https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Peer-Peer-Topics/Meetups-or-Conferences/m-p/1009#M649 <P>Back in December of 2016, I was part of one of the many iterations of Google communities called Cloud Connect. They had a meetup in Sunnyvale, California at the Google Tech Corners campus.&nbsp; I attended this, and was there with other K12 and Higher Ed Google Admins.&nbsp; The networking was great, the sessions were informative...&nbsp; And I stayed an extra day and rented a mountain bike, so that was pretty great too.</P><P>Does anyone know if anything like this exists these days?&nbsp; This was obviously in the BC era (Before COVID), so I'm wondering what kinds of these things exist these days. I have some professional development money that I'd like to use to travel to a conference of some sort, and something like this could certainly be worth my time again.</P><P>Alternatively...&nbsp; Do any of you know of any other worthwhile Google Meetups/Conferences that happen anywhere in the country?&nbsp; Bonus points if it's somewhere south in the winter months. lol</P> Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:40:00 GMT sundermannc 2023-09-18T01:40:00Z https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Peer-Peer-Topics/Meetups-or-Conferences/m-p/1009#M649 <P>Back in December of 2016, I was part of one of the many iterations of Google communities called Cloud Connect. They had a meetup in Sunnyvale, California at the Google Tech Corners campus.&nbsp; I attended this, and was there with other K12 and Higher Ed Google Admins.&nbsp; The networking was great, the sessions were informative...&nbsp; And I stayed an extra day and rented a mountain bike, so that was pretty great too.</P><P>Does anyone know if anything like this exists these days?&nbsp; This was obviously in the BC era (Before COVID), so I'm wondering what kinds of these things exist these days. I have some professional development money that I'd like to use to travel to a conference of some sort, and something like this could certainly be worth my time again.</P><P>Alternatively...&nbsp; Do any of you know of any other worthwhile Google Meetups/Conferences that happen anywhere in the country?&nbsp; Bonus points if it's somewhere south in the winter months. lol</P> Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:40:00 GMT https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Peer-Peer-Topics/Meetups-or-Conferences/m-p/1009#M649 sundermannc 2023-09-18T01:40:00Z https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Peer-Peer-Topics/Meetups-or-Conferences/m-p/1010#M650 <P>Perhaps Cloud Next in Vegas next April would fit the bill? See&nbsp;<A href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next" target="_blank">https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next</A> — and there’s some remarkably beautiful country just a few miles from Vegas if you stick around a bit. (Far nicer than time in awful casinos, IMNSHO.)</P><P><SPAN>If you need something this year, it’s <EM>heavily</EM> Higher-Ed focused, but perhaps&nbsp;<A href="https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference" target="_blank">https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference</A> would be of interest?</SPAN></P> Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:49:33 GMT https://www.googleforeducommunity.com/t5/Peer-Peer-Topics/Meetups-or-Conferences/m-p/1010#M650 icrew 2023-09-18T01:49:33Z