Tulsa TechFest 2006 is gonna blow everyone away - including me!

Published 18 September 06 12:37 PM | dwalker

I have been so busy with planning Tulsa TechFest 2006 ( http://www.tulsatechfest.com ) that I've neglected this blog over the last few months. Plus, we've started up the Tulsa SQL Server Group ( http://www.tulsasql.com ) and just last month the Tulsa Java Developers group ( http://www.tulsajava.com ).

We just released the official Press Release for Tulsa TechFest 2006 to the media last week! It can be found on the website under MediaKit. We have over 55 speakers booked! Here's just a few excerpts from the press release:

Tulsa TechFest 2006 will be held Saturday, October 14, 2006, 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM, at Oklahoma State University - Tulsa (OSU-Tulsa). Attending Tulsa TechFest 2006 is free of charge but requires online registration at http://www.tulsatechfest.com.

Ron Jacobs, Microsoft Architect Evangelist; Chip Wilson, Chief Technology Officer of Geniant; Shaun Walker, founder and president of Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems Inc.; Markus Egger from EPS Corporation and CoDe Magazine; Mark Miller, Chief Architect of Developer Express; Carl Franklin, and Richard Campbell from .NET Rocks! will conduct keynotes for the event. More than 30 speakers from all over the world will share their knowledge about the latest software development products and technologies, including Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, .NET Framework 2.0 and 3.0, SharePoint 2007, ASP.NET 2.0, AJAX, SQL Server 2005, and Visual Studio 2005. Tulsa TechFest also contains full day tracks of Java technology, and personal development (resume writing, interview skills, etc.).

In addition, Tulsa TechFest 2006 will feature a vendor exhibition. Attendees are encouraged to visit the vendors to learn more about their software development products and personal development services.

We've got almost $20,000 in prizes and adding more all the time.

For complete details check out the site. World renowned Nina Meiers is currently working on an awesome new skin for the site as well!

Filed under: .NET, markus egger, jean-paul boodhoo, .net rocks, carl franklin, mark miller, shaun walker, code camp, trade show, ron jacobs, training, seminar, architecture, dotnetnuke

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About dwalker

David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. At the age of 14, he began his application development ambitions with a Commodore 64, BASIC, and a 300 baud modem. Even at that early age, he primarily focused on two specific application types: multi-user communities and database applications.

His hunger to learn as much as possible about development lead him through courses such as DBase III, DBase IV, Pascal, C, C++, Java, and several in UNIX. He started his development career first doing heavy processing with Access and VBA, then moved on to VB 3, Oracle, and Delphi. Visual Basic was one environment that remained constant for many years, including his very first .NET projects performed in Visual Basic.NET.

After working several years on very high end internal Corporate applications, the consultant company he was working for, sought out his ideas for actual software products that could be packaged and sold. He had already developed several prototypes of a dynamic portal application, before portals even became popular, so this became the logic decision and he became the Director of Product Development. Under his direction, a team of developers and graphic artists, took a skinning approach before that become popular, and completed the core portal application, and continued on to developer 15+ add-on modules, including things such as: Help Desk Ticket Systems, Change Control, Records Management, Human Resources, and many more applications. Eventually, it spun off into it's own separate company as KnowledgeGEAR, a complete intranet in the box solution.

Having worked as a consultant, he has had a experience with a very wide range of applications and architectures, at one time, even converting several Fox Pro and GW-Basic applications to VB 6 and ASP. His early training of Unix and the C language and years of experience with JavaScript, lead him very quickly to C#, where he has remained focused ever since.

He is the current President of the Tulsa Developers .NET user group.. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.