According to event organizer, Thomas Strohe, the fifth annual installment of WebhostingDay is nearly at full capacity. This is quite a shock, given the current state of the world economy and the fact that the conference is still weeks away. WebhostingDay 2009 is slated to be held from March 18 to 20, 2009 at Phantasialand in Bruehl near Cologne, Germany. Mr. Strohe has confirmed that there are currently over 2,000 attendees pre-registered for the event. This represents an 80 percent increase over last year's conference. Additionally, the venue itself holds only 2,300 people, indicating that this year's WebhostingDay event will sell out.
I am planning on attending this year, and I came to find out a couple of weeks ago that the primary hotels inside the park for the event were already full. Therefore, the only rooms currently available are those about 2 kilometers away from the event. It is likely that these rooms will be completely reserved soon as well. The bottom line for anyone desiring to attend WebhostingDay 2009 is this: get signed up right away or risk not being able to get a spot.
There are a number of WHIR-connected folks attending or presenting at the show this year. Among them is fellow WHIR blogger, David Snead. Here is a bit of what David had to say about Webhosting Day 2009, ''I went to WebhostingDay last year and found it to be a great compliment to HostingCon - as far as business development. I wanted to be a part of this year's event because I believed I could add to the success of the program by presenting an educational legal seminar. I will also use this time to meet with European clients. I find that meeting with clients - at their offices - leads to a much more substantial exchange of ideas than talks over the phone, or over coffee at a conference.'' Click here to see an outline of David's Snead's Webhosting Day presentation
First time web hosting conference attendee, Phil Robinson, runs the programming and design function for UK based business hosting company 34SP.com. Mr. Robinson commented on his expectations for this year's Webhosting Day event, ''The guys here at 34SP.com have always spoken fondly of hosting conferences and seemed to find a great deal of inspiration and energy from their rich content. Obviously when they offered to send me to Webhosting Day I accepted and became excited about meeting like minded people, learning more about the industry we work in and visiting Bruehl for the first time.''
Event organizer Mr. Strohe added, ''This year's event has some interesting new features, for example CloudCamp, an unconference where early adopters of Cloud Computing come together. CloudCamp is held parallel to WebhostingDay's second day and its attendees may also take part in all of the Webhosting Day events.''
The content and excitement around this year's Webhosting Day are great - so sign up now or simply read about what happened here at The WHIR in a few weeks.
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