Education. Collaboration. Networking.

Take advantage of VMworld 2012, an exceptional education opportunity for IT professionals. We are developing an outstanding program of Sessions and Labs this year, with more than 175 unique Breakout Sessions and 20+ Hands-on Lab topics offered across three days.

Plus, VMworld offers additional learning opportunities, such as the Knowledge Experts program, numerous networking events, and Solutions Exchange featuring more than 125 companies showcasing the latest virtualization and cloud computing products and services. Whether you're new to VMworld or have attended before, VMworld 2012 is sure to be an engaging – and enlightening – experience.

What to Expect for 2012

Breakout Sessions
This year, there is pre-registration for Sessions, giving you the peace of mind that you will have a spot in the sessions you and your business care most about. Most sessions are repeated and we will be adding sessions leading up to the conference, so you'll have ample opportunity to attend your top choices.

Knowledge Experts
Connect with subject-matter authorities through our Knowledge Experts program. These members of the VMware community will conduct and participate in Breakout Sessions, Group Discussions and One-on-One meetings throughout the conference.

One-on-One Meetings
Spend 15-minutes with up to three Knowledge Experts during the conference to delve into topics that relate specifically to your organization.

Group Discussions
Led by Knowledge Experts, these informative and interactive discussion groups are a great opportunity for you to gain insight from like-minded colleagues in similar industries. Attendance will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Hands-on Labs
These special scenario-based Labs have been designed around typical customer use cases and business scenarios. This allows conference attendees to have a true hands-on experience exercising workflows that relate to real-world scenarios. There will be over 20 distinct labs available; with some manuals in German and Japanese along with the default English. A full list of Labs will be available in June.

The Hands-on Labs (HOLs) are yet again taking a leap forward to provide a user experience greater than any other in the industry with 18000 lab hours being made available to conference attendees during VMworld. The HOLs will be serviced by a globally distributed public cloud which stretches across our sponsor datacenters; Switch in Las Vegas, Terremark in Miami, and COLT in Amsterdam all powered by vSphere 5.0 and vCloud Director 1.5.