Esri Developer Summit

Esri Developer Summit (DevSummit) is an annual gathering of GIS developers created by Esri president, Jack Dangermond. In 2006, Dangermond decided that, with the rapid evolution of geospatial and related technologies, an exclusive annual meeting of GIS developers could benefit the geospatial development community enormously. Fundamentally, the summit would be a venue for GIS software developers to discuss technological needs and learn first-hand from Esri development staff and peers one-on-one and in sessions.
History
The first Esri Developer Summit took place in summer 2006 in Palm Springs, California, and lasted 2 days. The initial format included a plenary session with a keynote speaker, dozens of sessions and tech talks from Esri staff, as well as announcements about new ArcGIS functionality and interoperability with related hardware and software. Most of the talks centered around mobile, web, and desktop deployment of ArcGIS. Esri expanded the duration of the summit to three days the following year, and attendance has steadily increased.
In 2009, Esri invited users to submit abstracts on their successful projects for presentation at the conference.
Since 2008, all Developer Summits have featured “developer challenges” for developers to showcase their skills in creating custom code and useful applications with Esri software.
Keynote Speakers
*2006 - Scott Morehouse, Esri director of Research and Development
*2007 - Mark Driver, Vice President and Research Director, Gartner Research
*2008 - Mark Cooper, Founder, Cooper Industries
*2009 - David Chappell, Chappell and Associates
*2010 - David Chappell, Chappell and Associates
*2011 - Michael King, research Director, Gartner Research
*2012 - Steve Riley, Technical Leader, office of the CTO, Riverbed Technology

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