"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 Events

Past Events

2010
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