It was the first 27 Dinner of the year, and it was held in Melrose Arch this time at JB’s Corner.  What a stunning venue… the food was excellent and the mojitos that we got were sublime

The speaker was Fred Baumhardt (Specialist Sales Director and Chief Technology officer for Microsoft South Africa).  His talk was very interesting… I did in fact listen as I was close to the front I was especially interested to hear his take on subscription software and outsourcing vs insourcing.

The host of the event… Mike Stopforth

The guest speaker… Fred Baumhardt

I can’t not take some photos of the geeky stuff, it was after all a geek event

First, how cool are the stamps?!! “27 Dinner the geek shall inherit the earth”

Then, check out the phones at the table I was sitting at… my poor little pink Blackberry was seriously the odd man out   Just after I took the shot, a guy came up to the table and commented about all the Apple geeks there, and when I said I had a BB, his retort was “I guess you work for a real company then… one that uses like email and that” LOL!!

During the evening, the iPad was announced and the guys were going ballistic on Twitter…

Ooh and check out this rad t-shirt! Jessica and I voted it t-shirt of the night.

And other random photos from the evening…

Hey Craig, you’re supposed to be listening not tweeting!

There are a few more photos in my Flickr set too.  It was a good evening again, pity I didn’t get to talk to more people though, but that tends to happen when I hide behind my lens

Recommended Reading

• Wedding Photographers in Johannesburg
• Cara and Jamie’s Batmitzvah at The Venue in Melrose Arch
• Daniel’s Barmitzvah at the Capri Hotel