Do you find yourself asking the question, “What Service Management
conference should I attend at this year?”
This will likely depend on budget and ensuring that the
conference you attend has value add to account for budget as well as the time
you are away
For me the challenge has been in the grand scope what events
are available for me to attend that I may not even realize existed in addition
to the ones I know. There are a few highly marketed conferences that we have
come to know and love from the ITSM space such as those from HDI, Pink, ITSMF, and
of course the ITSM tool vendors just to touch the tip of the iceberg. But unless
you are a constant on the conference circuit and know what each of the events offer
and when they are scheduled it may be a little more difficult to navigate the
sea of choices. Is there a place to see all that there is to choose from with
regards to the service management space so that you can make an informed choice
on what conference(s) you can attend in the upcoming calendar year. Surely everyone
would love to go to Vegas but are there more regional events that we are not
aware of? Whether they are physical or virtual online events.
Are these lesser known events looking for volunteers or
attendees and are not hitting the target audiences? Would a conference
repository help them to promote to those that might not attend otherwise. Remember
it’s not always about ITSM specifically. It could apply to governance, risk,
BRM, training or even other activities which are driven by IT which impact your
business goals
Aside from attending, what conferences can I speak or
share at. I can tell you when you have a limited number of conferences to
choose from, and they happen to be large, getting a rejection letter is not a surprise
given the talent out there that you are competing against. However there are
likely many conferences like #TFT which are crowd sourced or others which are
smaller from a stage size perspective that may not be getting as many
submissions which would improve your chances for sharing. If there was a
repository we could see those as well.
Labels: IT Conferences, ITIL, ITSM, Service Management