Tech Chair
Both DevTeach and its joint events SQLTeach, MobileTeach include world renown speakers among
its Tech Chairs. Our tech chair team members is listed below.
We are currently looking for speakers for our Toronto 2013 conference (May 27th 31st, 2013). If you are interested, send your session abstracts to our Tech Chair member. Please, include "DevTeach-SQLTeach-Toronto-2013-Sessions" in the subject of your email. Speakers must submit their sessions abstracts by January 31st .
| Speakers must provide sessions abstracts by January 31st |
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.
Tracks
- 6 .NET Agile. Track Chair Mario Cardinal
- 11 Software Architecture. Track Chair Mario Cardinal
- 11 Web Dev. Track Chair James Kovacs and Chris Dufour
- 11 Javascript Track Chair James Kovacs
- 11 Mobile Track Chair Barry Gervin
- 6 Cloud computing Development. Track Chair Bruce Johnson
- 6 Windows 8 Track Chair Bruce Johnson
- 6 SharePoint Track Chair Rob Windsor
- 5 SQL Server DBA/Admin. Track Chair Jean-Rene Roy
- 6 Database Development. Track Chair Jean-Rene Roy
- 6 SQL Server BI. Track Chair Jean-Rene Roy
Total sessions: 85
Use our template to submit
We are compiling your submission with a SSIS package. You must submit your sessions with our Excel template.
Download our
DevTeach Toronto 2013 Session Abstracts Template
Deadline for sessions proposal is January 31st
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.
Below are the 2 PowerPoint Templates. You will need it if you are selected.
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.
Try to find an edge or try to focus on a specific aspect of the technology.
In case of doubt, send an email to
devteachtechchair(at)googlegroups.com
James Kovacs is a Technical Evangelist for JetBrains. He is passionate in sharing his knowledge about OO, SOLID, TDD/BDD, 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, intended to save developers from XML Hell. James is the Ruby Track Chair for DevTeach, one of Canada’s largest independent developer conferences. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Toronto and his Masters degree from Harvard University.
Since that time he has worked on projects for House of Commons, Innovapost, Bell Canada, CGI, CNSC, Kraft, and many other clients assuming the responsibility of Business Analyst, Software Architect,ETL and BI Architect, Software Developers, Analyst, Team leader and mentor. He has been and is still very active in the developers’ community by acting as a user group leader for more than ten years with the Montreal .NET community and the Ottawa IT community.
He is also the co-founder of an international developer’s conference www.DevTeach.com which is now directed by a member of his team. Jean-René Roy is a SQL Server Microsoft MVP.
Sessions Recording:
Meet your Tech chair team
Bruce Johnson is a Principal Consultant with ObjectSharp and a 25-year veteran of the computer industry. He spent half of that time working in the MultiValue database and UNIX marketplace, but the past 14 years have been spent on projects at the leading edge of Windows technology, including using .NET since the introduction of version 1.0. His experience includes the creation of commercial web applications using AJAX, the implementation of Web Services in a financial institution and the building of various Windows-based applications for software vendors. As well as his experience in system design and development, he has also given over 200 presentations at user conferences all over North America and is the co-author of three Microsoft Press Pro Certification Training Kit books (Windows Forms, Web Development and Distributed Applications)
Mario Cardinal is an agile coach specialized in software architecture with over twenty years of experience in designing large-scale information systems. He love to 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.
Chris Dufour (MVP ASP .NET, MCAD, IBM Certified Database Associate - DB2 UDB V8.1) is a Toronto-based software architect. He is currently working as a software architect for Compuware, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Chris is passionate about the developer community and has contributed projects like the ‘Code Camp Event Module’ to the open source community on CodePlex. He is the president of the East of Toronto .NET User Group and co-founder and organizer of the Toronto Code Camp. He is also the Web Development chair for DevTeach, one of Canada’s largest independent developer conferences. Chris has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for his involvement in the developer community.
Jean-René Roy has been developing IT solution for large and small enterprises since 1987. In 1991 he founded the consulting firm Technologies SoftDesign Inc.
