DDD South West is a free event and it would not be possible without the generous help from our sponsors. We would like to thank the following companies for their generosity:-

	Microsoft is proud to be supporting the first DDD South West event in May 2009.  Through the support of open community events such as DDD, Microsoft hopes to help developers and businesses from all walks of life, realise their potential.  If you are interested in finding out more about other community events that Microsoft supports, please visit our website, or contact us here.
	The University of the West of England (UWE) is a modern, growing university in the thriving harbourside city of Bristol. UWE Bristol is one of Britain's most popular universities, with around 30,000 students and 3,000 staff and is the largest provider of Higher Education in the South West of England. Students come to UWE from all parts of the UK, as well as a significant and growing number of international students from over 50 countries worldwide.
	eDevelopment is hiring! We are expanding our already large development team and we are looking for talented, motivated Developers, who have a desire to work with the latest tools and technologies to join us. There is an on-going effort to adopt new, cutting edge technologies using industry best practices using an Agile methodology. We have a development roadmap to migrate from our existing legacy system to a new Service Oriented Architecture to improve the quality, maintainability and value of our internal systems. eDevelopment is a division of the Brightside Group plc., one of the fastest growing insurance broking and financial services businesses in the UK and winner of the PwC South West Business of the Year 2011. We are responsible for the development and maintenance of their online insurance services including eCar, eBike, eVan, eHome, etc. We deal with high-profile underwriters such as Aviva, Axa, Groupama, Southern Rock and more. If you are interested in a position with eDevelopment please send a copy of your CV to our HR officer Charlotte Such (charlotte.such@egroupltd.co.uk) or drop by our stand in the sponsors’ room on the day of the event.
	PlanetRecruit is a specialist job site for IT professionals across all skills, sectors and levels. Visit www.planetrecruit.com for the latest IT jobs.
	Telerik’s mission is to make software development easier and more enjoyable. Our tools for agile project management, collaboration, development and testing allow companies of all sizes to create richer, more stable and aesthetic software faster than ever before. Trusted by over 100,000 customers worldwide for our devotion to quality and customer care, Telerik helps technical and business professionals maximize their productivity and "deliver more than expected” every day. As true craftsmen, we don't believe in compromises and our goal is to only release tools that we can be proud of.
	Gibraltar Software writes .NET developer tools to help you build rock-solid .NET software. Our flagship product, Gibraltar, provides advanced logging & analysis of errors, performance and usage patterns for all .NET applications including WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET, WCF, Silverlight, and Win32 services. With Gibraltar you can know about every unique error that happens in production, continuously monitor your apps for performance bottlenecks and make development decisions based on hard data about what features are and aren't important to your customers. We are also the guys behind VistaDB, an embedded SQL database engine for .NET applications that offers significant deployment advantages over Microsoft SQL Compact Edition, Microsoft SQL Server Express, Microsoft Access and other lightweight database alternatives. For example, VistaDB is the only .NET embedded database that allows Xcopy deployment of a single DLL for both 32 and 64 bit runtime support.
	O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. Since 2009, Microsoft and O'Reilly Media have shared the editorial direction and development of Microsoft Press products.
	Grey Matter has been advising developers on tools and licensing since 1983. We help more development teams on Visual Studio and related products than any other Microsoft partner. If you have any queries on Visual Studio, Infragistics, Flexera, Intel or other software, even if you have purchased elsewhere, come and talk to us at DDD South West, call 01364 654100 or visit www.greymatter.com today.
	Pluralsight is the global leader in high-quality online training for hardcore developers. The revolutionary Pluralsight training library provides developers with instant access to a rich collection of online training courses delivered by industry authorities. See what you can learn at pluralsight.com and join the @pluralsight community on Twitter.
	Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion, Inc. provides the broadest range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering real business innovation—the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Their award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet your evolving development needs, whether you're working in Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, or Silverlight.
	World's Leading Vendor of Professional Development Tools
	Red Gate Software makes ingeniously simple tools for over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals working with SQL Server, .NET, and Exchange Server. The company’s product line includes must-have tools for .NET developers who program in C# or VB.NET. Zero in on memory leaks, rapidly – Download your free trial of ANTS Memory Profiler.
	TechSmith’s screen capture and recording software products provide a powerful platform for capturing and sharing desktop content. Using TechSmith’s tools for developers, you can integrate the power of our capture and recording technologies into Windows applications of your own.
	Landmark Information Group Empowering people with information. Landmark's success has been founded on creating innovative products and information services by combining and consolidating a variety of environmental and geographical datasets for use by our customers. Underpinning the business is a large and vibrant development team using a broad range of technologies where every new product or enhancement goes through a rigorous development process to ensure it is fit for purpose. This includes customer feedback, feasibility studies, business cases, user consultation and effective implementation cycles that enable Landmark to react quickly to the needs of the market.
	ComponentOne provides hundreds of developer productivity tools to build enterprise-level applications for the desktop, Web, and mobile devices. With ComponentOne's flagship product, Studio Enterprise, Microsoft Visual Studio developers spend less time coding and more time focusing on business logic. From grids, charts, reports, and schedulers to PDF viewers, editors, and more UI controls, you get added functionality, professional looking styling, and effortless deployment. This is why developers, just like you, turn to ComponentOne. Visit www.componentone.com.
	Mindscape was created with the aim of delivering great tools and components, to help developers be the best developers they can be. We build LightSpeed (.NET ORM) as well as products for WPF, Silverlight, SimpleDB & NHibernate. Professional .NET tools that are useful, simple and more convenient to use.
	Typemock was conceived in 2004 to help programmers develop code integrity through unit testing. Since the launch of the first version of Typemock Isolator in 2006, thousands of companies around the world, including multinationals Microsoft and Nokia, use Typemock tools to make unit testing easy. Typemock users are developers from a wide range of sectors – such as defense, medical, and finance – that demand exceptionally high standards of quality and minimum errors. Isolator supports the easy unit testing of Silverlight, WCF, and all other .NET and C++ technologies.
	CODE Magazine is an advanced technology publication for developers and technical managers focused on providing in-depth information about today's development topics. Each bi-monthly issue of CODE Magazine contains detailed and very practical articles of current technologies and developer tools. Created by developers and primarily serving the developer community, CODE Magazine is the trusted source of information for developers seeking information for their latest software development projects. CODE Magazine has one primary goal: provide the IT community with advanced technology information that explains in-depth how to use the industry’s diverse development tools. Since its inception, CODE Magazine has focused on technologies and application architecture "best practices" illustrating them with examples in multiple programming languages. www.codemag.com
	LogicNP Software specializes in the development of developer-centric software products such as reusable controls, components and libraries for .Net, WPF, ActiveX and MFC/ATL developers. Our mission is to provide innovative, developer-friendly, robust and easy-to-use software that helps developers build the best applications that today's competitive marketplace demands. Our products are used by thousands of large corporations, multi-national companies, consultants, ISVs and professionals from all over the world working in finance, government, military, education, technology, health, insurance, consulting and more.