Imagine this. You are part of a team of experts and you have to  selecting 84 sessions for a conference. You received 72 proposals for a total of 350 sessions to select from.  That was not a simple task. But after some difficult choices you manage to pull off a very good show. Check you the new sessions for DevTeach Vancouver 2012. If you are in to web development, this is your conference. But what! You have to see the Pre-Conference and Post-Conference.  It’s really a very good conference. Trust me I know what I am talking about.  

Did you know, DevTeach is looking for speaker for their event of Vancouver (May 28^th to June 1^st). Check out the Tech Chair Team.  I will be the Tech Chair for three tracks, SQL BI, SQL DBA and SQL Dev. If you are interested, you have up to Dec. 20^th to submit your sessions.  To submit your sessions proposal you need to use DevTeach Excel template because this excel file will be used by a SSIS package that will load the data.  This event will have many flavors. It will cover many different technologies like .NET, Ruby, iOS, Android, PHP and more.  Get all the detail at this link.

http://www.devteach.com/TechChair.aspx

You like to go the DevTeach but your boss do not agree you? That ok, in collaboration with the local community, DevTeach is presenting 4 bonus sessions. On November 2^nd, you can attend for free the Ottawa IT Community Speaker Idol. Come and see a friendly contest where local speakers have to do a 10 minutes presentation; the audiences will choose the winners.  On November 3^rd, we’re having three user groups presentations at the same time. The OttawaSQL will be presenting a sessions by Paul Nielson, The ODNC user group will present an Agile Scrum and Kanban presentation by David Starr and the OWSUG is having a IT Camp. All bonus sessions are free for everyone. Get all the details at this link.

This fall, TechDays Canada will be in 3 cities (Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal). If you think there are no TechDays in Ottawa this year, well you are wrong because TechDays Canada is the Platinum sponsor of DevTeach Ottawa. Most of the TeachDays content will be presented at DevTeach Ottawa, including new sessions on Windows 8 directly from the Build Windows Conference.  

That content mix with the special content of DevTeach promises to be a very good conference. Plus TechDays is a 2 days conference DevTeach Ottawa is 2 Days conference and one day of Pre-Conference. Unlike TechDays, DevTeach is limited to 300 attendees so register early.

Again this year, the gang in Ottawa is planning a Code Camp / IT Day and I am leading again the tech chair for this event. All previous event events have been a big success.  I suspect this event will be has successful or more.  The event is held at the Algonquin College on April 16^th.  If you are interested to present at the event you have up to March 28^th to submit your proposal, send me your sessions with the template below. 

Ottawa IT Camp 2011 call for speaker

Send your sessions before March 28th.

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 Ottawa IT Camp 2011 Session Abstracts Template

Click here to send your session abstracts!

I am so happy to see the Canadian UG Leader back at DevTeach. We did not do one since 2009 in Vancouver.  I have a long list of thing I like to share with other UG leader.  You can get more details about this event at this link: http://www.devteach.com/UserGroupRebate.aspx#UGSUMMIT

Did you know about this? DevTeach and MS are doing a full day of training on TFS 2010 at the Algonquin College. Attend for free and learn from 3 of the leading Canadian experts on development best practices about how TFS can help you manage your entire Application Life Cycle. Using little vignette focused around different challenges or goals, they will cover various aspect of VS 2010 and TFS 2010. This full day event is free and brought to you by DevTeach, Microsoft, Pixys and Fujitsu. For more details visit DevTeach web site. I will be there to help my friends with the logistic. It will be fun, don’t miss it because it FREE!

This year DevTeach will be in Montreal and DevTeach did it again! A fantastic line up of speakers are presenting 68 sessions in 3 days.  I am trill to see SQLTeach is back this year. I can spend 3 days learning about SQL plus Kalen Delaney is doing as pre-con.  It will be a very good show and we can’t miss it because it comes to Montreal only every 3 years.  I will be there what About you?

Wow, I just learn that I will be presenting two sessions at ConFoo Montreal  (March 9-11,2011)

This event is PHP oriented but for the past 2 years ConFoo added sessions about SQL Server and .Net. The sessions I will be presenting are:

What new in Reporting Service R2

What is MS Sync. Framework

It will be interesting to see how PHP developers react to the Sync FW and the SSRS R2. I am sure I will have very nice conversation.

When I stated to use SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) I thought it was easy until I had to setup a test, prod and a Dev environment.  The configuration in SSIS is all over the place and even if you are an expert, you still look many places to find what you what to configure.   

This is why I design this session call: Why SSIS configuration is Rocket science?

Learning SQL Server Integration Service (SSIS) is not that difficult but the deployment in production is. Why? Because SSIS package Configurations is Rocket Science. This session will present many examples of SSIS configuration and show you the pit fall, tips and tricks and best practices for SSIS. This session is not just for the DBA but also for the developers. Attending this session can save you many frustrations. You need to see it.

Come and see me at the OttawaSQL.Net meeting.

Date: Nov. 18^th (Thursday night)

Location: 100 Queen 5^th floor

Arrival: 5:45pm