Date
29 September 2009
Location
Living Tomorrow
Brussels
Architectures for your
Next Generation Business Applications
During this one- day event 140 Architects took a deep dive into Architectures for your Next Generation Business Applications. We want to thank you for your presency! According to your feedback this was a valuable experience, that fulfilled your expectations.
To have another look at the different sessions, please find the recordings below. For those who missed the event, you can take a look now!
Agenda
Print| 10:00 - 11:15 |
The Future of User Experience and the Emotion CommotionAugust de los Reyes (Microsoft) - The competitive environment for technology is changing, and its impact on user experience is deep: capabilities, features, and functions are no longer enough. Emotional engagement will distinguish successful consumer and enterprise experiences of the future. Designing in this world requires we change the way we think about people and products. This presentation provides a brief overview of a counter-intuitive emotional design approach and its application to things to come. |
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| 11:35 - 12:50 |
Next Generation LOB ApplicationsSimon Guest (Microsoft) - Many organizations have chosen the Microsoft platform as a standard for LOB (Line of Business) applications. What does this investment look like moving forward? What comes after MFC and Windows Forms? How do WPF and Silverlight 3 change things? What about exposing data and generating reports? This session will answer these questions and explore technologies such as the ADO.NET Entity Framework, .NET RIA Services, WPF, and Expression Blend, to show end-to-end examples, tips, and techniques to create a roadmap for your next generation LOB applications. |
| 13:50 - 14:40 |
Setting-up a WPF line-of-business software factoryOlivier Raulot, Cristovao Figueiredo, Augusta Guernier (Getronics) - This session explains how to concretely and pragmatically set up an efficient WPF Software Factory that enables you to quickly build high-quality, rich applications that will blow away the expectations of "the business". Learn how to integrate the "Interactive Designer" role into your development process including from a tools perspective (glimpse of VS2010), take advantage of a navigation framework and a components suite, as well as maximise re-use in a WPF world via Styles and control templates packaging and the concept of toolkits. You will dive into a couple of world-class Belux customer cases that were build using this WPF Software Factory. Note that these concepts/tools equally well apply to Silverlight applications. |
| 14:50 - 16:00 |
Building Business Centric Applications with Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA ServicesBrad Abrahams (Microsoft) - Discover Microsoft .NET RIA Services and Silverlight 3 and how they simplify the traditional n-tier application architectures by integrating the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. The RIA Services provides patterns for writing application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles. Learn also how Silverlight 3 improvements enable rapid development and make your development process more productive. |
| 16:20 - 17:30 |
Patterns for Cloud ComputingSimon Guest (Microsoft) - Everything that you read these days seems to suggest that you should be moving to the cloud. But where do you start? Which applications and services should you be moving? How do you build the bridge between on-premises and the cloud? What client architecture patterns does it enable. And more importantly, what should you be looking out for along the way? Based on real-world scenarios, this session explores a set of pattern for applications that best take advantage of the cloud, together with working examples on the Windows Azure platform. This session provides the tools and knowledge to determine whether cloud computing is right for you, and where to start. |
Speakers
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August de los Reyes
August de los Reyes is the Principal Design Director for Microsoft Surface whose team is dedicated to pioneering intuitive ways to interact with technology.
De los Reyes is a member of the Advanced Studies Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design where he received an MDesS with Distinction in product design through which he explored the relationship of emotion and design intent. He was a visiting associate at the University of Oxford, a visiting lecturer at University of Washington, and a 2009 juror of the International Design Excellence Awards. He is researching his next book entitled The Poetics of Everyday Objects.
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Simon Guest
Simon Guest is the Senior Director of Technical Strategy in the Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) group at Microsoft, responsible for helping architects worldwide deliver practical and elegant solutions using Microsoft technologies.
Since joining Microsoft in 2001, Simon has led the Microsoft Platform Architecture Team, acted as Editor-in-Chief of the Microsoft Architecture Journal, pioneered the area of .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) interoperability, worked with customers on mission critical .NET solutions, and has been a regular speaker at many conferences worldwide, including PDC, TechEd, and JavaOne.
Before joining Microsoft, and with over 18 years in the IT industry, Simon held architect-level positions at many organizations, including Zoho Corporation, a Silicon Valley startup; Conchango, a UK based consultancy; and Herbert Smith, a leading law firm in the UK. He also worked for several years at GEC in its semiconductor manufacturing division.
Simon was born in England, and has been living in the U.S. for approximately eight years. He holds a Masters Degree in IT Security from the University of Westminster, London, and a Higher National Certificate in Software Engineering from Plymouth College. Simon is the author of numerous technical articles and books about Java, Microsoft .NET, and Web technologies, as well as maintaining a blog at http://simonguest.com.
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Brad Adams
Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation.
At Microsoft he is currently the Product Unit Manager of the Application Framework team which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that powers Rich Internet Applications and core innovations in the .NET Framework. Specific technologies owned by this team include parts of Silverlight, the Managed Extensibility Framework.
Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library). Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard. http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2003/09/26/50384.aspx.
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Cristovao Figueiredo
.NET consultant at Getronics
Cristovao is a .NET consultant at Getronics since 2004. He is responsible for the integration of the ‘WPF’ technology within the development platform (Byrd / Get.NET) of Getronics BeLux. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Science, and has an extensive knowledge of technical architecture issues related to management applications.
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Olivier Raulot
Business Unit Manager at Getronics
Located at Howald, graduated in Computer & Economic Science, Olivier is in charge for the ‘Microsoft’ development team at Getronics Belgium & Luxemburg. At the origin of the design for the ‘Get.SMC’ solution - developed in collaboration with Microsoft Belgium & Microsoft US in 2003 – he received the Award of ‘Best .NET Package Application of the Year’ during Microsoft’s Worlwide Partner Conference in New Orleans that same year.