Arriving at Moscone Centre

The Moscone Center is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California. It comprises three main halls: Two underground halls underneath Yerba Buena Gardens, known as Moscone North and Moscone South, and a three-level Moscone West exhibition hall across 4th Street.

The Java One General Sessions take place in one humongous hall in the Moscone South while the Pavillion which hosts all the technology booths, and exhibitors, is at the Moscone North.

As you enter Moscone North, you see an array of registration booths for different category of visitors - Sun Employees, Alumi ( this is a cool concept, I did not know about. An Alumni is someone who has attended previous Java One conferences and has an Alumni tag provided. Monetary benefits include a 10% discount in the Java goodies Retail Store).

The registration process is actually a validation of your email id which prints out a smart card based ID that is put in a jacket/dogtag and handed over to you. Now this ID has RFID tags built in so that various instrumentation and data collection events can be initiated.


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