DogFood 2014 Conference

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Date: August 25, 2014 at 9:05 am

This year’s annual DogFood Conference is going to be held on September 29th & 30th (Mon – Tue) at the Quest Conference Center.  The Quest Conference Center is located at 8505 Pulsar Place, Columbus, OH 43240.

The Dog Food Conference was founded in 2008, held at the Microsoft and DeVry University building in Columbus, Ohio.   It has grown each year; and it is organized by community driven volunteers.  Thanks to 25 IT partners sponsoring in 2012; there was no cost for attendees.  The goal was to have a Microsoft centric conference in Ohio; and empower the region on their current MS investments.  Attendees come from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.  In 2013, there was around 580attendees over 2 days, choosing over 96 topics.

To sign up for the event you can go to  EventBrite and you better do so quick as the conference normally sells out quick!!

Conference Overview:

• There will be overviews on Office 365, Azure, System Center, SQL, .NET, Dynamics CRM, SharePoint .NET, Team Foundation Server, Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1, ALM, Windows Server, Hyper V, Lync, Project Server, Yammer and Exchange.
• Cross Platform overviews: Roslyn is the modern .NET compiler and it’s now open source and available for projects like Mono and Xamarin to use to build apps on Linux, iOS, etc.
• Open Source Overviews: The .NET Foundation has been created to showcase open source .NET components to make them more visible and to spread adoption.
• Lync integration with Polycom
• We are targeting overviews from Citrix, Veeam, AvePoint, HP and Dell
• Speakers include MS MVPs, community leads, consultants, MS gold certified partners, ISVs, IT Pros, developers and DBAs.
• Microsoft Speakers: Presenters varying from PFEs (Premier Field Engineers) solutions specialists, developer evangelists, MS consulting services and technology specialists.

Agenda’s for Monday and Tuesday:

DogFood 2014 Monday Agenda

DogFood 2014 Tuesday Agenda

 

 

 

 

 

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