November Addition:

Agile Dev'm't Practices Conference

December 3-6, 2007 Orlando, FL

Save an additional 20% off your registration fees when you use promo code VNAF during the registration process. For more information, call 888-268-8770 or 904-278-0524.

Special Rate for the Certicom Elliptic Curve Cryptography Conference

That is happening November 13-15, at the Four Seasons Hotel, Toronto. Take advantage of the special $295 conf rate through Oct 19:
www.certicom.com/conference2007/fallspecial

QCon SF in November

A message from our friends at devtownstation.com:

Dear software development professional: we thought you'd want to know about the QCon San Francisco conference Nov 7-9, a enterprise software development conference with 60 technical sessions (Nov 7-9) and 2 days of tutorials (Nov 5-6) with speakers such as:

• Martin Fowler, Refactoring, Analysis Patterns
• Kent Beck, XP, JUnit, Patterns
• Philip Rosedale, Creator of Second Life
• Rod Johnson, Creator of Spring
• Dan Pritchett, eBay Architect
• Eric Evans, Domain Driven Design
• Jean-Luc Valliant, Linked-In CTO
• Jutta Eckstein, Agile in the Large
• Erik Meijer, Creator of LINQ

We have arranged a special discount for you with an additional $150 off when you use the discount code "devtownstation_qconsf2007" when you register for the conf.

==> The conference is being held at the Westin Market Street, at 59 Third Street, SF. This is near the Moscone Center and closest to the Montgomery St. BART station.

Repeat Info : Red Hat Road Trip to 10 USA Cities

Discuss the economics of open source with Red Hat at these free events. Learn open source-based virtualization and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and share lunch with peers in your locality.

October locations:

October 4: Houston, TX
October 9: Orlando, FL
October 11: Toronto
October 16: Phoenix, AZ
October 17: Orange County, CA
October 18: Seattle, WA
October 23: Columbus, OH
October 24: Cincinnati, OH
October 25: Raleigh, NC

Register Here

From Oracle's OTN community:

OTN Developer Days (Free Workshops) in Denver, Atlanta
Get training on SOA and Java EE technologies in an interactive, classroom setting staffed by Oracle experts. Attendees receive FREE software and are eligible to win an Apple iPhone and other great raffle prizes! Register now for a "Using Fusion Development Tools" Developer Day in Denver (Oct. 11) or Atlanta (Oct. 18) - seating is limited - with registration for a December Los Angeles workshop to come.

October-December IT Technology Events

SAP TECHED '07
October 1 - 5, Las Vegas, NV
http://www.sapteched.com/usa/reg/home.htm

BI, Warehousing, and Analytics (BIWA) Summit
October 2-3, 2007,
Oracle Corp, Reston, VA [ only $200 for both days] http://ioug.itconvergence.com/pls/apex/f?p=219:1:2287387044911126

BEAWorld 2007 Barcelona
October 2-4, 2007 at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya
http://www.bea.com/beaworld/es/index.jsp?PC=1AUGAATDM

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2007
October 7-12, Orlando, Florida
http://www.gartnerinfo.com/g1.cgi/57185596/3/

Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2007
October 8-11, 2007, San Francisco, California
http://www.zend.com/store/zend_php_conference?emlstr=en-early-bird-0708

Designing and Building Business Ontologies
October 9 - 12, 2007, San Francisco, California
http://www.wilshireconferences.com/seminars/Ontologies/index.htm

Ethernet Expo 2007, Hilton New York, October 15-17, 2007
http://www.lightreading.com/live/event_information.asp?survey_id=306

ISPCON FALL 2007
October 16 - 18, San Jose, CA
http://www.ispcon.com/

Bay Area Software Symposium 2007
October 19 - 21, Sheraton Hotel, Sunnyvale, Ca
http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/san_jose/2007

Interop New York, October 22-26, 2007,
http://www.interop.com/

Startup Camp - * FREE
October 22-23, 2007, New York, NY
http://www.startupcamp.org/register.html

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
October 24-25, 2007, London
http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk

November Events

NY Technology Forum
November 1-2, New York, NY
http://www.govtech.com/events/silo.php?id=121943

CSI 2007, November 3-9, Washington, D.C.
at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City.
http://www.csiannual.com/

Interop Berlin, Nov 6-8, 2007
http://www.interop.eu/

SOA Executive Forum 2007
November 7-8, Millennium Broadway Hotel, New York City.
https://ssl.infoworld.com/servlet/soa/soa_reg.jsp


QCon San Francisco conference
Nov 5-9, 2007, Westin Market Street
Discount code: devtownstation_qconsf2007
http://www.elabs3.com/c.html?rtr=on&

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco
November 11-15, 2007, San Francisco
http://www.oracle.com/openworld/

Supercomputing 2007
Nov 9-16, Tampa, FL
http://sc07.supercomputing.org

MemCon Tokyo
Nov. 13-14, 2007
Attendance is free for industry professionals
http://www.denali.com/memcon/registration2007TK.html

Certicom ECC Conference 2007
November 13-15, Four Seasons Hotel, Toronto
[focused on the use of Suite B crypto algorithms in the enterprise]
http://www.certicom.com/index.php?action=events,ecc2007_intro
$295 rate through Oct 19: www.certicom.com/conference2007/fallspecial

Mobile Internet World
November 13-15, 2007, Hynes Center, Boston
http://www.mobilenetx.com/

IT Governance Compliance Conference
November 14-16, 2007, Boston, Mass.

Large Installation System Administrators (LISA) Conference
November 14-15, 2007, Dallas, Texas, USA
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa07/

Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit
14-16 November 2007, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=502298&tab=overview

Gartner — 26th Annual Data Center Conference
November 27-30, Las Vegas, NV
http://www.gartner.com/it/summits/lsc26/index.jsp

December Events

Agile Development Practices Conference
December 3-6, 2007, Shingle Creek Resort, Orlando, FL
http://www.sqe.com/agiledevpractices/Schedule/Default.aspx

Gartner Enterprise Architect Summit
December 5-7, Las Vegas, NV
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=506878&tab=overview

January Events

Sans Security 2008
January 11-19, New Orlean, LA.
http://www.sans.org

SPIE Photonics West 2008
19 - 24 January, San Jose, Ca
http://spie.org/photonics-west.xml

MacWorld Conference and Expo
January 14-18, San Francisco
www.macworldexpo.com/

February Events

Microsoft Office System Developer Conference
February 10-13, 2008
San Jose Convention Center
San Jose, California
https://microsoft.crgevents.com/ODC2008/Content/default.aspx?p=UC3HYF

Free Admission to Optical Expo - Dallas

Optical Expo 2007 sessions will cover the trends that will define optical networking over the next five years.

The regular price of this event is $599. However, if you are employed by a service provider, financial institution, or are a network professional at a large enterprise, educational establishment, utility, or government agency, you may qualify for free admission, provided you confirm your attendance by Friday, September 28, 2007.

To register for this event, please click here:

Register for Optical Expo 2007

Red Hat Road Trip to 10 USA Cities

Discuss the economics of open source with Red Hat at these free events. Learn open source-based virtualization and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and share lunch with peers in your locality.

Schedule:

8:30 a.m.-9 a.m. Continental breakfast.

9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Red Hat and customer presentations, roundtable discussions.

12:30 p.m. Networking lunch.

October locations:

October 2: Denver, CO
October 3: Dallas, TX
October 4: Houston, TX
October 9: Orlando, FL
October 11: Toronto
October 16: Phoenix, AZ
October 17: Orange County, CA
October 18: Seattle, WA
October 23: Columbus, OH
October 24: Cincinnati, OH
October 25: Raleigh, NC

Register Here

Two Security Expos in September

For the upcoming IT Security World, September 17-18, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco: After Sept. 7th, you can email marcom@appliedidentity.com to receive a free expo pass by email.

For SecureWorld, September 19-20, South San Francisco Conference Center, get an expo pass via this link: https://www.secureworldexpo.com/rsvp/event.php and follow the prompts to register. Use registration code API513.

For a $50 discount on the $195 cost of a 2-day SecureWorld conference pass, use code SNFEBG7

September-October Events

[last update: Sept 13th - *]

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
September 3-7, 2007, Beijing
http://www.linuxworldchina.com

Linux Kernel '07 Developers Summit
September 4-6, Cambridge, U.K.
http://www.usenix.org/events/kernel07/

1st International LDAPv3 Conference
September 06-07, 2007, Cologne, Germany
http://www.guug.de/veranstaltungen/ldapcon2007/

Rich Web Experience Conference
September 6-8th, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA

BEAWorld 2007 - San Francisco
September 10-12, Moscone Convention Center, SF, CA
http://www.bea.com/beaworld/us/index.jsp?PC=DEVELOPER

VMWorld 2007 - San Francisco
September 11-13, Moscone Convention Center, SF, CA
www.vmware.com/vmworld/

Sun Tech Days Boston - *
September 11-12, 2007
developers.sun.com/events/techdays/
Priority Code: 7TDBE2J05

Mozilla 24, September 15th - 16th
A 24-hour Worldwide Community Web Event
http://www.mozilla24.com


IT SECURITY WORLD 2007
September 17 - 19, Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, CA
http://www.misti.com/default.asp?Page=65&Return=70&ProductID=7154

RailsConf Europe 2007
September 17-19, Berlin, Germany

Identity 2007: Identity Risk Management Conference - *
Sept. 17-20, La Costa Resort and Spa; Carlsbad, Calif.
www.idanalytics.com

Gartner Open Source and Web Innovation Summits
17-21 September 2007, Las Vegas, NV, USA
https://www.gartner.com/EvReg/evRegister?EvCd=OS3

Intel Developer Forum - 2007
Sept 18-20, Moscone Center West, San Francisco, CA
http://developer.intel.com/IDF

Software Development Best Practices 2007
and Embedded Systems Conference
Sept 18-21, Boston, MA
http://www.sdexpo.com/2007/sdbp/
(Register By 8/24 with Priority Code UMCQ )

RFID World: Boston
Sep 19-20, Boston, MA
http://www.shorecliffcommunications.com/boston/

SecureWorld Expo 2007 San Francisco
September 19-20, South San Francisco Conference Center
Discount code - SNFEBG7
https://www.secureworldexpo.com/rsvp/index.php

DISKCON USA 2007 - *
September 19 & 20 in Santa Clara, Ca

AJAXWorld Conference West 07
September 24-26, Santa Clara, CA
Discount registration code: AJAX5000
www.ajaxworld.com

Digital ID World 07
September 24-26, Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, CA
$1,000 off with priority code “radeb”
https://orders.cxo.com/conferences/enroll.html?conferenceID=8

Semantic Web Strategies Conference 2007 - *
September 30 - October 1 ==> Postponed
San Jose Marriott, San Jose, CA
$100 off or free expo pass with code: TOPQF7
http://www.semanticwebstrategies.com/index.php

SANS Network Security - 2007
September 22-30, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV

InfoWorld's Virtualization Executive Forum
September 24-25, 2007, Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY
www.VirtExecForum.com

SAP TECHED '07
October 1 - 5, Las Vegas, NV
http://www.sapteched.com/usa/reg/home.htm

BI, Warehousing, and Analytics (BIWA) Summit - *
October 2-3, 2007,
Oracle Corp, Reston, VA [ only $200 for both days] http://ioug.itconvergence.com/pls/apex/f?p=219:1:2287387044911126

BEAWorld 2007 Barcelona
October 2-4, 2007 at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya
http://www.bea.com/beaworld/es/index.jsp?PC=1AUGAATDM

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo 2007 - *
October 7-12, Orlando, Florida
http://www.gartnerinfo.com/g1.cgi/57185596/3/


Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2007
October 8-11, 2007, San Francisco, California
http://www.zend.com/store/zend_php_conference?emlstr=en-early-bird-0708

Designing and Building Business Ontologies
October 9 - 12, 2007, San Francisco, California
http://www.wilshireconferences.com/seminars/Ontologies/index.htm

Ethernet Expo 2007, Hilton New York, October 15-17, 2007
http://www.lightreading.com/live/event_information.asp?survey_id=306

ISPCON FALL 2007
October 16 - 18, San Jose, CA
http://www.ispcon.com/

Bay Area Software Symposium 2007 - *
October 19 - 21, Sheraton Hotel, Sunnyvale, Ca
http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/conference/san_jose/2007

Interop New York, October 22-26, 2007,
http://www.interop.com/

Startup Camp - * FREE
October 22-23, 2007, New York, NY
http://www.startupcamp.org/register.html

LinuxWorld Conference & Expo
October 24-25, 2007, London
http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk

November Events

NY Technology Forum - *
November 1-2, New York, NY
http://www.govtech.com/events/silo.php?id=121943

CSI 2007, November 3-9, Washington, D.C.
at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City.
http://www.csiannual.com/

Interop Berlin, Nov 6-8, 2007
http://www.interop.eu/

QCon San Francisco conference, Nov 7-9, 2007 - *
http://www.elabs3.com/c.html?rtr=on&

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco - *
November 11-15, 2007, San Francisco
http://www.oracle.com/openworld/

Supercomputing 2007
Nov 9-16, Tampa, FL
http://sc07.supercomputing.org

Certicom ECC Conference 2007 - *
November 13-15, Four Seasons Hotel, Toronto
[focused on the use of Suite B crypto algorithms in the enterprise]
http://www.certicom.com/index.php?action=events,ecc2007_intro

Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit - *
14-16 November 2007, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=502298&tab=overview

IT Governance Compliance Conference
November 14-16, 2007, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Large Installation System Administrators (LISA) Conference - *
November 14-15, 2007, Dallas, Texas, USA
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa07/

Gartner — 26th Annual Data Center Conference
November 27-30, Las Vegas, NV
http://www.gartner.com/it/summits/lsc26/index.jsp

December Events

Agile Development Practices Conference - *
December 3-6, 2007, Shingle Creek Resort, Orlando, FL
http://www.sqe.com/agiledevpractices/Schedule/Default.aspx

Gartner Enterprise Architect Summit
December 5-7, Las Vegas, NV
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=506878&tab=overview

==> Late August Extra: F5 Technical Workshop <==

Part of a series of F5 BIG-IP Training workshops. This event claims to be 100% engineering – no marketing or sales and there is no cost to register!

9 am - Noon, August 28, 2007
Four Points Hotel Pleasanton
5115 Hopyard Road
Pleasanton, CA 94588

http://www.f5.com/events/workshop/pleasanton/

Get a free day at Intel's IDF

OpenSystems Publishing sent this time-limited offer:

"Register Now for a Free Day Pass.

As a special offer to select technology professionals,
you can attend IDF on Thursday, September 20, 2007,
for free¹ (a $595 value). This special one-day-pass offer
is limited to the first 500 people who register online 
before August 31, 2007, and enter Promo Code: DTPECD.

To secure your free pass to IDF on Thursday, September 20,
2007, click on this link: https://intel.wingateweb.com/us/portal/
and enter Promo Code: DTPECD."

¹The free pass is admission to IDF on Thursday, September 20, 2007, only.

Use code PRMECD for $800 off a 3 day pass [net cost $895].

July-August Events Listing -- from Linux Gazette

Ubuntu Live [overlaps OScon]
July 22-24, 2007, Portland, Oregon

OpenWorld Asia Pacific
July 30-August 2, 2007
Shanghai, China

FiXs* West Coast Conference
July 31–August 1, Monterey, California
[*Federation for identity and cross-credentialing systems]
http://www.fixs.org/events.htm

Black Hat Security Conference
July 31-August 2nd, Las Vega, NV

Security '07 / HotSec '07
August 6-10, Boston, MA

MetriCon 2.0, Workshop on Security Metrics
August 7, Boston, MA

sigraph 2007, Aug 5-9, San Diego, Ca
http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/attendees/schedule/

Linux World - 2007
August 6-9, San Francisco, CA

Real-World Java Seminar
August 13, Roosevelt Hotel, New York City
http://realworldjava.com/

Linux Kernel '07 Developers Summit
September 4-6, Cambridge, U.K.

http://www.usenix.org/events/kernel07/

1st International LDAPv3 Conference
September 06-07, 2007, Cologne, Germany

Rich Web Experience Conference
September 6-8th, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA

BEAWorld 2007 - San Francisco
September 10-12,  Moscone Convention Center, SF,  CA
http://www.bea.com/beaworld/us/index.jsp?PC=DEVELOPER

VMWorld 2007 - San Francisco
September 11-13,  Moscone Convention Center, SF,  CA
www.vmware.com/vmworld/

IT SECURITY WORLD 2007
September 17 - 19
The Fairmont Hotel
San Francisco, CA
http://www.misti.com/default.asp?Page=65&Return=70&ProductID=7154

RailsConf Europe 2007
September 17-19, Berlin, Germany

Gartner Open Source and Web Innovation Summits
17-21 September 2007, Las Vegas, NV, USA
https://www.gartner.com/EvReg/evRegister?EvCd=OS3

Intel Developer Forum - 2007
Sept 18-20, Moscone Center West, San Francisco, CA

http://developer.intel.com/IDF

Software Development Best Practices 2007
and Embedded Systems Conference
Sept 18-21, Boston, MA
http://www.sdexpo.com/2007/sdbp/
(Register By 8/24 with Priority Code UMCQ )

RFID World: Boston, Sep 19-20, Boston, MA
http://www.shorecliffcommunications.com/boston/

AJAXWorld Conference West 07
September 24-26, Santa Clara, CA
www.ajaxworld.com
Publish Post
Digital ID World 07
September 24-26, Hilton Hotel, San Francisco, CA
$1,000 off with priority code “radeb”
https://orders.cxo.com/conferences/enroll.html?conferenceID=8

Semantic Web Strategies Conference 2007
September 30 - October 1,
San Jose Marriott, San Jose, CA
http://www.semanticwebstrategies.com/index.php

BEAWorld 2007 Barcelona
October 2-4, 2007 at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya
http://www.bea.com/beaworld/es/index.jsp?PC=1AUGAATDM

Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2007
October 8-11, 2007, San Francisco, California
http://www.zend.com/store/zend_php_conference?emlstr=en-early-bird-0708
Designing and Building Business Ontologies
October 9 - 12, 2007, San Francisco, California
http://www.wilshireconferences.com/seminars/Ontologies/index.htm

Ethernet Expo 2007, Hilton New York, October 15-17, 2007
http://www.lightreading.com/live/event_information.asp?survey_id=306

ISPCON FALL 2007
October 16 - 18, San Jose, CA
http://www.ispcon.com/

Interop New York, October 22-26, 2007,
http://www.interop.com/

CSI 2007, November 3-9, Washington, D.C.
at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City.
http://www.csiannual.com/

Interop Berlin, Nov 6-8, 2007
http://www.interop.eu/

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco
November 11-15, 2007, San Francisco
http://www.oracle.com/openworld/

Supercomputing 2007
Nov 9-1, Tampa, FL

Gartner — 26th Annual Data Center Conference
November 27-30, Las Vegas, NV

Featured Extra: iPhone Tech Days - August

A full day of tech info and code review for developers working on the iPhone platform.

Register at : http://developer.apple.com/events/iphone/techtalks/

Location & Dates

Los Angeles, CA 08/02

LA Marriott Downtown

San Francisco, CA 08/24

Westin San Francsico, Market Street

(Formerly The Argent)

Chicago, IL 08/28

The Allerton Hotel

New York, NY 08/30

The American Conference Center

New York, NY 08/31

Another Extra:

Effective Strategies for the Agile Developer - Scott Ambler

Scott W. Ambler is the Practice Leader Agile Development at IBM Corporation. Scott is a regular speaker at international IT conferences and is a contributing editor with Dr. Dobb's Journal.

San Francisco, CA August 21st | Sacramento, CA August 22nd
REGISTRATION: please contact:
Dawn Dowling, 1-800-728-1212 x25731 ddowling@us.ibm.com