Michael Collier, a fellow Azure Insider, is organizing CloudDevelop, a cloud centric developer conference in Columbus, OH. While I can’t attend due to a scheduling conflict it promises to be a great event, and for only $15 it’s a great deal. He asked other insiders to help spread the word. Read the details below, and if you’re interested and can attend, please head over to http://www.clouddevelop.org and register.

What is CloudDevelop?

Our goal with CloudDevelop is to put on the premier cloud computing conference in the Midwest.  CloudDevelop will be held on Friday, August 3rd in Columbus, OH in The Ohio State University’s Ohio Union.  CloudDevelop is a community organized and sponsored one-day event dedicated to bringing together developers and IT professionals who work with a wide variety of cloud platforms and software languages.  CloudDevelop will feature multiple sessions lead by some of the area’s foremost cloud experts.  Windows Azure Technical Evangelist Brady Gaster was recently announced as the keynote presenter too!!

CloudDevelop will provide education, training and networking opportunities for the professional software development community focused on architecting, development and managing cloud applications. Sessions will be targeted to application developers, architects, dev-ops, technical decision makers, as well as those involved more with the business side of an organization.

If you’re interested in cloud computing at all, then this is the event for you! Sessions at CloudDevelop include:

• Windows Azure
• AppHarbor
• Amazon AWS
• VMWare
• Cloud Foundry
• Windows Live services
• Heroku
• DevOps techniques
• Cloud security and legal issues

Tickets are now just $15!  

To learn more, including registration details, please visit http://www.clouddevelop.org.