The premier conference for Microsoft developers DevReach ‘2010 is coming again in Sofia on October 18 and 19 for the fifth time. This is the most amazing technical event for software engineers in Bulgaria and the region with over 60 lectures in 5 parallel tracks, the only place in the region to meet the world’s distinguished speakers in the .NET world. DevReach is strengthening its position as leading .NET conference, such as Microsoft PDC (www.microsoftpdc.com) and Tech Ed (www.msteched.com).

The Speakers

This year the developers can attend lectures from top quality speakers like (but not only):

• Beth Massi – http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi/
• Richard Campbell – http://www.campbellassociates.ca/blog/
• Stephen Forte – http://www.stephenforte.net/
• Todd Anglin – http://weblogs.asp.net/toddanglin/
• Miguel Castro – http://www.dotnetdude.com/
• Sahil Malik – http://blah.winsmarts.com/
• Andrew Brust – http://www.brustblog.com/
• Lino Tadros – http://www.linotadros.com/
• … and many others

Hot Topics

DevReach speakers will talk about the upcoming products and technologies not only from Microsoft but also in general abut the software engineering and new trends. Sessions will cover all of Microsoft’s latest technologies including ASP.NET 4 and Silverlight 4, Windows Workflow, SharePoint 2010, HTML 5, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Azure and WPF. Some of the hot topics include:

• HTML 5 in ASP.NET
• HTML 5 and CSS3
• jQuery, Visual Studio and ASP.NET
• Advanced ASP.NET Tricks
• etc.

More Information

DevReach is organized by Telerik Corp. (softuni.bg), a leading vendor of developer productivity, team productivity and automated testing tools for .NET developers, and Martin Kulov, the Microsoft Regional Director for Bulgaria. The event is supported by Microsoft and the International .NET Association – INETA (www.ineta.org).

Registration and Discounts

All participants who register by September 15th on the official web site (www.devreach.com) will get a 20% discount.

Members of the Bulgarian Association of Software Developers (BASD) will get additional discounts. If you are some of them please contact the organizers by email: [email protected].

I have no patience to meet the DevReach speakers and their sessions in Sofia this autumn.