Conchango is considerately (though unexpectedly) sending me to DevWeek (http://www.devweek.com/) next week. I'll try to give feedback on the event and on sessions that I attend. Looking at the agenda, the top topics seem to be WPF in desktop and Silverlight flavours, ASP.Net with AJAX, WCF, patterns and testing.
I've never been to a devweek before, and I'm quite pleased to go. But I have been to several DeveloperDay (http://www.developerday.co.uk/) events, I like them. The information density is high, so maybe by the end of a whole week like that my brain will be reeling.
DeveloperDay is a great community event: it’s free for attendees, presenters are not paid, and the topics presented are driven by the developer community with calls for presentation and agenda voting. The venue and facilities (but not the presenters) are provided for free by Microsoft in Reading. But in some ways DeveloperDay is a victim of its own success – the venue has a finite capacity, and the event is fully booked very rapidly, with many of the places going to the same keen people each time.
Increasing the capacity of DeveloperDay would probably mean rethinking the whole thing – using a different, larger venue would not be free, so the attendees would have to pay for it, so the speakers would have to be chosen as drawcards, etc. That sounds more like devweek, and the community feeling of DeveloperDay is fine like it is. Developer day is instead branching out with regional events like http://www.developerdayscotland.com/ and http://www.dddireland.com/
Devweek looks interesting, and I'll try to report back; but with five tracks it's probable that I will miss whichever session you really wanted to hear about. I'm already torn between several of them.