As part of DevCon 2013, the Hackathon “Night of Coding” will be held

Dear software developers and developers!

On behalf of the DevCon 2013 conference team, I am pleased to announce, during the conference, the “ Night of coding ” hackathon with lecture and practical parts.
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As part of the evening DevCon 2013 program, participants will have the opportunity to join other developers and devote evening and night time to implementing ideas and developing applications for Windows 8.

Hackathon "Coding Night" will take place from 21-00 in the evening and until 03-00 in the morning on the first day of the conference.

Goal hackathon

We hold a hackathon for those conference participants who love programming and will be ready to implement their ideas right on the court in the company of friends and like-minded people. Participation in the hackathon will allow participants to try in practice all those interesting things that will be discussed on the first day of the conference.

Lecturers and leading hackathons

Sergey Pugachev

Software development expert. The author of books on developing applications for Windows Phone and Windows 8, which can be downloaded for free at: http://www.spugachev.com/windows8book

He made presentations at numerous conferences, including DevCon, TechEd Russia, Patterns & Practices Summit, etc. In 2009-2012, Microsoft MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional) was. Currently engaged in the development of software solutions, as well as interaction with developers in the Russian office of Microsoft.

Denis Pasechnik

Expert in project management and building quality assurance systems in the full software development cycle, Microsoft

Active supporter of Agile product methodologies with a focus on instrumental support from Microsoft, primarily: Visual Studio, TFS, Project Server. He has been working in the IT field since 1996. Certified Level Project Manager (B) for IPMA, Certified by IPMA Assessor. Has Microsoft certification (MCSD, MCDBA, MCT, MSFP).

Since 2003, he has been a member of the Microsoft Regional Director, and since 2007, MVP with a specialization in Visual Studio Team System. Since 2010 he has been working at Microsoft Company.

Stas Pavlov

Software technology expert. In the field of information technology has been working for more than 11 years. He started as a database developer, then worked on client and web development technologies. The last few years he has been actively working with embedded and mobile solutions. Author of several books on embedded Microsoft operating systems.

Hackathon "Night coding"

Hackathon will be held on the first day of the DevCon 2013 conference in the evening from 21-00 pm and until 03-00 am.

The hackathon will be divided into two parallel halls: lecture and practical. In the lecture hall there will be lectures on application development, methods of development and application of development tools.

In the practical hall, any conference participant will have the opportunity to participate in the implementation of their ideas and the development of Windows 8 applications. Experts, presenters and lecturers of the hackathon will help in the development and implementation of ideas.

All participants of the hackathon will receive special insignia - “achivki”.

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, conference participants will have unique access to various learning activities outside the main program:

• school of functional programming
• intensive software testing training
• master class by Gaidar Magdanurov from Runa Capital
• master-class from Agile guru Askhat Urazbayev and Viktor Strelkov on the theory and practice of Scrum.

Details about the DevCon 2013 conference you can read in this announcement or on the official website http://www.msdevcon.ru/ .

Registration for the conference is already open ! Tickets are sold quickly. Hurry up to take your seats!