Talks

Presentations and talks I have already given:

Microsoft and Comarch Day I, II and III (2007-2008)
* SQL Server 2005 – Integration Services by example
* .NET Framework 3.5 – new enhancements
* Lap around Visual Studio and TFS 2010
Ask for feedback Comarch’s representative.

Intel SSG Roadshow (2007)
*  Deus ex Machina - Is Microsoft platform multi-core ready?
Ask for feedback Intel Corp’s representative (Jacek Hadryś)

Numerous Microsoft events including:
* ISV Roadshow in 2007 – 5 cities in one week, around 500 attendees
Aside of organizing, I spoke about Dynamics CRM as a platform.
* Microsoft Technology Summit 2008, 2009 and 2010
Biggest event MS organizes in Poland. Average number of attendees from past years close to 3000. In 2008 I was speaking about Dynamics CRM. On last MTS I spoke about .NET 4.0 Internals and UML Modelling in Visual Studio 2010. In 2010 I was responsible to run the whole developer track, which means to design sessions titles, invite right speakers to present and co-org small details during the conference flow. I also had three presentations by myself (Windows Azure Platform and Windows Phone 7 oriented).
* GameDay 2010 (March 2010) – Opening session about Trends in Games Industry important for new and considering game developers (htp://www.gameday.com.pl/)
* Krakspot #11 (2011) - Barcamp formula, session about Social Data published in the Internet and the risks and opportunities related to it.
* HTML5 Day (2011) - small conference organized in Microsoft Poland offices. Broadcasted over Internet – session about good, bad and ugly sides of Html5.
* Farewell Analogs (2011) – conference for new media, I gave a short talk how Internet has changed since 1995.
* Community Journalism Awards organized by Wiadomosci24.pl – open debate about the future of journalism in the age of digital revolution. Stream (Polish): http://www.blog.mediafun.pl/index.php/2011/06/15/debata-w-jaki-sposob-internet-zmienil-wspolczesne-dziennikarstwo/, My summary (English): http://www.dbiesiada.com/blog/2011/06/digital-versus-classic-journalism/

Numerous community and customer events/meetings:
I was speaking on various .NET related community groups and community organized conferences. I also had a speech on first Polish Game Developers Conference in Cracow (May 2009) about community games and different business models in game development. I was speaking on a series of academic events co-organized by universities and Microsoft, called ITADs (IT Academy Days). I had a pleasure to talk to students at: University of Copernicus in Torun (UMK), Technical University (Politechnika) in Częstochowa, Koszalin, Warsawian Computer Sciences College (WWSI).

If want to invite me for your event, feel free to contact me. All details how to do it are published on this page.