As Market Wire reported yesterday, TechEd 06’s record breaking number of participants certainly underlines its importance as the main SAP Development convention. My only hope is that future TechEd’s will be prepared for such high attendance rates should this trend continue. In my own experience, certain workshops and presentations can be very overrun at times and participants are not always guaranteed a seat at a laptop during hands-on sessions.

With regards to the attendance increase of 40% at TechEd Bangalore, it has to be said that SAP sells those tickets at quite a discount. Whilst a 3-day ticket for TechEd 05 in Vienna cost about GBP 1600, the same convention in Bangalore was offered at GBP 180.