Hi, dear software developers and testers. We continue to work on our
DevCon 2014 conference and today we are ready to present the announcement of the second 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:
- Development of client applications for the Windows and Windows Phone platforms
- Cloud Computing and Web
- Tools, development methodologies and programming languages
- Corporate development, data processing
- Virtual international track, combining reports in English
Today we present to you the second portion of the reports and speakers for each of these groups.
Development of client applications for the Windows and Windows Phone platforms
One of the largest conference report groups is the group dedicated to the development of client and mobile applications on the Windows and Windows Phone platforms.
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Andrey Beshkov
Microsoft, Information Security Program Manager.
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He has been working in IT since the mid-90s. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was involved in building the infrastructure of data centers and implementing OSS / BSS systems in a number of Russia's largest organizations, such as Megafon, Svyazinvest, Rosatom, and Russian Post. At the moment he is responsible for the work of the information security program at Microsoft in the CIS countries. In addition, he advises and helps to implement security, virtualization, and cloud computing technologies in VimpelCom, Sberbank and other companies.
Reports :Secure application development.
- With each new version of the OS, Microsoft adds new security mechanisms such as DEP, SEHOP, ASLR. Attackers also do not stand still. They understand that it is becoming more and more difficult to attack the OS, so they focus their attacks on applications. Let's look at creating threat models and predict the next steps of the attackers. How to develop applications so as to reliably protect them and ensure the safety and privacy of your customers.
Mikhail Bondarevsky
Microsoft company, Architect.

Works at Microsoft Technology Center, specializes in the development of corporate systems architecture. His areas of interest include the development of corporate mobile applications for Windows 8, business applications for Office and SharePoint.
Reports :Creating enterprise applications for Windows 8.1 Use cases and benefits.
- The report is devoted to a detailed analysis of the benefits and scenarios of using the Windows 8.1 platform for corporate applications. The report will consider several examples of applications, their shortcomings and ways to improve.
Jeff Burtoft
Microsoft, the evangelist for web technologies.

Jeff is a Microsoft eugnelist and a big fan of JavaScript / HTML5 technology. He loves web standards, javascript and videos from 80`x about skateboards. In addition to this, Jeff is the co-author of the book “HTML5 Hacks” (O'Relly Media) and one of the first bloggers on the site html5hacks.com. Jeff lives in North Texas with his wife and three children.
Reports :Creating mobile applications for web developers.
- Many developers wonder why they should build mobile apps when they can use web apps on mobile devices. In this report, you will learn about the benefits of applications on mobile devices, the key features for developers, get acquainted with new web standards and learn about building cross-platform mobile applications on web technologies that you know and love.
Vladimir Kolesnikov
Microsoft Company, Technical Expert Group Leader.

He has worked in IT for over 12 years. Until 2007, he developed various categories of applications in C ++. After the transition, Microsoft spent three years introducing large information systems for corporate customers in the Russian division, and then helped mobile application developers understand the new Microsoft platform. Since 2013, he has been working at Microsoft headquarters to develop a graphical Windows stack, multi-platform development and gaming middleware.
Reports :Integration of applications and services with Personal Digital Assistant (Cortana) on Windows Phone 8.1.
- From the report you will learn how to use voice control and Cortana service to work with your application, as well as integrate it into search results on Windows Phone.
Porting mobile C ++ applications to Windows Runtime - libraries, tools and features
- The report is devoted to a review of existing libraries and tools for porting applications to Windows Runtime. You will learn about working methods in Windows Runtime with OpenGL ES, Cocos2d-x, Cinder, OpenCV, libcurl and other libraries and tools.
Cloud Computing and Web
At DevCon 2014 will be presented a lot of reports on web development and cloud technologies.
Evgeni Agafonov
ABBYY, Lingvo Web Development Team Leader

Education: Moscow State University. Mv Lomonosov, Faculty of Chemistry. Works in the company ABBYY since 2004. Now he leads the development of online services Lingvo. C 2005 to the present - Microsoft MVP in the competence of ASP.NET. Included in the development team of the site
rsdn.ru.Reports :Experience in developing a service to prepare for the exam under Windows Azure.
- The report will detail the system architecture and Azure services that were not interchangeable for this system. Of course, we’ll also talk about the problems encountered during the trial operation of the system and the chosen approaches to solving these problems.
Sandrino Di Mattia
RealDolmen company, technical consultant.

Sandrino Di Mattia focuses on Microsoft Azure technologies and integration projects (Dynamics CRM, Sharepoint). You can find more information about him in the blog at:
http://fabriccontroller.netReports :Resilient Microsoft Azure websites.
- Design fault tolerance is an important point when creating cloud applications. Microsoft Azure creates the conditions for an easier solution to this problem thanks to such features as traffic manager, CDN, data storage with geo-redundancy. This report will discuss how to use these tools to ensure fault tolerance in cases where even parts of the solution are partially disabled.
Stas Kondratyev
Microsoft company, Architect.

The leading architect of the web project Sochi 2014 on Windows Azure. A Microsoft solutions architect with more than 10 years of experience in developing application software with a focus on building distributed and scalable systems.
Reports :Under the hood: a scalable and high-loaded website for the Sochi 2014 Games on Microsoft Azure.
- The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games were undoubtedly the most important sporting event of 2014. The official website of the Games has become the most popular sports resource in the world during games. We will look behind the scenes and consider its distributed architecture, organically built on Microsoft Azure and able to cope with a sharply growing, unpredictable, load. Come and learn about the interesting problems we have encountered, and how we designed our system in accordance with the high demands placed on this class of solutions.
George Mogelashvili
CROC, Senior Developer.

George is a technical enthusiast who loves to explore and put into practice various technologies and programming languages. The object of one of these studies once became the cloud platform Microsoft Azure, after which this passion grew into professional use. Now George is a Microsoft MVP and makes presentations and maintains a blog about cloud technologies for developers. Author of the course at Microsoft Virtual Academy on Microsoft Azure Mobile Services, his own course on the basics of the C # language for beginners, video tutorials and webinars on various technical topics. He loves Georgian cuisine, Georgian wine, travel, wife and cat.
Reports :Cloud API on .NET - fast, free, without SMS.
- From this report, you will learn how to deploy a full-fledged RESTful API in a cloud in half an hour, make friends of its code with .NET and work with data from almost any device without paying a single penny
George Trifonov
Microsoft company, Senior engineer.

I started programming in 1998 from web applications using Perl, Perl Script, Microsoft J ++. He graduated from MGSU with a degree in automated control systems in 2002.
Until 2005, he worked in Russian companies as a programmer, mainly specializing in .NET-based web solutions. In 2005 I moved to the USA and in 2007 I moved to Microsoft Redmond. 4 years devoted to the development of the Microsoft Advertising ecosystem (now called Bing Ads). Last 3 years I work on REST API and SDK of the Azure Media Services platform.
Reports :Development of cross-platform applications for online broadcasts and video processing
- This session will demonstrate how to use the Azure Media Services API to implement live broadcasting to various mobile platforms, as well as to store and protect video material.
Vladimir Yunev
Microsoft company, an expert on strategic technologies.

Microsoft strategic technology expert, certified application developer with more than 12 years of experience. Responsible for the use of cloud technologies in web applications, services and mobile clients at Microsoft. He is a regular participant and organizer of many Russian IT conferences, the author of a book on the development of web applications on the ASP.NET platform. In the community of developers known under the nickname
XaocCPS .
Reports :The latest Windows Azure services to help make your applications
- In this report, you can learn about the latest updates to the Windows Azure cloud platform to ensure reliable, productive and secure operation of your applications. As part of the report, you will get to know and learn about the capabilities of numerous services of the platform and will be able to see their benefits through a series of live demonstrations. The report is focused on web developers, developers of mobile applications and corporate solutions.
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.
Dmitry Andreev
Microsoft company, an expert in the development of information systems.

An expert in the development of information systems. Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) on the Microsoft platform. Since 2004 he has been working at Microsoft, interacting with an audience of developers, setting the main goal of improving the quality of developed solutions based on Microsoft technologies and developing the IT community.
The main technological interests include the organization of software development processes, the architecture of information systems and IT project management, the development of games and applications with intensive graphics. Supporter of practical and flexible methodologies for solving the tasks of organizing development processes.
Reports:How using static and architectural analysis to improve the quality of the code.
- The toolkit of Visual Studio 2013 includes many features that allow you to improve the quality of the developed code and the architecture of the application as a whole. Static analysis, UML diagrams with code synchronization, automatic application checking for compliance with the architecture of layers, Code Lens and other tools allow you to achieve a basic quality threshold. The report will discuss these capabilities, as well as the expansion of the static analyzer and IntelliSence tools with the help of Roslyn technology.
Maxim Goldin
Microsoft Company, Senior Developer of Visual Studio Diagnostics.

In the industry since 1995. He started his career at Intel where for 8 years he specialized in developing technologies for simulating the operation of modern microprocessor devices (both functional and performance). In 2003, Maxim joined the Visual Studio profiling tools development team at Microsoft and continues to work in this team to this day. For 11 years of work at Microsoft, he was directly involved in the release of all versions of Visual Studio since Visual Studio 2005. Currently, he is working in the diagnostics department of Visual Studio on the next version of the product, simultaneously overseeing the performance issues of code created in the department.
Reports :- Debug and profile Windows Store and Windows Phone applications with the latest Visual Studio tools
Vladimir Gusarov
Dell Company, Director of R & D Moscow branch.

Engaged in industrial software development for more than 20 years. He started as an ordinary programmer, and with time he became more and more involved in development management. He participated in the development of various products on an industrial basis on all phases - from gathering requirements to release and support. Vladimir worked on projects for the companies Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Compaq and HP. Currently he is in charge of the Dell development office in Moscow.
Since 2010, Vladimir is Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) category, and since 2011 he has joined the ALM Rangers team.
Reports :Quality management in the industrial development of software products.
- In the modern world of tough competition and the demands of end users, quality products are winning. We will talk about how to ensure high quality of the developed product at early stages, which metrics and tools to use to control how to organize the work of the product team, as well as which tools will help reduce overhead costs and simplify the lives of developers and testers.
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.
Nikita Klychnikov
Company ADV / web-engineering, Head of .NET \ SharePoint.

He has been developing web solutions based on Microsoft technologies for more than eight years. Since 2009, he has concentrated on the SharePoint platform and the development of enterprise solutions. Currently he is in charge of the SharePoint department at ADV / web-engineering, one of the largest Russian companies in the web development market. Under the leadership of Nikita, both intranet portals and high-load public portals on SharePoint were created for such companies as VTB24, Probusinessbank, Leroy Merlin, Kaspersky Lab, etc.
Reports:Create and configure intranet solutions based on Office 365
- The report will describe which components and modules of a typical intranet can be claimed on the O365 platform. The following modules will be affected: organizational structure, telephone directory, news services. Let's talk about the nuances that need to be considered when building cloud solutions, and about the possible benefits of building solutions based on Office 365, and also show how to set up a single point of common input (Single Sign On) under the accounts of organizations.
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!
See you at DevCon 2014 - the first international - in May of this year!