Key speakers of the DevCon 2016 conference

At the DevCon 2016 conference this year there is not only the official opening - the key session of the event, but also the key report on each track of all three areas: Windows, Azure and Office. In the conference program, these reports are given a special place - during their time there are no other parallel sessions. And the speakers will be specially invited executives and leading experts from Microsoft.

And we are pleased to announce the key speakers of the DevCon 2016 conference!


The conference opens with Jason Zander , corporate vice president of Microsoft for the development of the Microsoft Azure platform. Jason-led teams design and develop key Microsoft Azure technologies — data processing, storage and transmission systems, public cloud data centers, and engineering systems.
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Nick Parker - corporate vice president of Microsoft, division of work with equipment manufacturers will act as a speaker of the key report of the Windows track on the topic of Devices & Hardware. As Microsoft's corporate vice president at Microsoft, Nick Parker is responsible for international sales, marketing and licensing of pre-installed Windows operating systems on mobile and embedded devices, personal computers and servers manufactured by OEMs and system builders.

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The head of the Microsoft Russia office information systems promotion department, Zinaida Kudrina, together with Konstantin Goldstein , the technology evangelist of the company, will introduce the concept of productivity in the modern world, as well as the new strategic vision and direction of the Office platform.

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Permanent speaker of DevCon conference and lead US development engineer - John Galloway will present a key report on Microsoft Azure platform services that are used every day by millions of developers in the world. John is the co-author of the Professional ASP.NET MVC book published by Wrox, creates sample code and tutorials (for example, MVC Music Store), often speaks at major conferences and international Web Camp events, and also conducts classes at the Microsoft Virtual Academy. The priority direction of its activity is ASP.NET and Azure products.

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DevCon 2016

DevCon is the largest Microsoft conference for developers in Russia. We spend its sixth year and traditionally try to gather those who are not indifferent to the Microsoft platform outside the city, in a comfortable country park hotel, to discuss current technologies together and try out the latest versions of products in practice.

In 2016, DevCon will appear in an updated format and we are happy to share with you the secrets of the preparation of our conference, as well as the main announcements:

• DevCon Secrets # 1. Traditional DevCon in a new format
• DevCon Secrets # 2. How the conference grid is formed
• Microsoft DevCon 2016 - Introducing the First Wave of Community Track Speakers
• Announcement of a startup track: is a new Yandex, Parallels or Nginx possible now in Russia? Easily !
• Microsoft DevCon 2016 - computer vision, SQL Server 2016, Data Science and more
• Xamarin Development Workshop: Technology Overview and Immersion in Solution Development
• Announcement! DevCon 2016 participants will be available a master class from Intel
• Intensive announcement on ASP.NET Core at the Microsoft DevCon 2016 conference

This year, participants in the event will have more opportunities to immerse themselves in technology and gain new knowledge. We have prepared a large number of new interesting master classes, which will be described in more detail in the next announcement. At the same time, DevCon is still more than just a conference, with a rich program and communication with experts and colleagues outside the program. On the site you can learn more about how to become a member.

We remind that this year we offer simplified participation in DevCon 2016 with a new category of Guest Pass tickets for 2500 rubles , which include transfer to the venue, attendance of all reports and workshops of the first day of the conference, and an interactive exhibition!

Hurry up to buy GUEST PASS for the DevCon 2016 conference.

See you at the conference!