Keynote Presentations

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Building the Infrastructure of Enterprise 2.0
Rob Howard, CEO and Founder, Telligent
Developers play a critical role in the evolution of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. In this keynote we'll explore some of the ways developers should think about how Enterprise 2.0 impacts them, the opportunities it creates and specifically why Microsoft's platform is best aligned to meet the diverse needs of Enterprise 2.0 solutions.

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises
Roger Sessions, Publisher, ObjectWatch Newsletter
It is common to hear of massive IT failures; projects that are over budget, late, poorly aligned to business needs, or all of the above. Often, the resulting losses are in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The cause is almost always the same: uncontrolled complexity. The solution to complexity is simple — or more specifically, simplicity.

We need to understand what makes systems simple with as much critical reasoning as we do what makes systems fast, secure, or reliable. This talk is about the mathematical models of complexity and the methodologies needed to control it. Complexity is the most insidious problem facing IT architects. Control it, or it will bury you! This talk will be thought provoking and open new areas for exploration.

VSLive! All-Stars Panel featuring: Bill Vaughn, Ken Getz and Scott Belware
Moderated by Richard Hale Shaw, VSLive! Dallas Conference Chair

Windows 7? Azure Services? VS2009, er, 2010? .NET Framework 4.0? A whole host of announcements were made at the MS PDC in October. We’ve heard it before. And we’ve seen PDCs become the basis for great announcements — as well as technology that never saw the light of day.

Come hear our All-Star Panelists offer their views of the future of Microsoft’s new technologies, and how they think you should invest your time learning new paradigms.