Jelle Druyts

Hans Verbeeck, overall technical content owner of TechEd Europe 2005, has started planning what's on the agenda for this year.

TechEd focuses on hot (nearly) available technologies so with the conference taking place in the beginning of July, that's going to be

• Beta 2 of the .NET Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio .NET 2005 for developers,
• Beta 3 of SQL Server 2005 for DBA's (I didn't even know there was going to be a third beta, I thought they were actually pretty close to shipping already),
• SOA, software factories, domain specific languages for architects and
• "Special tracks" (hmm that's pretty vague ) for IT Pro's.

Not on the shortlist:

• Indigo and Avalon, although there's a bundled CTP of both coming up in March (but it doesn't fit the "relevant within 6 months" criterium),
• Windows Longhorn (if anybody still knows what's up with that anyway since it ran out of pillars to be based upon, but that's probably just my confusion, right?)

Cool stuff, so if you dig this kind of content (along with labs, ask-the-experts, panels, Amsterdam's finest herbs, and - let's not forget - wicked parties) don't forget to add 4-8 July to your agenda!