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Microsoft TechDays and Calgary IT Pro Community Present IT Virtualization Workshop!

We’re thrilled that Microsoft TechDays and the Calgary IT Pro Community are bringing an IT Virtualization Boot Camp to Prairie Dev Con – West! This day-long workshop will give you hands on experience on Microsoft virtualization technologies. It's running Sunday, March 11 and repeats on Monday, March 12 and is free to attend if you register for the conference! If you're not attending the conference, you can still come out at $25 which goes to the Calgary IT Pro Community!

For more information, check out our blog post which has all the details!

Workshop Added - Planning and Initiating an Agile Project with Steve Rogalsky

We've added another workshop to the list of pre-conference workshops, and its a great one! Emerging as a leader in the Canadian agile community, Steve Rogalsky will be doing a full day on planning and initiating an Agile project!

Steve has years of practical experience leading Agile teams and is a regular speaker at conferences and user groups. Steve ran a similar workshop at Prairie Dev Con Regina that received great reviews, so if you're looking to get a jump start on how to use Agile technologies on your projects this is the workshop for you!

Check out the workshop section of the site for the full description of what's covered!

.NET Rocks Coming to Prairie Dev Con!

The Prairie Dev Con West is proud to announce that Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell will be on hand to not only present at the conference but to record an episode of their .NET Rocks internet radio show!

Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Garys VB Home Page.

Carl is also the MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut, an MVP for Visual Basic, host of .NET Rocks! and Mondays, and CEO of Pwop Productions, which provides podcasting services.

Carl is also an accomplished musician and audio/video producer. He started Pwop Studios in 1999 as a record label for his first album, a collaboration with his brother Jay: Strange Communication. Carl's other band, Solvo

Richard Campbell is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks and today serves as product evangelist, introducing the company's unique story to advisors, investors, patent attorneys, beta-customer candidates, potential employees, etc. Richard has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force.

In addition to speaking at conferences around the world, Richard is co-host of ".NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers" and the host of "RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talk Show for IT Professionals."

For more information about .NET Rocks, visit the website here!