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BIRT Exchange will once again be sponsoring the EclipseCon 2012 Developer Conference. This year the conference will be held in Reston, VA (Washington DC area) from March 26th-29th.

There are 3 BIRT Sessions in this years EclipseCon conference program:

What is BIRT? Quick Jumpstart (presented by Virgil Dodson)
This session introduces BIRT and looks at how you can leverage BIRT to quickly create data-driven reports, web pages, and compelling information visualizations using its visual drag-and-drop design environment. This session provides a great orientation to the BIRT project and technology and how it might benefit your applications.

Extending BIRT with Plug-ins (presented by Michael Williams)
This session will show off several new plug-ins created by the community from a recent BIRT plug-in contest and also show step-by-step use of the ODA wizard to create a new BIRT data source and show where to find current plug-ins in the source code to use as a starting point for creating your own BIRT plug-ins faster. Attendees will leave this talk with an understanding of BIRT plug-ins and the various ways to extend BIRT.

Introduction to BIRT (by John Ward)
This tutorial will walk users through the BIRT environment and guide them through building their first few reports using the BIRT reporting tool

BIRT and Big Data
Pick up a whitepaper in the BIRT Exchange booth with step-by-step instructions on how to connect, access and display Hadoop data using HIVE Query Language (HQL) within BIRT-based applications.

Contests and Prizes
There will be lots of random giveaways to booth visitors, and we’ll announce a developer contest where we’ll be awarding three (3) new iPads.