Paul Litwin's Blog

Dear Fellow Speaker,

With the Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference in Orlando just around the corner, we would like to start planning the Fall 2008 show, and have it finalized by sometime in April.

Thus, I am extending you an invitation to submit abstracts for the Fall 2008 Microsoft ASP.NET Connections conference, to be held in Las Vegas, November 10-13, 2008.
                     
The conference focus should be twofold:
1. The conference needs to, of course, cover the latest alphas, betas, and CTPs of:
- ASP.NET AJAX
- ASP.NET Futures
- Silverlight
- MVC
- Entity Framework
- ADO.NET Data Services
- related ASP.NET and .NET technologies

2. The conference also needs to deliver content that attendees can use today in developing their ASP.NET applications using current released (NOT beta, alpha, or CTP) software. These topics might include:
- Web controls
- released version of ASP.NET AJAX and Toolkit
- released version of Silverlight
- Security
- data access
- Performance/Scalability
- Standards
- etc.

I'd like to see a mix of about 50% in shipping technologies and 50% on future (and possibly just released in November) technologies.

Note: You will not be able to speak at a DevConnections show if you are also presenting at a competitor’s show, in the same state, within 30 days of the DevConnections show. Official Microsoft events (e.g., TechEd, PDC, MIX, etc.) are NOT considered competing shows. To be more specific, if you wish to speak at Microsoft ASP.NET Connections or any other DevConnections show this Fall in Las Vegas, you are precluded from speaking at any competing conferences in the state of Nevada between October 10, 2008 and December 13, 2008.

For submitting abstracts, please use the following URL starting tomorrow: 
http://www.deeptraining.com/devconnections/abstracts

You can also use this site to submit abstracts for Visual Studio Connections, SQL Server Magazine Connections and the Data Access Track that is co-hosted by Microsoft ASP.NET Connections and Visual Studio Connections.

Note: if you have used this site before and have forgotten your password, you can have your secret word mailed to you. It's better to do this then to create a new account.

Please keep the abstracts under 200 words each and in one paragraph. No bulleted items and line breaks, and please use a spell-checker.

If you have an issue with the site, please let me know.

Please submit a minimum of 3 abstracts, but it would help your chances of being selected if you submitted 5 or 6 abstracts. We need to have all your abstracts submitted between Monday, March 10 and Wednesday, April 9. For those last minute submitters, we will stop accepting abstracts at Midnight (Eastern Daylight Time) on April 9.

What you will get if selected:
- $500 per conference talk. (Additional compensation for pre/post conference workshops.)
- Coach airfare and hotel stay paid by the conference.
- Free admission to all of the co-located conferences
- Speaker party
- The adoration of attendees
- etc.

Good luck and thank you,

Paul Litwin
Microsoft ASP.NET Connections Chair