Would you like the TechNet team to visit a venue near you? Where would you recommend?

The following image is displayed on the WilliamsF1Conference Centre site - aside from the flash looking venue I've heard from many of you in the last couple of months that it's a great venue. We're actively looking for your recommendations of WHERE (which town / city) we should visit and which VENUE works for you. Please post comments to this post with your suggestions.

Before you get too carried away we need relatively inexpensive venues to enable us to meet more of you in person throughout the year - the aim is to spend less time in the London / Reading / South Eastern area of the UK.

Thanks to James for reminding me about the excellent facilities @ Williams - we'll inquire to see if we can host a TechNet event there.

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
   
   Once again a combination of Scoble and the BBC have alerted me to rather cool-sounding piece of news....
• Anonymous
  June 21, 2006
  Personally, anywhere in York would be good.  But I do seem to remember you visited the Harrogate Pavillions a couple of years ago and this seemed like a success.
• Anonymous
  June 21, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 21, 2006
  I have been to events held at Williams and they are excelent, I would definately recommend the location.
• Anonymous
  June 22, 2006
  I would recommend the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport City, South Wales, as it will be the home of the Ryder Cup in 2010, which is aparently a big thing.
  
  If you schedule sessions in the summer then you can always have a round of golf in the evening to round off a perfect day.
  
  The venue in Bristol was good yesterday [Wed 21 June 2006], although a bit cramped and warm in the morning, but in the afternoon it was great.
• Anonymous
  June 22, 2006
  Simon> Thanks for the feedback. We held a conference earlier this year "The Architect Insight Conference" - we too found it to be a great venue and plan to host events there again in the future.
• Anonymous
  June 22, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 23, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 26, 2006
  How about Cambridge for all of us out in the east, I believe you already have a campus there so that should reduce costs.
• Anonymous
  June 26, 2006
  Mike> Cambridge is good - thanks for the suggestion
• Anonymous
  June 30, 2006
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• Anonymous
  July 21, 2006
  Hi Steve,
  Earlier this week I attended an event at Ardencote Manor (www.ardencote.com), just off the M40 at Warwick - seemed like a good location for smaller events in the Midlands (I know I previously said that small events were bad but I get the impression that's the way that you're going with the TechNet events now).
  
  (What's happened to the evenings in Reading - there were none at all listed when I looked last week!)
  
  Mark
• Anonymous
  July 21, 2006
  Mark> Thanks for the suggestion. There have been TechNet events for other technology areas and we've only just held the security summit - more security events will follow soon. I suspect that the programme is easing off a little over the holiday period that's all.