The Next Web
Watch out for the track on 23rd & 25th March!
The NextWeb is upon us and this track brings you the latest from Microsoft Web platform.
Get in-depth coverage on ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Internet Information Services (IIS)
and Windows Server AppFabric. Whether you are interested in taking your ASP.NET
development to the next level, or finding out how you can use your .NET development
skills to build world-class web applications, the Next Web track is for you!
Client Development
Watch out for the track on 23rd March!
The Windows Client track will offer insights into Windows 7 development. Key focus
areas include a technical dive into Applications powered by the power of the Full
PC - sensors, haptics and more. The Windows Client track will help you to prepare
for the challenges and opportunities while building applications for your customers.
Database Development
Watch out for the track on 23rd March!
TBD: SQL Dev., ADO.NET, Denali developer enhancements
Core Dev
Watch out for the track on 24th March!
Want to know what's new in the .NET 4.0 runtime or which Data Access Methods should
I use where? Then this track is for you!
Visual Studio Tools
Watch out for the track on 25th March!
Amplify your application development impact with Application Lifecycle Management
(ALM) best practices using Visual Studio Test Elements,and Team Foundation Server.
Acquire the skills that you need to make an immediate impact in your organization
while preparing for adoption of the latest version of Visual Studio.
Business Intelligence
Watch out for the track on 24th March!
Now more than ever, your business needs access to the right information to make
smarter, more informed decisions. This track covers how to integrate, analyze, and
report on all of your corporate data easily using the Microsoft BI platform, tools,
and analytics. Learn how to build robust BI solutions using SQL Server 2008 R2 (Integration
Services, Analysis Services and Reporting Services) and get a sneak peek into SQL
Server "Denali".
Unleash a more beautiful web
Watch out for the track on 24th March!
As amazing as the web is, its potential is immeasurably greater. Internet Explorer
9 was designed to let that potential shine through. Web developers & designers
alike, get ready for creating a more beautiful web using HTML5 and IE9.
Cloud Services with Windows Azure Platform
Watch out for the track on 24th March!
Deep-dive into individual Azure platform features (AppFabric, Virtual Connect, Storage,
SQL Azure Data Sync)
SharePoint Development
Watch out for the track on 25th March!
SharePoint offers immense amount of potential for integrating applications, workflows,
composite applications as well as Silverlight integration. And with Visual Studio
2010 support for designing, developing and deploying SharePoint applications, it
gets even better!
Deploy & Manage your Server infrastructure
Watch out for the track on 23rd March!
Solutions that save time, reduce costs and provide for an efficiently managed data
center. Powerful features such as RemoteFX, DirectAccess, NAP and Windows PowerShell
version 2.0 combine to give customers greater control, increased efficiency, and
the ability to react to front-line business needs faster than ever before. Here
is where you can update your knowledge, or focus on a specific technology or feature
that will benefit you & your organization.
Systems Management/Cloud/Virtualization
Watch out for the track on 23rd March!
Building a Private Cloud? Learn how Microsoft System Center Suite of products empower
you with tools to build & manage your unified IT management solution that enables
simpler and efficient performance across virtual and physical servers, PCs, hardware,
software and IT services from a single console.
SharePoint Admin
Watch out for the track on 24th March!
SharePoint is the fastest selling server in Microsoft history. Attend this track
to prepare yourself and your datacenter for SharePoint, learn how to plan for capacity,
upgrade to SharePoint 2010 & how SharePoint will change your day!
Online Services
Watch out for the track on 25th March!
Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications
and collaboration products with the latest version of our desktop suite for businesses
of all sizes. Tune into this track to learn more about Office 365 and prepare your
journey to the Cloud.
Database Administration
Watch out for the track on 25th March!
The SQL Server data platform helps your organization manage any data, any place,
any time with the security, reliability and scalability that your mission-critical
applications require. In this track, we will introduce unique ways to monitor SQL
Server health & activity as well as pushing the very limit of performance, scalability
and upgrading to SQL Server 2008 R2. You will also get a sneak peek into what SQL
Server "Denali" release offers for Database Administrators.
Deploying Windows 7
Watch out for the track on 24th March!
Deploying Windows 7 & Office 2010, building base images, VDI, MDOP & Sysinternals
tools
Architecture
Watch out for the track on 23rd March!
The focus for the track is to bring in uniqueness and offer niche topics. Focus
here is to offer niche topics under Web, Middleware, Data & Cloud. We open the
track with a role play that leads into individual sessions for the day.
Patterns and Practices
Watch out for the track on 24th March!
Using patterns & practices offerings, can shrink the design & dev cycle
of your custom app dev projects, reduce project technical risk, and position you
to take advantage of future Microsoft technologies. Each patterns & practices
offering contains a combination of re-usable source code, a reference implementation
& documentation! This track focuses on the latest guidance and offers an opportunity
to interact with the PnP team.
Architecture
Watch out for the track on 25th March!
Sessions in this track are designed to help architects, to make better architecture
choices–whether it's researching and evaluating new technology and platforms, choosing
or creating patterns, guidelines and practices, concepts visualization or influencing
and educating the business team. Learn about potential processes which you can use
to translate business vision, intent, and strategy into effective technological
change in the Enterprise. Hear great and renowned speakers share their views, best
practices around the skills of creating, communicating, and improving the key tenets,
principles, and models that help architects in their day to day life to understand
and describe the Enterprise's future state and enable its transformation, evolution,
or migration.
Management: Sustained Growth
Watch out for the track on 23rd March!
In this fast track world, there is a need to innovate oneself and rediscover oneself
on the personal fronts, productivity fronts etc. to win the dreams one has built
over years. Dreaming is one aspect, working towards achieving the dreams is another,
which a very few succeed. We will also look at how one can do work-life balance
to achieve greater heights. Also this track will bring out aspects of influencing
your stakeholders, management in an effective way and many more...
Management: Sustained Growth
Watch out for the track on 23rd March!
Integration & Interoperability
Watch out for the track on 25th March!
Businesses today need the ability to seamlessly interoperate and integrate with
multiple vendor technologies, systems, and applications, both within the organization
and with external customers & partners. IT departments have to juggle the needs
of business users with the complexities of building or deploying applications that
provide information from a range of IT resources that — increasingly — need to link
together, and can no longer be isolated islands of information. The Integration
and Interoperability track focuses on the ability to develop or enhance applications
to enable the types of integration required by today’s business processes. Sessions
define the issues and offer strategies for solutions that provide interoperability
of technologies that will enable you to link, couple, migrate, and consolidate Microsoft
and non-Microsoft platforms to provide flexible, intelligent IT solutions.
WebMatrix, Web Apps, PHP on IIS, PHP on Azure, RS on PHP, HTML5
Out Of Office
Watch out for the track on 25th March!
Microsoft goes beyond your workplace to bring your digital life together across
devices and services. In today's high-tech world, almost everyone has several electronic
devices—a PC, a laptop, a cell phone, a game console, an HDTV. In the past, we used
these devices independently for a single purpose. But today, we can connect these
devices together to deliver a greater combined user experience. Boost your productivity
when you work with Office 2010 as it helps you accomplish your work more intuitively,
so you can focus on the task at hand and produce better results.
Unplugged
Watch out for the track on 23rd & 24th March!
For the first time in Tech·Ed India, we are introducing Unplugged sessions. These
sessions are in a unique “free-style” format, offering you an opportunity to pose
questions spanning a variety of niche products & technology areas.
We look forward to having great dialog and Q&A, so come armed with questions and
be prepared to have a lot of fun!