Bonus Sessions / User group night
Tuesday Night
What's New in Visual Studio 11 with Dylan Smith of Imaginet
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 enable developers to take full advantage of the capability of Windows using the skills and technologies developers already know and love to deliver exceptional and compelling apps. Whether working individually or in a small, medium or large development team the Visual Studio 11 sets a new standard for development tools, helping teams deliver superior results for their customers that help set them apart from their competitors. In this session Dylan will walk through highlights of new features in Visual Studio 11 and provide an understanding of the breadth of capabilities available in this release.
Date: Tuesday May 29th
Location:Hilton Metrotown
6083 McKay Avenue
Burnaby, Canada
V5H 2W7
Room: Tiffany C
Time: 6:00pm
Note: All bonus sessions are free for everyone.
.NET Rocks Panel Discussion: “Development Methodology – Where Are We At?”
Join Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell with panelists James Kovacs, Mario Cardinal, Charles Max Wood and
Rob Daigneau for a special .NET Rocks panel discussion exploring the state of development methodology today.
Expect discussions on Waterfall, Agile, XP, Lean, Scrum, Scrum But, Scrum And… nothing is off limits! Bring your questions and be part of this .NET Rocks show!
Note: All bonus sessions are free for everyone.
Date: Wednesday May 30th
6083 McKay Avenue
Room: Tiffany C
Host
Today Richard is on the board of directors for Telerik (www.telerik.com), a leading vendor of development, team productivity, automated testing tools, UI components and content management solutions in the Microsoft space. He is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks (www.strangeloopnetworks.com), developing an appliance for web site performance. He's a partner in PWOP Productions, creating a variety of multimedia programs including ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers," (www.dotnetrocks.com) a podcast produced twice a week for more than 150,000 listeners in 120 countries and The Tablet Show (www.thetabletshow.com), a podcast focused on tablet and mobile development across all platforms. In addition he's the host of RunAs Radio (www.runasradio.com), a podcast for the IT Professional using Microsoft technologies. Richard also serves as a technical director for Penton Media, planning the content of magazines and conferences that engage technology professionals all over the world.
Panelists
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.
Dylan Smith is an ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) consultant for Imaginet where he spends his time helping teams become more successful at delivering software. Dylan has over a decades experience designing and architecting mission critical applications. In the past 7 years Dylan has focused on agile development techniques and practices. He has led the shift to agile and lean development practices across multiple teams, projects and companies.
Wednesday Night
Location:Hilton Metrotown
Burnaby, Canada
V5H 2W7
Time: 6:30pm
Carl Franklin is the host of the acclaimed
.NET Rocks! and dnrTV podcasts, and
executive producer of Hanselminutes
and Run As Radio. Carl was an early
adopter of .NET, spending 5 years
providing hands-on training for his
company, Franklins.Net. Carl is a
Regional Director for Connecticut, and
also an MVP. Carl is also a musician
and audio/video producer. Contact Carl
at carl@franklins.net
Richard Campbell has been involved with microcomputers and software since 1977. His career has spanned the industry both on the hardware and software sides, from manufacturing to sales, service, game development, line-of-business software and large scale systems. He's been deeply involved in creating new businesses around software, hardware, services and products in a huge range of roles, including technical, management and financing. During the halcyon days of the DotComBoom he was a consultant to venture capital firms providing technical due diligence and architectural direction.
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.
Charles Max Wood is the host of several podcasts including Ruby Rogues, Rails Coach, Teach Me To Code, and Teach Me To Code Screencasts. He transitioned from IT to Computer Programming in 2006. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University. He lives in Lehi, Utah with his lovely wife, Heather, and 4 children.
Rob Daigneau has more than 20 years’ experience designing and implementing applications and products for a broad array of industries from financial services, to manufacturing, to retail and travel. Rob has served in such prominent positions as Director of Architecture for Monster.com and Manager of Application Development at Fidelity Investments. He is currently the Director of Server Applications at BlueMetal Architects. Rob has been known to speak at a conference or two.
Rob’s book on Service Design Patterns was recently released in the prestigious Martin Fowler Signature Series.
In his free time, Rob plays guitar with his daughter, hits the slopes when there's snow, and enjoys long walks in his woodsy corner of the world.