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DevCon 2014: the announcement of the first wave of speakers and reports

Hi, dear software developers and testers. We continue to work on our conference DevCon 2014 and today we are ready to present the announcement of the first wave of speakers and presentations of our most interesting , resort and international conference.



Let me remind you that within the framework of the conference we plan to split all the reports into several thematic groups:
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Today we present you the first batch of reports and speakers for each of these groups.

Development of client applications for the Windows and Windows Phone platforms


One of the largest groups of conference reports is a group dedicated to the development of client and mobile applications on the Windows and Windows Phone platforms.

Larry Lieberman


Product Manager, Windows Phone Platform, Microsoft
International track reporter



Larry Lieberman (Larry Lieberman) has been using Microsoft development platforms for 14 years, and mobile application development platforms for 10 years. He heard that once mobile technologies will conquer the world. Currently developing seven mobile applications, but they have not yet been published. She lives in Seattle, Wash., And has a four-year-old daughter in her free time.

Larry will speak at the international track of DevCon reports with a whole set of sessions devoted to the latest mobile application development announcements that will be presented during the Build 2014 conference.

Tim Heuer


Lead Product Manager in the Microsoft Windows Team
International track reporter



Tim Heuer is a Microsoft program manager who uses client-side XAML-based UI development platforms for Windows (previously Silverlight). Prior to joining the XAML engineering team, Tim worked with technical communities across the country to help create and develop software-oriented technologies. Use the tools and technology development Microsoft, Tim began in the early 1990s.

Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a consultant for 12 years, helping to implement technology solutions that contribute to successful business in various industries, such as healthcare, construction, real estate and e-commerce. Unfortunately or fortunately, his work is his hobby, he is a real fan of technology. Tim almost does not part with the keyboard, wanting to always stay abreast of the latest developments. Tim shares his thoughts on the blog: http://timheuer.com/blog/

At DevCon 2014, Tim will share with the audience reports on the latest innovations in client application development for Windows, which will be presented during the Build 2014 conference.

Alexander Belotserkovsky


Strategic Technology Expert, Microsoft



Alexander is a technical evangelist of Microsoft. Prior to joining Microsoft, Windows Azure MVP was involved in advising Windows Azure clients in Russia and the CIS countries, from start-ups and developers to corporate users. Permanent speaker at Russian and international events (TechEd, DevCon, Windows Camp, InterOp Conf). He considers it his favorite thing to talk about his favorite technologies and how they change the world.

Reports :


At the DevCon 2014 conference, Alexander will deliver several presentations on the latest development tools and cloud technologies.

Sergey Pugachev


Prime Support Engineer, Microsoft Global Business Support



Currently, Sergey is working at Microsoft and is engaged in supporting major customers on software development issues. He has authored books on developing applications for Windows Phone and Windows 8. Presented reports at numerous conferences, including DevCon, TechEd Russia, Patterns & Practices Summit, and others. In 2009-2012, he was Microsoft MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Professional).

Reports :


In the framework of the DevCon 2014 conference, Sergey will deliver a report on the latest cloud and web development technologies, as well as hold the next third hackathon “Coding Night” for the participants, which has already become a trademark of the DevCon conference series.

Mikhail Samarin


Director, Developer Training and Evangelism, Futurice Ltd
Microsoft MVP



Mikhail speaks at conferences, teaches, programs, manages the team and has titles of Microsoft MVP and Nokia Developer Champion. His many years of practical experience covers such areas as mobile application development, interactive media installations, support systems for forensic medical research and video observations. Currently, Mikhail leads the development training department at the Finnish company Futurice, the official winner of the Best Place To Work in Europe competition in 2012 and 2013.

Report :


Mikhail will share his experience and deep knowledge of working with cameras and image processing tools of Windows Phone devices, which are especially interesting for Nokia Lumia devices with cameras with impressive capabilities.

Maria Anikina


Marketing Communications Manager, Microsoft



He has been working in Russian Microsoft since 2007. He is responsible for marketing activities with developers in the areas of Windows Phone and Windows 8 in the department of strategic technologies. Provides support for the largest Internet companies and individual developers in the promotion of applications for Windows Phone and Windows 8.

The theme of the speech of Maria will be the experience of monetization and promotion of mobile applications in Windows stores and Windows Phone. The title of the report will be published soon.

Konstantin Kichinsky


Software Development Expert, Microsoft



Works in the Russian Microsoft as an expert in software development technologies of the Department of Strategic Technologies. The main technological interests include client web development, design and design of mobile applications and applications for Windows 8.

The theme of the speech Konstantin will be the design of mobile applications for Windows and Windows Phone platforms. The title of the report will be published soon.

Cloud Computing and Web


At DevCon 2014 will be presented to many reports on web development and cloud technologies.

Vladimir Vinogradsky


Lead Program Manager, Windows Azure, Microsoft



Prior to working at Microsoft, Vladimir Vinogradsky was involved in the development of the Apiphany startup company, which was located in Washington. Vlad has been involved in the software development industry for over 20 years as a developer, software architect and technology evangelist. Even before Apiphany, Vlad spent almost ten years in the Department of Strategic Technologies at Microsoft.

Prior to his work at Microsoft, Vlad developed complex solutions for various tasks, including processing and recognizing images in real time, document submission, security, insurance, and so on. Over the years of developing complex solutions, Vlad had experience working with a whole range of platforms, devices, processors and mainframes, as well as programming languages ​​and frameworks. Vlad was born and raised in Moscow, but in 1993 he moved to the United States, today he lives in Seattle, Washington.

At the DevCon 2014 conference, Vlad will make a presentation on the newest features of the Windows Azure cloud platform. in which participants can learn interesting details first hand. The exact title of the report will be published soon.

Alexey Khalyako


Program Manager Customer Advisory Team, Microsoft
International track reporter



Alexey has been working at Microsoft for over 13 years. Initially focused on the requirements for adapting SQL Server for Eastern European markets, for the last 5 years he has been working for the Customer Advisory Team www.sqlcat.com . The main focus is on building complex and large data warehouses in areas such as well-known European telecommunications companies, air carriers and other industries. The experience gathered in these projects is reflected in various articles that are published on sqlcat.com and msdn.microsoft.com , as well as in the reference architecture of the Fast Track, in the development of which Alexey participated. At the moment, Alexey is also working on projects based on cloud computing and Big Data. Alexey is a graduate of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (Technical University).

Reports :


In the framework of the report on the cloud track of reports, Alexey will talk about the organization, effective collection and analysis of telemetry data of the work of cloud services in practice.

Anton Vidischev


Technical team leader and senior developer at Edgar Online
Microsoft MVP



The report with which Anton Vidischev will speak at the conference is devoted to architectural approaches and practices that allow developing scalable and fault-tolerant cloud architecture. As part of the report, we will look at the identification of the application life cycle model, the strategy for working in the modes of accessibility and failure, and most importantly, the newly formed design patterns in the cloud environment.

Report :


Anton will share his experience of using the Application Insights service in practice for organizing the monitoring of cloud applications.

Denis Kretov


Technical Director, Notissimus



In 2004 he graduated from St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI" (St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"). Got a job in the North-West branch of OJSC "MegaFon". Engaged in the development and support of corporate intranet sites of the company. In 2010 he moved to the online store ORDER, where he was engaged in the development and support of the company's Internet sites. Ibid created the first mobile app for the online store (iPhone version). He continued his experience in developing mobile applications at Metrika (he made a version for the iPhone, iPad and Android).

Currently I work in the NOTISSIMUS company, which specializes in the development of mobile applications for online stores.

Report :


Denis, as an expert and director of a successful project using cloud technologies in practice, will tell DevCon 2014 audience about using Windows Azure to solve the practical task of sending push notifications to various platforms.

Tools, development methodologies and programming languages


One of the most important topics at the DevCon 2014 conference is the effective use of application development tools, team development and programming languages.

Andrew Bragdon


Product Manager in Team Visual Studio Online, Microsoft
International track reporter



Andrew (Andrew) - Program Manager Team Application Insights in Visual Studio Online. Currently busy with the Application Insights Tools for Visual Studio project. Prior to that, Andrew was responsible for the functions of CodeLens and Code Map - components of visualization and code analysis, which significantly increase the productivity of programmers.

Andrew also has research experience; He created a number of information visualizations for software developers, for example, Code Bubbles, a source code visualization tool that allows you to display several functions at once.

At the DevCon 2014 conference, Andrew will share the latest news on the development tools of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Online. The exact title of the report will be published soon.

Dmitry Soshnikov


Technological evangelist, Microsoft in Russia



Ph.D., Technological Evangelist of Microsoft in Russia, Associate Professor at the Department of Management of Software Development at HSE and the Department of Computational Mathematics and Programming at MAI, author of the book “Functional Programming in F #”. He taught courses on Functional and Logic Programming at MAI, MIPT, HSE and at Internet University INTUIT, a member of the F # Software Association (FSSF), the Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence (RAII).

Report :


At the DevCon 2014 conference, Dmitry will tell the audience about functional programming in F # and practical application of functional programming for a wide range of tasks: from analytics to robot programming.

Askhat Urazbayev


ScrumTrek Chief Ideologist and Scrum Specialist



Most of all he likes to speak at conferences and give clever advice. Askhat has long been engaged in flexible methodologies, worked as a manager in Agile projects, coached and coached many teams in Russia and the CIS. Prior to Agile, he led the creation and implementation of the Luxoft Standard Process. And before that, he worked in different companies, where he passed the glorious battle path from a junior developer to a project manager.

At the DevCon 2014 conference, Askhat will share his rich experience in organizing software development in development teams. The exact title of the report will be published soon.

Nikolay Leonov


Consultant CoreDev, Microsoft



Since 2012, he has been a consultant to Microsoft, where he has been working with major customers on the development of highly loaded extensible systems and the implementation of ALM practices. The main areas of specialization at the moment are DI \ IoC solutions, WPF, the Microsoft Visual Studio extensibility model.

Report :


At DevCon 2014, Nikolay will tell the details about the best examples and practices of using Visual Studio development tools in large projects.

Corporate development, data processing


During the DevCon 2014 conference, a number of reports will be specifically devoted to the topic of corporate development and efficient data processing using the latest Microsoft tools.

Alexey Shulenin


Expert in information processing and analysis technologies, Microsoft in Russia



Works in Microsoft since 1996. He currently holds the position of expert in information processing and analysis technologies at the Department of Strategic Technologies, provides support to partners of independent software vendors, conducts popularization and educational activities, and speaks at conferences on databases and application development issues.

Report :


At the conference, Alexey will share information about the internal structure and practical use of the analytics subsystem for the TFS 2013 portfolio of development projects.

Dmitry Pilyugin


Technical Specialist



The speaker first met SQL Server in 2004. Since then, he developed solutions in the field of corporate information systems, was engaged in query optimization and performance issues. Currently involved in the development of systems associated with the processing of large amounts of data.

Report :


Dmitry will tell DevCon 2014 audience the most interesting and detailed information about the new features of SQL Server 2014 in the field of in-memory technologies and, in particular, about innovations related to column indices.

Andrey Korshikov


PASS Regional Mentor for Central and Eastern Europe
Microsoft MVP



I started working with SQL Server eleven years ago. It was possible to work and pass certification exams in SQL Server versions from 2000 to 2012. Participant of SQLSaturday, Platform, DevCon and TechEd conferences. Geography of performances from Sofia to Astana, from Moscow to Tbilisi. The leader of the Krasnodar community of SQL Server experts.

Report :


Andrey's report will be devoted to the topic of SQL Server Reporting Services, in the framework of which he will share practical tips on the effective use of this technology.

Sergey Mikhalev


Team Lead / Software Developer, VIAcode



C 2006 software developer and timlid in the company VIAcode. For a long time, the main responsibility was to optimize SQL Server queries and work. Speaker at such conferences as SQL Saturday, 24 Hours of PASS, SQA Days, Code Freeze. Posted by f1incode.com . He is fond of athletics.

Report :


An interesting report by Sergey, an experienced SQL Server specialist, will be dedicated to optimizing queries for effective execution.

See you at DevCon 2014!


We work hard to make the next DevCon 2014 even better than the previous ones. Our team prepares for you an excellent technical and entertainment program. We have chosen the perfect venue for the conference. And in the list of our speakers , the most interesting experts with unique experience and content have already been announced. And it will be updated weekly with new faces, so stay tuned!

Last year, tickets for our holiday ended three months before the start. So do not waste time and register today !

See you at DevCon 2014 - the first international - in May of this year!

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