This second annual San Francisco enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects and project management is back!

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Bloggers wrote about 32 of the 60 sessions at last year’s event, read this article to see what the attendees said. There is no other event in the US with similar opportunities for learning, networking, and tracking innovation occurring in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile, and architecture communities.

Some of our speakers include:

• Rod Johnson, Spring Creator
• Martin Fowler, Refactoring, Analysis Patterns
• Kent Beck, First software Patterns, XP, xUnit
• Joe Stump, Digg.com Lead Architect
• Dan Farino, MySpace.com Architect
• David Laribee, ALT.NET ring leader
• Eric Evans, Mr. Domain Driven Design
• Erik Meijer, Designed LINQ & Haskell98 languages
• Gregor Hohpe, EAI Patterns Author
• Steve Vinoski, Corba & Distributed System Guru
• Pollyanna Pixton, Author of "Fear, Trust, and the Bottom Line"
• John Musser, Programmableweb.com Founder

	Tomcat: Performace & Security Mark Thomas : 10th Oct 2008
	Script# Gojko Adzic : 25th Sep 2008
	Flex, Silverlight or JavaFX Simon Brown : 20th Aug 2008
	A RIA Solution to Reinvigorate Peter Pilgrim : 29th Jul 2008
	Practical Unit Testing in Java Michael Mathews : 9th Jul 2008
	Erlang and Ajax Web Applicatio Roberto Saccon : 26th Jun 2008
	Ajax Web Apps with Castle & Mo Gojko Adzic : 12th Jun 2008
	JavaScript on AIR David Harvey : 11th Jun 2008
	ActionScript 3.0 Peter Elst : 30th May 2008
	RESTful Design Peter Rodgers : 8th May 2008
	JBoss SEAM and JSF Peter Pilgrim : 16th Apr 2008
	The Next Step in Unit Testing and J... Frank Cohen : 7th Apr 2008
	Ajax and JSF: Natural Synergy... Kito Mann : 19th Feb 2008
	What's new in ActionScript 3.0... Peter Elst : 13th Feb 2008
	REST & Architectural Designs Peter Rodgers : 28th Nov 2007