Neward & Associates is comprised of critically-acclaimed speakers that are Microsoft MVPs, INETA speakers, BEA Technical Directors with a history of speaking at both high-visibility industry events such as TechEd or JavaOne, as well as regional user group meetings. They are constantly involved with the shaping of the industry through organizations such as Java Community Process Expert Groups. Talks are given not just to educate, but with a style intended to entertain and enlighten.

Previous Events
INETA: GUMSNET (Montreal) | 2/7/2006 Another (always-welcome) visit to Montreal for Ted, this time to present on C# 3 and LINQ to the Montreal .NET and Architecture group. And then, somehow they found out it was his birthday and surprised him with cake, candles and red wine.... Wonder who told them? More information >> DevWeek 2006: Islington (London), UK | 2/20/2006 "Intro to WCF" (full-day tutorial), "Distributed .NET", "Concrete Services", "Extending System.Xml", "Core WCF Patterns", "Enterprise Fallacies", and "Hosting the HttpRuntime". More information >> SD West 2006: Santa Clara, CA | 3/13/2006 SD's annual event on the West Coast, a week of great stuff, particularly if you're a C++ wonk. Presenting "Effective Enterprise Java" and "Pragmatic XML Services" as half-day tutorials. More information >> TheServerSide Java Symposium: Las Vegas, NV | 3/23/2006 TheServerSide.com's soiree in Vegas. Ted is moderating the "Future of Enterprise Java" panel (which promises to be interesting, particularly if you remember 2004's rendition of the same) and has been asked to sit on another panel, this one on security. He's also giving the "Messaging" presentation on Friday. More information >> patterns & practices Summit: Boston | 3/28/2006 Quickly becoming a must-see event in the .NET space, Ted will be presenting "Core WCF Patterns" to the crowd in Boston, and looks forward to hanging out with the other p&p'ers, old and new. More information >> INETA: Victoria .NET User Group | 4/4/2006 Ah, Victoria, BC. Just a few hours north of Ted, and yet, this trip to the Victoria .NET User's Group to present "something on Web services" will be his first. Calling all Victoria, BC natives: where's a good place to catch a burger after the meeting? More information >> ROOTS 2006: Bergen, Norway | 4/26/2006 Bergen, Norway's software conference extraordinaire--check out this year's game development track, which promises to be interesting (and possibly more relevant than you might think). Ted will be presenting "Pragmatic XML Services" there, among others. More information >> Rocky Mountain Software Symposium | 5/7/2006 Ted resumes his presence on the NFJS tour in Denver, doing "Java5", "Pragmatic XML Services", and "Extend the Customization Possibilities of your Java app with Scripts", along with some different material from "Effective Enterprise Java". He's also particularly looking forward to moderating and/or sitting on the panels again, as that's ALWAYS a mind-opening experience. More information >> DevTeach 2006: Montreal | 5/8/2006 Always a fun event, the DevTeach 2006 show offers a unique mix of FoxPro, SQL Server and .NET content, delivered in both French and English, as only the Quebecois can deliver. Ted will be delivering his Indigo and Workflow presentations, among others. More information >> SDC 2006 | 5/15/2006 Ted's presentations at last year's SDC show were heavily Indigo-themed; this year, it's some different content, as Ted and Cathi deliver their "Pragmatic Architecture" talks, but the same gorgeous locale as last year: the Papendal Olympic Training Center. Central Florida Software Symposium | 6/2/2006 No Fluff Just Stuff comes to Orlando, FL. Mickey Mouse is rumored to be giving the keynote. Or is it Jason Hunter? I can never tell the difference.... ;-) More information >> Research Triangle Software Symposium | 6/9/2006 No Fluff Just Stuff comes to Raleigh, NC. Should be fun, as this is the stomping grounds for Messrs Halloway and Gehtland, and they're always excellent hosts.... More information >> Microsoft TechEd 2006 | 6/12/2006 It's TechEd. 'Nuff said. Ted and Cathi will be delivering their "Pragmatic Architecture" session here, and otherwise enjoying Boston in the summer. Salt Lake Software Symposium | 6/16/2006 No Fluff Just Stuff comes to Salt Lake City, UT. Last year, the speaker shindig was split between Chez Galbraith and Ted's folks' place... and everybody had a great time. (Never knew Jessica Galbraith was such a good Hold-Em shark....) More information >> Lone Star Software Symposium: Austin | 7/7/2006 No Fluff Just Stuff comes to Austin, TX, home of Sixth Street and beach volleyball. (Don't ask me, this is what an Austin native told me.) More information >> db4objects 1st User Conference | 7/11/2006 db4objects, the people that bring you db4o, are holding their first user conference in London, and have asked me to come and present on the use of db4o (and object data storage mechanisms in general) in software systems. Gotta love it when you can talk about what you love in a city that fascinates you to begin with.... Cheers, mates! More information >> Central Iowa Software Symposium | 7/21/2006 No Fluff Just Stuff comes to Iowa, home of cornfields, and... more cornfields. More information >> Desert Southwest Software Symposium | 7/28/2006 No Fluff Just Stuff comes to Phoenix, AZ, home of sand, sand and more sand. (Phoenix, in July?!? What were they THINKING?) More information >> New York Software Symposium | 8/18/2006 No Fluff Just Stuff, in the New York/New Jersey area. More information >> Pacific Northwest Software Symposium | 9/15/2006 No Fluff Just Stuff on my home turf of Seattle. Redmond, to be specific--about ten minutes from the Microsoft campus. More information >> SD: Best Practices | 9/14/2006 What used to be called SD East is now SD Best Practices, and at this show Ted will be giving two presentations, one on using .NET and Java together constructively, and the other on db4o (www.db4objects.com), an open-source object database library/server. More information >> Western Canada Java Software Symposium | 9/22/2006 No Fluff Just Stuff in Western Canada. More information >> New England Software Symposium | 9/29/2006 No Fluff Just Stuff in Boston. This show will be a good one, since this is about the time that the speakers start shuffling up their presentations and doing some different things for the rest of the year. More information >> JAOO | 10/1/2006 JAOO is one of Europe's premier cross-technology events, and Ted has the distinct honor and privilege of not only speaking there, in beautiful Aarhus, Denmark, but also of being the tech chair of the Enterprise .NET track. He'll be doing two presentations there, one on .NET/Java togetherness, and the other on db4o. More information >> DevReach | 10/1/2006 DevReach is a new conference, starting up in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Ted's honored to have been invited as one of the speakers at this premiere event. Cathi and Ted will be doing Pragmatic Architecture there, and they've asked Ted to do Pragmatic XML Services and Essential .NET, as well. More information >> Hawaii .NET User's Group | 10/17/2006 Hawaii has a .NET User's Group, and they asked me to come out and speak there. As you might imagine, this wasn't a hard decision to make.... More information >> Greater Toronto Software Symposium | 10/20/2006 No Fluff Just Stuff in Toronto. More information >> San Jose Software Interest Group | 10/25/2006 The San Jose SIG had an opening, and chose to fill it with me speaking on managing state and the difficulties of doing so when using objects and relational data. Lone Star Software Symposium | 10/27/2006 No Fluff Just Stuff in Dallas, home of oil and sand and oil tycoons and a 70's soap opera. More information >> Rocky Mountain Software Symposium | 5/4/2007 No Fluff Just Stuff in Denver. More information >> JavaOne 2007 | 5/8/2007 JavaOne, where Ted will be speaking on Java and .NET integration on Friday morning. More information >> DevTeach 2007 | 5/18/2007 DevTeach 2007, Ted's fifth year running at this show in Montreal More information >> South Florida Software Symposium | 5/18/2007 No Fluff Just Stuff in Miami, where we're hoping to avoid the crew of CSI:Miami. (If not, just a hint--if it involves fire, Venkat did it!) More information >> Greater Oklahoma Software Symposium | 6/1/2007 No Fluff Just Stuff in... "Greater" Oklahoma? There's a "Lesser" Oklahoma? More information >> TechEd 2007 | 6/4/2007 TechEd 2007, Microsoft's premier technical show, in Orlando (*sigh* in June) this year. More information >> Central Ohio Software Symposium | 6/8/2007 No Fluff Just Stuff in Columbus, Ohio. More information >> Jazoon 2007 | 6/25/2007 Ted will be giving the "Why the Next Five Years Will Be About Languages" in Zurich More information >> TheServerSide Java Symposium, Europe | 6/27/2007 TheServerSide's Java Symposium, in beautiful Barcelona, Spain. More information >> Lone Star Software Symposium | 6/29/2007 No Fluff Just Stuff in Austin, Texas, y'all. Yee-haw! More information >> Seattle Code Camp 2008 | 1/26/2008 Seattle Code Camp, 3.0 (2008) edition, held in Redmond, WA, about ten minutes from Ted's house. Presentations: informal discussions of F# and Scala. More information >> NFJS: Milwaukee | 2/29/2008 The NFJS tour kicks off in Milwaukee, home of beer, snow, and... uh... more snow. Presentations: the Busy Java Developer's Guide to Hacking the JDK, among others. More information >> SDWest 2008 | 3/4/2008 The SD show in San Jose, 2008 edition. San Jose in March means sunny and 70 pretty much the whole week. It's almost a shame to be indoors the whole time, but if you're a C++ dev, or if you're interested in more than just the platform you work on, this is your show. Presentations: Busy .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Workflow (half-day tutorial), Busy .NET Developer's Guide to Microsoft Research, and the Busy .NET Developer's Guide to Rules and Rules Engines More information >> NFJS: St Louis | 3/7/2008 The NFJS tour comes to St Louis, home of this Really Big Arch-like Thing. Presentations: the Busy Java Developer's Guide to Hacking the JDK, among others. More information >> QCon London 2008 | 3/12/2008 The twice-annual collaboration of InfoQ and JAOO, in London. Presentations: the Busy .NET Developer's Guide to F# and the Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala. More information >> NFJS: Minneapolis | 3/14/2008 The NFJS tour comes to Minneapolis, home of the Northwest Airlines hub, which is important because Ted's coming straight from London to Minneapolis to do his talks there. It'll be a fun 72 hours. More information >> TheServerSide.com Java Symposium 2008 | 3/26/2008 TheServerSide.com holds its annual Java get-together in Las Vegas, where hordes of drunken Java developers will descend to listen to presentations by hordes of drunken presenters and open-source project committers. Presentations: the Busy Java Developer's Guide to Scala, and a joint presentation on REST and SOAP with Brian Sletten. More information >> NFJS: Boston | 4/4/2008 The NFJS tour descends upon Boston, where the sting of the Patriots' loss to the Giants in the 2007-2008 Super Bowl. Presentations: the Busy Java Developer's Guide to Performance and Scalability. More information >> NFJS: Portland or NFJS: San Jose | 4/11/2008 NFJS does the first of its "split-city dates", running shows in both Portland and San Jose simultaneously. Take your pick, either city is beautiful this time of year. Presentations: the Busy Java Developer's Guide to Concurrency, among others. More information >> NFJS: Omaha or NFJS: Chicago | 4/18/2008 NFJS next heads to Omaha and Chicago, where the speakers will debate long and strenuously over which city has the better steak. Presentations: the Busy Java Developer's Guide to Debugging, among others. More information >> JAX 2008 | 4/21/2008 The JAX conference, always a favorite of Neal Ford's, invited Ted to speak there (Wiesbaden, Germany) this year, and he couldn't accept quickly enough. Presentations: TBD. More information >> NFJS: Reston (VA) | 4/25/2008 NFJS comes to Reston, VA, just outside of our nation's capital, one of three Reston shows this year. Presentations: the Busy Java Developer's Guide to Hacking the JDK, among others. More information >>