The Ten Other Reasons To Attend NetQoS Symposium 2008.

As you may know, NetQoS's annual Symposium will be held April 20-23, 2008 at the Barton Creek Resort in Austin, Texas. And if you're not familiar with the Symposium, it's three days of presentations, workshops, training, and entertainment.

Combining the best parts of "seminar," "study group," and "shindig," the marketing department has come up with ten reasons to attend the Symposium. You can view these on the Symposium Web Page, but we'll just re-iterate them here.

1. Hone your skills at Network Performance Management Best Practices Workshops.
2. Broaden your horizons and hear about emerging trends in the General Sessions delivered by leading network management experts.
3. Maximize the value of your NetQoS investments through product-focused best practices tutorials.
4. Roll up your sleeves in Hands-on Labs with NetQoS technical experts.
5. Don't just take it from us, benefit from real-world examples, presented by your peers in Customer Case Study sessions.
6. Advance your skills by attending Cisco IOS® NetFlow Boot Camp and network traffic analysis best practices.
7. Enhance your career through expanded technical tracks on:
   • Networking Theory and Best Practices
   • Network and Application Performance Management
   • WAN Optimization
   • Next Generation Network Operations
   • Network Behavior Analysis
   • VoIP Call Quality Monitoring
   • Packet-level Forensics, Capacity Planning, Troubleshooting, and more
8. See the future at NetQoS Product Roadmap Sessions.
9. Flock to Birds of a Feather sessions to share advice and collaborate with your peers on the topics you care about most.
10. Keep Austin weird and experience "Austintatious" nightlife. Enjoy Texas BBQ and Live Music Entertainment provided by Mingo Fishtrap at Stubbs.

However, those aren't the only reasons that you should attend. Goodness gracious no.

Here are the top ten real reasons to attend Symposium 2008.

1. First 100 confirmed attendees automatically become Libertarian Party delegates.
2. Pulse-pounding action as you ride "The Elevator™!"
3. Finally, an excuse for over-40 year olds to come to Austin!
4. Barton Creek Resort's Fazio Foothills golf course is a lovely shade of green in April, is considered the best golf course in Texas, is par 72, 7,125 yards long, and if you hid a body there, no one would ever find it.
5. On Tuesday, April 22, Texas BBQ and Live Music Entertainment will be provided by Mingo Fishtrap at Stubbs. On Wednesday, April 23, Pizza and a Dungeons and Dragons Session will be provided by Brian Boyko at his apartment.
6. Discuss the results of WrestleMania XXIV, and hypothesize about the results of the upcoming Backlash Pay-Per-View event, with your intellectual peers.
7. Feel invigorated by knowing that, due to Texas's liberal "concealed-carry" laws, any of your fellow network engineers could be "packing heat."
8. Every fifth application delivery controller at the symposium is filled with delicious candy!
9. Every day starts with a prayer session, thanking Huitzilopochtli, Left-Handed Humming Bird, for postponing the end of the world. (We will choose an MCSE to sacrifice at noon the previous day.)
10. Slumber Party!