Jason Zander confirmed his participation in the DevCon 2013 conference

We are pleased to announce that Jason Zander, Corporate Vice President of Windows Azure Development, has confirmed his participation in the DevCon 2013 conference. At the opening of the conference, he will talk about the development tools and the Microsoft cloud platform.

The name Jason Zander is widely known to developers. Until September 2012, when he joined the Windows Azure team as vice president of development, he led the development of Visual Studio for more than 5 years, and before that, he was responsible for the CLR, the .NET Compact Framework, and ASP.NET for more than 2 years technology.
Jason was one of the CLR developers responsible for file formats, compilers, debugging / profiling, and integration with key products such as Microsoft SQL Server. Before he became responsible for developing Visual Studio, Jason worked on many Microsoft products, such as SourceSafe, Rpository, and ODBC. Before joining Microsoft in 1992, Jason worked at IBM on Distributed SQL and SQL / 400 in the Rochester lab.

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.
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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 guru Agile Askhat Urazbayev and Viktor Strelkov on the theory and practice of Scrum;
• Hackathon “Night coding”.

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!