Today I am going to explain from my personal experience, the Day 2 at VMworld 2018 Europe, lots of networking, some technical sessions, events and the Solutions Exchange.

Before moving forward, I forgot to mention that I met in my first day a nice guy, Daniel Paluszek @dpaluszek, we had a great conversation and he should be known as the vCloud Director guy ;).

vBreakfast

If you don’t what is, check it here: http://www.vbrain.info/2018/10/14/vmworld-emea-2018-vbreakfast-2018-edition/

Thank you, Fred for doing this kind of things! In this case, Abdullah Abdullah @do0dzZZ was the host for this year as Fred couldn’t assist.

I woke up at 6 AM… a bit painful but, some sacrifices needed to be done when you are not at the office! It started at 7:00 AM but, I arrived around 7:30 AM or so.

And I arrived… a lot of people were sitting there! I had the chance met some people I already know from Twitter and others that not. We had great conversations there meanwhile we tried to eat some toasts with iberian ham and also a bit of omelet.

There I met finally Chris Williams @mistwire and Alastair Cooke @DemitasseNZ part of the vBrownbag crew! And also, more folks like @matjovanovic, @uprightvinyl.

The first General Session

I arrived at the hall and sit wherever I could and what a nice session…with some announcements and great stories to hear!

VMworld Europe 18 – 1st General Session

Besides the newer versions of VCF, Horizon, AppVolumes and more, the more interesting for me was the acquisition of Heptio and the announcement of VMware Cloud PKS (it will be expanded to Azure in the future!).

If you want to watch it, you can do it here: https://www.vmworld.com/en/europe/learning/general-sessions.html

After that, I had plenty of time to meet more people and attending a couple of technical sessions.

The best time, the vCommunity

The best time of all of this is the #vCommunity and the networking that you can do. I met a lot of people there and I couldn’t be happier to have done it.

I met an amazing person and famous (amazing) blogger here in Spain, if you don’t who is, please do it! He’s Jorge de la Cruz (@jorgedlcruz) and nowadays works for Veeam. He’s just a blogger machine (I don’t know anyone who posts more than this man). In their blogs, he has information about anything! You can check it out here: https://www.jorgedelacruz.es/ and https://jorgedelacruz.uk/

Selfie with Jorge de la Cruz

A couple of selfies I took this day with some vBrownbag’s members!

This day, I also meet there Héctor Herrero @nheobug, Federico Cinalli @FCinalliP and Xavier Genestós @sysadmit.

The Solutions Exchange

A thing you can’t miss, the Solutions Exchange. A lot of partners in this Hall where you can chat with people that work in the company and have great discussions, gather some swag and maybe you can win something in the raffle (yes, a lot of companies offered free tickets and there were big prizes like a Nintendo Switch, Apple Watch, etc.) !

Veeam’s party

I was so lucky to be invited to this party and what a nice party! I only can say that there were good drinks, food and of course music! It was in a famous discotheque called Apollo.

Bad quality picture from the Veeam party

I know it’s not the best quality but, is just to show you how it looked:

And that’s all… I had to leave «early», around 12 AM as I had to commute by train so, I didn’t have a chance to stay and enjoy this party.

P.S.: I forgot to mention that each day there is a free lunch in a specific area where you can grab food. The lunchtime I think that I was delivered between 12:00 – 2:00 PM

The next  post, the third day!