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SQL Admin Best
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William Assaf
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Zero To Lisp In 60-ish
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Jeffery Olson Improving
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This ain't your mama's
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Justin Self Improving
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Paul DeCarlo Microsoft
Good to Great - ASP.NET
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Guang Yang Microsoft
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Christine Assaf Waste
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Glenda Gable
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Chris Weldon Goldman
Sachs
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GPU Programming for
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Eric Burcham Improving
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Get in the ORM fast lane
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David Savage
Headspring
What's New for Web
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Brian Sullivan Improving
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Brian Culver Expert Point
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Ravi Mutyala
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Great Architecture is Easy
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Change Your Questions
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james del monte jda
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HyperV for Developers
J Sawyer Hitachi
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Energistics Standards -
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Mark Reynolds
Southwestern Energy
Optimizing Code
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Ted Wagner Sparkhound
Web Components Today
Jeremy Wilken ebay
Life, Universal
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Allen Murphy and Dallas
Haynie TKO Cloud
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Allen Hurst Improving
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Panel Discussion
Improving Enterprises,
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Phil Wheat Singularity
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Through the Looking
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Daniel Posada and Ryan
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Brian Sullivan Improving
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Stop guessing and finally
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Justin Self Improving
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Minimalist's Guide to
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Alper Sunar Paylocity
The Consumer Cloud
Valentino & Anthony
{Tex} Moreign Houston
Cloud Computing User
Group
Building Great Teams:
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Jane Prusakova
Improving Enterprises
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Buy Me A Beer
Kevin Moormann
Pariveda Solutions
Foundations of a Modern
IDE
Breandan Considine Jet
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Beyond Removing
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Master as Team Coach
Cherie Silas and Allison
Pollard Improving
Enterprises
End User Driven Career
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Laquitta DeMerchant
Fuzion Apps, Inc.
Deep Dive into 802.11ac
David Black Insource
Technology
2:10 - 3:10
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Use Your Web Skills to
Build Games
Ryan Joy Microsoft
Introduction to Swift
Mohammad Azam
Blinds.com
Web Development for
absolute Beginners
Md khan nielsen
Scaling mobile
applications with Azure
and Xamarin
Andrew Strickland
Sparkhound
Building Scalable
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Cloud Services and
Service Bus
Michael Kacher
Bringing Data
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Enterprise
Andrew Bose / Scott
Walker Pariveda
Solutions / Stewart Title
Mirroring Start to Finish
Ryan Adams Verizon
Release your inner code
Ninja
Devlin Liles Improving
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Visualizing Agile Metrics
Ryan Marsh Improving
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Mastering your Resume &
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Christine Assaf Waste
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Talk to me – How to use
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Jarvis
Phil Wheat Singularity
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Developing for Google
Glass with
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Michael Heydt SunGard
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Seth Valdetero
Sparkhound
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for the IT PRO?
Matt Hester Microsoft
The Gamer Cloud
Valentino {Tex} Moreign
Houston Cloud
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Agile Product Delivery in
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Allen Hurst Improving
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AlwaysOn Live
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Ryan Adams Verizon
Logging for the Next
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Shawn Weisfeld
UserGroup.tv
What Is This Thing Called
Agile Really About and
Why Should I Care?
Jo Hollen VersionOne
Career Technical
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Sammy Larbi
Introduction to CODE
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Markus Egger CODE
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JavaScript Libraries that
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Going Parallel - An Intro
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Sean Kenney Wipro
The Business of Software
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PostDotNet Consulting
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Sean Kenney Wipro
What's New in ASP.NET
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Rob Vettor Microsoft
Handling Errors and Data
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Tim Mitchell Linchpin
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PostDotNet Consulting
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Rob Vettor Microsoft
Super-Productive XAML
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Markus Egger CODE
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Building Killer Single-
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Houston TechFest 2014
How to Grow a
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Kenny McGarvey
Making Multi-dimensional
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Robert Stewart TDECU
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