Local and international experts will share their expertise and insights. Graham Elliott - Technology Specialist Responsible for the Application Platform and Application Architecture within Microsoft Australia's Enterprise and Partner Group. Peter Watson - Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Australia Peter performs the role of "trusted advisor" to some of Australia's and Asia Pacific's leading organisations. Rocky Heckman - Senior Consultant Technical lead for Readify's Security and Monitoring practice. Dave Glover - .NET Developer Evangelist Works with developers building .NET based solutions including Web Dev, Web Services, Standards based SOAs, building apps for mobile devices. Andrew Coates - Developer Evangelist Speaks at international conferences on Geographical Information Systems, health statistics and database maintenance.  Speakers are subject to change Graham Elliott is the Technology Specialist responsible for the Application Platform and Application Architecture within Microsoft Australia's Enterprise and Partner Group.  His responsibilities include helping customers architect, design and build solutions using Microsoft's current and future technologies. He is a frequent speaker on Microsoft's Application Platform offerings, Application Security and Web Services Strategy. Before joining Microsoft, Graham was a Solutions Architect for Avanade Australia and Accenture, developing and supporting Microsoft based enterprise solutions. Dave Glover is a .NETDeveloper Evangelist at Microsoft Australia. He started his Microsoft career working with customers adopting Windows NT 3.0, SQL Server and SMS, but mostly he has worked with software developers within Customers and Partners. His role is to work with developers building .NET based solutions within Customers, Partners, ISVs and User Group Communities.  He also does a considerable amount of public speaking across the major cities in Australia. Dave's main technical skill sets are around Web Dev, Web Services, Standards based SOAs, building apps for mobile devices - PPCs and Smartphones etc and he has a realistic view of Microsoft and the general IT Industry directions. Rocky is currently consulting for Readify as a Senior Consultant and is the technical lead for Readify's Security and Monitoring practice.  He is an MCSD and a CISSP as well as pursuing a Master based on research into securing the software development life cycle. Since moving to Australia in 2000 he has been working with companies such as Vish Corporation, Softlaw, and the Australian Taxation Office on various projects ranging from personal portals, to expert systems. As a Developer Lead and Senior .NET Architect on the ATO's Framework team in addition to training other staff, Rocky designed and lead the development of a framework which introduced 2-way data binding for web forms and a master-page style web development framework used by the ATO application development teams.  Before joining Microsoft as a Developer Evangelist, Andrew Coates was an independent consultant specialising in database applications using Microsoft technologies including SQL Server, Visual FoxPro and Microsoft Office. Andrew's wide range of experience includes telecommunications, SMB inventory, dispatch and accounting systems, using both web and rich client front ends. He has mentored a number of developers in Visual FoxPro and SQL Server technologies, and spoken at international conferences on Geographical Information Systems, health statistics and database maintenance. An MCSD, Andrew also holds a Masters degree in Civil Engineering. Peter Watson is the Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft Australia, reporting directly to the country General Manager. Peter has worked within the computer security and control field for the last seventeen years. Peter performs the role of “trusted advisor” to some of Australia's and Asia Pacific's leading organisations, advising on trends and events in the broader security marketplace. His comprehensive security knowledge encompasses the life cycle of security from requirements, strategy, policy, standards through to architecture design, implementation and out-tasked management. Peter is extremely adept at assisting organisations in determining the value and benefits of security from a business perspective. A number of Australia's leading organisations have used Peter's security models to assist them in enacting security programmes that are not only business risk driven but operationally achievable.