Microsoft Western Europe InnerCircle Partner Summit: November 17-18, 2008 - Barcelona/Spain
Casa Batlló, one of the beautiful arthouses from Gaudí in the center of Barcelona hosted this successful 2 day event, which was attended by close to 100 Microsoft InnerCircle Partners from 12 Western European countries and presented by 15 Subject Matter Experts from around the world. The focus of this event was on general sessions, breakout sessions and networking activities where participants could gain and exchange their knowledge about the newest Microsoft Technologies. The evenings were filled with social gatherings where the group was taken for a private tour to Camp Nou, home of the FC Barcelona Football Club, followed by dinner at the Port Olympique. Asentus organized this succesful event from start to finish, including hotel accommodations, venue arrangements, social activities, event coordination and post-event reporting.
Microsoft Windows Live Services Jumpstart: Fall 2008 – Worldwide Program Management
This two day worldwide event was delivered in 8 countries, spanning 4 continents, reaching 500+ attendants overall in Just 5 weeks! The event was a joint effort between the subsidiaries WW (DPE), the Live Services business group and Asentus. This road show was a tremendous effort, given the scale at which it was pulled together within days of Live Fx code-complete and CTP launch at PDC. This combination lecture computer lab course was designed for Microsoft DPE Field representatives, Microsoft Partners, Top Site Customers, as well as MCT trainers for re-deliveries. Asentus created and executed project work plans and schedules, identified resources needed, managed day to day operational aspects of project scope, reviewed deliverables, effectively applied methodology and enforced project standards, prepared engagement reviews and content quality assurance procedures and project accounting to name a few.
Microsoft Western Europe: Partner Incentive South Africa - September 2008
A 5 day trip to South Africa, with 30 of the best Microsoft Western Europe sales partners and 14 Microsoft representatives from 12 countries. Together with a wildlife photographer, Asentus took the group to a private game reserve near the border of the world famous Kruger Park in South Africa. Asentus created, organized and coordinated the trip from A to Z, flying with 44 people from London to Johannesburg, staying in a deluxe private game lodge and organized exiting activities, like game drives, hot air ballooning, visiting the cheetah protection project, dining in the bush with an original African Braai (BBQ), performance of African singers and dance groups and setting up a photo contests with great prizes. The group was so excited that Microsoft decided for another trip to South Africa in 2009, where this time we will visit a.o. Sun City and will go out in the bush with a wildlife vet to experience the medical research of rhinos.
Microsoft WorldWide Partner Conference, 2002 - 2008: New Orleans/Toronto/Minneapolis/Boston/ Denver/Houston
The Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 welcomed 12,000 solution providers to Houston from July 7-10. Since 2002, Asentus has been the vendor which manages and executes the Hands-On Labs component of the event. The Asentus team provides a truly end-to-end Hands-On Labs program management and execution solution, using the following workflow: • Management of entire WPC HOL program including strategy, marketing, content, testing, deployment, and reporting • Content gathering and standardization brings all labs together in one place with a unified look and feel • Quality assurance ensures each lab functions at peak performance and contains no technical issues • On site delivery is handled by an extremely well evaluated team of trainers, proctors, concierge and management staff • Asentus also architects and deploys real time reporting solutions, UI elements, signage design, and registration systems
Microsoft Photo event – Record attempt – biggest photo stitch of the World - May 24 2008, Amsterdam/the Netherlands
On May 24th 2008, 15 photographers took a boat trip along the canals of Amsterdam. We all came together at the ‘Rode Hoed’ in Amsterdam where photographers had the opportunity to get in touch with the latest products, demonstrations and news about photography by visiting booths and talking to representatives from Kodak, Canon, Olympus and ZOOM.nl who also sponsored this event together with Microsoft. The well known photographer Govert de Roos gave tips and supported the photographers on the boat while they took the pictures. 10.000 pictures were taken on the 11 km boat journey on a sunny day through the canals of Amsterdam. Although we did not manage to get in the Guinness book of World records with the biggest photo stitch, this event was a great experience for the photographers as well as for Microsoft. If you are interested in taking a look at the results of the activity, please visit http://www.photosynth.com and http://maps.live.com (click keizersgracht and amsterdam at search).
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MCT Community Summit 2008, January 14 – 16 2008, Berlin/Germany
EMEA Microsoft Developer Tools Partner Summit, October 23 – 24 2007, Hoofddorp/the Netherlands
DPE METRO T-prep Events, 2006/2007
