On the 5th of February Microsoft UK are broadcasting Techdays Online Developer day (you can register here)
Here the full Agenda of the days
TechDays Online 2015 Day 1 – Tuesday 3rd of February
Keynote speaker bio
Mary jo foley has covered the tech industry for more than 30 years for a variety of publications and web sites, and is a frequent guest on radio, tv and podcasts, speaking about all things microsoft-related. on zdnet, she blogs at allaboutmicrosoft.com. she is the author of microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). Foley also is the co-host of the Windows Weekly podcast on the TWiT network.
Theme: Client, Devices & Mobility
Day One: Devices and Managing a Mobile-First World
09:30-09:40
Overview of the Day
Ed Baker, Microsoft Technical Evangelist
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Abstract
An overview of the sessions for Day 1 of Tech.Days Online 2015 and how to make the most of your participation using the online chat tool to interact with our experts and where to find more information on the topics of particular interest to you.
Bio
Ed is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft UK, specialising in Infrastructure. His role is to engage with the technical community on anything Microsoft.
09:40-10:15
Delighting your business with EMS - The ABCs of what you need to know
Stuart Leddy, Microsoft UK
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Abstract
So what is EMS? The Enterprise Mobility Suite is the comprehensive cloud solution to address your consumerization of IT, BYOD, and SaaS challenges. The suite is the most cost effective way to acquire all of the included cloud services: Microsoft Azure Active Directory Premium; Windows Intune; Microsoft Azure Rights Management. We will help you to understand what EMS is! and help you keep your end users productive, Help with data protection and compliance, Unify user and device management and enable you to understand why EMS is a perfect solution for you and your business.
10:30-11:05
Devices, Devices Everywhere
Andrew Bettany, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Bio
Andrew Bettany is recognised for his Windows expertise since 2012, and a member of the Microsoft Springboard Technical Expert Panel. As leader of the IT Academy at the University of York, UK and Microsoft Certified Trainer, Andrew delivers learning and consultancy to businesses on a number of technical areas including Windows deployment and troubleshooting.
11:20-11:55
Windows 10 Client Innovations
Chris Rhodes, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Bio
Windows 10 is putting a huge focus on productivity and desktop. In this session the Windows User Group will show you the new tools and features that will help make you more productive, demonstrating key features and discussing what we know about the most significant change to come to the Windows desktop for many years.
12:10-12:45
KEYNOTE: What IT Pros and Devs Need to Know About the New Microsoft
Mary Jo Foley
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Abstract
It’s not your mother’s – or Bill Gates’ Microsoft any more. Join ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley -- who has covered Microsoft for more than 30 years as an independent technology journalist -- to hear her perspective on what’s changed and what’s to come. Foley will touch on the latest hot buttons, ranging from universal apps and “One Windows,” to what to expect on the productivity and cloud services front. Foley will be just back from the latest Windows 10 reveal event in Redmond, so will have lots to say about where Microsoft is going on the operating systems and apps/services front in 2015 and beyond.
Bio
Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for more than 30 years for a variety of publications and Web sites, and is a frequent guest on radio, TV and podcasts, speaking about all things Microsoft-related. On ZDNet, she blogs at allaboutmicrosoft.com. She is the author of Microsoft 2.0: How Microsoft plans to stay relevant in the post-Gates era (John Wiley & Sons, 2008). Foley also is the co-host of the Windows Weekly podcast on the TWiT network.
13:30-14:05
Building IoT solutions today
Paul Foster, Microsoft UK & Robert Hogg, Black Marble
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14:20-14:55
Microsoft Azure Remote App
Richard Astbury, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Bio
Richard has a background in delivering public facing web applications in a variety of market sectors, including banking and healthcare. He is passionate about making software development productive, efficient and fun. He strives to automate processes and utilise frameworks to shortcut development timescales. His expertise is in C#, ASP.NET, MVC and Node.js.
15:10-15:45
Microsoft Azure RMS
Mark Parris, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Bio
Windows Server Engineer and Architect for a privately owned company in London, focusing on Directory Services and the Windows Server platform.
16:00-16:35
Azure Active Directory: Much more than a user store
Rick Hepworth, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Abstract
Azure Active Directory has matured and expanded rapidly from its humble beginnings within Office 365. Find out how the current range of services can simplify, accelerate and expand the way you control access to applications and services inside and outside your organisation.
Bio
Rik is the IT Director at Black Marble. His role includes delivering robust IT solutions to both his own organisation and its customers, which can take in a broad spectrum of technologies. An enthusiastic technology evangelist, Rik is a regular presenter at events in the UK and Ireland. Along with friends and colleagues he has been involved in the DDDNorth community event since its inception. He is a member of the BCS, a Chartered IT Professional and a certified Scrum Master.
16:50-17:25
Microsoft Intune/SCCM
Steve Beaumont, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Bio
Steve Beaumont is an IT Pro clocking up over 15 years of experience ranging from low end system building to managing a crack team of enterprise class support specialists to now providing consultancy and designs for System Center as Technical Director for PowerONPlatforms. Steve is also a co-author of the Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager and Orchestrator Cookbooks, blogger and active within the Microsoft community.
17:25-17:30
Wrap up of day 1 - Part 1
Ed Baker, Microsoft UK
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Abstract
A summary of what has been covered so far in Tech.Days Online 2015, confirmation of any competition winners and a preview of the evening sessions on Office 365
Bio
Ed is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft UK, specialising in Infrastructure. His role is to engage with the technical community on anything Microsoft.
Day one evening: An evening with Office 365
18:30-19:05
Migration of your mailboxes to Office 365
Victor Merians, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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19:15-19:50
Keeping in touch with the online world
Coming Soon!
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20:00-20:35
Building online collaboration inside Office 365
Kamil Jurik, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Abstract
Bio
Kamil is Microsoft SharePoint specialist, architect and trainer. SharePoint Server MVP since 2006. Took part in dozens of projects targeted at Microsoft SharePoint platform implementation. In recent years his main role was the design and implementation of SharePoint enterprise farms at large customers requiring solutions with high availability and performance. He’s also conducting technical audits, evangelizing SharePoint platform, focusing on cloud services and leading training courses.
20:35-20:45
Final thoughts for the day
Ed Baker, Microsoft UK
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Abstract
A summary of what has been covered in the Office 365 evening sessions and where to get more information about the Office 3654 products covered
Bio
Ed is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft UK, specialising in Infrastructure. His role is to engage with the technical community on anything Microsoft.
NOTE: All sessions are approx. 35-minutes. There is a 15-minute changeover between sessions and a 45-minute lunch break.
TechDays Online 2015 Day 2 – Wednesday 4th of February
Jeffrey Snover
Distinguished Engineer
Jeffrey Snover is a Distinguished Engineer and the Lead Architect for the Windows Server Division. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell. Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft’s management technologies and products. Snover has over 32 years of industry experience with a focus on management technologies and solutions. He was an architect in the office of the CTO at Tivoli and a development manager at NetView. He has worked also as a consulting engineer and development manager at DEC, where he led various network and systems management projects. Snover held 8 patents prior to joining Microsoft, and has registered 30 patents since. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics.
Theme: Server & Cloud
Day two: The Journey to the Cloud-first World
09:30-09:40
Overview of the Day
Andrew Fryer, Microsoft UK
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Abstract
An overview of the sessions for Day 1 of Tech.Days Online 2015 and how to make the most of your participation using the online chat tool to interact with our experts and where to find more information on the topics of particular interest to you. experts and where to find more information on the topics of particular interest to you.make the most of your participation using the online chat tool to interact with our experts and where to find more information on the topics of particular interest to you.
Bio
Andrew is a technical evangelist at Microsoft UK, specialising in data management, manageability and security.
09:40-10:15
What's new Windows Server /Hyper –V - a technical preview
Gordon McKenna, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Abstract
Bio
Gordon is a Microsoft System Center Cloud and Datacenter MVP with over 15 years of experience in the Windows Management space. Currently, he helps run Microsoft Gold Systems Management and Virtualisation, Desktop and Devices and Azure Circle partner Inframon who specialise in Microsoft System Center and Azure. He is a renowned speaker on the System Center circuit with regular sessions at TechEd in the UK and the US as well as MMS, WPC and many other partner, customer and community events.
10:30-11:05
How to find out what’s happening in your datacentre with Azure Insights
Sam Erskine, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Abstract
Bio
Samuel Erskine, (IT Driving Fellow), is an independent IT consultant specializing in Service Manager and Configuration Manager. He is the lead author of the Microsoft System Center 2012 Service Manager Cookbook (Packt, 2012), and Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator Cookbook (Packt, 2013), and a contributing author to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Unleashed and co-author of the System Center 2012 Service Manager Unleashed. With over 18 years of IT experience, he focuses on providing training and consultancy services in the United Kingdom and other locations and blogs at
www.itprocessed.com.
11:20-11:55
Host your own cloud with the Windows Azure Pack
Damien Flynn, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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12:10-12:45
Taking scripting to the next level with Service Management / Azure Automation
Jonathan Noble, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Abstract
Bio
Jonathan works in the IT department at Newcastle University in North East England where he dived straight into a large-scale migration from NT4 and Netware to Windows 2000 and Active Directory. With tens of thousands of user accounts, thousands of desktops and hundreds of servers in the remit of his department (in Newcastle and branch campuses is Malaysia and Singapore), Jonathan has been automating Windows for many years, initially via batch and vbscript, and then PowerShell came along and changed his world.
13:30-14:05
A new home for your old applications
Susan Smith, Microsoft UK
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14:20-14:55
20% + of Azure runs on Linux - why is this important and how to do it well?
Boris Devouge, Microsoft UK
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Abstract
Bio
Boris has deep grounded field knowledge the Cloud, OpenSource and virtualisation. Working as a Director of Global services for Nebula, Inc, he was part of the team that co-founded the OpenStack project with NASA employees. Boris also worked as a Sales Engineering manager for EMEA at Red Hat, dealing with early adoption of Linux in large organisations and the rise of virtualisation stacks. He then served as a Global Sales Engineering manager dealing with new Cloud technologies (Eucalyptus) at Canonical – the company behind Ubuntu Linux - leading a team to bundle the first version of OpenStack within the public software repository. Today Boris is spearheading the Openness efforts of Microsoft in the United Kingdom.
15:10-15:45
Cloud Environments
Tarun Arora, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Abstract
Bio
Tarun Arora is a passionate technologist with 7 years of industry experience delivering enterprise solutions on the Microsoft Platform. His specialisms are application lifecycle management, onshore/offshore delivery, systems integration and custom application development. Tarun is a subject matter expert in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Microsoft development tools (Visual Studio & Team Foundation Server) with a strong expertise in implementing & leading Waterfall / Agile based development processes supporting distributed teams on medium to large-scale .NET based enterprise projects.
16:00-16:35
Make Azure your DMZ
Simon Skinner, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Abstract
Bio
Simon plays an active role in the MVP community and has five years experience as an MVP & Microsoft P-TSP in System Center Datacenter and Private Cloud. He presents at Ask the Expert sessions and regularly at MMS and TechEd events in US, Europe and Asia. Simon is also the owner and Founder of Cloud OS Community (
http://www.cloudoscommunity.com).
16:50-17:25
Microsoft Corporate Keynote
Jeffrey Snover, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Abstract
Bio
Jeffrey leads the creation, evangelisation and execution of the overall Windows Server and System Center technical strategy. He drove specific technical initiatives around the datacenter abstraction layer (DAL), modern cloud fabric, standards-based management and automation. He is also a technical advisor and approver of the Common Engineering Criteria program to deliver a common customer experience.
17:25-17:35
Wrap up of Day 2
Andrew Fryer, Microsoft UK
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Abstract
Bio
Andrew is a technical evangelist at Microsoft UK, specialising in data management, manageability and security.
NOTE: All sessions are approx. 35-minutes. There is a 15-minute changeover between sessions and a 45-minute lunch break.
TechDays Online 2015 Day 3 – Thursday February 5
Scott Hanselman
Scott is a web developer who has been blogging at http://hanselman.com for over a decade. He works in Open Source on ASP.NET and the Azure Cloud for Microsoft out of his home office in Portland, Oregon. Scott has three podcasts, http://hanselminutes.com for tech talk, http://thisdeveloperslife.com on developers' lives and loves, and http://ratchetandthegeek.com for pop culture and tech media. He's written a number of books and spoken in person to almost a half million developers worldwide.
Theme: Developer
Day three: Multi-device, Cross-platform Development
09:30-09:40
Overview of the Day
Martin Beeby, Microsoft UK
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Abstract
An overview of the sessions for Day 3 of Tech.Days Online 2015 and how to make the most of your participation using the online chat tool to interact with our experts and where to find more information on the topics of particular interest to you.
Bio
Martin is a developer evangelist working with developers to help Microsoft deliver better tools, languages and products. He is a regular conference speaker and have spoken at FOWD (Future of Web Design), FOWA (Future of Web Applications), MIX Las Vegas, PHP London and Web Directions.
09:40-10:25
Creating x-platform apps with Visual Studio
Mike Taulty & Martin Beeby, Microsoft UK
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Abstract
Bio
Mike's role as a developer evangelist involves understanding existing and new Microsoft developer technologies and working with UK developers and architects to inform them of where our languages, platforms and tools are heading and work with them on their applications. In terms of technologies, Mike's current focus is around development of WinRT applications for Windows/Phone making use of C#/XAML/.NET, HTML/JavaScript and C++ technology stacks.
10:40-11:25
Visual Studio ALM
Richard Fennell, Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP)
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Abstract
It does not matter what platform you are developing for, you are going to have to deploy your product in the end. Too often in the past the question of deployment has been an afterthought. But it need not be this way, there are tools available that can help with deployment of your code and importantly the provisioning the underlying systems they need too.
In this session we will look at Visual Studio Release Management's vNext release pipeline seeing how it can leverage Desired State Configuration to provision environments and deploy applications.
Bio
Richard is Engineering Director at Black Marble where he is responsible for the delivery of systems and tools to allow the company, and its clients, to deliver solutions efficiently. All Black Mable's development activity is underpinned by Team System using Scrum as a process model. Richard is a Fellow of the British Computing Society and a Certified Scrum master. Richard is a Fellow of the British Computing Society and a Certified Scrum master.
11:40-12:25
Azure Machine Learning
Andrew Fryer, Microsoft UK
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13:00-13:45
Debugging web apps
Bianca Furtuna & Martin Kearn, Microsoft UK
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Abstract
Bio
Bianca is a recent Engineering graduate who is now a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.
Martin is a technical evangelist for Windows and Windows Phone apps and helps customers design and write them.
14:00-14:45
’Roslyn’ .NET compiler update
Tomáš Herceg, Microsoft Most Valued Professional
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Abstract
In this session Tomáš will be talking about the Microsoft .Net Compiler Platform (aka Roslyn) - You’ll see how to parse C# code and work with syntax trees. He will show you how to write your own diagnostics and refactoring features for Visual Studio, and at the end of the session will make changes to the Roslyn source code to extend the C# language with some custom features.
Bio
15:00-15:45
Building cross-platform apps with .NET and ASP.NET
Pedro Dias, Microsoft Norway
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Bio
Pedro joins us from Norway to share has passion for well crafted software and agile development.
16:00-16:45
Creating cross-platform cloud apps for mobile devices
Steve Plank, Microsoft UK
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Abstract
Linux is a first-class citizen in Azure and in this session we show you to create a web-based back end on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Linux/Apache Servers which are load-balanced and exposed to the Internet. You’ll understand how Azure can scale these services out and back simply to match the traffic and discuss the options for service management of the platform, including the node.js based cross-platform cli. Next we advance to the eradication of almost all service management activities and create a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Mobile Services back-end where the only thing you care about is writing the code and the operation of the underlying platform is done for you. We’ll cover how multiple client platforms such as Windows 8/8.1, iOS, JS/HTML, PhoneGap and Xamarin can be used to connect and we’ll demonstrate how to create an app that exploits the cloud platform running on Android.
Bio
17:00-17:45
Microsoft Corporate Keynote
Scott Hanselman
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Abstract
Bio
Scott is an architect working on The Web Stack for Microsoft's AAPT (Azure Application Platform and Tools) group. He also manages community for ASP.NET/IIS/Azure and the Visual Studio Web SKUs.
17:45-17:55
Wrap-up of Tech.Days Online Day 3
Martin Beeby, Microsoft UK
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Abstract
A summary of what has been covered in Tech.Days Online 2015 Day 3 , confirmation of any competition winners and where to get more information on any of the topics covered during the day.
Bio
Martin is a developer evangelist working with developers to help Microsoft deliver better tools, languages and products. He is a regular conference speaker and have spoken at FOWD (Future of Web Design), FOWA (Future of Web Applications), MIX Las Vegas, PHP London and Web Directions.
NOTE: All sessions are approx. 45-minutes. There is a 10-minute changeover between sessions and a 45-minute lunch break.