SD West is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2007!!
To commemorate this important milestone, we've put together the most impressive conference line-up yet with more networking events and new sessions than ever before. Don't miss out this year's most valuable week of training. Online registration is now closed but you can still register on-site at the Santa Clara Convention.
SD West 2007 features a lively Expo Floor, free Tech Sessions, evening Birds-of-a-Feather gatherings, visionary Keynotes, and over 200 educational sessions, in 14 important subject areas, taught by the most-qualified speakers in the field.
Highlights:
New Tracks and
Updated Content!
Ruby, Web 2.0 and Microsoft Windows Vista join our stellar line-up of practical
and visionary training. Join us for 5 days of in-depth training, with 14 tracks
and 200 plus sessions!
Developer
Bowl
Watch the competition heat up as teams from CodeGear, IBM, Google and Yahoo!
are pitted against each other in a test of knowledge about the history, technology
and traditions of software development. Is it Jeopardy? Is it Who
Wants to be a Millionaire? Is it The $64,000 Question? Nope. It’s
better. Join us on Thursday, March 22 for our version of a TV game show and
see who wins bragging rights as the top development team!!
20th Anniversary
VIP Conference Party
May the Software Development be with you! SD West is 20 years old and celebrating
Sci-Fi style! Come, lift a glass and mingle with your peers as we celebrate
two decades of practical and visionary training.
Awards
Night!
Join Dr. Dobb’s Journal Editor-in-Chief, Craig Newmark from Craigslist.org,
industry luminaries and your fellow attendees at SD West’s Awards Night
on Wednesday, March 21, 2007. The night kicks off with Dr. Dobb’s
Journal Excellence in Programming Award and concludes with the 17th annual
Jolt Product Excellence Awards ceremony. Find out who’s the best of the
best in our industry!
Innovation
Games with Luke Hohmann
Join us for food, drinks and fun as we put the Innovation Games to the test.
The first step to creating truly successful products is to understand what your
customers really want. This is harder than it sounds, however. Customers don't
always know what they want, and because they don't know, they can't tell you.
Luke Hohmann, author and founder of Enthiosys,
created the Innovation Games to help teams better understand their customer’s
desires. Join us as we learn by doing, putting the Innovation Games in practice
to improve SD West, and take a valuable requirements gathering skill back to
your office.
Dr. Dobb's Life 2.0 Presentations
March 21-22, 2007
CMP Technololgy booth 402
Curious about developing in Second Life? Want to know more about LSL, 3D building,
web-integration and opensource sims? Join Dr. Dobb's at the CMP booth during
SD West -- or on Dr Dobbs Island in Second Life -- for an overview of the upcoming
Life 2.0 Summit, and the soon-to-debut life20.net, developer community. For
more information, please contact Karen Tom at ktom@cmp.com.
Visit our Conference Overview page for complete conference details.
New this year ... you
can now view the entire SD West 2007 conference catalog online.
