Interactive Tracks @ Architect Insight 2010

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03/04/2010

Finally, I have built out the content for the interactive tracks at AIC2010 and here’s a sneak preview before the details go live :)!

Day 1 & 2 plus abstracts!!!!

Day 1

09:30

Welcome

Microsoft Executive Keynote Terry Smith, Senior Director, Partner Technology Unit, Microsoft Ltd

Convergent Architecture - beyond SOA David Sprott, CEO, Everware-CBDI International and Founder CBDI Forum

The next generation Enterprise Iain Mortimer, Chief Architect, Merrill Lynch Bank of America

Enterprise

Solution

Infrastructure

Interactive Tracks

10:50

Coffee Break

11:05

Infrastructure Optimisation Roger Hordley, Enterprise Strategy Consultant, Microsoft Ltd

Programming in tongues – when architecture meets multiple programming languages Mark Bloodworth, Architect, Microsoft Ltd

SQL Server, the right choice for Today and Tomorrow Kevin Ashby, Enterprise Technology Specialist, Microsoft EMEA

Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010 Joel Jeffery, JFDI Pheonix

SQL Modelling Services Black Marble

11:50

Comfort Break

11:55

Why, what, how, who, when, where - and no it's not a Zachmann framework! Martin Sykes, Global Enterprise Architect, Microsoft Services IT Architecture and Planning

SharePoint for Architects David Bishop, Program Manager, Microsoft Ltd

Self-Service BI, Corporate BI and how they can complement each other Chris Webb, MVP

In the Trenches : Architecting for the Real World Josh Twist and Simon Ince, Principal Consultants, Microsoft Ltd

Platform Modernisation Shanar Hegde, chief Architect, Symphony Services

12:40

Lunch

13:30

Welcome

13:40

The Role of Modeling Standards in Visual Studio 2010 Steve Cook, Software Architect, Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft Corp

14:10

Software Engineering Method and Theory Initiative Ivar Jacobson, Ivar Jacobson Intern+E45ational

14:40

Comfort Break

14:50

Application Modernization Framework David Sprott, CEO, CBDI Forum

Project Visibility with Visual Studio 2010 Richard Erwin & Giles Davies, Developer Tools Techincal Specialists, Microsoft Ltd

SQL Server Consolidation Justin Langford, Principal Consultant, Coeo Ltd

Driving Architecture in Agile Projects using Use Cases and Visual Studio 2010 Svante Lidman, Ivar Jacobson Int

Organizational Intelligence Richard Veryard, Next Practice Research Initiative

15:35

Coffee Break

15:50

Aligning Business and IT using Business Capability Mapping and Solution Reference Architectures Jason Hogg, Group Architect - Solution Engineering, Microsoft Corp

Testing, why it should be fully integrated in the application lifecycle? Danny Crone, nFocus Testing

Master Data Management Satya SK Jayanty, MVP

Visual Studio 2010 Any Questions? Richard Erwin & Giles Davies, Developer Tools Techincal Specialists, Microsoft Ltd

Architect Certification Matt Deacon, Architect, Microsoft Ltd

16:35

Comfort Break

16:40

Effective Business Execution Platform Hatay Tuna, Architect, Microsoft Ltd

Tools for Architects in Visual Studio 2010 Stuart Kent, Principal Architect, Visual Studio, Microsoft Corp

Data Security & Compliance – it’s a process not a product Gerhard Knecht, Head of Global Security Services and Compliance, Unisys

Extending the reach of Visual Studio TFS Richard Fennell, Black Marble

Representing architecture Jason Hogg, Group Architect - Solution Engineering, Microsoft Corp

17:25

Drinks Reception

19:00

Close

Day 2

Start

Agenda

08:30

Registration

09:30

Welcome

Microsoft Executive Keynote Mark Taylor, Senior Director, Developer & Platform Group, Microsoft Ltd

Open Government – Transforming Democracy with the Cloud Dave Coplin, NTO, Microsoft Ltd

Beyond e-GIF: Architects need to stand up and claim their role! Andy Hopkirk, Head of Projects and Programmes and Director e-GIF Programme

Enterprise

Solution

Infrastructure

Interactive Tracks

10:50

Coffee Break

11:05

What does Mickey Mouse have to tell us about the Cloud? Fred Warren, Service Line Architect

A-Z of Windows Azure Simon Davies, Architect, Microsoft Ltd

Desktop as a Service Jason Heyes, Solution Architect, Microsoft Ltd

Operational Intelligence Jeff Johnson, Architect, Microsoft

Implications of Cloud on Enterprise IT Matt Deacon, Architect, Microsoft Ltd

11:50

Comfort Break

11:55

When the Enterprise is the size of a western nation Andy James, CTO, Solidsoft

Patterns for Cloud Computing Dave Gristwood, Architect, Microsoft Ltd

Virtualizing the data center – is Private cloud more than just a buzz word? Neil Sanderson, Product Manager, Microsoft Ltd

The Consultant’s Toolbox : 5 Great Tips for Architects Josh Twist, Senior Consultant, Microsoft Ltd

SharePoint 2010 – Enabling Business Agility with Workflow Joel Jeffery, JFDI Pheonix

12:40

Lunch

13:30

Welcome

13:40

Cloud as a business differentiator? Ulrich Homann, chief Architect, Worldwide Service, Microsoft Corp

14:10

Beyond the laws of Identity Kim Cameron, Chief Architect of Identity and Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Corp

14:40

Comfort Break

14:50

Does the Microsoft BPOS cloud model fit your Enterprise strategy? Paul Cullimore and Wayne Filin-Matthews, Solution Architects, Microsoft Ltd

Design considerations for storing data in the cloud with Windows Azure Eric Nelson, Architect, microsoft Ltd

Why go to the office ? The practicalities of distributed working Asif Jinnah, Head of Field Desktop Services, MSIT

AppFabric - Server and Cloud Santosh Benjamin, Senior Consultant, Darren Jefford, Architect, Microsoft Ltd

Practical capability modelling workshop Mike Lloyd,Managing consultant, Structia

15:35

Coffee Break

15:50

Architecting Systems that Users Love to Use John Waterworth, Flow Interactive

Relational Data and the Cloud Keith Burns, Architect, Microsoft Ltd

Embedding Communications in Application Design Russell Kirk, MVP

Azure in the Enterprise? Simon Davies, Eric Nelson, Architects, Microsoft Ltd

Identity and the Internet Kim Cameron, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Corp

16:35

Comfort Break

16:40

We live in a heterogeneous world, don't we? Simon Thurman, Architect, Microsoft Ltd

Learnings from delivering a large, complex and highly visible projects Darren Jefford, Architect, Microsoft UK

Managing Clouds Matt Deacon, Architect, James O'Neill, Infrastructure Specialist, Microsoft Ltd

Data as a Service Keith Burns, Dave Gristwood, Architects, Microsoft Ltd

Moving from physical to virtual to dynamic to cloud Neil Sanderson, Product Manager, Microsoft Ltd

17:25

Drinks Reception

19:00

Close

Content

	Driving Architecture in Agile Projects using Use Cases and Visual Studio 2010	A challenge facing any team hoping to become more agile is how to make sure that the architecture of the system being built gets the right level of attention. This presentation shows how, with a little care and correct emphasis, use cases and Visual Studio 2010 provide a solution for Agile teams – one that isn’t just agile but that also provides a balanced approach for working with the architecture of the system. A demonstration of a VSTS 2010 process template supporting the approach will be demonstrated.	Svante	Lidman	consultant	Ivar Jacobson International
	Data as a Service	What is the future of the database in terms of clouds? Are we really moving from the notion of the database to the notion of some data service? With initiatives like "Dallas"	David Keith	Gristwood Burns	Architects	Microsoft Ltd
	AppFabric - Server and Cloud	AppFabric is Microsoft’s platform for building and managing applications that run on-premises and in the cloud. In this session we will look at the components of Windows Server AppFabric as well as Windows Azure Platform AppFabric, how they work together today and where the platform is heading in future.	Santosh	Benjamin	Senior Consultant	Microsoft Ltd
	Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010	A step-by-step look at building a simple end-to-end business system using Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010	Joel	Jeffery	Technical Director	JFDI Phoenix Ltd
	SharePoint 2010 – Enabling Business Agility with Workflow		Joel	Jeffery	Technical Director	JFDI Phoenix Ltd
	Architect Certification	Architects are becoming increasingly valued by organisations and are intimate in making technology and strategy decisions. The International Association of Software Architects (IASA) has been representing the interests of IT Architects for over 7 years now and has invested heavily in developing an architectural recognition system that looks beyond the flavours of technologies or frameworks to the professional behind. this session will introduce and discuss the relative merits of IASA certification from foundation to master.	Matt	Deacon	Architect	Microsoft Ltd
	Identity and the Internet	Discussion on why Identity continues to matter and is still a problem for the internet	Kim	Cameron	Chief Architect of Identity and Distinguished Engineer	Microsoft Corp
	The Consultant’s Toolbox : 5 Great Tips for Architects	We all have them. Little tricks that are picked up after many years of experience. Come share and discuss with a Microsoft Services’ Principal Application Development Consultant what you have found invaluable in your day to day work as an architect. Josh Twist, BCS & Computing Magazine’s System Developer of the Year, will let you in on top advice based on years of industry-based solution architecture experience. Find out what, why and when to use each nugget for the best effect.	Josh	Twist	Principal Consultant	Microsoft Ltd
	In the Trenches : Architecting for the Real World	Come to this session to hear leading Application Development Consultants relate their experience working with architects on a myriad of complex projects. Find out how they got it right the first time, when they didn’t and why or what worked when recovering from tough challenges. Bring your own challenges and discuss tested methods to resolve them.	Josh Simon	Twist Ince	Principal Consultant	Microsoft Ltd
	Operational Intelligence (OI)	Business operations are typically becoming increasingly complex and as the under-lying applications and IT platforms federate transactions through multiple systems and applications. Businesses are increasingly interested in how proactive application platforms which have intelligence to correlate event streams in real-time and take business actions or execute business processes to react in real-time to respond to business events, or detect patterns and take corrective actions. This session will look at how the world of complex-event-processing, ESB/SOA and cloud service-bus are formed into the new enterprise architecture landscape and explore how ‘OI’ platforms will allow as business to further automate, self-correct and reach new levels of agility.	Jeff	Johnson	Architect	Microsoft Ltd
	Moving from physical to virtual to dynamic to cloud Neil Sanderson,	Virtualisation in all its new and emergent forms offer great benefits from lowering costs while increasing agility. But is this proving to be the case? Or are we just moving the problem, a spaghetti in the physical world could easily be a spaghetti in the virtual one, and what happens when we look to the cloud? This will be an interactive round table mind sharing discussion, exploring experiences and challenges, pitfalls and successes in succeeding in a virtual world.	Neil	Sanderson	Product Manager	Microsoft Ltd
	Representing architecture	Can we ever get to a standard approach for describing IT architectures or even parts of solution architectures? What are the approaches being used today? What are the standards? Are they actually in use or	Jason	Hogg	Group Architect - Solution Engineering	Microsoft Corp
	Extending the reach of Visual Studio TFS	Most large systems do on exist on a single platform or ecosystem; application components must interoperate to match the needs of modern business. This can cause problems for development teams where their language requirements mean that it is hard for them to find common tooling. This is particularly true in mixed Java .NET solutions. This problem can be addressed by using the Teamprise tools, these allow Java developers, using Eclipse, to access all the features of Team Foundation Server with as much ease as a .NET developers inside Visual Studio.	Richard	Fennell	Consultant	Black Marble
	Visual Studio 2010: Any Questions?	Interactive discussion on Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System, but you set the agenda and you ask the questions!	Giles	Davies	Technology Tools Specialist	Microsoft Ltd
	Practical capability modelling workshop	In this session, you will conduct a brief but illuminating capability modelling exercise designed to elicit how good your organisation would be at conducting capability modelling exercises. There will be an opportunity to ask any questions that you didn't get a chance to put at the earlier sessions on capability modelling.	Mike	Lloyd	Managing Consultant	Structia
	Platform Modernisation	Organizations have spent millions of dollars in building and maintaining large software systems over a period of 10-15 years. Improving value of these software assets is one of the critical business goals for these organizations. During this session, we will outline how to modernize these assets in order to achieve one or more of the following business goals: • Reduce development, sustaining engineering, and/or operational cost of these assets • Increase software agility, thereby decreasing time to introduce new features • Increase revenue through scalability and new features • Increase longevity of the assets – investment protection.	Shankar	Hegde	Chief Architect	Symphony Services
	Organisational Intelligence	Most enterprises are faced with demands and opportunities for deploying the latest smart technologies and social networking tools, both internally and externally. But fancy software won't achieve its potential for business benefit without an architectural framework. Proper and coordinated use of these tools can result in significant improvements in the ability of the organization to detect and interpret changes in the environment, to respond decisively and appropriately to these signals, and learn rapidly from new experience. These are all signs of organizational intelligence. The challenge is to deploy innovative technologies and working practices that will enhance the collective intelligence of the enterprise. * A systematic framework for understanding and coordinating the strategic requirements for new working practices, supported by a collaborative working platform * How to integrate these tools into the business process * How to link these capabilities to the strategic goals and objectives of the enterprise	Richard	Veryard		Next Practice Research Initiative
	SQL Modelling Services		Robert	Hogg	MD	Black Marble
	Implications of cloud for Enterprise IT	Discussion on what cloud means to the software supply chain from vendors, integrators, offshorers, outsourcers to enterprise IT itself. As Nick Carr suggest, does the utility mean "no more IT?" or is it just mean we change what we do?	Matt	Deacon	Architect	Microsoft Ltd