Jason Bryner, left, Interactive Development Manager at Southern Adventist University, talks with Jonathan Sampson of appendTo at the devLink Technical Conference at the Chattanooga Convention Center Wednesday. The three-day conference was organized to educate IT professionals on current and emerging technologies, to improve the software development community by providing quality content from industry leaders and to provide networking opportunities to build peer groups beyond just co-workers and technology disciplines.Every technology conference has its own flavor. Some are spicy, focusing on brand new applications. Others work like a five-course meal, delving deep into a single topic.
The DevLink Technical Conference is a buffet, a smorgasboard of tech topics that’s pulling around 900 developers to the Chattanooga Convention Center this week.
“We’re just talking geek stuff,” said speaker Matt Winkler, a program manager at Microsoft.
The three-day conference is marking its third year in Chattanooga with record attendance and more than 160 sessions. The variety of those sessions sets DevLink apart, said Kevin Grossnicklaus, president of ArchitectNow in St. Louis and a conference speaker.
“There are all kinds of different topics, from web development to mobile development, from Microsoft to other platforms,” he said. “There is a lot to go see.”