This week at the OpenStack Israel conference there was a impressive turnout of approximately 400 people. It was a vibrant day, lots of interesting people from all over the world, and great sessions. I even got to have lunch with Scott Herold!

Here are some of the moments from day

Heard at #OpenStackIL: "AWS is a great demo environment before deploying production on OpenStack". This.

— hastexo (@hastexo) December 9, 2013

@ohadlevy @OpenStackIL @redhat still not mature enough.. why #openstack progress and maturity level disappoints me every year cc @natishalom

— Ofir Nachmani (@IAmOnDemand) December 9, 2013

I delivered a session "OpenStack for VMware Admins" going over the differences, similarities and some gotchas from those who are used to VMware environments, and are looking at OpenStack

And we're back with three stellar tracks @maishsk from @cisco on #openstack for #vmware admins #openstackil pic.twitter.com/Uv5cfDiK6V

— OpenStack IL (@OpenStackIL) December 9, 2013

Here are pictures from the day.

I think that the Israeli team did a great job, in attracting the talent to come to the conference. I was happy that I could present and am looking forward to seeing the recordings when they come online.

My session is available online and embedded below.