Post-Event Resources for Microsoft Architect Insight Conference 2009

As well as compelling Speaker presentations, there were numerous opportunities during the conference to get up close and personal with Microsoft and its partners in the form of round table sessions

Each session was based around a topic of interest and led by one of our subject experts.

Agenda

Session Overview

Time
08:30	Registration
9:30
	Addressing the Innovator's Dilemma Gurprit Singh, Director of Emerging Technologies, Microsoft Ltd Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)
	The interoperability imperative Giampiero Nanni, Director of Interoperability, Microsoft UK Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)
	Building Solutions for a Software + Service World! Back to back lightening keynotes on the experiences of building large scale, mission critical solutions on the Microsoft platform.
	Astra Zeneca John Whiteway, Lead Architect, Astra Zeneca Download Slides (PPT) Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV) Download Podcast (MP3)
	Equiniti Mike Jolliffe, CTO, Equiniti Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV) Download Podcast (MP3)
	Easyjet Andy Caddy, Head of Enterprise Architecture, EasyJet Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV) Download Podcast (MP3)
11:00	Coffee Break
11:15	Extending the enterprise through mobile Dave Baker, Architect, Microsoft Ltd Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)	IT trends and Challenges - Six Degrees for Contemplation Dave Coplin, Enterprise Strategy Consultant, Microsoft Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)
11:55	Comfort Break
12:00	Service Oriented Modelling Hatay Tuna, Architect, Microsoft Ltd Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)	The green application? Ulrich Homann, Chief Architect, WW Enterprise Services, Microsoft Corp Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)
12:40	Lunch
13:30	Oslo and Modelling Distributed Systems Robert Hogg, Managing Director, Black Marble Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)	The Shape of Businesses to Come Mike Lloyd, Managing Director, Carbonflame Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)
14:10	Comfort Break
14:15	Integrating Unified Communications with your Business Processes. Russell Kirk, MVP, Grey Convergence Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)	Applying user centred design to architecture John Waterworth, Independent Consultant Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)
14:55	Comfort break
15:00	Architectural governance and software archaeology with Visual Studio 2010 Giles Davies, Developer Tools Technical Specialist, Microsoft Ltd Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)	The Cloud: The architect's decision Andy James, CTO, SolidSoft Charles Young, Principal consultant, SolidSoft Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)
15:40	Coffee Break
15:55	Dynamic Architecture Mark Bloodworth, Architect, Microsoft Ltd Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)	Build, Buy or Re-use: Components and Services? Simon Thurman, Architect Microsoft Ltd Phil Rowland, Enterprise Architect, Capgemini Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)
16:35	Comfort Break
16:40	Architecting Applications for Windows Azure Neil Kidd, MTC Architect, Microsoft Ltd Andy Milligan, MTC Architect, Microsoft Ltd Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)	An identity on the ground with your head in the clouds Steve Plank, Identity Architect, Microsoft Ltd Download Slides (PPT) Download Video (WMV)
17:20	Final Round-up
17:30	Close

9:30
	Addressing the Innovator's Dilemma Gurprit Singh, Director of Emerging Technologies, Microsoft Ltd
	The interoperability imperative Giampiero Nanni, Director of Interoperability, Microsoft UK
	Building Solutions for a Software + Service World! Back to back lightening keynotes on the experiences of building large scale, mission critical solutions on the Microsoft platform.
	Astra Zeneca John Whiteway, Lead Architect, Astra Zeneca
	Equiniti Mike Jolliffe, CTO, Equiniti
	Easyjet Andy Caddy, Head of Enterprise Architecture, EasyJet
Extending the Enterprise through Mobile 11.15 Dave Baker - Architect, Microsoft Ltd	Devices are increasingly being adopted by Enterprises but are we architecting solutions to take full advantage of them? In this session we will discuss the use of devices in the Enterprise along with common scenarios and architectural considerations that should be taken into account. We will look at best practice for architecting solutions that can be easily scaled for mobile deployment including methods for addressing the challenges of deploying, managing and securing mobile solutions in demanding environments.
IT trends and Challenges - Six degrees for contemplation 11:15 Dave Coplin, Enterprise Strategy Consultant, Microsoft Ltd	The prevalence of technology in today's society, has enabled some incredible changes in both our personal and professional lives. Technology is an incredible enabler for many things but why does it prove so often to be the stumbling block that prevents us from reaching success? Through this presentation, we will look at the six key areas that stand between us and greatness, and in particular, what Microsoft is doing to make a difference in the value that technology can bring to all areas of our society.
Service Orientated Modelling 12:00 Hatay Tuna, Architect, Microsoft Ltd	SOA promises business agility, faster time-to-market, cost reduction, increased reuse and leverage of existing assets. Customers are looking at SOA to develop new capabilities and provide these to internal and external customers in a service oriented fashion leveraging existing assets, reducing costs and time-to-market to gain competitive advantage in the market place. However, customers are struggling to adopt SOA and benefit from service orientation within the enterprise and in the cloud due to lack of well-defined frameworks, tools, methods and practices complementary to their existing investments and traditional delivery approaches. Although recent product and technologies provide service orientation capabilities, customers realise that SOA is not just about technology and web services but requires a framework of tools, methods and practices to define the journey to successful SOA in practical and incremental way to realise the maximum value of these technologies and align them with business needs in every step. Customers realise that big-bang and one-off approaches will not deliver the desired value and agility. Microsoft Services - Service Oriented Modelling provides a unified set of integrated rich tools to discover key business capabilities and SOM Modellers (Visual Studio 2008/DSL) to model and transform business capabilities, processes and entities into services. SOM provides extensible and customisable modelling framework including core Business Capability, Process, Service and Entity models to address specific industry, business domain and customer needs. SOM, by leveraging MSBA, is delivered top-down with focus on business goals, priorities and value, and it is customised bottom-up so that defined and implemented services are aligned IT architecture roadmap
The Green Application 12:00 Ulrich Homann, Chief Architect, WW Enterprise Services, Microsoft Corp	A lot of discussions are currently going round and round the 'green' IT space. Mostly the discussions center on introducing power-efficient and power-aware hardware resources, support for advanced power management in the OS and best practices to reduce the carbon footprint of building sites. While all of these discussions are critical in order to make progress in the fight to reduce resource usage, the discussion leaves a critical constituent out of the discussion: the application development community. The infrastructure will only be able to improve the carbon footprint to a certain point without the applications starting to become green-aware and supporting the desires of reduced resource usage.
Oslo, Microsoft Vision for the future of Modelling 13:30 Robert Hogg, Managing Director, Black Marble	This session will explore how Microsoft's vision for Modelling will change how applications are designed, developed and delivered for enterprises. I will look at how the new language "M" can be used to achieve greater development productivity and deliver Domain Specific Languages quickly.
The shape of business to come 13.30 Michael Lloyd, Managing Director, Carbon Flame	SaaS and its attendant technologies have the potential to utterly transform the business landscape. Businesses have Head Offices and support functions because they are information centres. SaaS and web services pipes information to specialist outsourcers who will replace Head Office functions. SaaS sounds like a simple, incremental IT improvement, but it opens up a world of profound structural change. Whether you are developing an SOA or preparing your enterprise IT to support selective outsourcing, this session is for you...
Integrating Unified Communications within your Business Processes 14.15 Russell Kirk,MVP, Grey Convergence	Unified Communications allows organisations to communicate more effectively and efficiently. Providing tools across platforms from the PC, web and mobile devices, significant reductions in the time and cost of travel can be achieved. Organisations can gain further benefits by integrating communications in their business processes and critical applications. Whilst providing a return on investment as a self- contained project, UC acts a foundation for the way people communicate within and between organisations, and extends communications into applications. Combining the Microsoft UC technologies and development tools allows enables communications to be enabled within line-of-business applications.
Applying User Centred Design to Architecture 14:15 John Waterworth, Independent Consultant	This session will discuss the importance and value of applying User Experience and User Centred Design ideas and techniques to Architecture. Too often we see architects focussed on portfolios of systems rather than on communities of users. Understanding and applying thinking from user experience and user centred design can: -- give architects a clearer picture of the needs and goals of different user communities -- tie together infrastructure, applications and devices into more integrated and useful business services -- help architects to speak to business stakeholders in ways that engage their attention and create consensus for action.
The Cloud: The Architects decision 15:00 Andy James, CTO, Solidsoft/ Charles Young, Principal Consultant, Solidsoft	This session focusses on the dillemas that face the enterprise architect in the new world of Cloud services. We will explore the strengths and weaknesses of the Cloud model, what works and what doesn't work, and the known unknowns. Finally we will provde a strategy for making the unknowns known.
Dynamic Architecture 15:55 Mark Bloodworth, Architect, Microsoft Ltd	Dynamic languages have gained a lot of interest and support recently. In this session we look at what dynamic languages mean to your architecture and how and when you can incorporate dynamic languages.
Build, Buy or Re-use: Components and Services 15:55 Simon Thurman, Architect, Microsoft Ltd/Phil Rowland, Enterprise Architect, Capgemini	One of the mantra's that I always had at the forefront of my mind as an architect was do I build, buy or re-use a particular software component. Whilst this remains true today, arguably it has become more complex with the inclusion of services into the decision. Or has it? Can we apply the same decision framework that we used for components to services? In this session we'll explore the decision framework that we used for components and test its applicability to services.
Architecting Applications for Windows Azure 16:40 Neil Kidd, MTC Architect, Microsoft Ltd	This session is based on the experiences gained while working with a real world project on Windows Azure. Windows Azure offers some fantatisic opertunities for masive scaled applications, zero or no maintanance costs and very small running costs, however there is a trade off. This session will discuss the types of applications that are sutable for the Windows Azure and those that aren't. We will cover how to architect applications to make the most of the facilities that Azure offers - the diffrent application role and types of storage. We will investigate the advantages and uses of each of these and discover the limitations. Finally we will talk about how to design a reliable application whithout the use of transactions.
An identity on the ground with your head in the clouds 16:40 Steve Plank, Identity Architect, Microsoft Ltd	A look at the protocols used for identity interactions when connecting your on-premise identity systems to applications deployed in the cloud. Deploying on-premise identity systems is one thing, but when we need to project those identities in to applications deployed to the cloud, what are the implications? How can we be sure the identities the applications consume are genuinely ones that our enterprise manages, how can we be sure that data isn't leaking? With the advent of user-centric identity, how can we apply this model to new methods of computing. This session combines slides, demos and extensive use of the whiteboard to describe these problems and their solutions. Active participation is encouraged throughout.