The St. Louis UserCon on March 1st 2023, was a great event this year attendance was up weather was great, overall I would rate it a 8 out of 10.
First off the night before the usercon we had tickets for speakers and distinguished guest to go to a St. Louis Blues Hockey Game. It was great to be able to interact with speakers and other VMUG members before the usercon in a casual environment. everyone enjoyed the game and thought doing something like that is a great idea.
The next day was an early day for the usercon to make it tot he convention center by 7 AM I had to leave my house at 6 AM. Got there and went over the opening scripts and how we are doing the intro's of people that day. opened up the usercon to the largest crown we have seen since COVID started, and was great to see.
Chris Wolf VMware CIO was our keynote speaker, he is always great to listen to and did a great job. This year our charity of choice we Toys for Tots toy drive, and had a member of the marines Corps Reserve in attendance to talk about what they do. At the end of the day we collected about 15 toys, and over $500 in monetary donations.
I had two speaking session at the usercon, first one was for the company I work for Lumen, talking about their Private Cloud offering and a second on getting back to the basic's with vSphere.
I cant wait till next year to see how much we grow now that COVID is over !!!
