I was talking to a fellow MVP here in Hong Kong today about the PDC. He said that since I get to go to all of these events as a speaker it must be great to watch all of the sessions and learn about all of the new technology. The problem is that when you are speaking you almost never get to attend other sessions. If you have a few sessions, you are always either getting ready, speaking, or relaxing after your talk. (Believe it or not, it is tiring to speak at these events.)

I only had one talk at the PDC and it was a BOF, so I did get to attend a few sessions. The funny thing is that I circled 10 sessions. Three where when I was speaking, two had conflicts with others, one was at 8:30am, and one conflicted with a RD meeting. So I attended 3 sessions besides the keynotes. That actually is a lot for me at one of these events.

The good news is that the PDC puts all of its sessions online for free. Why free? Read the book “Free” by Chris Anderson, it will explain how putting the sessions online for free actually increases the prestige of the conference and allows them to make more money.

You can watch all of the videos online for free at the PDC website. If you want to watch them offline you can also download all of the videos to your hard drive. The directions are on the PDC page, however, I had to use the 32 bit version of the cURL tool to get it to work on x64 Windows 7 for some reason. You may want to download the X32 version and save yourself the trouble.

Now you can download all the videos and watch them at your own pace.  I have watched about 15 sessions in the past two weeks since I have been home. Enjoy!