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

	1 Code-base, Many Projects Jason Cale : 10th Nov 2008
	Packet Sniffing James Darling : 10th Nov 2008
	The Ruby Watir framework Aidy Lewis : 11th Aug 2008
	RabbitMQ and ruby Ben Hood : 14th Jul 2008
	Act As Xapian Francis Irving : 14th Jul 2008
	LRUG, Ruby & Erlang Murray Steele : 26th Jun 2008
	Concurrent & Multicore Haskell Ganesh Sittampalam : 26th Jun 2008
	Ruby as Multimedia glue Nick Ludlam : 9th Jun 2008
	Genomes On Rails Matt Wood : 9th Jun 2008
	ActionScript 3.0 Peter Elst : 30th May 2008
	Getting your pet project off t Tom Armitage : 12th May 2008
	Monkeyweaving Tim Becker : 12th May 2008
	Various Code Demos Various Speakers : 14th Apr 2008
	Making Ruby run Effectively on Kresten Krab Thorup : 10th Mar 2008
	Creating a high-risk Rails app Thomas Pomfret : 10th Mar 2008