Call for Speakers -- Mobility Connections Las Vegas
Dear Fellow Speaker,
It is my pleasure to announce that DevConnections, the greatest third-party conference for .NET developers, is expanding with the addition of a brand new event this fall: Mobility Connections!
Mobility Connections will be held on November 6-10th at the beautiful Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, NV. The show will run alongside Visual Studio Connections, ASP.NET Connections and SQL Server Magazine Connections. These events are also co-located with Windows & Exchange Connections. The last event in Las Vegas had more than 2,800 attendees, and more than 4,000 are expected this fall.
The conference is beginning its planning and the objective is to present the grid in the April show in Orlando.
I would like to extend you an invitation to submit abstracts for the Mobility Connections Fall 2006 conference.
Mobility Connections will have two tracks, one on Tablet PC development, and another on Mobile Devices development.
- Day 1 is Microsoft Day where all sessions are delivered by Microsoft speakers.
- Days 2 & 3 are for third-party speakers like you.
- There are 5 sessions per track per day.
- Half-day pre-conference and full-day post-conference submissions are also accepted.
Mobile PC / Tablet PC Track
This track is about developing enterprise applications for Mobile PCs with the tablet feature. The conference will be on or near the WinFX release. We would like to do justice to both to WinFX and .NET 2.0, but remember that you need to keep your topics within the context of Tablet PC development. Generic sessions about these technologies need to be covered as part of Visual Studio Connections.
Please submit abstracts along the following topics:
- Developing applications for Tablet PC, both the 2005 and Vista versions.
- Tablet PC SDK and WinFX on Tablet PC.
- Building smart clients with the Tablet PC platform (offline use, security, etc.)
- Designing applications for Ultra Mobiles.
- Deployment, manageability of Tablet PC apps.
- Power Awareness, Network Awareness, Sync Center and Windows Sideshow.
Regarding other non-mobile generic topics, such as Orcas (C# 3.0, VB 3.0, LINQ), VSTS, etc. these should be kept for the Visual Studio Connections event.
If you want to talk about SQL Server 2005, then it should be done in the context of data access on Tablet PC applications, or using SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition on Tablet PC. Anything more than that should go in the SQL Server Magazine Connections event. Same goes for Web services and the ASP.NET Connections event, Atlas and AJAX.
Mobile Devices Track
This is a track for enterprise developers mainly, so please avoid talks on Windows CE platform and custom device development, writing device drivers, using the Platform Builder or Embedded Windows.
Please submit abstracts along the following topics:
- Developing applications for Pocket PCs and Smartphones
- .NET Compact Framework 2.0 and OpenNETCF.org SDF
- Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK
- Building for Windows CE and Windows Mobile
- Building smart clients for mobile devices (offline use, security, etc.)
- SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition
- Deployment, manageability of Tablet PC apps.
- Writing device applications in unmanaged code (eVC++, try to remain business/enterprise focused)
- ASP.NET Mobile Controls
Since we have all been presenting on Whidbey for three years now, please try and submit preferably new VS 2005 content altogether or revised, updated and improved old sessions. Based on your experience, sessions about migration, compatibility (or lack there of), interop, etc. are encouraged. We will try to avoid any VS 2003 sessions (unless you have a compelling reason). All sessions must be compatible with VS 2005 SP1 and WinFX RTM/RC.
Sessions on security, deployment, tips and tricks, customer case studies, process, etc. are welcome as long as they target mobile scenarios.
Please submit at least 4 abstracts, but it would help your chances of being selected if you submitted 5 or 6 abstracts. Send your abstracts to nlandry -at- infusiondev dot com (you can figure out my address from this).
We need to have all your abstracts by February 28TH. The conference organizer (Shirley) wants to have an early start so that she could promote the event in ads and inserts, and as I mentioned have it ready for the April event.
Abstracts should be in the following basic format and included in the text of the e-mail:
Speaker Name
Title (Words Should Be Proper Case)
Abstract (without line breaks)
Please also include a short 1000-words bio about yourself in the e-mail.
Please keep the abstracts under 200 words each and in one paragraph. No bulleted items and line breaks, and please use a spell-checker.
Finally, please remember that there are a limited number of speaker slots. I have room for 20 sessions slots + a few pre/post-conferences, which means approximately 6-8 third-party (non-Microsoft) speakers. So please realize that I will have to turn a number of you down. :-( Someone has to make the cut and I have that unfortunate job. So please don't hate me if I don't pick you. Note that missing the above deadline and/or not following my instructions will significantly reduce your chances of being accepted as a speaker.
Thank you and good luck.
Nick Landry
Mobility Connections Conference Chair