These are the sessions I attended today. I won’t bother giving a summary, since you can watch them on Channel9 anyway. So this is just my personal opinion whether I can recommend watching the recordings of these talks or not. And actually, I can recommend all of them!

Keynote

Professional, interesting, entertaining – just as you would expect a keynote of an event like this. Nothing to add here.

Meet the New Windows Azure

Scott Guthrie

As usual – top performance by “The Gu”. Highly interesting and absolutely worth watching!

Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks

Mark Russinovich

Interesting talk and demos. Azure has clearly reached a stage of maturity. Looking forward to Mark’s next sessions.

Curing Your Event Processing Blues with Reactive Extensions (Rx)

Bart De Smet

What can I say - this guy’s a genius. Great talk, great demos. Even as an experienced .NET developer you get to learn new stuff from this guy. Absolutely inspiring! My personal highlight: “IQbservable is just like IObservable with a little wire sticking out” (pointing at the Q letter).

F# 3.0: Data, Services, Web, Cloud... at Your Fingertips

Dustin Campbell

A great session I more or less ran into by accident because Bart De Smet’s LINQ session was already full. But it was really worth it. A nice, geeky (in a good way) kind of talk from a real passionate F# programmer. I learnt about Project Euler – highly interesting!

All in all a very successful first day ending with a great Welcome Reception. Can’t wait for tomorrow!