While looking through the content catalog I thought I would do some searches to see the number of sessions focused on specific products/solutions based on keywords. My observations on the numbers below are the # of sponsor sessions are very small, of the remaining sessions it’s unknown how many came through the public CFP but that’s typically a very small amount.
Technical sessions are the most popular by far making up almost 90% of the session types at VMworld, business level sessions tend to not do to well at VMworld as the audience tends to be made of of mostly technical job roles. vSAN dominates the storage sessions, Kubernetes dominates the container sessions and AWS dominates the cloud sessions. About 20% of the sessions are deep dive type sessions which tend to be very popular.
If you are registered for VMworld, the Schedule Builder opened up yesterday so you can now start scheduling sessions. I’ll be posting my list of interesting sessions soon.
General stats:
- Total Breakout Sessions – 523
- Total Sponsor Sessions – 36
- Total Sessions with VMware Only Speaker(s) – 378
- Total Sessions with VMware and non-VMware Speaker(s) – 90
- Total Technical 100 Sessions – 119
- Total Technical 200 Sessions – 206
- Total Technical 300 Sessions – 141
- Total Business 100 Sessions – 32
- Total Business 200 Sessions – 25
- Total HOLs (Expert led) – 52
- Total HOLs (Self paced) – 78
- Total Panel Discussions – 36
Searches based on keywords:
- Total “Storage” sessions – 50
- Total “vSAN” sessions – 105
- Total “VVols” sessions – 6
- Total “Hyperconverged” sessions – 68
- Total “vxRail” sessions – 22
- Total “Cloud” sessions – 200
- Total “AWS” sessions – 112
- Total “Google” sessions – 7
- Total “Container” sessions – 41
- Total “Kubernetes” sessions – 41
- Total “Database” sessions – 17
- Total “Oracle” sessions – 14
- Total “SQL” sessions – 10
- Total “SAP” sessions – 12
- Total “Networking” sessions – 111
- Total “NSX” sessions – 116
- Total “Backup” sessions – 18
- Total “Data Protection” sessions – 9
- Total “Deep Dive” sessions – 98
- Total “VDI” sessions – 14
