Plans are underway to wow Sri Lankans at an IT event on a scale never-before-seen when Microsoft Tech-Ed 2006 gets underway at the Water’s Edge next week (25th to 27th October). Tech-Ed 2006 is billed to be an event where "Knowledge will grow. Doors will open. Destinies will change." and organisers at Microsoft Sri Lanka say participants will not be disappointed. Among the highlights of Tech-Ed is a series of high profile resource persons billed to speak on the four tracks that will make up the symposium.
The Microsoft Tech-Ed 2006 conference will consist of 50 sessions across 4 tracks, with Track 1 focusing on Windows Infrastructure and Systems Management, Track 2 on Messaging and Collaboration, Track 3 on Enterprise Data Management, Architecture and Team Development, and Track 4 on Developer Technology. Leading the way will be Steve Riley, Microsoft’s top rated senior security specialist – who will be joined by Technical Architect Gayan Pieris, Microsoft Developer Tools Specialist Matthew Hardman, and Developer Evangelist Janakiram MSV and IT Professional Evangelist Ravi Sankar.
Track 2 at Tech-Ed, dealing with messaging and collaboration, will be led by Gayan Peiris – a Technical Architect / senior Consultant for Unique World Pty Ltd Canberra, Australia who is considered an Expert in architecting and designing SharePoint Portals and Windows SharePoint Services solutions. Gayan is widely published and is a frequent speaker at Microsoft developer conferences on SharePoint technology. He has been a leading advocate since 2001 and the president of the Canberra SharePoint User Group. He has the distinction of being presented with the MVP award for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server.
Gayan’s sessions will enable participants to gain an in-depth look at the new server technologies in the 2007 Microsoft Office release, while developers will have the opportunity to discover new features that enable them to create application-level customizations, application-level task panes, and program the ribbon using Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System. IT Professionals will gain the training they need to successfully deploy and manage Office server systems and applications within IT infrastructure.
Matthew Hardman has been at Microsoft since 2000 and counts over ten years in IT. A Developer Tools Specialist, Hardman was instrumental in building the foundations of the Australian .NET Developer Community and promotes .NET technologies to a variety of Australian customers. Since 2003, Matthew has been located in Singapore where he is a Developer Evangelist with the Asia Pacific Headquarters Developer & Platform Evangelism team. Matthew has focused on the Independent Software Developer business, to help companies realize what is possible with upcoming technologies, and to help them realize the potential of Microsoft’s Software Development Lifecycle Tools, Visual Studio Team System.
Matthew will be the key resource person in Track 3 at Tech-Ed – Enterprise Data Management, Architecture and team Development. Sessions along this track will enable participants to learn how SQL Server 2005 can deliver breakthrough performance, securely and reliably to manage databases and develop new and innovative applications. Participants will also learn how to easily integrate, analyze and report corporate data, using Microsoft’s BI platform, end-user tools and analytic applications. The architecture topics span the Tech-Ed tracks, and offer architectural perspectives on several core topics currently “hot” in the enterprise.
Janakiram MSV – a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft India – works closely with the developer communities in India, evangelizing and sharing the vision on next generation technologies from Microsoft. Those attending Janakiram’s sessions on Developer Technology (Track 4) will walk away with deep technical training that covers the best of Visual Studio® 2005, the .NET Framework and Windows Mobile development technologies. Sessions include language enhancements, IDE productivity features, Mobile Development for Tablet PCs, Pocket PCs and Smartphone’s, .NET Compact Framework, and more.
Janakiram’s experience as a trainer, project leader and consultant as well as his exposure to corporate and enterprise customers makes attending his sessions a truly inspiring experience. He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) and Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) Charter Member on the .NET platform. Passionate about XML Web Services and Mobile Computing, Janakiram can be found making technologies interoperate with each other during his spare time.
Tomorrow’s Microsoft technology can be experienced at self-paced hands-on labs and instructor-led labs where participants will be among the first in the world to be exposed to cutting-edge technologies. Among the technologies on display will be the 2007 Microsoft Office release, Windows Vista, Visual Studio and the Microsoft Server System. -Financial Times
