Well, we’re now only a week away until the HP Software Universe 2010 show kicks off at the Gaylord National Convention Center in Washington DC, and the excitement at Westbury Towers is palpable.
For anyone not in the know, HPSU is an annual conference organized by HP for users of its software, featuring a slew of interesting keynote speakers, seminars, training workshops and an exhibition space where HP partner vendors – like Westbury – can interact with attendees, show off our solutions and do as much networking as possible.
If you’re headed down to the show, you can find us at booth number 409. Here’s the official HPSU map, which has in no way been doctored or altered by us:
I guess they’re just really excited to have us there….
In all seriousness, there are going to be some other really interesting vendors there, and you should definitely check out all the stands as soon as you’ve finished visiting booth 409.
For users of HP Service Manager, there are a lot of interesting sessions taking place throughout the conference:
Tuesday, June 15 3:30 PM 4:30 PM National Harbor 4
Core Media Technologies: becoming a service-driven provider to meet the dynamic needs of an advertising conglomerate
Tuesday, June 15 5:00 PM 6:00 PM National Harbor 3
Volkswagen Credit: moving from HP ServiceCenter to HP Service Manager with a shiny new Service Catalog
Wednesday, June 16 9:00 AM 10:00 AM National Harbor 12
Release synergy: automating release management with HP Service Manager, Release Control and Server Automation
Wednesday, June 16 10:30 AM 11:30 AM National Harbor 10
Sprint and beyond: tips on integrating HP IT service management and business service management software
Wednesday, June 16 3:30 PM 4:30 PM Potomac 3-4
BCBS improves audit compliance and minimizes risk by implementing an ITIL-based change management solution
Wednesday, June 16 5:00 PM 6:00 PM National Harbor 11
HP Enterprise Services (formerly EDS): HP ServiceCenter to HP Service Manager data migration in a massive multi-tenant environment
Thursday, June 17 9:00 AM 10:00 AM National Harbor 11
UnitedHealth Group: lessons learned from a very large-scale HP Service Manager migration and implementation
Thursday, June 17 10:30 AM 11:30 AM National Harbor 2
Case study: building a solid configuration management foundation through HP Universal CDMB federation with HP Service Manager, Release Control and Server Automation
Thursday, June 17 1:30 PM 2:30 PM National Harbor 3
America First Credit Union: HP Universal CMDB and Service Manager providing a 360 degree view of IT
Thursday, June 17 3:00 PM 4:00 PM National Harbor 5
Playtech: how this company minimized costs and risks in a hosted HP Service Manager implementation
Thursday, June 17 4:30 PM 5:30 PM National Harbor 2
The rubber meets the road: HP Service Manager and ITIL best practices converge in real-world implementations
Friday, June 18 9:00 AM 10:00 AM National Harbor 12
HP Service Manager new release details, roadmap and demo
Friday, June 18 10:30 AM 11:30 AM National Harbor 3
Meet the Service Manager developers
And last, but by no means least, Westbury’s own Richard Verburg and David van Heusden are going to run a workshop in association with Vivit, the official HP user group, entitled ‘A Practical Approach to Operational Reporting from HP Service Manager / HP Service Center’, on Monday 14th at 1:00pm in Chesapeake 4.
If you haven’t already signed up for the show, we strongly recommend it. If you are planning to go, let us know in the comments here, or tweet us @westbury_it. We’ll be actively blogging and tweeting throughout the show (using official hashtag #HPSWU), and we hope to see you there.
Tom
