Day pass available at DevTeach Attendees can register for the three days (May 13-15) or register for only one day. With the day pass attendees can combine a day of Pre-Conference (May 12) or Post Conference (May 16) with one or two days pass to the main conference. This initiative will help attendees with a restricted budget or schedule for professional training.

Party with Palermo, DevTeach Toronto Edition… Jeffrey Palermo (MVP) is hosting Monday May 12th in Toronto is acclaimed ‘’Party with Palermo’’. This is the official social event kicking off DevTeach Toronto. The event is not just for the attendees of Toronto it’s a free event for everyone. It’s a unique chance for the attendees, speakers and locals to meet and talk with a free beer. The event will be held at the Menage club location and you need to RSVP to attend. Get all the details at this link: http://www.partywithpalermo.com/

The conference will be held at the Hilton Toronto The Hilton Toronto provides some great advantages such as being located right downtown Toronto and nearby all related facilities. Take advantage of the DevTeach / SQLTeach special hotel rate of 219$ by registering before April 12th. The regular rate is 319$. Internet in the room is free.

Pre-Conference: Three essential full days workshop on May 12th Take advantage of our great workshops in our Pre Conference day. The essential workshops will bring you up to speed with the new technologies and best practice of the industry. First we have the Pragmatic Application Design with Willinam R. Vaughn also Kevin McNeish will do a full day on WPF and finally Paul Nielsen will be doing Design a workshop on Design and Optimization Best-Practices with SQL Server.

Keynote by Scott Hanselman, Microsoft Scott Hanselman is one of the most prolific, renowned and respected blogger (http://www.hanselman.com) and podcaster (http://www.hanselminutes.com) about technologies. Scott is a hands-on thinker, a renowned speaker and writer. He has written a few books, most recently with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader on Professional ASP.NET. In July 2007, he joined Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager in the Developer Division. In his new role he'll continue to explore and explain a broad portfolio of technologies, both inside and outside Microsoft. He aims to spread the good word about developing software, most often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years and before that he was a Principal Consultant at STEP Technology for nearly 7 years.

DevTeach / SQLTeach Toronto 2008 sessions now online! DevTeach / SQLTeach Toronto 2008 will be the biggest developer, DBA and ITPro conference in Canada. It’s jam-packed with advanced sessions (level 300 and 400) all on the latest versions of Microsoft products and technologies. We have a track on .NET 3.5. We also added a .NET Agile track. This year we have 54 .NET sessions, 34 SQL Server, 11 IT Pro, 17 Agile and 17 Architecture sessions. DevTeach Toronto 2008 is the training you can’t get any other way.

It's an incredible 3 days conference schedule Take a look at the DevTeach Toronto impressive conferences schedule. 136 sessions will be presented in 8 rooms from May 13th to May 15th. The schedule is jam packed with advanced sessions. We are also including a SharePoint track and tracks on new technologies. This three day schedule includes 45 SQL Server and Server product sessions, 17 Agile sessions, 17 on software architecture and 57 .NET sessions. DevTeach Toronto is the yearly event you can't afford to miss!

Bonus session: .NET Rock host a panel May 14th at 18:00 This year the bonus session (Wednesday May 14 at 18:00) will be a panel of speakers debating the Future of .NET. Where is .NET going? How will new development influence .NET and be influenced by .NET? Join Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell from .NET Rocks as they moderate a discussion on the future directions of .NET. The panellists include individuals who have strong visions of the future of software development and the role that .NET can play in that future. Attend this session and bring your questions to get some insight into the potential future of .NET! This bonus session is free for everyone. Panelists are: Ted Neward,Oren Eini ,Scott Bellware

Get to know our speakers by reading their blog and listening to their talk show Most of our speakers write regularly in their blog and have been interviewed by the Dot Net Rock Talk Show or the Visual Studio Talk Show. Get to know our speakers by reading their blog and listening to their latest interview on talk shows. The DevTeach conference includes a top selection of speakers having a strong experience in various areas. Most of these speakers are presenting at major conferences around the world on a regular basis and in other areas as well such as user groups, corporate training and class training.

Post-Conference: Three fantastic full day workshop on May 16th Maximize your training time by taking advantage of our great Post-Conference. On May 16th, you have the exceptional chance to enhance your skills with three unique workshops. First we have Scott Bellware and Jean-Paul Boodhoo presenting a Test-Driven Development (TDD) also Rod Paddock and Jim Duffy are presenting a full day on Building Business Applications with Silverlight 2.0 and Adam Machanic is presenting a full day on SQLCLR.

Become an Exhibitor at the trade show The sponsor program includes three options. The gold option gives maximum exposure, the silver includes a booth in the trade show and the bronze includes options which gives good exposure. You can also sponsor one of the 8 breakout rooms for 3 days. Target your specific developers/ITPro by sponsoring a track. Take a look at all options available for sponsors.

Universal Thread DevTeach Vancouver 2007 Conference Report The Universal Thread team was present to deliver the report for DevTeach Vancouver 2007. It included 100 pictures and a tons of materials to read.

Win prizes by completing evaluations Attendees can win prizes by completing their sessions’ evaluations. To win, attendees need to complete their evaluations online. We have Swag, Software and Hardware to give away in three days. The prizes can only be won on a specific day and time. Click right here to see the impressive list of prizes.