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Welcome to eBay Developers Conference 2009!
Posted by
Delyn Simons
in Developers Conference & Developer Community
Wednesday, Jun.17.2009, 2:10 AM PT
Welcome to eBay DevCon!
We're excited to be hosting our annual eBay Developers Conference at our headquarters in San Jose, California. It's definitely not your garden variety work day here on the eBay campus today. We've been busy preparing to be surrounded by hundreds of developers who've traveled from around the world for three days of learning, networking and inspiration, as well as to be among some of the most respected visionaries and venture capitalists in e-commerce. Not a bad day's work!
We're meeting in a tough economy this year. No news there. This economy also presents new opportunities for developers and entrepreneurs. The eBay API platform team wants you to walk away inspired by what lies ahead. We've planned a series of interactive feedback panels, sessions and workshops to allow you to tap the minds of eBay Inc. technologists and executives, as well as developers who have already built successful applications. We encourage you to challenge them with your questions and learn about their vision for the eBay Developers Program.
We are also looking forward to hearing about – and learning from – your collective thoughts regarding our current Developers Program. What's working and what isn't? Where would you like all of us and this program to be in the future?
Of course in these challenging economic times, not everybody who wanted to be here was able to join us for this event. We encourage you to stay in the action by following @ebaydevcon on Twitter (please tag your tweets with #ebaydevcon) or by checking out the eBay developer blog, which will include updates, photos, and video interviews about what's happening here at DevCon 2009
We never take for granted getting to personally meet so many people working with our eBay API platform, and to hear about the creative ways you're building your business. It is an opportunity and privilege we look forward to all year. We also know many of you have had to make difficult financial trade-offs in order to join us this year. Thank you for joining us.
Since the inception of this annual conference eight years ago, we at eBay have been fortunate to witness the energy and the variety of applications you've developed. Your hard work and great ideas inspire us, and we're hoping that as you meet each other at eBay DevCon this year, you'll get inspired as well.
Enjoy!
Kumar Kandaswamy
Head of the Developers Program
Delyn Simons
Lead of the 2009 Developers Conference
