Microsoft Events, Singapore - Architect Council

Architect Council - Jun 2009

Date	10th June 2009 (Wednesday)
Time	9.00am – 3.00pm
Venue	Level 22, Conference Room 12, NTUC Centre, One Marina Boulevard, Microsoft Singapore
E-mail	MSDPE@crystaledge.net
Call	Meagan at +65 6293 4947

Program Overview

TIME	ACTIVITIES	SPEAKERS
9.00am	Registration + Breakfast + Networking
9.30am	Keynote: Achieving Productivity Breakthroughs through ALM	John Fernandes, DPE Director, Microsoft Singapore
9.45am	ARC 01: Achieving Project Efficiency through ALM, A Practitioner's View	Wen Xiaobei, Lead IT Architect, NCS Pte Ltd Linda Chong, Architect Evangelist, Microsoft Singapore
10.45am	ARC 02: Learning to be Agile	Alvin Lau, Solutions Architect and ASP.NET MVP, NCS Pte Ltd
11.45am	ARC 03: Empowering your Business with Biztalk Server 2009	KC Phua, Server and Tools BG Lead, Microsoft Singapore
12.15am	Lunch

Deep Dive on VSTS Track
(Level 22, Conference Room 22CF-12)

BizTalk Server Track
(Level 22, Microsoft Innovation Centre)

1.00pm

DEV 01: Managing Application Development

Quah Hak Teng,
Dev Tools Tech Specialist,
Microsoft Singapore

BTS 01: What every architect should know about the latest BizTalk Server 2009, and Microsoft's future roadmap on SOA and S+S

Kian Ng,
Biztalk Server BG Lead,
Microsoft Asia

2.00pm

DEV 02: Managing Application Quality

BTS 02: Go under the hood of customers' case studies

Kian Ng,
Biztalk Server BG Lead,
Microsoft Asia

3.00pm

End

Topic Synopsis

ARC01: Achieving Project Efficiency & Effectiveness Through ALM, A Practitioner’s View

It is important for organisations to leverage on a globally distributed development model. In this global model, it can be challenging to track resource coordination and optimisation, task ownership, and other aspects of the project. In this session, we will share our experience on how Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System can simplify these activities and we will share best practices for managing them.

ARC02: Learning to be Agile

Have you been hearing pretty much about Agile and wonder what is means to be Agile? Learn about the benefits that Agile will bring out and discover some pointers about transforming your development team from traditional waterfall to ‘slightly more Agile’.

ARC03: Biztalk Server 2009 Overview

Learn how the latest release of Biztalk Server enables you to efficiently connect and extend disparate systems. Find out how to further cut costs by driving business efficiency, increasing IT productivity and extracting value from exiting investment.

Deep Dive on VSTS Track

ALM is a solution for governing the process of planning, building, and managing applications over their life cycle. An ALM solution enables you to more effectively manage projects, track project progress, manage requirements, streamline team collaboration, design and develop systems, help ensure quality, manage releases, and maintain software. The results are enhanced productivity, development speed, alignment with global business goals and business agility.

BTS01: What every architect should know about the latest BizTalk Server 2009, and Microsoft's future roadmap on SOA ans S+S

In this session, we will be introducing & dissecting into the latest BizTalk 2009, and Microsoft's future roadmap on SOA and S+S and appreciate how Microsoft's entreprise software group is responding to the new demands and challenges in enterprises and IT.

BTS02: Go under the hood of customers' case studies

In this session, we will be sharing the best kept secrets on how selected enterprises land their real-world SOAs strategy, infrastructure and deployment successfully, and how they overcame their business and IT challenges to achieve increase in agility, productivity and reduction in their cost of ownership and operation.

Speakers

John Fernandes

As the Director of the Developer and Platform Evangelism team John is responsible for working with developer, IT professional, academic, startup, and venture capital communities in Singapore. His team leverages software as an enabler to innovation, entrepreneurship, and the next generation, be it students, business models or technology paradigms.

Wen Xiaobei

Xiaobei is a lead IT architect with the NCS Group. She is passionate about technology and has been involved in projects ranging from desktop clients and web applications to highly scalable distributed systems and service-oriented architectures. She advises on and shapes solutions: defining, delivering and assuring that the chosen architecture is fit for purpose.

Xiaobei is one of the Pioneer MCSDs for .NET worldwide. On top of that, she is also a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist for Biztalk and a Certified Project Management Professional. Her current focus is to leverage VSTS and Software Factory to build connected systems with WCF, Workflow, and BizTalk.

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Linda Chong

Linda is the Architect Evangelist with Microsoft Singapore. She has more than 13 years of extensive IT experience on management, consulting, evangelism, architecture design/review, pre-sales engagement and systems integration in the areas of SOA, Web 2.0, e-business/e-commerce and enterprise application integration (EAI). In her current role, she drives thought leadership and adoption in SOA, Software+Services, Web 2.0 and other emerging technologies to enterprise customers and partners on the Microsoft platform.

Alvin Lau

Based in Singapore, Alvin works as a Solution Architect with a large MNC and is lover of technology. During his sparetime, Alvin is actively involved in running the Singapore .NET User Group (SGDOTNET - http://community.sgdotnet.org). His areas of interests includes web services, ASP.NET, Agile Development specifically to TDD and BizTalk.

If you reside in this region (South East Asia) and wish to find some technology buddies to have some hands on on Extreme Programming and true-blue TDD practises, you're welcome to drop him an email at microlau_at_sgdotnet_dot_org.

KC Phua

KC Phua is the Business Group Lead for the server and application infrastructure business in Microsoft Singapore. KC’s portfolio includes class-leading products like Windows Server and SQL Server. He is responsible for the overall sales and marketing, and operational management of this business.

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Quah Hak Teng

Quah Hak Teng is a Developer Tools Technology Specialist at Microsoft based in Singapore, specializing in Visual Studio Team System. He is with the Developer & Platform Evangelism group and is responsible for creating and meeting the demand for Microsoft Developer Tools in the South East Asia region. Quah has more than 11 years of industrial experience. He specializes in Operation Systems and Application Development Platforms. Prior to Microsoft, he was a Developer Consultant and Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems and Red Hat.

Kian Ng

Kian is responsible for the BizTalk & Host Integration range of products, and spearheading the Microsoft's SOA, RFID, BPM, and LOB Adapter Packs go-to-market for the APAC, India, Japan and Greater China regions. In 2004, he joined Microsoft Asia-Pacific as an Enterprise Technology Strategist for EPG Compete / CATM, serviing as subject matter expert and field advisor for the Microsoft Application Platform technology, with specialization on Integration, SOA, and strategic field surround programs like SAP, Mainframe, and other key LOB applications.

Details

Duration	Wednesday, June 10, 2009 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Venue	Level 22, Conference Room 22CF-12, NTUC Centre, One Marina Boulevard, Microsoft Singapore
Fee	N/A
Preferred Audience	This event is targeted at Developers,Architects
Event Contents:	N/A

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