--- title: "Speaker Idol @ TechEd: Developers" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/8/16/speaker-idol-teched-developers.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/8/16/speaker-idol-teched-developers.html" published: "2006-08-16T15:50:00" updated: "2006-08-16T15:50:00" tags: ["Community News"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Got this in the email - thought some of you might be interested! Speaker Idol @ Tech·Ed: Developers 7 - 10 November, Barcelona, Spain Take to the Speaker Idol stage, demonstrate your exceptional presentation skills and…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Speaker Idol @ TechEd: Developers By Roy Osherove August 16, 2006 In [Community News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community-news) **Historical article** · Originally published August 16, 2006; technical details may be outdated. Got this in the email - thought some of you might be interested! **Speaker Idol @ Tech·Ed: Developers 7 - 10 November, Barcelona, Spain** Take to the Speaker Idol stage, demonstrate your exceptional presentation skills and become the rock star presenter of the future! Microsoft is searching for talented presenters who can talk-the-talk, grab the attention of the developer community and connect with them as only developers can.  Is that you? Enter this year’s Speaker Idol contest and you stand to win the opportunity of presenting a technical breakout session at TechEd: Developers 2007. And if that’s not enough, two runners-up will also win a free ticket each to attend TechEd: Developers 2007. See the Web site for more details - [www.microsoft.com/europe/teched-developers/](http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched-developers/) ## More in Community News [All posts in Community News](https://osherove.com/blog/category/community-news) - Sep 6, 2006 ### [Neglecting Israeli MVPS, and INETA MEA is worthless](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/9/6/neglecting-israeli-mvps-and-ineta-mea-is-worthless.html) - Sep 6, 2006 ### [Influence the next Microsoft Israel Conference](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/9/6/influence-the-next-microsoft-israel-conference.html) - Aug 10, 2006 ### [Regulazy 1.01 is available for download](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/8/10/regulazy-101-is-available-for-download.html) - Jul 21, 2006 ### [Microsoft's SharePoint treats FireFox as 2nd class citizen](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/7/21/microsofts-sharepoint-treats-firefox-as-2nd-class-citizen.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/