Register now for the Microsoft Architect Insight Conference 2008 on 28 to 29 April 2008 in Beaumont House, Old Windsor.
This year's two-day residential event for senior architects, CTOs and senior IT decision makers is a must for all forward-thinking companies.
We will focus on four main architectural areas influencing our profession today: Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Solution Architecture and the emerging concept of Software plus Services.

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Highlights from Architect Insight Conference 2007
On 5 – 6 March 2007 Microsoft UK hosted the Architect Insight Conference, a two-day architectural retreat, at The Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Gwent. The conference provided a unique opportunity for senior industry architects to meet, network and discuss industry-wide issues with their peers and key Microsoft representatives.

Click here to download the presentations from the 2007 conference

Featured speakers
During the two-day conference delegates heard from over 50 speakers presenting across seven tracks covering Enterprise, Real World, Dynamic Systems, Collaboration, Lifecycle, Identity and Web.

Featured speakers included Jack Greenfield, Software Architect on VSTS, Ivar Jacobson, founder of the Rational Unified Process, David Sprott from CBDI, along with architects from the London Underground and Diamond Trading Company, as well as senior architects from Microsoft , members of the Microsoft UK Architect Council and representatives from the four conference sponsors.

• Lord Erroll's opening plenary session
• Ron Jacobs' on-stage interview with Ivar Jacobson, Jack Greenfield and Colin Bird from Conchango.
• Insight Conference ARCasts: During the conference Ron Jacobs conducted six 30-minute interviews which will be posted at http://www.skyscrapr.net/blogs/arcasts/default.aspx as downloadable podcasts in the very near future.
• Focus groups and clinics which provided delegates with the chance to discuss any debate some challenging topics including “What is an Architect?” and contributions to “Developing the Future 2” whitepaper.
• Xpertise's demo sessions on Visual Studio Team System.

Conference partners
We would like to thank the four co-sponsors of the conference - Avanade, Capgemini, Conchango and Solidsoft, for their involvement in this event, as well as the Conference Training sponsor – Xpertise Ltd, and Community sponsor – IASA.

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