TechDays Belgium 2012: a look at interesting sessions

TechDays 2012 Belgium is just 2 weeks away, and it’s time to have a look at the agenda and decide which of the sessions to attend.

My highlights are:

• A Look at ASP.NET MVC 4 - Scott Guthrie
• MVVM Applied: From Silverlight to Windows Phone to Windows 8 - Laurent Bugnion
• SignalR. Code, not toothpaste - Maarten Balliauw
• Building rich Single Page Applications (SPAs) for desktop, mobile, and tablet with ASP.NET MVC 4 - Steve Sanderson

But filling in all the slots was a tough decision, especially in the second day, with lot of overlapping interesting talks (whereas in the first day some time slots were almost empty) but here is my tentative agenda for the 3 days

• 14 February:
• 8:45 – 10:15 - Opening Session for the Dev track with Scott Guthrie – Scott Guthrie
• 10:45 – 12:00 - Welcome to the Metro Application Platform - Katrien De Graeve , Gill Cleeren
• 13:00 – 14:15 - A Look at ASP.NET MVC 4 - Scott Guthrie
• 14:30 – 15:45 - HTML5 Quick Start - Jeff Prosise
• 16:15 – 17:30 - What's new in Visual Studio 11 for Application Lifecycle Management - Brian Keller
• 17:45 – 19:00 - Building rich Single Page Applications (SPAs) for desktop, mobile, and tablet with ASP.NET MVC 4 - Steve Sanderson
• 15 February:
• 9:00 – 10:15 – Either ScottGu Unplugged or Metro Design Deep Dive by Arturo Toledo
• 10:45 – 12:00 – Either Take a Ride on the Metro (Jeff Prosise) or Windows Phone: From Idea to Published Game in 75 minutes (Rob Miles)
• 13:00 – 14:15 – Either The zen of async: Best practices for best performance or Sending Push Notifications using the Windows Push Notification Service and Azure or maybe also the entrepreneur track about 15 Lessons from 5 MIC Boostcamps to create an IT Startup
• 14:30 – 15:45 - MVVM Applied: From Silverlight to Windows Phone to Windows 8 - Laurent Bugnion
• 16:15 – 17:30 - Windows Phone Launchers and Choosers - Ben Riga
• 17:45 – 19:00 – will probably attend again the SignalR. Code, not toothpaste session by Maarten Balliauw
• 16 February: This day is easy, there are just 3 deep dive tracks, one for developers and twop for IT pros, so I’ll follow the Web Dev Futures Day with sessions on:
• ASP.NET 4.5 and Dev11
• ASP.NET WebForms 4.5
• ASP.NET MVC 4
• HTML5
• WebSockets

So, hope to see you there.