As part of my role at Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist, I own the Microsoft developer events that are executed across the country to engage with the developers at a huge scale. These include the MSDN Sessions that are conducted across 6 cities every month, the MSDN Yatras that are done in 9 cities every quarter, and finally, DevDays and TechED. Basically:
1) I drive all the developer events of Microsoft India. So, if you want us to talk about something you want to hear, let me know :)
2) I own the technical content that goes into these events - primarily meaning that I am responsible for selecting the nature and depth of session that will be presented to the developers [yes, including demos!], to help the developers understand our technologies better, help them give an insight into where our developer technologies are headed in the future [which helps developers align their development strategies].
3) I am responsible for making developer feel excited and importantly, feel more productive, when they use the technologies - by digging inside the technologies.
Yes, my work expects me to remain abreast with where we are headed - technically. Cos if I dont understand the technology, how can I drive it better across this huge nation? And this is part of my role...
The upcoming TechED 2004 India is our next, and the biggest, technical event for developers, IT professionals, decision makers - to get dig inside of the technologies, tools and servers that are coming up and/or are recently released and understand them better! And this has been keeping me busy - The event is in the entire month of August 2004, where we are touching Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai and New Delhi!
Yes, we are finally coming to New Delhi!
Right from detailed technical sessions [the minimum is Level 200] to focused Chalk Talk sessions, we have got a lot to keep you hooked. Not to mention the product teams members are coming down to speak! Definitely, you wouldn't want to miss this event that goes on for 3 whole days across each city!
For details on sessions, speakers, and registration, visit http://www.techedindia.com/.
See you at TechED 2004 India :)