Windows 8 offers unparalleled new opportunities for application developers to build and sell apps world-wide via the Windows Store. The 1 day event packed with developer sessions and demos will focus on giving you a taste for what Windows 8 is and how you can create the apps that are a critical part of the user's experience.

During the day will hear from the global head of Windows 8 developer evangelism Drew Robbins, Windows 8 expert Josh Holmes and a host of Irish developers who have been building Windows 8 apps. More speakers will be added closer to the date. Visit the Windows 8 developer day site.

The Windows Azure Jump Start video series is for all architects and developers interested in designing, developing and delivering cloud-based applications leveraging the Windows Azure Platform. The overall target of this course is to help development teams make the right decisions with regard to cloud technology, the Azure environment and application lifecycle, Storage options, Diagnostics, Security and Scalability. The course is based on the Windows Azure Platform Training Course and taught by Microsoft Press authors, Manu Cohen-Yashar and David S. Platt.

The Windows Phone 7 Jump Start video training is for all developers interested in developing applications or games for the new Windows Phone 7 Platform. The ~14 ½ hour course (broken into 19 sessions) is based on the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Developer Training Kit and taught by Microsoft MVP's and Microsoft Press Authors, Andy Wigley and Rob S. Miles. The Designing for Windows Phone 7 session is taught my Microsoft Design experts, Jon Harris and Bryan Agnetta. The training is wrapped up with an audio podcast with a panel of Microsoft experts answering the questions posed throughout the training.

Evening diving into how web development is evolving on the Microsoft Web Platform. We’ll start with an overview of the entire platform and the recent flood of announcements. Also discussed are individual topics of the new ASP.NET Razor syntax, ASP.NET MVC3 and PHP on Windows.

Amongst the speakers are Josh Holmes, the brand new Architect Evangelist for Ireland, and Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters which is the non-profit that takes care of Joomla!.