Shaping the New Age of Application Development April 17, 2009

A new age is dawning for application developers. According to Forrester Research the market for Application software is forecasted to increase six-fold between 1995 and 2010 to be $180.6 billion. The new age is driven by cheap new technology platforms like Cloud computing and application containers, the need for more flexibility, and the escalating costs to maintain existing corporate IT software. Couple with new development tools, platforms and methodologies, today is the right time to leverage the changing market landscape into new opportunities for developers. It's no longer about a sweet web interface. Instead it's about applications with collaboration and analytics at the core and built from the ground up to easily accommodate elastic demand, community driven functionality and pay-per-use models. Along with the technology, profitable business models and the funding environment has also changed.
The rules have changed. It's a new age. SDForum's "Shaping the New Age of Application Development" 2-day conference for developers can help you make sense of what's changing, plot a winning course and keep you on the cutting edge.

Join us for two heady days focused around four themes:

-CAPITALIZING CLOUD COMPUTING

-PLATFORMS AND CHOICES

-EMERGING APPLICATIONS; ANALYTICS: THE NEW BLACK

-MAKING MONEY AND SOLVING PROBLEMS

Friday, April 17th : 8:30 am to 5pm
Saturday, April 18th: 9am to 3pm

Confirmed Speakers Include:

Adam Blum, Rhomobile
David Chappell (Opening Keynote, Saturday morning)
Christine Crandell, Egenera
Tom Dibble, Aria Systems
Kevin Efrusy, Accel
Todd Fast, Zembly (Sun Microsystems)
Bill Grosso, TwoFish
Lars Leckie, Hummer Winblad
John Loughney, Nokia
Brad Peters, Birst
Hamid Pirahesh, IBM
James Staten, Forrester Research (Opening Keynote Friday morning)
Jon Teo, Benchmark
Jason VanZyl, Sonatype

Special price until April 6th! $139/SDForum Members, $159/Non-members, $99/Platinum.

Official Website: http://www.sdforum.org