Testimonials

What They’re Saying About TEC

“Thank you for another great conference. Our team had another spectacular time and came away with some great ideas to implement going forward. We were able to meet with key players from every one of our areas and get answers to all 45 of the questions we had identified prior to the conference. We also met several customers with very similar situations to ours that will be great contacts for us going forward.”
- Toby Gaff, TEC Attendee, Lincoln Financial

“You outdid yourselves this year with the best TEC ever! We had great activity at our booth and both our lunch session and my speaking session were packed.  It was great to see many familiar faces and also to see how many attendees have turned from prospects into Optimal IdM customers; directly from the conference. That’s impressive!”
- Mike Brengs, Optimal IdM

“I just wanted you to know that this has been an amazing experience. Everything has been so informative and “deep“ as opposed to what one usually finds. When it’s all over, you’ll have to visit again and let me buy you at least one drink to thank your company for hosting something like this.”
- Kevin Sparenberg, TEC Attendee, DLA Piper

“I wanted to thank you and Quest for putting on an absolutely spectacular conference. Not only was the content very educational, but it was also delivered extremely well. In addition, the meals and activities were great!
- Bryan Callaghan, TEC Attendee, Nortec

“At Microsoft, we are allowed to speak at only one internal and one external conference per year. Every year, my choices are TechEd and TEC.”
- Bill Baer, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft

“The show was wonderful and the technical depth of the audience was excellent for the virtualization community. In the future, we’ll look to continue to work together.”
- Edwin Yuen, Director, Server & Cloud Platform, Microsoft

“For the first time in several years I’ve returned home from a conference completely brain fried – well done Quest!”
- Ian Murphy

“The best analogy I have for TEC is the video for “No Rain” from Blind Melon where that funky little bee-girl runs around seemingly confusing people as she dances around dressed like a bee in tap shoes. Identity and Access is just like that, we spend all year telling people about it, customers eventually get it, relatives just smile, and spouses do their best, but at TEC we find ourselves surrounded by people speaking the same jargon even if their native language is different, our acronyms are harmonic.”
- Craig Martin, Oxford Computer Group

“I think they are well on their way to putting on a TEC conference that will become well known to the Exchange community and definitely has the right things going for it to become a major conference for Exchange.”
- David Espinoza, Program Manager, Exchange, Microsoft

“When Gil (Kirkpatrick) asked the audience who had to jump through extra hoops to get to TEC, several hands flew up. Those who went, however, had an excellent, varied and carefully balanced programme waiting for them.”
- Felix Gaehtgens, Kuppinger Cole

“TEC was the best techie conference I’ve ever attended and it was great to chat with the SMEs on MS topics. It was great to have the ability to ask technical questions and get the answers on the spot without any miscommunication or re-explanation. I hope to attend every year, and given my role as the Active Directory lead, this would be the first conference on my list to attend every year.”
- Mike Dina, Active Directory Lead, BG-Group

“The Experts Conference is the most worthwhile industry conference I’ve ever attended. If I only attend one conference each year, this is it.”
- Paul Rich, Microsoft / Senior Architectural Engineer

“The speakers were superb – everyone I heard was an expert and WELL SPOKEN – it is nice to have presenters that are knowledgeable AND know how to present!”
- Heather Eikenberry, US Department of Defense

“Good selection of speakers and sessions. … Thank you for keeping up the good work!”
- Tony Yoo, IKEA

“It’s a great networking and knowledge sharing event. The sessions are very learnfull and meaning full to put in to practice on your job and to be able to look forward to the next few years as to what you should advice which direction management should take.”
- Alexander Visser, KPMG

“I wanted to thank you for those 3 days which were remarkably organized, full of interesting content and with people as nice as they are passionate. I hope I will participate in the next one!”
- Yvan Kuntzmann, Alcatel-Lucent / Windows Systems Architect

“This conference is for serious…administrators, managers and those looking to leverage the strengths of the directory.”
- Dave Kearns, Network World’s Directories Newsletter

“Quest CTO Gil Kirkpatrick promises that every attendee will come away knowing more about Active Directory then they did when they arrived. That’s a pretty tall order, but one which Quest delivered on at last year’s event. I don’t foresee that it’ll have a problem doing that again this year.”
- Dave Kearns, Network World’s Directories Newsletter

“Best conference I’ve ever attended! – looking forward to next year.”
- Paul M. Schulte, Medtronic, Inc. / Principal IT Technologist, Intel Server Architecture