Platinum Sponsors

Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies for personal and business computing.

Burntsand is a North American leader in business consulting and technology services; designing, architecting, and implementing information technology to deliver business advantage for Mid-Market clients, including divisions of Global 2000 companies. The Company has three practice areas - Enterprise Content Management, Collaboration and Service Management and has implemented hundreds of successful solutions in the financial services, healthcare, and public sector verticals among others through our proven Time-to-Value methodology.

DotNetNuke Corp. (or DNN Corp.) is the creator of DotNetNuke®, the most widely adopted web content management system (CMS) and application development framework for building web sites and web applications on Microsoft .NET. Using DotNetNuke, businesses can quickly develop and deploy interactive, dynamic public web sites, intranets, extranets, and web applications. DotNetNuke Corp. provides this framework in both “Community” and “Professional” Editions.

Habañero Consulting Group is a leading Western Canadian IT consulting services and solutions firm and a member of the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Excellence Program. Known for trusted business advice, original creative design, and proven technical expertise, Habañero helps companies maximize the business impact they receive from their investments in technology. Habañero works with clients throughout North America and specializes in websites and eCommerce, enterprise collaboration, business intelligence, and enterprise resource planning.

BCIT is the place to go for .NET, SQL Server, and SharePoint training.

The 3rd Annual Vancouver TechFest will be held on November 21, 2009

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This is the 3rd installment of the Annual Vancouver Technology Festival. Come and enjoy a free day of exciting presentations given by your local community.

What is a TechFest?

There are a few mandates which the TechFest must follow...

1. By and For the Community

TechFest's are about the community at large. They are meant to be a place for developers AND IT Professionals to come and learn from their peers. Topics are always based on community interest and never determined by anyone other than the community.

2. Always Free

TechFest's are always free for attendees.

3. Community Developed Material

The success of the TechFest's is that they are based on community content. All content that is delivered is original. All presentation content must be provided (including any code and your slide decks). If you have content you don’t want to share or provide to attendees then the TechFest is not the place for you.

4. No Fluff

TechFest's are about getting to the nitty gritty. Refer to rule #1 if you have any questions on this.

5. Community Ownership

The most important element of the TechFest is always the community. All are welcome to attend and speak and do so without expectation of payment or any other compensation other than their participation in the community.

6. Never occur during work hours

We need to understand that many times people can’t leave work for a day or two to attend training or even seminars. The beauty of the TechFest is that they always occur on weekends.

Why not a Code Camp? What's the difference?

Well, a Code Camp is strictly focused on the Developer where our TechFest is all about Technology, any technology. We feel that IT Professionals, as well as Developers, should be given the chance to present their wares! Also, do not come to this event and expect all the presentations to focus just on Microsoft technologies. We strive to balance the content.

Silver Sponsors

For over 10 years Pacific Online has focused exclusively on hosting Microsoft web applications and services. Pacific Online's specialization is the reliable, secure and affordable hosting of ASP, ASP.NET and MS SQL sites. The company currently host sites for thousands of customers in countries around the world. Among their customers are individuals, small businesses, not-for-profits, governments and the some of the world's largest companies.

Bronze Sponsors

Telerik is a leading vendor of User Interface (UI) components for Microsoft .NET technologies – ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WinForms and WPF, and .NET Reporting and content management solutions. Building on its expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Created with passion, Telerik products help thousands of developers every day to be more productive and deliver reliable applications under budget and on time.

Red Gate Software makes ingeniously simple tools for over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals working with SQL Server, .NET, and Exchange Server. The company’s product line includes must-have tools for .NET developers who program in C# or VB.NET. Download your free trial of ANTS Memory Profiler, for identifying causes of memory leaks and optimizing the memory usage of your applications.

At JetBrains, we have a passion for making people more productive through smart software solutions that help them focus more on what they really want to accomplish, and less on mundane, repetitive "computer busy work". ReSharper provides solution-wide error highlighting on the fly, instant solutions for found errors, over 30 advanced code refactorings, superior unit testing tools, handy navigation and search features, single-click code formatting and cleanup, automatic code generation and templates, and a lot more productivity features for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML, and XAML.

Idera provides tools for Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint and PowerShell management and administration. Our products provide solutions for performance monitoring, backup and recovery, security and auditing and PowerShell scripting. Idera products are easy to use and can be installed in minutes, configured in hours and deployed worldwide in days. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Idera is a Microsoft Gold Partner and has over 5,000 customers worldwide.

At Software FX, we've been building data visualization products for over 15 years driven by a broadly held and forward-thinking vision which has translated into innovative ideas and products for your .NET Applications.
Our .NET offering includes a wealth of data visualization, presentation and analysis components such as Charts, Grids, Gauges, Maps, Financial Statistical and Business Intelligence. All these components were designed and developed to meet the business and technical needs of enterprises and professional developers requiring more than just simple UIs or framework-integrated controls.

Key features of our Chart FX and Grid FX products include: Fully integrated, wizard-guided development within Visual Studio through these use our patent-pending Smart Tag Wizard Technology; Advanced visual themes and motifs for hassle-free aesthetic customization; Support for ALL versions of the .NET framework including 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.5; Award winning AJAX framework and end user interactivity; and optimization over a wide range of .NET client server and internet platforms, such as Windows Forms, Web Forms, and WPF and Silverlight.
Chart FX for WPF combines cutting-edge WPF technology with Software FX's rich history of innovation, and with its impressive chart types, animations, visuals and multiple axes, it allows you to create astonishing charts in minutes.

Apress Inc., part of Springer Science Business Media, is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 1000 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress provides high-quality, no-fluff content in print and electronic formats that help serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success.