This year, we as the collective behind the UK PowerShell & DevOps User Groups, are running the second PSDayUK event, the only Conference that is totally Dedicated to PowerShell here in the UK & will be held on October 10th at CodeNode, London. You can find more info about at PSDay.UK including being able to purchase tickets & the eventual schedule once published in the upcoming weeks.
We will constantly be releasing information about PSDay as we approach the time for the event via various methods of social media including via our Twitter Account @psdayuk which I would highly recommend you follow if you want to be kept in the loop of what is coming to PSDay.
To give a little bit of background, PSDay is the conference brand of the UK PowerShell & DevOps User Groups, for more information on the UK PowerShell & DevOps User Groups please see PowerShell.org.uk and PSDay is currently planned at being an annual event much like the bigger PSConf EU, PSConf Asia and US PowerShell & DevOps Summit events, and whilst each of the bigger events are multi-day events PSDay at present is a singular day event, although the format of the event may change in future, this is something that the organising team are keeping in mind for future events.
With this in mind this year we are running PSDay as a dual parallel track conference, where we a solid idea of what we are intending the tracks to contain to cater all skill sets based on what we’ve learnt as part of running consistent monthly User Groups in London and whilst there is a HUGE variety of topics that could be delved into with PowerShell we have seen a reoccurring theme with the User Group over recent months.
This means that we have been more selective in the ideas behind what sort of topics that we are looking for this year with a view to have topics along the following lines
| Track Name | Track Focus | Suggested topics |
| The many components of the PowerShell Language | All things related to the PowerShell Language | Debugging, Classes, Remoting, Performance, WMI/CIM, Pester, PSScriptAnalyzer, DSC, Workflow, Using .NET in PowerShell & anything centred around the Core PowerShell language that can be useful for all skill sets. |
| Using PowerShell as the Glue of Automation | All things Automation | Automating any Technology from any device installed anywhere, Azure, AWS, GCloud, Office 365, Microsoft Graph, VSTS, GitHub, PowerShell Gallery, SharePoint, Exchange, SQL Server & more |
The idea behind the first track, ‘The many components of the PowerShell Language’, is that those that are new to PowerShell, and even those of us that have been using PowerShell for years, can come into this track and take away a wide variety of knowledge about the core parts of the PowerShell Language that comes from a more general use perspective, which would allow attendees to be able to take away and expand on what attendees learn in this track in their own times and is expected to be of a more generalist track where the skills learned can be then taken and used across an enormous number of technologies.
The idea behind the second track, ‘Using PowerShell as the Glue of Automation’, is to be much more centred around using PowerShell with specific technologies & is more more likely to be the track for those that want the more technically for those people that are either well into their DevOps journeys & are already using many differing DevOps Practices and perhaps looking at further expansion of their skill set or are looking at replacing existing or embedding additional technologies within their organisations.
The Call for speakers form is located at PSDay Session Submissions & we are looking for sessions for topics as listed above and to be of 60 minutes in length. We currently have a cut of date of July 31st for sessions and I would highly suggest that any potential sessions you may want to submit be submitted quickly. I would also suggest that the abstract you submit does not need to be perfect but does need to give us as organisers the ability to pick and choose topics from all the submissions. The reason for this is that we will come back to chosen speakers, based on topic & technology and come back to them to confirm/polish off their abstract in the early weeks of August, prior to publishing the schedule by beginning of September.
We are also currently in the process of working out what sponsorship packages of the event will look like and I would say until we release a further post on what these look like if your organisation would be interested in sponsoring PSDay then please reach out to me in this interim period, whilst we iron out what the sponsorship package would look like, and we have already been approached by a few sponsors so this will be coming along very soon.
I am looking forward to PSDay & I am looking forward to seeing you there as either, an attendee, a speaker or a sponsor.
If you have any questions at all please reach out and I’d be happy to answer