InterSystems DEVCON2008

March 30 - April 2, 2008 Renaissance Orlando Resort at SeaWorld, Orlando, FL

Extra! Extra!

We are constantly improving the DEVCON schedule, so naturally, some agenda items are added after the brochure goes to press. Check back here regularly for information about additional sessions, meetings, and activities that may be of interest.

Van service between Renaissance and Marriott Courtyard & Springhill: 

We will be providing continuous van shuttle service from Saturday through Wednesday during conference hours between the Renaissance, Marriott Courtyard, and Marriott Springhill Suites. (The Courtyard and Springhill Suites are located next to each other).

The van will pick up at the “Village Green” area located in the front of both hotels and will drop off at the Convention entrance at the Renaissance (which is closest to our meeting space). 

Saturday: 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM (every hour on the hour)
Sunday: 12:00 PM - 9:00 PM (every half hour)
Monday: 7:00 AM - 7:30 PM (every half hour)
Tuesday: 7:00 AM - 11:30 PM (every half hour)
Wednesday: 7:00 AM - 6:30 PM (every half hour)

 

Ongoing Events

Additional events for Monday
Developer Room in Oceans 6 from 2:00 PM–6:30 PM
Whiteboard Gatherings in the Developer Room:
 Starting at 3:00 PM
   Object Synchronization
   Gateways
InterSystems Learning Services Lounge in Oceans 8 from 2:00 PM–6:00 PM
Coffee Talks in the Learning Services Lounge
    3:00 PM: InterSystems’ Certifications
    4:00 PM: Learning Services Feedback
    4:15 PM: Learning Services Feedback
“Self-serve” Customer Demonstrations in Oceans 7 starting at 2:00 PM
Partner Pavilion in the Oceans Foyer from 9:00 AM–6:30 PM

Additional events for Tuesday
Developers Room/WRC on Location in Oceans 6 from 9:00-12:00 PM and 2:00 PM–6:00 PM
Whiteboard Gatherings in the Developer Room:
      Starting at 10:00 AM
        Upgrading to new versions of Ensemble
        Web Services
      Starting at 2:30 PM
        Working with very large databases
        Identity management
InterSystems Learning Services Lounge in Oceans 8 from 9:00 AM–4:45 PM
Coffee Talks in the Learning Services Lounge
       10:15 AM: Benefits of Becoming a Partner in the Caché Campus Program
       10:30 AM: Student Internships
       2:30 PM: Online Communities for InterSystems’ Technologies
       3:45 PM: InterSystems training Opportunities
“Self-Serve” Customer Demonstrations in Oceans 7- All Day
Partner Pavilion in the Oceans Foyer from 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Additional events for Wednesday
Developers Room/WRC on Location in Oceans 6 from 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Whiteboard Gatherings in the Developer Room
         Starting at 10:00 AM: HL7
InterSystems Learning Services Lounge in Oceans 8 from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
        Coffee Talks in the Learning Services Lounge
        10:00 AM: Caché Tutorials
“Self-Serve” Customer Demonstrations in Oceans 7 from 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Partner Pavilion in the Oceans Foyer from 9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

New Session: Customer Affinity: A New Way to Predict Future Success

Tuesday, April 1st, 9:00 AM
A guest speaker from the Chief Marketing Officers (CMO) Council will talk about the importance of “customer affinity”, and how it can affect future business performance. They will present findings from a survey about customer affinity, recently conducted by the CMO Council.

Schedule Change

The session, “Rapid Development with Java” has been rescheduled to Tuesday at 1:30 PM.

New Session: Identity Management Technology

Tuesday, April 1st, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
In virtually every industry, there is a growing need to rapidly and accurately identify people, so that data collected by different applications and systems can be combined and shared.  For instance, in healthcare this need arises as soon as organizations want to combine clinical data from multiple systems, each of which uses separate patient identifiers.  While stand-alone solutions (such as master patient index or master person index products) have existed for some time, InterSystems has been researching a different approach to this problem, based on incorporating advanced indexing and matching capabilities into our database and integration technologies. This session will present the results of that research effort.

New! Caché Workshop for MultiValue Developers

Sunday, March 31st, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
We've added a pre-conference workshop geared towards MultiValue developers who are starting to use Caché. Come with your questions about how to do things in Caché, and we'll show you! Possible topics may include (but are not limited to) creating classes from MV data definitions, debugging MV applications, deploying MV applications, and recent improvements to MVIMPORT.

New Session Title

The session “InterSystems Zen: Enhanced AJAX For Creating Rich Web Interfaces” (presented on Tuesday, April 2nd at 2:45 PM) has been transformed into a panel session and re-titled to “Innovator Panel: Creating Rich Web Interfaces With Zen”.

New! “Whiteboard Gatherings” in the Developer Room

The Developer Room will be open throughout DEVCON, and you are always welcome to go talk about anything and everything there. But we’ve designated a few specific “whiteboard gatherings”, when InterSystems’ experts on various subjects will be available for spirited discussion. You can be certain of finding conversations about:

• Object synchronization – Monday, starting at 3:00 PM
• Upgrading to new versions of Ensemble – Tuesday, starting at 10:00 AM
• Working with very large databases – Tuesday, starting at 2:30 PM
• HL7 – Wednesday, starting at 10:00 AM

Revised list of topics for “Birds-of-a-Feather” Lunchtime discussion groups.

We’ve added some topics, turned others into “whiteboard gatherings”. See the revised list of “Birds-of-a-Feather” topics. Remember, capacity is limited, so if you don’t express interest in advance, we may not be able to accommodate you.

Talk with InterSystems Documentation Group

In the Developer Room, writers want to hear about your successes and failures in working with our documentation. Is it easy to find the information you need? Are the materials useful? How can we improve them? Let’s talk.

“Self-Serve” Customer Demonstrations

We’ve set aside a room where customers can give brief presentations about their Caché-based or Ensemble-based products. Check the bulletin board near the registration desk to sign up for a speaking slot, or to see what innovative products are being showcased.