This Saturday I’ll be headed off to sunny Los Angeles for Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference 2008. This is the first time I’ve gone and I’m really looking forward to it. I’m staying at Hotel Figueroa, only a couple blocks from the Los Angeles Convention Center, and I’ve posted my tentative session agenda (more for my own reference than anything else) below. If anyone else would like to meet up for drinks after the sessions, drop me an email.

Pre-Conference / Sunday, Oct. 26

• 10:00 AM – 5:45 PM
  Creating Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight

Day One / Monday, Oct. 27

• 8:30 AM – 11:00 AM
  Keynote Address
• 11:00 AM – 12:45 PM
  A Lap Around Cloud Services (Part 1)
• 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
  Microsoft Expression Blend: Tips & Tricks
• 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
  ASP.Net 4.0 Roadmap
• 3:30 PM – 5:15 PM
  A Lap Around Cloud Services (Part 2) or…
  ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building Web Applications
• 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
  Developing and Deploying Your First Cloud Service or…
  Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies or…
  Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0: A First Look

Day Two / Tuesday, Oct. 28

• 8:30 AM – 12:45 PM
  Keynote Address
• 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM
  Windows 7: Welcome to the Windows 7 Desktop
• 1:45 PM – 3:30 PM
  Essential Cloud Storage Services
• 3:30 PM – 5:15 PM
  Microsoft Visual Studio: Easing ASP.NET Web Deployment
• 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM
  Entity Framework Futures or…
  ASP.NET and JQuery or…
  Architecting Services for the Cloud

Day Three / Wednesday, Oct. 29

• 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM
  Keynote Address
• 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
  WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0
• 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
  Microsoft XNA Game Studio: An Overview
• 1:15 PM – 3:00 PM
  "Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience
• 3:00 PM – 4:45 PM
  A Day in the Life of a Cloud Service Developer or…
  Oomph: A Microformat Toolkit or…
  "Oslo": Repository and Models
• 4:45 PM – 6:00 PM
  A Lap around "Oslo"

Day Four / Thursday, Oct. 30

• 8:30 AM – 10:15 AM
  WCF: Developing RESTful Services
• 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
  Services Symposium: Enterprise Grade Cloud Applications
• 12:00 PM – 1:45 PM
  Cloud Computing: Programming in the Cloud
• 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM
  ASP.NET AJAX Futures or…
  Workflow Services: Orchestrating Services and Business Processes Using Cloud-Based Workflow