Announcement of the first wave of key speakers of the conference DevCon 2013

I am pleased to announce the first wave of key speakers at the DevCon 2013 conference. Today we are ready to present to you speakers who will specially come to us at the conference in order to meet with the participants, read the reports, answer questions, discuss all topics of interest to the participants.

Today, the first wave of key speakers is announced. In total, we are planning several such waves, when we present you the new speakers of DevCon 2013. Follow the news of the conference.
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Bernd Schulze

Business Development Director, Qualcomm Europe

Dr. Bernd Schulze holds the position of Business Development Director for Qualcomm Europe. As part of the global ecosystem team, it establishes and manages partnerships with mobile application developers and leading service providers in Europe, especially Eastern Europe and Germany.

Dr. Bernd Schulze began his work at Qualcomm in March 2012, where he transferred from the German company Deutsche Telekom. At Deutsche Telekom, Bernd Schulze worked as Head of the Direction on setting up and managing partnerships with startups and cloud providers. Even before Deutsche Telekom, Dr. Bernd Schulze worked as the lead business development manager at the TV operator Sky Deutschland and a strategic consultant at Accenture.

Dr. Schulze holds a Ph.D. from the University of Munich.

Dmitry Robsman

Development Director, Windows Azure Application Platform, Microsoft

Dmitry Robsman is the director of the development team for creating a Windows Azure application platform. Dmitry leads a team of engineers who create and maintain the performance of a number of Windows Azure services, including Web sites (Web Sites), a management portal (Management Portal), a service bus (Service Bus), media services (Media Services), and others.

Dmitry is also responsible for developing the Microsoft web platform, which includes Internet Information Server (IIS), ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Workflow Foundation (WF), Entity Framework (EF) and web tools - Visual Web Developer, Web Matrix, Web Platform Installer; Windows Azure SDK and several open source projects.

Over the 15 years of Microsoft’s career in various roles, Dmitry has contributed to the development of a number of products and technologies, including IIS, ASP.NET, .NET development languages ​​and at the moment - Windows Azure. Dmitry loves to write code. Dmitry’s well-known independent projects include the Cassini web server (written entirely in managed code) and the ASP.NET RSS Toolkit (a library for publishing and using RSS feeds in ASP.NET).

Clemens Vasters (Clemens Vasters)

Technical Team Leader, Windows Azure Service Bus , Microsoft

Clemens Vasters is a Principal Technical Lead in the Windows Azure Service Bus cloud messaging development team.

Before joining Microsoft, Clemens Wasters was a partner in a consulting company in Germany. Clemens joined the Windows Azure Service Bus team from the very beginning of the development of the service, and also participated in such global projects as designing a middleware layer for Office 365 SharePoint and Halo.

Currently, Clemens occupies the role of the Principal Technical Lead in the Windows Azure Service Bus team and is responsible for the technical development strategy of this technology as part of the Windows Azure platform. In addition, Klemen has spoken at numerous conferences in more than 50 countries (including Russia), has a video blog on Channel 9 and is always available via Twitter @clemensv.

Paolo Salvatori

Lead Project Manager, Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team , Microsoft

Paolo Salvatori is the Lead Manager for the Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. He has been with the company since 1997 and spent most of his time as a developer for Microsoft Consulting Services and a software solutions architect.

In July 2007, Paolo Salvatori joined the BizTalk Rangers team, where he was involved in evaluating architectural design solutions and building test laboratories. Today, he works in the Windows Azure Customer Advisory Team, which communicates with Windows Azure customers and solves their requests.

Paolo Salvatori is a regular speaker at Microsoft conferences and other technical events. He often writes articles on MSDN on his blog http://blogs.msdn.com/b/paolos/ . Paolo Salvatori's Twitter account is @babosbird.

In the framework of DevCon 2013, Paolo Salvatori will talk about the effective use of development tools for building complex software systems.

Alexander Krakovetsky

Head of DevRain Solutions

Alexander Krakovetsky is the head of DevRain Solutions, a company that develops applications for Windows Phone and Windows 8. He owns international titles Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft MVP, Telerik MVP, Ph.D. IT, speaker, active member of the technical community, Forbes columnist, author of the Windows Phone 7 Rocks! website.

Sergey Olontsev

Lead Database Developer, Kaspersky Lab
Microsoft Certified Master in SQL Server

Sergey Olontsev is the holder of the Microsoft Certified Master certificate in SQL Server - the highest certificate in the industry. Sergey speaks at various conferences and meetings of the User Group. Sergey started working with SQL Server since version 2000, and during that time he had to deal with a very wide range of tasks. The main areas of specialization at the moment are HA / DR solutions, ETL, identification of bottlenecks and performance optimization.

At the DevCon 2013 conference, Sergey Olontsev will share his rich experience in applying the latest SQL Server technologies.

About DevCon 2013

DevCon conference is not the first year and has already managed to catch the fancy of Russian developers and guests from other countries. A key feature of this series of conferences is its country format, the venue is carefully chosen from the best guesthouses near Moscow. At the same time, all conference participants drove into a country holiday home and lived there for two days of the conference, receiving all the pleasant advantages of these places.

The key topics for DevCon 2013 will be the following:

• Modern client applications
• Mobile development
• Cloud computing
• Software Development and Lifecycle Management Tools
• Development Technologies and Programming Languages
• Development, monetization and promotion of applications for app stores
• Modern Design Microsoft
• Corporate development, data processing

In addition, the conference participants will have unique access to the functional programming school , intensive training in software testing and the Gaidar Magdanurov master class from Runa Capital.

Details about the DevCon 2013 conference you can read in this announcement or on the official website http://www.msdevcon.ru/ . Follow the conference news on twitter @msdevcon and the hashtag #msdevcon

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