Vital Support Systems are sponsoring a pre-event happy hour the evening before the Regional Conference.

Attendance is free and open to all attendees and sponsors of the conference. Registration is requested, and is independent of your registration for the Conference.

Details:
Monday, 10-Dec-2012
5:30-8:00pm
810 Zone Town Center
4800 W 119th St
Overland Park, KS 66209 

Registration Link

Full Invitation

4th Annual Regional Meeting

Apple co-Founder, Steve WozniakThe Kansas City VMware User Group (KC VMUG) is proud to announce the 4th Annual Regional Meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, December 11th at the Overland Park Convention Center.

The leadership for the user group also has the pleasure of revealing that Fusion-io Chief Scientist, Steve Wozniak, will present the conference’s opening keynote address.

Wozniak—best known for co-founding Apple Computer Inc in 1976 with Steve Jobs and essentially creating the personal computer industry with his invention of the Apple II computer—will participate in a “Town Hall Chat” to open the conference.

The all-day conference is centered on virtualization technologies from VMware and its industry partners like platinum sponsors Symantec and Teradici. In addition to the opening keynote, sponsor exhibits and breakout sessions organized on multiple tracks are planned with both technical and business/executive attendees in mind.

While attendance to the conference is free—thanks to the generous contributions of partner sponsors—registration for the event with the global VMUG orgainzation is required.

Ben Clayton, presiding leader for the KC VMUG and VMUG Board of Directors member, said: “You can’t find a more vibrant, enthusiastic user community than the VMware User Group. I think we’ll impress Mr. Wozniak as much as he impresses us.”

October: VMworld Wrap-up

The weather in KC has finally turned, and autumn greets the return of our leaders & members that ventured to San Francisco for the annual virtualization love-fest known as VMworld.

We host our October meeting at Boulevard Brewing Company’s Muelbach Suite with the following agenda:

1:00 | New User Q&A with Ben
1:30 | Welcome & Announcements
2:00 | Dell: Enterprise Solutions
3:00 | vSphere 5.1: Intro & New Features 
3:30 | Closing & Giveaways

The registration page is available at the vmug.com site.