Dog Food Con 2017

 

What is Dog Food Con?

DogFoodCon is a two day event focused on Microsoft tools and technologies including .NET, Azure, Business Applications (O365, SharePoint, etc.), Design, Development, Infrastructure, Open Source Integration, Professional Skills, Security, SQL, Windows, and more.

Our History

Dog Food Conference was founded in 2008 as a Microsoft-centric event in Central Ohio. Dog Foods goal is to empower local professionals to better use the wide variety of tools available to them. Attendees come from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky. In 2014, there were roughly around 800 attendees over 2 days, attending 10+ unique tracks.

Dog Food was originally held at the Microsoft building in Columbus, Ohio. Success year after year has required Dog Food to find a larger space. In 2014, Dog Food moved to the Quest Conference Center and will be returning to Quest in 2017.

So Why The Name Dog Food?

Eating your own dog food is a phrase that came out of Microsoft in the 80s. The idea is: If you make products and you expect your customers to buy them, they should be good enough for you to use too.

Unity Connect Online

Unity Connect Online brings together dozens of the world’s top experts in SharePoint and Office 365, as well as leaders from Microsoft’s marketing and engineering teams, to deliver a powerful and unique combination of perspective, vision, and deep expertise. More than 40 sessions are delivered live, online, in a highly interactive format in that enables you to get all of the answers to your biggest SharePoint and Office 365 questions and guidance to aligning the powerful capabilities of these technologies