Friday, May 27, 2011

Penton Media's DevConnections teams up with Microsoft to deliver major conference in Germany

PRLog (Press Release)– May 27, 2011– MAY 27, 2011 – ALTRINCHAM, CHESHIRE, ENGLAND. Penton Media's DevConnections IT conference division has teamed up with Microsoft to hold a major conference for computer professionals in Germany next month. IT & DevConnections powered by Microsoft Germany 2011 will be held at the Kongresszentrum Karlsruhe, Stadthalle, from June 8-10 with over 50 speakers and more than 100 seminars.

While DevConnections has held Microsoft technology-oriented conferences all over Europe and the Middle East in recent years, the Karlsruhe event is the first to reach a scale approaching that of its counterparts in the States. remote control helicopter In the U.S., American B2B publisher Penton Media's DevConnections conferences are huge shows with thousands of visitors that are firm fixtures in the IT industry's calendar.

Shirley Brothers, managing director of DevConnections, says: "In the absence of the bigger Windows-oriented shows in Europe this year, Microsoft Germany asked us if we could scale up our IT & DevConnections conferences. We then collaborated with Microsoft in the States to bring together the cream of the crop when it comes to speakers. We are delighted with the agenda we have put together for the Karlsruhe conference."

The IT & DevConnections powered by Microsoft conference agenda brings together top-ranking experts from Microsoft along with leading independent presenters to deliver in-depth sessions on how to succeed with virtually the whole Microsoft technology stack – Windows, SharePoint, SQL Server, Exchange, Silverlight, ASP.Net, virtualisation and Azure.

It's a grand coalition of Microsoft big-hitters together with local expert speakers and specialists from U.S. publication Windows IT Pro's network which includes SQL Server Magazine, SharePoint Pro and DevProConnections.

Microsoft presenters include ASP.NET development guru Scott Guthrie, developer tools group director Dave Mendlen and Steve Fox, senior evangelism manager at Redmond's developer and platform group. Windows IT Pro luminaries from the U.S. include SharePoint wizards Dan Holme and Richard Taylor as well as SQL Server speaker-circuit stars Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randall.

Local speakers include Microsoft Germany SQL Server expert Steffen Krause, a regular speaker at TechEd Europe and PASS Europe, and ASP.NET MVP and prolific author Christian Wenz. Many of the local speakers will deliver their sessions in German. Popular web community SQLServerCentral.com will deliver its own stream of seminars.

As with the American Connections shows, the Karlsruhe IT & DevConnections powered by Microsoft event will take the form of co-located conferences that run over two days with additional pre-conference workshops. The co-located conferences – SharePoint Connections, Microsoft ASP.NET/Silverlight Connections, Visual Studio Connections, and SQL Server Connections – are themselves divided into streams. There will also be general Windows sessions of interest to all types of Microsoft-oriented IT pros and in-depth sessions on Exchange.

Passes for the main two-day conference on June 9-10 cost just €449 (+VAT). For more information and registrations details for IT & DevConnections powered by Microsoft Germany 2011, see: http://www.devconnections.com/shows/europe2011/default.a ...

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Contacts:

Nigel Clapham Penton Communications Europe Nigel@pentoncommunications.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)161 929 2826

Seamus Quinn Cue Communications seamusquinn1@yahoo.co.uk Tel: + 44 (0)7846 102192

About DevConnections DevConnections provides comprehensive, independent how-to content on building applications with the Micro best rc helicopter buy sell market place soft stack – Visual Studio, .NET Framework, Azure, Windows, Windows Server, Office, SharePoint, SQL Server, Mobile, and beyond. In partnership with leading industry experts, DevConnections provides education and networking opportunities through in-person and virtual events, an extensive online resource, and publications Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine, SharePoint Pro and DevProConnections.

DevConnections is part of an established community of technology resources within Penton Media, Inc. targeted to IT and Developer professionals. Our combined online community reaches over 2.5 million IT and developer professionals, forming the world's largest independent community of Windows, IBM, and open source-engaged 1086274749  professionals.

About Penton Media As a leading, independent, business-to-business media company, Penton knows business and how to create and disseminate vital content that moves markets. Penton is where professionals turn to gain the critical insight, expert analysis and relevant connections needed to compete and succeed. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit http://www.penton.com

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