Registration
7:45-9:00 am
Registration / Sponsor pavilion open
Registration / Sponsor pavilion open
Break
10:15 - 10:35
Morning Tea in Sponsor Pavilion
Morning Tea in Sponsor Pavilion
Session 1
10:35-11:25
Create the User Experience you want in SharePoint
Interface Design for SharePoint solutions can be a challenging task. Sure it's possible to "do anything",
but by bearing in mind some basic tips, designers can create SharePoint user experiences that are easier
to modify, build and maintain, and therefore more likely to be built!
SharePoint experts Unique World will explore tried and tested approaches to designing for SharePoint.
In this session you will understand;
- Common pitfalls when designing SharePoint solutions
- How the team & project structure play critical roles in successful user interface design in SharePoint projects
- How to achieve maximum site Accessibility
- SharePoint and web standards
- How Silverlight can compliment your SharePoint deployment
- Best practices and real world examples to maximise design impact whilst ensuring implementation and maintenance
costs are minimised
Speaker
Bruce Furlong
Uniqueworld
Silverlight 3 Super Session with Jordan Knight
See how to apply new Silverlight 3 features with a real working application. This talk demonstrates exciting new
features in Silverlight 3 in a non gratuitous way to help improve user experience.
Jordan will cover everything including the new perspective 3D engine, pixel shaders, bitmap APIs, out of browser,
navigation, deep linking and much more. Also, hear about other framework improvements to data binding, validation,
styles and resources. This will be a jam packed session, so hold on to your pocket protectors.
Speaker
Jordan Knight
Readify
Session 2
11:35-12:25
What's new Expression 3 - sketchflow
Learn how to use Expression Blend to design great user experiences, from concept to production, with Windows
Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. See how Expression Blend Sketchflow makes design workflow faster,
easier and richer, and explore how designers can lead the interactive experience throughout the design process.
Speaker
Matt Morphett
Azure with David Burela
Curious about cloud computing? Come learn how to use Windows Azure to better address key challenges of running
Internet-scale applications in the cloud. Hear about the essential concepts of Windows Azure
Speaker
David Burela
Readify
Lunch
12:35-1:25
Lunch in the Sponsor Pavilion
Lunch in the Sponsor Pavilion
Lunch Session
1:00 - 1:20
Windows Mobile Lunchtime presentation
Windows Mobile Lunchtime presentation
Session 3
1:25 - 2:15
The Next Level of Creativity with Expression Blend 3
Hear about the new features of Expression Blend 3 and how they work with WPF and Silverlight 3 to
improve designer productivity, providing better access to data and enhanced tools for interactivity.
New features like behaviours allow designers to take their vision much further without code, while application
lifecycle management features help you manage quality throughout your project.
Speakers
Jose Fajardo
Cynergy
Dave Glover
Microsoft
IE8 for Developers, Developers, Developers with Michael Kordahi
There’s more to IE8 than just a brand spanking new rendering engine. IE8 includes many innovations which help web
developers and site owners “reach beyond their URI”. Michael will walk you through the new developer features in IE8
how they can easily enrich your site and bring value to your customers at the same time.
Speaker
Michael Kordahi
Microsoft
Session 4
2:25 - 3:15
Introducing the Microsoft Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP
Come see the new Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP, and dive deep into how to build the next
generation of mapping applications with Virtual Earth and Silverlight.
Speaker
Chris Pendleton
Microsoft
Building great standards based websites for the big wide world with ASP.NET 4.0 with Damian Edwards
(ASP.NET MVP) and Tatham Oddie (ASP.NET MVP)
In this session, two ASP.NET MVPs will share their experiences from building Australia’s largest e-commerce
site with ASP.NET Web Forms. They’ll show you how to be a good web citizen by covering standards compliance
(properly!), cross browser and accessibility considerations, non-JavaScript support, as well as coding techniques
like the Model-View-Presenter pattern to improve maintainability and testing. Along the way, there’ll be plenty of
discussion of the differences between Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC in each area, as well as an early peek at some of the
new features coming in ASP.NET 4.0 and VS 2010.
Speakers
Damian Edwards
Readify
Tatham Oddie
Readify
Break
3:15 - 3:45
Afternoon tea in Sponsor Pavilion
Afternoon tea in Sponsor Pavilion
Session 5
3:45 - 4:35
<3 the New Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit for Social Websites
See how to add IM to a site with the Windows Live Messenger Library and UI Controls, and how to build
new relationships around content with Messenger social capabilities. Also hear how top sites and marketers
are using the social connections of Windows Live users to grow and build brand loyalty.
Speakers
Bronwen Zande
Soul Solutions
John O'Brien
Soul Solutions
Real World S+S Architecture with Incite
Incite powers some of the largest infrastructure projects in Australia and across the world totaling
approximately 50 billion in value. It drives projects from the City of Dreams Casino in Macau to the EastLink in Melbourne.
General Manager of Technology Michael Baker will speak about what it takes to build a next-generation
project collaboration platform using Microsoft’s latest technologies from ASP.NET 3.5, WCF, SQL 2008, Entity Framework to a Silverlight, jQuery and JSON front end.
Be inspired by what it takes to create this compelling, next-generation project collaboration tool unlike
any other in the market place. Michael will go from development methodologies to the down and dirty tech of it all.
Speaker
Michael Baker
Incite
Session 6
4:45 - 5:35
Design in the Round. Creating Compelling User Experiences for Surface
Designing for multi-touch, gesture- based and tangible experiences like Microsoft Surface presents a new set of
challenges. How do you design for a user interface that doesn't have a 'top'? How do allow for multiple simultaneous
users without them getting in each other's way?
Amnesia Razorfish will join Shane Morris to share their experience designing and developing for Microsoft Surface.
Speakers
Shane Morris
Microsoft
Brady O'Halloran
Amnesia Razorfish
Iain McDonald
Amnesia Razorfish
Sibling Rivalry or Love: Microsoft and Open source. - Nick Hodge and Friends
Microsoft and Open source may not be identical twins, but they share an equal passion for software.
A common parentage if you will: the code. Open source projects are popping up in many Microsoft’s web projects:
from the adoption of jQuery to the ASP.NET MVC project.
In this session, you will discover Microsoft’s Open source offspring and the not-so-distant cousins.
See which projects fit into your plans, and can dramatically improve your time-to-golive. Also, hear from local
contributors to open source projects: the risk and the rewards of joining a large genetically diverse family.
By sharing in-the-field experience and anecdotes, Nick Hodge will act as a family counselor: and bring
the family back together for a ReMIX reunion.
Speaker
Nick Hodge
Microsoft
LOCKNOTE
5:45 - 6:00
LOCKNOTE
LOCKNOTE
Networking event
6:00 - 8:00
Relax, unwind, chat about the day’s event, have some fun and maybe pick up some prizes. Full details to be announced
