**STOP PRESS** SPECIAL SKILLS MATTER COMMUNITY DISCOUNT OFFER!
Skills Matter is delighted to announce that its community can now get 15% discount from the Tutorial and Conference passes. Simply quote Campaign Code SKILL09 when booking online!

Skills Matter is pleased to support Øredev 2009 - Europe's largest conference focused on the software development process taking place in Malmö, Sweden from 2nd - 6th November!

Nearly 1000 programmers, developers, engineers, educators, testers and managers gather to share their knowledge and experience over 14 tracks and 150 different sessions.

TRACKS
Within a week, Øredev offers you sessions, tutorials, courses, lightning talks in 14 different tracks:

• Java
• Agile Ways
• Test
• Agile Architecture
• Web Development
• .NET
• In the Cloud
• Mobile 2.0
• Architecture
• Effective Languages
• User Experience
• PM in Practice
• Aspects of Leadership
• Meanwhile

View the full schedule here.


To stay competitive in the ever-changing global business environment and especially within our knowledge-based economies, businesses have to continually focus on developing their employees' knowledge. We need to deliver high performance i.e. setting the right targets to achieve our goals, and getting things done.

This becomes even more important during unstable economic times when businesses are looking to gain ground wherever they can.

We specifically asked this year’s speakers to focus on delivering methodological approaches or technical knowledge that you can put into practice in your daily work. After each conference seminar we will offer a 'chalk-talk' so you can go into further detail on the subject with the session speaker.

SPEAKERS:
More than 100 speakers will be hosting courses, tutorials, sessions and keynotes at Øredev. You can view the full list of speakers here. Our highlights include:
Andrew Shorten - Adobe Flex & Adobe AIR Bootcamp, Taking web applications to the desktop with Adobe AIR.
Ben Galbraith - Mozilla: How Exactly Can Developers Create a Compelling User Experience?, The Future of Web Apps.
Cameron Purdy - Oracle: Traditional Programming Models: Stone Knives and Bearskins in the Google Age, C++, Java and .NET: Lessons Learned from the Internet Age.
Dan North- ThoughtWorks: Our Obsession with Efficiency
Gojko Adzic - Neuri: Specification Workshops - The Missing Link for ATDD & Example-driven Development
Jason van Zyl - Sonatype: Maven workshop.
Kevlin Henney - Curbralan: Modelling in the Age of Agility.
Oren Eini - We!:Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection: Breaking out from the dependecy h.
Scott Bellware: Kanban Chalk Talk, Model-Driven Web Application Testing.

Tutorials:
Want to spend some intensive time in small groups really learning to improve your practice? Then the tutorials are for you! And there are 14 to choose from. Tutorials are on Tuesday the 3rd of November and are also at MalmöMässan.Find out more here.

ACTIVITIES
The activities at Øredev are not just for fun! Most participants really appreciate the chance to develop new personal and business relationships and partnerships by networking. You have 3 days and 2 evenings to do it - enjoy yourself, and enjoy the process. Highlights include:

• Birds of a Feather sessions
• Exhibition
• Interviews on Øredev stage
• Lightning talks

Find out more.

REGISTRATION
Registration is open! There is a range of tickets available as you can buy any number of day passes as required from 1 to 5. The tutorials take place on the Monday and Tuesday followed by the conference and exhibition on the Wednesday - Friday.

A full list of ticket prices and online registration can be found here. If you wish to attend the 3-day Conference & Exhibition only, the fees are:

Early Bird (On or before 15th September): €952
Regular Price (16 Sept 09 - 28 Oct 09): €1,190
Late/On Site Price (after 29 Oct 09): €1,290

Group discounts of up to 35% are also available. Details here.

See you there!

	Introducing Neo4j Toby O'Rourke : 23rd May 2012
	JavaScript with Gradle Luke Daley : 22nd May 2012
	Perfect Clojure John Stevenson : 16th May 2012
	MongoDB with Grails Chris Harris : 16th May 2012
	Non-rails Groovy development Sean Reilly : 16th May 2012
	CouchDB at the Hut Group Tom McMillen : 9th May 2012
	The Couchbase Server Tutorial John Zablocki : 9th May 2012
	Neo4j Tales from the Trenches Nicki Watt : 9th May 2012
	Is Everything Social? Gavin Bell : 8th May 2012
	Neo4j Intro Ian Robinson : 3rd May 2012
	Polyglot apps in Java and Spring Jan Machacek : 3rd May 2012
	Parkbench Various Speakers : 3rd May 2012
	Moving Beyond Objects Brian Sletten : 3rd May 2012
	Exploring enterprise Java David Morgantini : 3rd May 2012
	Connecting to Neo4j using Spring Data Anirvan Chakraborty : 3rd May 2012