"Shy is a great presenter ... Definitely worth the price of admission!"
 
- Julie Lerman

Shy Cohen is an internationally acclaimed speaker, experienced in presenting to public and private audiences. Below is a list of some of his past and upcoming public presentations.

If you would like to have Shy speak at your conference or event, whether public or private, please contact us.

Upcoming Public Events

2014

To be announced ...

Past Public Events

2013
DevConnections 2013 DevConnections
Las Vegas, NV, USA - 20 September - 4 October 2013
  • Grokking Caching
  • Get more Bang for Your Windows Azure Buck!

2012
Seattle Code Camp, 2012
Redmond, WA, USA - 16 June 2012
  • The Cloud and Your Organization
TechEd US 2012
Orlando, FL, USA - 11-14 June 2012
  • AppFabric Caching: How It Works and When You Should Use It
ConnectivityWeek 2012
Santa Clara, CA, USA - 22-24 May 2012
  • Cloud Track Lead
  • Speaker: Cloud Computing Landscape
  • Moderator: Harnessing the Power of the Cloud for Use in Energy Systems
  • Moderator: Energy Information Cloud Applications
Tech Fuse 2012
Minneapolis, MN, USA - 16-17 May 2012
  • Keynote Speaker: The Cloud Landscape
  • Speaker: The Architect
CloudFair
Seattle, WA, USA - 17 April 2012
  • The Cloud and Your Organization
CloudCamp Seattle at CloudFair
Seattle, WA, USA - 17 April 2012
  • Co-organizer
  • Lightning Talk: The Cloud and Your Organization
  • Un-Panel Moderator
DevConnections
Las Vegas, NV, USA - 26-29 March 2012
  • AppFabric Caching: How It Works and When You Should Use It
  • The Cloud and Your Organization
  • Mastering NoSQL with Azure Table Storage
  • Cloud Computing: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (Panel)

2011
TechEd Africa
Durban, South Africa - 17-20 October 2011
  • Windows Azure Guidance - Part 1+ 2
  • AppFabric Caching: How It Works and When You Should Use It
Enterprise CloudCamp Seattle
Seattle, WA, USA - 16 June 2011
  • Co-organizer, Un-Panel Member
Norwegian Developers Conference
Oslo, Norway - 8-10 June 2011
  • Cloud computing Guidance (video)
TechEd North America
Atlanta, GA, USA - 16-19 May 2011
TechEd Middle East
Dubai, UAE - 8-10 March 2011
  • Seeing Patterns in the Clouds: Architectural Patterns for Cloud Computing
  • Implementing Parallel Design Patterns with the Task Parallel Library
  • What can .NET 4 do for me? 16 Reasons to Adopt and Leverage .NET 4
  • Meet the Visual Studio Team

2010
TechEd Israel
Eilat, Israel - 28-30 November 2010
  • Windows Azure Guidance (presentation and slides: part 1 and part 2 - starts in Hebrew and continues in English)
  • Why migrate to .NET 4? (slides)
TechEd South Africa
Durban, South Africa - 17-20 October 2010
  • Assisting with a few sessions & fielding attendee questions.
TechEd North America
New Orleans, LA, USA - 7-10 June 2010
Seattle CodeCamp
Redmond, WA, USA - 17 April 2010
  • Co-organizer - Cloud Track
DevConnections
Las Vegas, NV, USA - 12-14 April 2010
  • Visual Studio 2010 Launch Staff
CloudCamp Seattle
Seattle, WA, USA - 3 February 2010
  • Co-organizer

2009
PDC 2009
Los Angeles, CA, USA - 16-19 November 2009
  • SharePoint booth staff, focusing on SharePoint development using Visual Studio 2010
Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2009
Berlin, Germany - 9-13 November 2009
  • There's a Cloud in your Toolbox! - The Why and How of Leveraging Azure Assets in New and Existing Solutions
Microsoft Tech•Ed North America 2009
Los Angeles, CA, USA - 11-15 May 2009
DSL Developers Conference
Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA, USA - 16-17 April 2009
  • Absorbing some DSL goodness :) Look for me there!
MIX09
Las Vegas, NV, USA - 18–20 March 2009
  • Absorbing some MIX goodness :) Look for me there!
Belgian TechDays 2009
Antwerp, Belgium - 09-13 March 2009
  • Lap Around "Oslo" (video)
  • "Oslo" - Your Passport to a Career in Modeling! (video)
  • (slides for both)

2008

TechEd South Africa
Durban, South Africa - 03-06 August 2008

  • Software plus Services
  • Effective Schema Design
  • BizTalk Futures Chalk & Talk (with Paul Somers)
  • WCF Best Practices Chalk & Talk (with Ron Jacobs)

TechEd US 2008 Developers
Orlando, FL, USA - 03-06 June 2008

  • A Practical Guide to Doing the Software-Plus-Services Thing
TechEd Israel 2008
Eilat, Israel - 06-08 April 2008
  • Service Taxonomy: A Common Language for SOA, and More (slides, video (in Hebrew, streaming), video (in Hebrew, zipped) )
  • Making Your Phones Ring With Software + Services (with Tim Stevens - slides, video (in Hebrew, streaming), video (in Hebrew, zipped) )

2007
TechEd Europe Developers 2007
Barcelona, Spain - 05-09 November 2007
  • Exploring Event Driven Architectures
  • Service Taxonomy: A Common Language for SOA

Canadian Strategic Architect Forum
Vancouver, BC, Canada - April 18-20, 2007

  • Design Patterns for Event Driven Architectures
  • Service Taxonomy: Categorizing Services in a SOA

2006

TechEd Europe 2006
Barcelona, Spain - November 6–10, 2006

  • Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): Introduction (slides)
  • Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): Building Secure, Reliable and Transacted Distributed Services (slides)
  • Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): Managing WCF Services (slides)
  • Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): Best Practices (slides)
 

TechEd US 2006
Boston, MA, USA - June 11–16, 2006

  • (WinFX) Windows Communication Foundation: Building Reliable and Transacted Distributed Services
  • Service Oriented Design Patterns: Pub Sub (slides)
  • Introducing the Service Factory (with Don Smith from Microsoft's Patterns & Practices team)

TechEd Israel 2006
Eilat, Israel - May 9-11, 2006

  • Windows Communication Foundation Part 2 - Building Secure, Reliable and Transacted Services with WCF (slides)
  • Composing and Managing Data Flows in a Distributed Application (slides)
  • Ask the Experts (panelist)
  • ArcCast: Getting on the SOA bandwagon (show)
  • The Architecture Panel (panelist)

Israeli .NET Architects User Group
Ra'anana, Israel - April 20

  • Grokking SOA

Longhorn SDR
Bellevue, WA, USA - April 12, 2006

  • A Lap Around Windows Communication Foundation (slides) [This is a level 300 technical intro to WCF]

 

Canadian Strategic Architect Forum 2006
Redmond, WA, USA - April 2-6, 2006

  • SOA in the Real World (slides)
  • Windows Communication Foundation Reliable and Transacted Messaging (slides: same content as presented in VS Connections)

  • Dealing with Data in a Service Oriented World (roundtable discussion)

Visual Studio Connections, Spring 2006
Orlando, FL, USA - April 2-5, 2006 (link)

  • Microsoft Unplugged (panelist)

  • Windows Communications Foundation: Writing Reliable and Transacted Distributed Applications (link, slides)

2005

Patterns & Practices Summit (USA West) 2005
Redmond, WA, USA - December 13-15

  • Ask the Experts Panelist

PDC 2005
Los Angeles, CA, USA - September 13-16, 2006

  • Windows Communications Foundation ("Indigo"): Writing Reliable and Transacted Distributed Applications (slides)

TechEd 2005
Orlando, FL, USA - June 5-10, 2005

  • Troubleshooting Connected Systems on the .NET Framework (slides)

VS Live 2005
San Francisco, CA, USA - Feb 8, 2005

  • Building Reliable, Asynchronous Services with "Indigo"

Older
TechEd Israel 2004
Eilat, Israel - May 4-6 2004
  • An overview of "Indigo" for Developers

Internet Telephony 2000
Miami, FL and San Diego, CA, USA

  • Web Telephony Engine

JavaOne Israel 1996
Tel-Aviv, Israel

  • Microsoft's Java Technologies