Hiya! What a whirlwind. Vibrant, dynamic, alive with vitality from prospects, companions, and fellow builders alike, the DevNet Zone at Cisco Reside EMEA in Amsterdam final week was nothing wanting unimaginable. Reflecting on the expertise, particularly as a first-time attendee, I’m left in awe on the power and authenticity of the neighborhood that’s been constructed and continues to develop, and I’m coming away from the week with a deeper appreciation for DevNet—our folks, our neighborhood, our companions—and its impression and significance globally. Learn on for just a few highlights I’d prefer to share.
Exploring the Wealth of Periods
Coming into the RAI Amsterdam conference middle and heading by way of the World of Options in the direction of The Hub the place the DevNet Zone is, we have been greeted with a plethora of session choices. Within the DevNet Zone alone, there have been over 200 periods provided, spanning a various vary of subjects and codecs that provided a pick-your-own-adventure set of alternatives that allowed attendees to tailor their expertise, discover, and be taught the content material in the best way that labored finest for them. Whether or not you most well-liked hands-on workshops, thought management from theater periods, partaking lecture rooms, or fast insights from lightning talks, every DevNet session format provided an important studying expertise.
School rooms
Workshops
Theater periods
Lightning talks
This 12 months, all through the week, the school rooms and workshops have been each utterly filled with many who had standing room solely. Theater periods and lightning talks have been additionally abuzz with crowds round subjects like safety, AI, APIs, observability, Terraform, Ansible, networking, and programmability amongst many, many others. From seasoned professionals and tech fanatics to curious newcomers, there was one thing for everybody.
In case you occurred to overlook or need to (re-)watch these periods, catch them right here on demand on the Cisco Reside Amsterdam website. They’ll be obtainable beginning February twenty third!
Partaking by way of Particular Ancillary Actions
Along with the periods, our DevNet staff additionally put collectively just a few particular actions for attendees to expertise.
Within the Community Automation Labs hosted by our accomplice Purple Hat, contributors took half in proctored workshops to jumpstart their Ansible automation journey. These hands-on labs appeared fairly common given how full all of them have been.
Fingers-on labs
Our Media Zone was popping all through the week with high quality interviews and conversations.
The Media Zone
In our Share Your Expertise house, DevNet provided attendees a chance to impression improvement throughout Cisco’s merchandise by giving them an opportunity to share real-time suggestions by way of interactive suggestions discussions and surveys utilizing design considering methodologies.
Share your expertise house
For a extra relaxed, purely-for-fun vibe, we had a implausible, nerdy time on the Fireballs & Fizz: Tech Trivia Throwdowns
Tech trivia throwdowns
Every of those actions supplied distinctive, helpful alternatives to be taught, share, and join.
Be part of the DevNet tenth Anniversary Celebration
Amidst the treasure trove of studying and networking alternatives, we additionally continued the festivities that have been kicked off at Cisco Reside APJC 2023 in Melbourne by spending a while collectively celebrating DevNet’s tenth anniversary. The environment was cheerful as attendees linked with each other and mirrored on DevNet’s previous, current, and future.
In case you haven’t accomplished it already… try DevNet’s 10-year journey, and be part of us for the digital tenth Anniversary Celebration occasion in March!
Celebrating 10 years of DevNet
Reflecting on Insights and Experiences
Suffice to say, Cisco Reside EMEA was not simply an occasion, however a celebration of neighborhood, collaboration, and development. From the training alternatives to the real connections, there have been significant moments, insights, and reminiscences for everybody to remove.
Thanks to everybody who has been part of DevNet’s journey. As we glance forward, let’s proceed to construct on the momentum and work collectively to drive innovation and success for our DevNet ecosystem.
If this appears like your sort of neighborhood and expertise, come be part of us at Cisco Reside US in Vegas and take a look at all of the developer sources on the DevNet web site.
Dive into unique studying modules
Proceed rising you expertise with digital studying alternatives in these key technical areas:
> Collaboration
> Knowledge Middle
> Networking
> Safety
> Full Stack Observability
> Service Supplier
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