Scott Guthrie in Scottsdale March 11, 2008

This is the fifth annual Arizona .NET User Group (100% free) event Hosting Mr. Scott Guthrie. Scott is the manager of all things developer related at Microsoft having over 600 developers that report to him. Scott is most famous for inventing/creating ASP.NET. If you have ever heard of Visual Studio, Silverlight, ASP.NET, IIS, Expression Tools - you have Scott Guthrie to thank :)

Scott is a great great speaker - traveling the world talking about his passion - which is developers. If you have anything to do with developing software - this is a free event not to be missed.

RSVP is being taken on Yahoo (this page) or on ClickToAttend where you can register with your Microsoft Live ID.
https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=125378

Registration starts and the doors open at 7am for sponsors and 8am for attendees. It's an early start - but my oh my - it will be worth it.

Did I mention all this is free?!?!?!?

Here is the official schedule :) Details by the minute are subject to change - but this is what we're going for, and the speakers, topics, and sponsors are nailed down.

Remember this is a community event! That is to say that Microsoft isn't funding the bill for this - but instead - I've asked favors for people/friends/sponsors to get the cash for lunch. So event topic is accompanied by a 10 minute sponsor session.

7:00 - Doors open for sponsors to setup
8:00 - Doors open to General Admission
------ Welcome / Please be seated

9:00 - 10:15 Scott Guthrie - Microsoft Silverlight 2.0

10:15 - 10:25 (Sponsor) TEK Systems

10:25 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 10:55 (Sponsor) AkalTech

10:55 - 11:40 Eugene Osovet - Consuming Web Services with Microsoft Silverlight

11:40 - 11:50 (Sponsor) AXOSoft

12:55 - 1:40 Ben Waggoner - Encoding VIDEO for Microsoft Silverlight

1:40 - 1:50 (Sponsor) Kentico

1:50 - 2:05 Break
2:05 - 3:20 Scott Guthrie - ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC)

3:20 - 3:30 (Sponsor) GoDaddy.com

3:30 - 3:45 - BREAK

3:45 - 3:55 (Sponsor) Telerik

3:55 - 4:40 Remy Pairault - Serving Applications with Microsoft Silverlight Streaming

4:40 - 4:50 (Sponsor) DiscountASP.NET

4:50 - 5:20 Give-A-Ways, Give-A-Ways, Give-A-Ways

And boy do we have Give-A-Ways.

Official Website: http://www.azgroups.com/ScottGuthrie/Default.aspx