Joe Rubino

Well it is the day after the 6th Annual Financial Services Developer Conference, and looking back over the past 2 days all I can say is "WOW!"  The conference was a tremendous success.  We had over 1000 registered attendees, 39 sessions, 2 cocktail receptions, an award ceremony, a Microsoft Sync equipped Lincoln MKZ on the conference floor and a ton of giveaways.  The attendee excitement was high and the conference floors were abuzz the whole time.

Where else can you go to hear sessions from the Microsoft Product teams who create our products, the Partners that add value to our products and the customers who use our products.  All focused on Financial Services.  This conference is the don't miss conference for anyone who wants to know more about Microsoft in Financial Services.  And it is free to attend!

A couple of items work mentioning:

• All the slide decks for the session will be posted on www.financialdevelopers.com in the coming weeks.  Keep your eyes open for them.
  
• At the Keynote session, we demonstrated the Silverlight Retail Financial Services Demonstrator.  This application can be found here: http://www.cookingwithxaml.com/meals/financials/default.html and all the source to it can be found here: http://www.financialdevelopers.com/assets/SilverlightinFinancialsDemonostratorSource.zip.  This demo was extremely well received and we are hoping you will use the ideas from it as well as the source to implement your own Silverlight application.

Thank you to all of you who attended the conference.  Thank you to everyone who attended Kumar Vadaparty's and mine standing room only session on WCF and WF in Financial Services.

Stay tuned to my blog to find about next years conference and see you there!  You won't want to miss it!