Despite the success of last year's event, many DevReach attendees noted one thing that was not done right - we did not provide an idea of the technical level of the sessions and as a result people that expected introductory material got blown away with highly technical content and, vice versa, people who wanted advanced content had to deal with introductory material.
This year, we will provide a Level for each session in the schedule and you will be able to choose the ones that reflect best your needs. We have used the following session descriptions as a base (courtesy of MSDN Events):
Level 100 - The technical level of introductory and overview material. Assumes little or no expertise with topic and covers topic concepts, functions, features, benefits.
Level 200 - The technical level of intermediate material. Assumes 100 level knowledge and provides specific drill down into topic.
Level 300 - The technical level of advanced material. Assumes 200-level knowledge and in-depth understanding of features in a real-world environment and strong coding skills. Provides a detailed technical overview of a subset of product/technology features, covering architecture, performance, migration, deployment, and development.
Level 400 - The technical level of expert material. Assumes a deep level of technical knowledge and experience and a detailed, thorough understanding of topic. Provides expert-to-expert interaction and coverage of specialized topics.
Our overall goal for DevReach 2007 is to minimize the number of Level 100 and Level 200 sessions, have a bunch of Level 400 sessions and focus mostly on Level 300 content as last year it had the best attendance and received highest scores.