Cities I have spoken in:
Amman -=- Amsterdam -=- Antalya -=- Arnhem -=- Bangkok -=- Barcelona -=- Beirut -=- Boston -=- Brussels -=- Budapest -=- Buenos Aires -=- Cairo -=- Cambridge (UK) -=- Colombo -=- Copenhagen -=- Dammam -=- Denver -=- Doha -=- Dubai -=- Dublin -=- Eindhoven -=- Frankfurt -=- Halifax -=- Helsinki -=- Houston -=- Istanbul -=- Islamabad -=- Jeddah -=- Karachi -=- Khobar -=- Knoxville -=- Kuala Lumpur -=- Kuwait City -=- Lahore -=- Limassol -=- Lisbon -=- London -=- Long Beach -=- Los Angeles -=- Manama -=- Melbourne -=- Milan -=- Moscow -=- Muscat -=- Nairobi -=- Nashville -=- Nicosia -=- Oslo -=- Philadelphia -=- Phoenix -=- Port Louis (Mauritius) -=- Portland -=- Riyadh -=- San Jose -=- Seattle -=- St. Petersburg (Russia) -=- Singapore -=- Sofia -=- Stockholm -=- Toronto -=- Valetta (Malta) -=- Vancouver -=- Warsaw -=- Washington DC -=- Zurich

See what attendees
and organizers say:

"What a show! Good speaker, good session, totally enjoyable."
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TechEd Asia

"If you are looking for a brilliant speaker for a conference, consider Kudzu. As you might know, I make very few endorsements of that sort. .... The good news is that he'll be an independent speaker and if you run a conference or a user group anywhere in EMEA, you should really consider have him come over and talk."
Clemens Vasters
WCF Program Manager
Microsoft

"Chad Hower's a hoot! Never did I think that an hour and a quarter session on localization would have me on the edge of my seat like this season's summer blockbuster."
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"Wow-Very very professional."

"We could not have delivered the First Dev.Conference (Geek Event) in Gulf without his input to planning and excellent delivery which has had very positive effects on our perception and engagement with the developer community in the region.
Many many thanks."
Vimal Sethi
DPE Lead
Microsoft Gulf

"An excellent presentation and a good overview of the technology. I'm not 100% convinced of it's application but really impressed with the presenter. Well Done and thanks :-)"
TechEd Europe Feedback Form

"The presenter was really funny and it was very entertaining."

"Good session. Great speaker.... good look into the future as well as pragmatic review of current stuff."
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TechEd US

"Kudzu was really amazing and made almost every one in the room to fall off his/her chair, he knows his stuff, but he also does it with passion and laughter. Thank you, thank you and thank you Kudzu for your support to MS Kuwait, and hope to have you back in the near future."
Omar Draghmeh
EPG Manager
Microsoft Kuwait

"Inspiring"
TechEd Europe Feedback Form

"This is for me the best session I have attended; technically accurate, hot topic and the presenter knows and uses the power of humor to educate on the subject."

"This guy is great and the contents is incredible."

"Kudzu was presenting at our WebDevCon conference in Moscow, also I saw him presenting at various events before and I always was delighted by his style of presenting and being in contact with the audience. I can say for sure – Kudzu is one of those speakers whom you can learn from."
Alexander Lozhechkin
Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Russia

"Very good speaker! Was overtime but we didn't care!"

"The best session in the event till now."
TechEd Developers Europe
Hossam AlFraih (SaudiGeek.NET)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

"Kudzu excelled in presentation, educational and technical skills while 'performing' during Developer & IT Pro Days 2006 in Belgium."
Tom Mertens
Audience Marketing Manager
Microsoft Belgium

"Very good entertaining speaker. Great topic about user-friendly interfaces and user-experience."

"Kudzu has a laid-back and comfortable way of presenting topics, he has the ability to lure knowledge into us, in a both entertaining and efficient way. He also has the ability to make the audience participants, not only spectators. By looking at things from new viewpoints - Kudzu is a master here, you start to think in a new way. His sessions become a trip in Aha!-land, an exciting trip."
Ingvar Nilsen
Oslo Delphi Day

"Wish he had more time for another session, excellent!"

"Best speaker of the 2 days for me. This man can fill a whole day without falling asleep or losing the public's attention."
Attendee Feedback Form
Belgium Developer Days

"If you look beyond the jokes you will find a deeply knowledgeable individual who is always willing to help the community. Kudzu manages to excide the crowds not only by jokes but by deep knowledge and hands-on experience on the topics he delivers!"
Evangelos Hadjichristodoulou
BizTalk MVP

"Chad is a very very funny and brilliant guy; he has amazing presentation skills with a cool sense of humor."
Ahmed Mahdy
Microsoft TechNet Forums - Global Moderator
Egyptian Developers Conference

Abstracts Archive

Sessions are moved to the archive because they cover products which have been replaced with newer versions, or they sessions need work to be updated to the current releases. Archived sessions are available on request.

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Architecture: High Performance Computing (HPC)

What does HPC mean? Are mainframes or super computers coming back? How can HPC be useful to me in my business? How cost effective is HPC? What types of problems can HPC solve? Who is using HPC? What are the leading HPC options? This session will discuss these questions and more from a high level. This is not a developer level session, but instead focuses on decision makers and business group owners.  More...


Delphi: Constructors and Destructors in Delphi.NET

Because of non deterministic destruction in .net, constructors and destructors often act quite differently in Delphi under .NET. Changes to the behaviour of constructors in Delphi for . NET are often subtle and transparent. But in many cases, especially with destructors, these changes drastically change how code functions and introduce hard to find bugs. This session will cover the changes, and common problems caused by the changes. It will also cover how to solve the problems introduced by the changes.   More...


Delphi: Using .NET 3.0

The upcoming release of Delphi supports .NET 2.0. .NET 3.0 is actually just .NET 2.0 plus new libraries for WPF, WCF, CardSpace, and WorkFlow. So if .NET 3.0 is just 2.0 plus new libraries, does this mean Delphi will be able to use these new libraries? The answer is mostly yes, but for some of these the devil is in the details. In this session I will cover what the possibilities are for Delphi users with .NET 3.0.  More...


Indy: Various Topics

I have well over a dozen Indy topics. If you are interested in Indy sessions, please contact me.  More...


.NET: Silverlight

Silverlight is a cross platform runtime enabling a subset of WPF (XAML) to reach beyond just Windows. With Silverlight you can build rich, interactive experiences that run in major web browsers on multiple platforms as well as on mobile devices. The combination of Silverlight and WPF will enable designers and developers to have a consistent development experience across smart clients, Web-based applications, and mobile devices. This session demonstrates the Silverlight feature set, targeted platforms and browsers, and the developer experience.  More...


.NET: Visual Studio 2005 - What's new?

Visual Studio 2005 includes many new features including generics, better data binding, and more.  More...


.NET: VSTS - Visual Studio Team System

Learn how Visual Studio 2005 Team System enables you to drive predictability, visibility, and control into your software development process.  More...


Office: Office Business Applications (OBA)

What is an OBA? Why should you build OBA's? And lastly, how can you build OBA's? This session will discuss these questions and answers and provide starting points on building your own OBA's. The session is part overview, and leading into code in the latter half.  More...


Process: Seldonian Predictions: Could we, can we, should we?

In Asimov's Foundation series the fictional character Hari Seldon devices psychohistory, a massive mathematical model to predict the future on a granular scale. His predictions have political ramifications immediately and also cause existing predictions to be affected. If enough computing power and mathematics were available, would this be where we are headed? Realistically and pragmatically how much computing power is available today? What type of research and development can be done independently using readily available hardware? Can existing end of day or end of week processes be sped up to be real time or near real time?  More...


SQL: SQL Server 2005 Editions and Licensing

SQL Server 2005 introduces many new versions: Compact, Express, Standard, Workgroup, Developer, and Enterprise. What are the differences? Which one do you need? How much will it cost you? And what configurations can be used to minimize your cost? This session focuses mostly on feature comparisons and scenarios enabling you to properly choose which versions suit your needs. Finally it will touch briefly on licensing of each.  More...


SQL: SQL Server 2005 vs Oracle 10g

How do the latest versions of each database match up? What features are unique to each? Where does each one excel? This session does not aim to convince you which database is better, but instead merely gives you a view to how the latest versions from each vendor match up while highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each.  More...


SQL: SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition

SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (CE) is the next version of SQL Server Mobile. It contains many new features, but the most notable is that it can run on Windows. SQL Server CE provides easier deployment than SQL or SQL Express editions, yet the many of the same features used by desktop applications. Learn about the new features as well as when to best use SQL CE in this session.  More...


SQL: SQL Server 2005 Express

SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is a free version of SQL Server. But what exactly can it do? Is it crippleware? Does it require lots of disk space and memory? How easy is it to deploy? What features and limitations does it have? What scenarios is it good for? What is the difference from SQL Server Enterprise, Workgroup, etc? How does it compare to other free databases? Learn the answer to these questions and more in this session.  More...


SQL: SQL Server for Oracle Users

Are you involved in adding SQL Server into the mix with Oracle? Or maybe you are involved in a porting of applications from Oracle to SQL Server? SQL Server 2005 offers many new unique capabilities that make it especially appealing. This session is not a comparison, but instead is a crash course in SQL Server 2005 for Oracle users to help them find their way. I know how to do this in Oracle, but how do I do it in SQL Server? I know the same concept is in SQL Server, but what is it called? I did it this way in Oracle, but it does not work that well in SQL Server? What features in SQL Server that are not available in Oracle might be of special interest? This session answers these questions and more.  More...


SQL: Using SQL Server 2005 with Oracle

Many companies already have a mix of Oracle and SQL Server. Often Oracle is the "big iron" but SQL Server has been brought in on smaller projects and grows in use. At some point the two usually have to work together to share data. In yet other cases, SQL Server is brought in for specific features and can even be used to augment Oracle's functionality, especially in .NET shops. This session demonstrates how to make the two databases most effectively interact with each other. In addition it demonstrates effective techniques to use SQL Server 2005 to augment an existing Oracle database bringing with it the features of SQL Server such as reporting services, SQLCLR, and more.  More...