Tools, Technologies, Tips and Tomfoolery to Beat the Downturn

An antidote to the economic malaise that's threatening to throttle the software landscape, the 2009 edition of GIDS is packed with advise from been-there-done-it veterans, creators, and visionaries. Through focused sessions, case studies, workshops and power panels, GIDS 2009 will provide you with ammunition to bolster your productivity and avenues to harness the new opportunities that will open up. We are also throwing in a measure of tomfoolery to lighten you up and maximize the productivity you will gain by attending India's largest and independent summit for the software developer ecosystem. Featuring 4 co-located conferences: GIDS.NET, GIDS.Web, GIDS.Java, and an exclusive day of in-depth tutorials - GIDS.Workshops.

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Come hear luminaries from the world of .NET discuss and debate new technologies emerging from the Microsoft stable; tune into advances in the .NET language treasure chest, immerse into .NET's laser focus on business-critical applications, and soak into experiential learning of software development tools and practices.

The GIDS.NET Conference will feature timely technical and business topics, technology trends, best practices and case studies. Recurring themes include: Early Adopter .NET (practices/patterns/technologies/techniques), Open Source .NET Alternants, The .NET Language Treasure Chest, Workhorse .NET, and Web.NET.

Technologies covered at GIDS.NET include:

Come to GIDS.Web to learn how browser and rich web technologies such as AJAX, DHTML, Mashups, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 technologies, and Rich UI technologies are making money and gaining market-share for some of the leading businesses in the world.

The GIDS.Web Conference will feature timely technical and business topics, technology trends, best practices and case studies. Recurring themes include: Web Buzzin', RIAvolution, Mashups Busted, RESTful Web, Workhorse Web.

Technologies covered GIDS.Web include:

Come hear authorities from the world of Java discuss and debate the present and future of the language and VM, how they are evolving to meet the community's ever-changing needs, and some of the cutting-edge tools, technologies & techniques used for building robust enterprise Java applications today.

The GIDS.Web Conference will feature timely technical and business topics, technology trends, best practices and case studies. Recurring themes include: Java Fresh - First Look, Scaling Agility Barriers, Scripting Language Nuggets, DSLs in Action, Workhorse Java.

Technologies covered GIDS.Web include:

The industry is seeing an increase in demand for COBOL programmers, with salaries of COBOL programmers on the increase owing to this shortage. Come to GIDS.Cobol to hear luminaries speak about how COBOL can be integrated with Java, .Net and Web 2.0, and is opening up fantastic opportunities for the developer community.

The GIDS.Cobol conference and workshops will feature timely and technical topics, technology trends, best practices and case studies. Recurring themes include: Modernizing Mainframe Applications, COBOL development - Today and Tomorrow, Sills Development.

Technologies covered at GIDS.COBOL include:

The post conference workshops at GIDS 2009 offer several half-day (180 minutes) tutorials on .NET, Java, Rich Web, and Agile. The workshops are a great opportunity to learn about a specific issue/technology/project/innovation in intimate and hands-on settings with the speaker. GIDS.Workshops are intended to transport the participants from any given level (beginner > Intermediate > advanced > Rocket Science > and so on) to the next. Each participant can choose up to two workshops from a pool of eight:

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Eight Reasons Why You Should Attend Developer Summit 2009

The Great Indian Developer Summit is the single most inspirational, informative conference for .NET, Java, Agile, SOA, Architecture and Rich Web developers. It's your chance to refresh, pick up new tips and techniques, and network with your peers. But if you are having trouble convincing your boss that Developer Summit 2009 is a good investment and a valuable tool, you need to explain the bottom-line benefits--and there are plenty. Here are some tips to help you out:

For information on who should attend, information and pricing and to sign up, please click here.

• We're serious about learning -- although all our conferences include a generous heaps of after hours and downtime, we are serious about providing a well-balanced learning experience that virtually guarantees that you will go back home with a richer understanding of the technologies that make a difference to your work life and career.
• Brush up your technical skills -- you'll get five days of continuing education on everything from utilizing new software and developing new ideas to improving client relations--this is the stuff you don't learn in school. Then you can take your new knowledge back to the office and hold a training session for your co-workers.
• Networking opportunities galore -- breakfasts and lunches, time in the expo hallways, breaks between sessions, receptions -- every minute you're not in a session is an ideal opportunity to meet fellow developers from all walks of life, not to mention meeting some of the creators, luminaries, authors, committers, community heroes, best speakers and experts from around the world. You'll return to the office with tons of free software, plus contact information for a variety of vendors who can help you solve future developmental problems. (These contacts could prove indispensable to your colleagues, too.)
• Free stuff -- you'll get lots of other free stuff, like geek toys, a T-shirt, bag, breakfast, lunch and coffee every day, and drinks and dinner at the parties...
• You won't disappear from the face of the earth -- we make sure you're connected at all times with by bringing in our own dedicated, FREE Internet connection and provide a setting that lets you connect back to your office in case you need to get some quick work done.
• Be inspired -- you'll be inspired by some of the top experts in the develoepr ecosystem -- and if you bring back just one valuable idea, the summit will be worth it.
• Do you work for a technology firm? -- offer to call on clients or potential clients in the Bangalore area and present your firm's work. Or volunteer to meet with vendors while you're in town.
• Great bargain -- if you consider that a three-day instructor-led Java/.NET/Rich Web course can cost upwards of INR 20,000, Developer Summit offers great value by exposing you to new and diverse technologies and techniques that will help you in your daily work, at one-tenth of that cost. With over 100 plus sessions, workshops and panel discussions, an exposition of leading companies in the developer ecosystem, a high-profile awards nite, Great Indian Developer Summit is a bargain. It's content you won't find anywhere else.

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Conference Chair

The job of the conference chair is to put together a program that attracts and informs the attendees. Many submissions in a category indicate a lot of interest in presenting on a particular topic, not necessarily a lot of interest in hearing about a topic. In the end, therefore, the conference is for the attendees, not the presenters. Thus the program chair will, in an effort to create a balanced and exciting program, arrange for speakers to present on particular topics. That is their job.

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Advisory Board

The Advisory Board is a committee of distinguished executives, seasoned industry professionals, and academia whose expertise spans the entire information technology gamut. They will assist the conference chair to ensure the quality of the content provided to attendees is high-level, relevant, and timely. Their dedication is critical to the success of the conference. The conference committee would like to thank them for their service to this conference. The extraordinary members of the advisory board are:

M N Vidyashankar

Chief Electoral Officer & Former IT Secretary, Government of Karnataka
Shri. M N Vidyashankar is the chairperson of this year’s board for Great Indian Developer Summit. He is presently the Chief Electoral Officer, Government of Karnataka, and flag bearer of the Information Technology ecosystem in Karnataka, India. In his role as IT Secretary of Karnataka from October 2006 to April 2007, Shri. Vidyashankar steered the software and service exports from Karnataka, despite political turmoil and poor infrastructure, to a whopping 44% of the country’s total IT (information technology) and back-office services exports of around $40 billion (Rs1.58 trillion). Besides IT, Shri. Vidyashankar also held the post of Secretary for Biotechnology, and Science and Technology. While at Bangalore Development Authority, he was instrumental in implanting the e-Pragathi project aimed at creating multi-utility kiosks across the city for the payment of utility bills.

Dr. Rangachar Kasturi

Immediate Past President, IEEE Computer Society
Dr. Rangachar Kasturi is the Douglas W. Hood Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. He received his BE (Electrical) degree from Bangalore University, India in 1968 and MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Texas Tech University in 1980 and 1982, respectively. He was a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University during 1982-2003. Dr. Kasturi served as the President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) during 2002-04 and as the President of the IEEE Computer Society during 2008. He has served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and the Machine Vision and Applications journals. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of IAPR. He was a Fulbright scholar during 1999. Dr. Kasturi's research interests are in computer vision and pattern recognition. He is an author of the textbook, Machine Vision, and has published numerous papers and research reference books. He has directed many projects in image analysis, video sequence analysis and pattern recognition.

Vijay Anand

Vice President, India Development Center, Intuit
Vijay Anand is the head of Intuit’s presence in India. He has over 20 years of software product development experience in the US and India. Prior to joining Intuit, Vijay was VP for the Server Technologies Division at Oracle Corporation in Bangalore, where he was responsible for leading the Fusion Middleware R&D organization in India that delivers cutting edge innovations across the Fusion Middleware stack including the JDeveloper/ADF developer tool, SOA Suite, Identity Management, Business Intelligence, WebCenter, Content Management and related technologies. In addition, Vijay was also the operational head for the Server Technologies division in India that includes the Oracle Database, Enterprise Manager and Fusion Middleware Development teams. Vijay's key accomplishments at Oracle included putting in place a strong senior engineering leadership team for Fusion Middleware Engineering in India and delivering several complete components of the new Fusion Middleware 11g platform. Prior to his tenure at Oracle, Vijay was VP and Managing Director for Sun Microsystems India Engineering Center (IEC). Under Vijay's tenure, IEC grew to become Sun's largest R&D center outside the U.S. Earlier he held product leadership positions at iPlanet (a Sun/Netscape alliance), NetDynamics, Transarc and IBM Corporation. He holds a U.S. patent for his work on distributed application server architectures at NetDynamics, a pioneer in the space of Java application servers. Vijay has an MS in computer science from University of Arizona and an MS in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.

Ramesh Loganathan

Managing Director, Progress Software India
Ramesh Loganathan is presently Vice President (Products) and Managing Director of Progress Software in India, responsible for leading the product development at the India Development center. Prior to taking the above position, Ramesh was Vice President of Middleware Technologies at Pramati, responsible for driving the product direction and the Technology Consulting business. Ramesh has been with pramati since 2000, heading Product Engineering until 2004, and then helped setup the team (for Progress Software) that built the Sonic Workbench on Eclipse, eventually transitioned to Progress Software- India. Ramesh is an accomplished Technologist and evangelist regularly speaking at workshops and seminars in India. Has been active in Tech fora, JCP and SPEC organizations. Member of several Standards Expert groups including J2EE 1.3. Co-founded ebXMLIndia.org and hyd-eclipse.org, and organizes BarCamps and Startup events.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam

Founder, Agile Developer Inc.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. He has significant experience in architecture, design, and development of software applications. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects. He is a frequent invited speaker at various international software conferences and user groups and a Great Indian Developer Summit Alumni. Venkat is author of .NET Gotchas (OReilly), coauthor of 2007 Jolt Productivity Award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and author of Programming Groovy(Pragmatic Bookshelf).

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