Delphi Live 2011 announcement

Last year when I was at Delphi Live, the event was a bit smaller than it had been the year before.  Less attendees, less sessions, not as nice of a venue, etc.  Kind of to be expected, with the economy in the toilet and all, but still it was sorta sad.  I heard a few  people mention that the way things had gone, they doubted there would be another one this year.

Just yesterday I was thinking back on that, and I figured it was probably right, or we would have heard an announcement about it by now.  And that kinda sucked.  I’d really enjoyed going there the last two years.  Well, I’m glad to be able to say I was wrong about that.

I just got an email from Frank Stepan, the organizer of the conference:

Dear Friends,

Delphi Live! is coming back to San Jose for the 3rd time, bringing together
the Delphi community once more in California for 3 days of all things
Delphi.

We are looking forward to another great gathering for Delphi developers from
all over the world and would like to invite you to submit session proposal
for this great community event. Here is some basic information as well as
the Call for Paper!

>> Conference Dates:
Main Conference: September 13 & 14
Pre Conference Tutorial: September 12

>> Conference Location: Crowne Plaza San Jose

>> Tracks

– Programming Fundamentals
– RAD Studio IDE and Tools
– Design / OOP / Components / RTTI
– Database – Client/Server and Multi-Tier
– Web Application and Web Services Development
– Cross platform development
– Mobile development
– Native Delphi
– Managed Delphi Prism
– RadPHP

>> Call for Papers:
Please submit your proposals by May 23, 2011 at
http://delphilive.com/input

If you already have a log in for this website, you can use it. If not,
registration only takes you a few seconds.

>> Sessions:
Sessions are 75 minutes. It’s possible to divide a session in an
introduction and a sequel.

>> Target Groups:
– Software developers
– Software architects
– Project managers
– Consultants
– IT managers
– Trainers

>> Misc:
1.) Accommodation will be covered based on the contribution of each speaker
to the conference.
2.) You have free access to all sessions and tutorials.
3.) It is mandatory for each speaker to give at least 2 talks.

We are looking forward to meeting you in San Jose!

Masoud Kamali, Frank Stepan
S&S Media Group

PS: If you know of anyone in the community who might be interested to submit
a proposal as well, please feel free to forward this email.

So if anyone out there wants to try and present something, you’ve got two weeks to come up with some ideas.  I know I will.

Hope to see you there!

4 Comments

  1. Nick Hodges says:

    Hey, great news. I’ll be submitting talks as well.

  2. Bruce McGee says:

    Nick, Hope to see you there.

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