• Dogfood 2012 Conference Announced

    by  • October 11, 2012 • Events, Speaking

    Dog Food Conference 2012 is a 2 day conference sponsored and
    managed by community IT professionals showcasing Microsoft
    technologies in Columbus, OH. There will be speakers from MS Gold
    Certified Partners, MVPs, IT authors, MS partner software companies,
    community leads, and MS Corp subject matter experts.

    It will be held on November 8th and 9th, 2012 in Columbus, Ohio.

    What does Dog Food mean? Dog fooding is an IT term for using your own products before releasing them to customers.

    The 2012 Dog Food Conference will feature 96 overviews on these topics:
    Windows Azure, System Center Suite 2012, best practices for desktop upgrades, SQL, SharePoint 10/13, Office 365, .NET, XBOX, Skype, HTML 5.0, Powershell, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Unified Communications, Lync, Project Server, MS Licensing and OData.

    What is the purpose of Dog Food Con 2012?
    To educate all IT organizations on their IT investments, listen to subject matter
    experts and raise the community’s knowledge and partnerships.

    Food drive for the Mid-Ohio Foodbankand the LifeCare Alliance

    Who should attend?
    CIO, CISOs, CFOs, developers, server admins, desktop managers, help desk,
    virtualization leads, DBAs, HR, marketing, architects, Exchange and SharePoint.

    Register: http://dogfoodcon2012.eventbrite.com/

    I will be presenting several sessions on Windows Azure.

    Full details at Dog Food Conference 2012.

    About

    Brian H. Prince is the Chief Technical Cloud Evangelist for Microsoft, based in the US. He gets super excited whenever he talks about technology, especially cloud computing, patterns, and practices. His job is to help customers strategically leverage technology, and help them bring their architecture to a super level. In a past life Brian was a part of super startups, super marketing firms, and super consulting firms. Much of his super architecture background includes building super scalable applications, application integration, and award winning web applications. All of them were super. Further, he is a co-founder of the non-profit organization CodeMash (www.codemash.org). He speaks at various international technology conferences. He only wishes his job didn’t require him to say ‘super’ so much. Brian is the co-author of “Azure in Action”, published by Manning Press. Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science and Physics from Capital University, Columbus, Ohio. He is also a zealous gamer. For example, he is a huge fan of Fallout 3, Portal, and pretty much every other game he plays.