In about a month I'll be speaking at ITDevCon , a brand new European Delphi Conference taking place in Italy (and I have some discounted tickets, see later for details).
The conference is organized by the local Embarcadero representative (Bittime), with whom I've a long and effective business relationship... and I'm also good friend of. The conference will be in Verona, on November 11 and 12 and is focused on Delphi, both native Win32 Delphi and Delphi for PHP. There will be 3 tracks, with at least one session in Italian and one in English language at each time slot. For those coming from abroad, Verona has only a minor airport, but distances from Milan (particularly the Orio al Serio BGY or Linate LIN airports) and Venice are limited. And if you are in Germany you can drive a take a train over Brenner pass and get right into Verona (the city itself is worth a visit, with its remarkable roman Arena still being used for concerts today).
Regarding the conference content, the Delphi Win32 international speakers include myself, Pawel Glowacki, Joachim Duerr, Holger Klemt, Daniel Magin, Boian Mitov, plus keynote speaker David Intersimone. (Seems there are going to be many Germans after all.) The Delphi for PHP guest spaeker will be Jose Leon Serna (one of the key authors of the product) along with quite a few Italian PHP gurus. Daniele Teti and Fabrizio Bitti are also speaking, beside organizing the event. There will also be sessions on agile modeling and software engineering topics.
I'm scheduled to speak on five different topics (partially classic and partially new... I'm always ready to offer custom training on those of course):
- Generics and Closures in Delphi
- Multitier with DataSnap
- Domain Specific Languages in Delphi
- Multi-Threading in Delphi
- jQuery with Delphi
Looks like it will be a lot of work, but I'm looking forward to this new conference. If you are interested to attend consider that the 499 Euro price deadline has been extended and that (as I partner) I have a few admission tickets with a very significant discount I can sell you through my company. These are offered as a fist come, first served basis, and you'll be able to pay with credit card at my online shop. Send me an email ASAP if interested, and I'll forward you the discount code and any extra information you'd be interested in.
Before the Italian event, however, there is still the SDN Conference coming up next week in the Netherlands. I guess there is still time to sign up for that as well if you lie in the area. That's a conference I generally enjoy a lot, with its diverse mix of .NET, Delphi, PHP, and database tools developers. Stay tuned for reports and other information.