Dallas TechFest 2010

Posted on February 17, 2010 by

Dallas TechFest 2010

Hey everyone � just wanted to share the good news that Dallas TechFest is on the books for 2010!  We�ve secured a date and a location for the event, and are in the process of determining our session plan.  Here�s what you need to know:

July 30, 2010

Addison Conference Center

The call for speakers is also open � you can find the information on how to submit your session ideas, as well as keep up with all the other announcements coming out of the planning team at http://dallastechfest.com.

  • timcostello

    a Friday event is going to be a tough sell. I love me some free training, but giving up a day of work makes it a little less free.

    • http://chriskoenig.net Chris Koenig

      Thank you very much for your email. I am currently out of the office at the annual MVP summit. During this time I will have limited access to email. If your need is urgent, feel free to call me on my cell phone at 214-385-5616, and I will get to your email as soon as I can.
      Thanks!
      Chris

  • http://kevinharder.com Kevin

    That's great news – sounds like fun. Thank you for organizing it again. And it's on my birthday, what a nice bday present. :)

    I'm hoping there will be a session on Silverlight or Windows Phone 7. ASP.NET MVC/Spark and NoSQL technologies like MongoDB would be cool too!

    • http://chriskoenig.net Chris Koenig

      Thank you very much for your email. I am currently out of the office at the annual MVP summit. During this time I will have limited access to email. If your need is urgent, feel free to call me on my cell phone at 214-385-5616, and I will get to your email as soon as I can.
      Thanks!
      Chris

  • http://chriskoenig.net Chris Koenig

    I plan to be submitting a WP7 session myself :)

  • nickcoombs

    Thanks I'll have to go this year

    • http://chriskoenig.net Chris Koenig

      Thank you very much for your email. I am currently out of the office at the annual MVP summit. During this time I will have limited access to email. If your need is urgent, feel free to call me on my cell phone at 214-385-5616, and I will get to your email as soon as I can.
      Thanks!
      Chris

  • Mark Watson

    Tim, Don't count on it being free either ;)

  • http://chriskoenig.net Chris Koenig

    We have not yet decided whether or not we're going to charge for the event. We probably will, based on the great experience we had with that last year (only a 1% dropoff rate with over 400 attendees) but I doubt it will be as expensive as other similar conferences. Last year, most people only paid $25 to attend. I'm pretty sure we'll do something similar this year.

  • Mark Watson

    Yes, charging an attendee event fee does usually keep the dropoff rate to a minimum. It just sounded like Tim had some other expectations. $25 for a full day community event is still a great price. :)

  • http://chriskoenig.net Chris Koenig

    We have not yet decided whether or not we're going to charge for the event. We probably will, based on the great experience we had with that last year (only a 1% dropoff rate with over 400 attendees) but I doubt it will be as expensive as other similar conferences. Last year, most people only paid $25 to attend. I'm pretty sure we'll do something similar this year.

  • Mark Watson

    Yes, charging an attendee event fee does usually keep the dropoff rate to a minimum. It just sounded like Tim had some other expectations. $25 for a full day community event is still a great price. :)