Event Details:

Attendance by registration only RIYADH | REGISTER
2nd & 3rd November, 2010
Four Seasons Hotel

Event Agenda

Riyadh

Tuesday, 2nd November, 2010
Four Seasons Hotel

 Day 1:

08:00 am – 09:30 am
Registration

 

General Sessions

10:00 am – 10:25 am
10:25 am – 10:45 am
10:45 am – 12:00 am

12:00 am – 13:15 pm

Keynote: Steve Ballmer
Break
Technical Keynote
(Brad McCabe, Goksin Bakir, Abdurrahman Al-Qahtani)
Lunch break & Prayer

Open Door Expo open from 09:30 am – 17:45 pm

Track A (IT Professionals)

13:15 pm – 14:30 pm
IT Infrastructure from the Desktop to the Cloud: Deploy, Manage & Scale
(Essam Hamdan)
14:30 pm – 14:45 pm
Break
14:45 pm – 16:00 pm
Microsoft Communications Server “14”: Transforming the Way People Communicate
(Alawi AlBar)
16:00 pm – 16:30 pm
Break & Prayer
16:30 pm – 17:45 pm
Realizing a Dynamic Datacenter Environment with Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Partner Solutions
(Wilfried Schadenboeck, Asem Alhourani)

 Track B (Developers)

13:15 pm – 14:30 pm
Lap around the Windows Azure Platform
(Goksin Bakir, Mohamad Halabi)
14:30 pm – 14:45 pm
Break
14:45 pm – 16:00 pm
WebMartix – Web Development Made Easy
(Abdurrahman AlQahtani)
16:00 pm – 16:30 pm
Break & Prayer
16:30 pm – 17:45 pm
Tales from the Trenches: Building a Real-World Microsoft Silverlight Line-of-Business Application
(Fauzan Khan)
Day 2:
Riyadh

Wednesday, 3rd November, 2010
Four Seasons Hotel

08:00 am – 09:00 am
Registration

 

Open Door Expo open from 09:00 am – 17:00 pm

Track A (IT Professionals)

09:00 am – 10:00 am
Keynote: Lap Around Technical Solutions in Saudi Arabia
(Platinum Sponsors)
10:00 am – 10:15 am
Break
10:15 am – 11:20 am
Delivering an End-to-End Business Intelligence Solution
(Omar Awwad)
11:20 am – 11:35 pm
Break
11:35 am – 12:40 am
System Center Virtual Machine Manager Self-Service Portal 2.0 Deployment: Architecture and Scenario Walkthrough
(Asem Alhourani)
12:40 am – 14:00 pm
Lunch Break & Prayer
14:00 pm – 15:10 pm
Windows 7: Optimized Desktop Solutions & Demo
(Brad McCabe)
15:10 pm – 15:40 pm
Break & Prayer
15:40 pm – 16:45 pm
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Unified Messaging in the Real World
(Wilfried Schadenboeck)

 

Track B (Developers)

09:00 am – 10:00 am
Lap Around Technical Solutions in Saudi Arabia Platinum Sponsors
10:00 am – 10:15 am
Break
10:15 am – 11:20 am
Advanced Dashboard Creation Using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
(Jerry Yasir)
11:20 am – 11:35 pm
Break
11:35 am – 12:40 am
Internet Explorer 9 – a Platform for Web Developers
(Daron Yondem)
12:40 am – 14:00 pm
Lunch Break & Prayer
14:00 pm – 15:10 pm
Building Modern Line-of-Business Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 (Daron Yondem)
15:10 pm – 15:40 pm
Break & Prayer
15:40 pm – 16:45 pm
Architecture Perspective on Visual Studio 2010
(Abdurrahman AlQahtani)

 

Track C (Technical Managers)

8:00 am – 10:00 am
Registration
10:15 am – 11:15 am
TDM keynote (Goksin Bakir, Brad McCabe)
11:15 am – 11:35 am
Break
11:35 am – 12:30 am
CIO Primary Responsibilities
(Ali Ramadan)
12:30 am – 14:00 pm
Lunch & Prayer
14:00 pm – 14:30 pm
The Economics of Cloud Computing
(Kadri Umay)
14:30 pm – 15:10 pm
Keep your house organized – A guidance towards SharePoint Governance
(Wael Kabli)
(Emad Bakilah)
15:10 pm – 15:40 pm
Break & Prayer
15:40 pm – 16:15 pm
CIO’s Competencies
(Ali Ramadan)
16:15 pm – 16:45 pm
CIO’ Of The Future Training Program
(Ali Ramadan)

 General Closing Session (All Tracks)
16:45 pm – 17:00 pm
17:00 pm – 18:00 pm

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