How large is the crowd at Knowledge?

[Jeremy Smith]

This will be my first year attending the Knowledge conference.  I am a large conference veteran usually attending Microsoft Ignite conference which usually has around 25,000 plus attendees which the large crowd is overwhelming.  Should I come prepared to deal with large crowds?

[ServiceNowSteve]

The only thing I was able to find said that in 2016 there were over 12,000 people attending. - https://www.provintl.com/blog/knowledge17-building-up-to-the-service-management-event-of-the-year

[Jeremy Smith]

12,000 is a pretty large crowd if this is accurate!

[Shishir Srivast]

I think, this year we are expecting around 18,000 great people. 

[Jeremy Smith]

Wow 18,000 is huge I didn't expect it to be this big!