During the Microsoft Desingertopia event in London this winter I got a chance to meet Richard Richtoff, a really nice Swedish dude that at the time worked for Cornerstone arranging the Developer Summit 2007 event in Stockholm 23th to 25th of May. The Designertopia agenda was busy so we didn't get to much time to chat, but we hooked up on Messenger after the event and Richard invited me over to Sweden in May.

I'm really looking forward to the event, and the agenda looks really promising. What separates

Developer Summit from a regular Microsoft show like TechEd is that they're running multiple tracks on different technologies. There four simultaneous tracks on architecture, Java, .NET and ReMix 07. The ReMix 07 track is really interesting and will feature the best sessions from MIX 07 in Las Vegas which takes place the first week of May.

Their speaker lineup consists of quite a few industry heavy weights like Beat Schwegler, Niclas Nilsson and Dan North, and some of the more interesting sessions I'm planning on attending are:

• "Patterns for code mortals" with Patrik Lövendahl
• "Migrating Services from ASMX to WCF" with Beat Schwegler
• "WCF communication patterns: more than request-reply" with Christian Weyer
• "Dynamic Languages for statically typed minds" with Niclas Nilsson

On the third day of the conference you can attend various interesting workshops. The one that interests me the most is a three hour workshop on Microsoft Silverlight (aka WPF/E).

For my Norwegian readers there is a chance to win Developer Summit conference passes over at the Norwegian .NET User Group site.

If you're planning on going to Developer Summit 2007 drop me a comment!