Sun is targeting 13 cities in 2008/2009 for its global Tech Days conferences, which are like mini-JavaOne events, around the globe (see announcement at: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-09/sunflash.20080917.1.xml).

Here are the cities and dates:

-Sao Paulo, Brazil: September 29-October 1, 2008

-Seoul, South Korea: October 15-17, 2008

-Taipei, Taiwan: November 17, 2008

-Guangzhou, China: November 19, 2008

-Beijing, China: November 21-23, 2008

-Tokyo, Japan: December 2-4, 2008

-Singapore, Singapore: January 20-22, 2009

-New York, United States: February 6-7, 2009

-Hyderabad, India: February 18-20, 2009

-London, United Kingdom: March 25-27, 2009

-Madrid, Spain: March 31-April 2, 2009

-St. Petersburg, Russia: April 8-10, 2009

-Tel Aviv, Israel: May 5-7, 2009

There's only one stop in the US: New York on February 6-7, 2009, location to be disclosed as the date approaches.

Each Tech Days event for 2008-2009 will be broken into four tracks:

- Java & Social Computing: Innovations on the Java platform and social networking technology.

- MySQL & Productivity: Web 2.0 development leveraging Sun's MySQL database, and productivity technology.

- OpenSolaris: Solaris innovations and application development for the IPS repository.

- HOL: Hands on development with sessions on social computing, MySQL database, JavaFX, OpenSolaris, NetBeans IDE and others.

The Tech Days program will also include:

- Demo Showcase: Six demos highlighting JavaFX, mashups, social computing, OpenSolaris, PHP/NetBeans and cloud computing.

- Lighting Talks: Content organized and delivered by community speakers around the different track topics.

http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/index.jsp

 

-EJB