Interop 2010, which boasts that it is the ‘IT industry’s leading event’ and the ‘leadingbusiness technology event,’ has four yearly stops and kicks off the Interop year with it’s annual stop in Las Vegas.  Other stops for Interop are: Tokyo, Mumbai, and New York.



The Las Vegas conference, in my stomping grounds, will be held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center April 25-29 featuring approximately 10,000 attendees and more than 400 leading exhibitors from the information technology industry.



Thankfully, due to having written hundreds of articles on project management, business technology, and small business topics in the past couple of years, it looks like I’ll be able to get a free media pass into the Las Vegas stop on the Interop tour.  That’s huge because the price of a full pass is $3100 when purchased in advance.



According to the brochure, here’s what Interop is about…



"Learn about all the latest IT solutions, get up to speed on important trends and learn how to leverage new technologies as the economy rebounds.  Interop brings all the important It innovations together in one place to help you identify technology must-haves to drive down costs while improving collaboration and communication."



I’m hoping to catch some interesting sessions and share relevant information here with our readers.  Some interesting topics to be covered in sessions include:
 





     
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  • Application Delivery 2.0




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  • Cloud Computing




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  • Data Center




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  • Enterprise 2.0




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  • Governance, Risk and Compliance




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  • Green IT




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  • IT Security and Risk Management




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  • Mobile Business




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  • Networking




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  • Storage




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  • Video Conferencing




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  • Virtualization




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  • VoIP and Unified Communications




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And conference workshops include:

 

 

 





     
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  • IT workshops




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  • CIO boot camp




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  • Enterprise cloud summit




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  • Virtualization management day




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  • Desktop virtualization day




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Cloud computing and Green IT top my list of interesting topics and sessions that I hope to attend.  As for the Expo portion of the conference, the  list of exhibitors reads like a who’s who in the IT industry.  Exhibitors include Cisco, CA, Citrix, Dell, EMC, IBM, McAfee, Microsoft, Novell, VMware, HP, D-Link, and Qwest Business just to name a few.



To register for or find out more about the Las Vegas Interop conference, visit the site at http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/.



If you’re interested in attending but can’t make here to the most exciting city in the world, check out the Interop stops in Tokyo (http://www.interop.jp/) June 7-11, Mumbai (http://www.interop.in/) September 28-30, and New York (http://www.interop.com/newyork/) October 18-22.