We expect DevSummit 2016 to be the biggest best one yet. The ArcGIS platform and its tools and capabilities for developers are larger and more powerful than ever before. DevSummit is a great time for product developers and engineers at Esri to stop their work for a week and meet with you, demonstrate everything new that they built that you can use today, and give you the best “Road Ahead” previews for you as you plan your projects for the next year or two.

First, we’d like to re-announce that the Keynote Speaker this year is Douglas Crockford, the author of “JavaScript: The Good Parts” amongst many other publications, articles, and talks that he presents around the world. Learn more here and here.

If you want, show up a couple days early and take one of our two-day hands-on pre-DevSummit training workshops:

In addition to all the typical DevSummit activities, things like Speedgeeking, Lightning Talks, and of course our highly competitive world-famous Dodgeball tournament, the highlight of DevSummit is always the 200+ technical workshops that you can attend in order to see, learn, and put into your hands the latest GIS technology and developer tools from Esri.

Here is a highlight of the Top 20:

Latest Innovations from Esri’s Application Prototype Lab

Vector Tiles in the ArcGIS Platform

Building ArcGIS Apps for Apple Watch

Developing cross-platform native apps with AppStudio for ArcGIS (basic and advanced sessions)

Building Web Editing Applications

Accessing Your Enterprise Geodatabase using SQL and Python

ArcGIS API for JavaScript: Discovering v4.0, the Next Generation

Real-time GIS and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Koop: Using 3 rd -party Services within the ArcGIS Platform

Developing with ArcGIS Open Data

QML and JavaScript for Native App Development

Go Mobile with Xamarin, C#, and Visual Studio

Using TypeScript for Developing Web Applications with ArcGIS

Optimizing Your JavaScript App for Performance

Using Frameworks with the ArcGIS API for JavaScript

Deep Dive into How the Geometry Engine Can Help You Build Better Apps

Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS: Development Tools and Techniques

Overview of the ArcGIS Runtime Quartz API

Getting Started with the ArcGIS REST API and NodeJS

EmberJS: Using it with ArcGIS API for JavaScript

We hope you’re just as excited and looking forward to another successful DevSummit as we are. See you there!