Tech Chair
Note: Il est possible de présenter en français à notre conférence de Montréal. SVP l’indiquer dans votre proposition.
Both DevTeach and its joint event SQLTeach include world renown speakers among its Tech Chairs. Our tech chair team members is listed below.
We are currently looking for speakers for our Montreal 2011 conference (May 30th June 3th, 2011). If you are interested, send your session abstracts to our Tech Chair member. Please, include "DevTeach-SQLTeach-Montreal-2011-Sessions" in the subject of your email. Speakers must submit their sessions abstracts by December 20th, 2010 .
| Speakers must provide sessions abstracts by December 20th, 2010 |
Sessions Recording:
By submitting your sessions you are allowing DevTeach to record them this year . The content of your sessions and material will remain your property. You can re-present your sessions any time. The recording of your sessions will not be sold in any way or form. DevTeach may use the recording for marketing only.Your sessions recording may be accessible on Internet free of charge.
Here are a few tips:
Submit at least 2 talks. More is better though, because to get in (if you are not a local speaker), you will have to present 2 different sessions, and it is somewhat unlikely that 2 out of 2 match our needs. So the more you can submit the better. Local speakers (Local = no travel and hotel expenses) can present one session or more.
Every time Microsoft releases a new developer technology, we get dozens of submissions for intro sessions like “Introduction to LINQ” recently. Try to find an edge or try to focus on a specific aspect of the technology.
In case of doubt, send an email to devteach-techchair(at)googlegroups.com
More Details:
All sessions demonstrating Visual Studio and/or SQL Server must be presented using Visual Studio 2010 and/or SQL Server 2008. The only exception is for demonstration of beta where future versions are allowed. Try to include .NET 4.0 stuff in your sessions.
What DevTeach covers for speakers?
For selected non-local speakers , DevTeach will cover up to 4 nights at the hotel of the conference and all travel expenses. All speakers will get a Polo shirt, a complementary pass to the main event that includes 3 breakfasts and 3 lunches. They will also be invited to the speaker’s dinner.
PowerPoint Templates
Below are the 2 PowerPoint Templates. You will need it if you are selected.
Tracks
- 6 Windows Azure Development. Track Chair Guy Barrette
- 6 .NET Agile. Track Chair James Kovacs
- 11 Silverlight and WP7. Track Chair Colin Melia
- 6 SharePoint sessions. Track Chair Rob Windsor
- 11 Software Architecture. Track Chair Mario Cardinal
- 11 Web Development sessions. Track Chair Guy Barrette
- 5 SQL Server DBA/Admin. Track Chair Jean-Rene Roy
- 6 SQL Server Development. Track Chair Jean-Rene Roy
- 5 SQL Server BI. Track Chair Christian Coté
Total sessions: 68
Use our template to submit
We are compiling your submission with a SSIS package. You must submit your sessions with our Excel template.
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DevTeach Montreal 2011 Session Abstracts Template
Colin Melia is a Microsoft MVP for Silverlight and Microsoft Regional Director known as an architect, trainer, speaker and author with deep and broad knowledge of the latest Microsoft technologies, proven problem solving skills, hands-on solution creation ingenuity and the ability to communicate rich and complex ideas. He is the Principal Architect at Ace of Clouds Inc. and speaks regularly with his British accent at conferences, events and code camps for Microsoft and community organisations as well as being a college academic advisor. In the summer of 2010 he developed and delivered the first Windows Phone 7 boot camp tour in North America, training dozens of developers and companies across Canada at Microsoft offices. His recent articles and reference cards have been featured on Mobile Developer Magazine & DZone and he regularly posts on his blog. Colin has 17 years of hands-on experience in areas of rich UI with WPF/Silverlight, cloud development with Azure and BI with SQL Server, along with in-depth knowledge of core technologies such as .NET, OData, WCF, WF, LINQ and WIF. He has developed award-winning simulation technology with rich UI, cloud-based learning portals and workflow-driven BI systems. He also created the first streaming video community site with Windows Media. He has worked in the finance, telecoms, e-learning, Internet communications and gaming industries, with his business solutions recently in use world-wide at companies like HP, O2, Cisco, IBM, Intel, Microsoft & Reuters.
Tech chair team
Guy Barrette is a freelance Solutions Architect based in Montreal, Canada. He is the Microsoft Regional Director for the Montreal region and a Windows Azure MVP. He's been working and developing with Microsoft development tools since the launch of VB 3 in 1994. His focus is helping organizations build better software using Microsoft technologies. He's been a speaker at developers' conferences like Microsoft TechDays and DevTeach. Guy leads the Montreal .NET Community and he is the Visual Studio Talk Show podcast co-host.
Mario Cardinal is an independent consultant specializing in software architecture. He is known as someone who can extract the essence of a complicated situation, sort out the core ideas from the incidental distractions, and provide a summary easy to understand. He speaks regularly about architecture and agility at international conferences. Since 2004, he hosted the Visual Studio Talk Show, a podcast about software architecture. He also leads the architecture user group for the Montreal .Net Community and is the architecture track tech chair for the DevTeach Conference. For the seventh year in a row, he has received from Microsoft the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award. Mario holds Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Master of Technology Management degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada. He also holds the titles of Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (Team Foundation Server), and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer. He shares his free-time with his wife, Nathalie and their four children.
James Kovacs is an independent architect, developer, trainer, and jack-of-all-trades specializing in agile development using Ruby and .NET. He is passionate about helping developers create flexible software using test-driven development (TDD), behaviour-driven development (BDD), unit testing, object-relational mapping, dependency injection, refactoring, continuous integration, and related techniques. He blogs on CodeBetter.com as well as his own blog, is a technical contributor for Pluralsight, writes articles for MSDN Magazine and CoDe Magazine, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and user groups. He is the creator of psake, a PowerShell-based build automation tool, to save developers from XML Hell. James is the Ruby Track Chair for DevTeach, Canada’s largest independent developer conference. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto and his Masters degree from Harvard University.
Rob Windsor is a Lead SharePoint Consultant with Allin Consulting - a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Boston. He has over seventeen years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.NET and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint. Rob is a regular speaker at conferences, code camps, and user groups across North America and Europe. He regularly contributes articles and videos to MSDN, TechNet, and the Pluralsight On-Demand library and is the co-author of Professional Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4 for Wrox. Rob is the founder and past-president of the North Toronto .NET User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his involvement in the developer community.
