| Chris Ip |
| McKinsey |
Chris Ip is a Principal with McKinsey & Company, based in Hong Kong. He co-leads McKinsey's IT Practice in Greater China. Chris has served clients all over Europe, the United States and Asia in many industry sectors on strategy, technology, business process redesign, operations and organization issues. Chris holds an MA in mathematics and computer science and a Diploma in Languages from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. |
| Giuseppe De Filippo |
| McKinsey |
Giuseppe De Filippo is an Associate Principal in McKinsey's IT Practice in Shanghai. Prior to his move to Asia in 2002 he was based in the Zurich and served clients across Europe. Giuseppe's experience and expertise is varied, focused on two main areas: 1. Serving leading domestic and international telecommunication companies throughout the region. On IT issues he addresses IT architecture, IT transformation, and system migration roadmaps. He has led more than 10 projects in Asia and serves three of the top 5 Asian telecom providers. 2. Advising major banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions on their most critical areas such as IT strategy and architecture, developing strategic business plans, post merger management (PMM), IT organization, system migration, and IT diagnostics. Giuseppe De Filippo received a Master of Science in Physics from the University of Pisa in Italy, and a PhD in Physics from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. |
| DS | SOA: The Bridge Between IT and Business
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| Jim Webber |
| ThoughtWorks |
Dr. Jim Webber is a senior consultant with ThoughtWorks Australia specialising in Web Services and SOA. Jim was formerly a senior researcher with Newcastle University where he developed strategies for aligning Grid computing with Web Services practices and architectural patterns for dependable Service-Oriented computing. Jim has extensive Web Services architecture and development experience as an architect with Arjuna Technologies and was the lead developer with Hewlett-Packard on the industry's first Web Services Transaction solution. Jim is an active speaker in the Web Services space and is co-author of the book "Developing Enterprise Web Services - An Architect's Guide." His blog is located at http://jim.webber.name . |
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Developing Enterprise Web Services |
| DS | Developing Enterprise Web Services
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| Mark Olson |
| Director of Strategy and Planning, Solution Market Development, Intel |
| ¡¡¡¡Mark W. Olson is a Director of Strategy and Planning for Intel Corporation's Solution Market Development Group. Olson joined Intel in 1976, and has more than 25 years of experience in general management, operations and product management positions. Olson is currently actively engaged in driving the development solutions in support of Intel's Service Oriented Enterprise vision. Previously, Olson was General Manager and Director of Marketing for Intel Online Services. Olson received a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. |
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The Service Oriented Enterprise enables cost effective agility |
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| Jeff Lee |
| APAC Product Marketing Manager, Intel |
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Digital Office: Business Client Growth Opportunity |
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| Gurpreet Pall |
| Sr. Director, Architecture Strategy, Microsoft |
| Gurpreet S. Pall is responsible for the Microsoft Systems Architecture and related infrastructure solutions and programs. In his 13 year career at Microsoft he has played leading roles in the development and delivery of several key products and solutions to the Microsoft field, partners and customers. Products such as Microsoft Excel/Office and solutions in the areas sales force empowerment, knowledge management and IT services. |
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Modelling for Service-Oriented Architecture |
| IF | Microsoft Architectural Framework
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| DS | Microsoft Architectural Framework
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| DS | SOA: The Bridge Between IT and Business
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| Mike Burner |
| Architect, Architecture Strategy, Microsoft |
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Connected Systems Architecture |
| IF | Microsoft Technology Roadmap
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| IF | Enterprise Information Integration
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| DS | Enterprise Information Integration
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| Simon Guest |
| Architect, Architecture Strategy, Microsoft |
| Simon is a Program Manager in the .NET Enterprise Architecture Team in Redmond, and specializes in Enterprise Interoperability and Integration - including interoperability with J2EE applications, enterprise messaging, Web services interoperability and end-to-end integration with desktop and smart client products. In 2003, Simon authored a book, "Microsoft .NET and J2EE Interoperability Toolkit". Prior to joining Microsoft in 2001, Simon worked for an Application Service Provider (ASP) in California and a leading Systems Integrator (SI) in London, consulting for the financial, telecom and retail verticals. |
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Web Services Interoperability between .NET and J2EE |
| DS | Web Services Interoperability between .NET and J2EE
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| Fred Chong |
| Architect, Architecture Strategy, Microsoft |
| Fred Chong is an architect in the .NET Enterprise Architecture Team in Redmond where he works with enterprise customers to architect security solutions. His previous industry experience includes implementing security features in the Microsoft NetShow and Terminal Server products and prototyping an electronic cash system at the IBM T.J Watson Research Center. He has a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California in San Diego. |
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Securing Web Services |
| DS | Identity and Access Management
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| Brenton Webster |
| Architect, Architecture Strategy, Microsoft |
| Brenton is responsible for leading strategic engagements with large key customers and partners. These engagements help to architect and design large scale distributed enterprise solutions based on the .NET platform. Previously at Microsoft, Brenton worked on Visual C# for a number of years. Before Microsoft, he worked in the telecommunications industry on consulting and software engineering. |
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Smart Client Application Architecture and Design |
| IF | Connected Systems Case Study: Commonwealth Bank of Australia
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| DS | Patterns for Connected Systems
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| DS | Microsoft Messaging Roadmap & Indigo
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| Mark Glikson |
| Architect, .NET Emerging Business, Microsoft |
| Before joining Microsoft, Mark was part of the team that formulated the Statistics New Zealand enterprise architecture including its application architecture and other supporting architectures. He was also heavily involved with evaluating and choosing technologies that would support the goals of the architectures developed. In the preceding nine years at Statistics New Zealand, Mark was also engaged as both a project manager and a participant in a variety of infrastructure and application development projects including security, identity integration, portals and Year 2000. |
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Virtualizing the Enterprise |
| IF | Microsoft Operations Framework
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| Eugenio Pace |
| Architect, Platform Architecture Guidance, Microsoft |
| Eugenio Pace is a Product Manager at Microsoft patterns & practices, focusing on Smart Clients. Patterns & practices ships architectural guidance for enterprise customers. Before joining this group, he was an architect at Microsoft Consulting Services, helping customers build enterprise solutions on the Microsoft platform. He has extensive experience in the financial services industry, having spent more than 10 years working in banks and other financial institutions prior to joining Microsoft. |
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Smart Client Design |
| DS | Microsoft Patterns & Practices: Enterprise Library
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| Edward Jezierski |
| Solutions Architect, Platform Architecture Guidance, Microsoft |
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Smart Client Design |
| DS | Microsoft Patterns & Practices: Enterprise Library
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| Nigel Burton |
| GM, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Greater China, Microsoft |
| Nigel Burton joined Microsoft in 1989 to establish and lead a financial services group in London. He later managed various groups in Microsoft including Microsoft's European ISV Partner division, Worldwide Solution Developer group, Microsoft Business Solutions group, and Small and Midmarket Solutions & Partners group. He now leads the platform evangelism effort in the Greater China Region. |
| Hongchao Wang |
| Developer Evangelist, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft China |
Developer Evangelist, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft China
Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, Hongchao Wang owns the popular developer community website http://blog.joycode.com . He joined Microsoft China in 2003 as a Developer Evangelist, focusing on .NET technology education in Chinese developer community. |
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Improving Software Development Life Cycle with Visual Studio Team System |
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| Richard Yi |
| IT Pro Evangelist, Developer & Platform Evangelism, Microsoft China |
| Richard Yi has more than 13 years of working experience in IT industry, including over 8 years in infrastructure design, security consulting and auditing for banks, insurance companies, governments, universities and pharmaceutical companies, such as, Bank of Montreal, TD bank, CIBC bank, Canadian Television, University of Toronto, City of Toronto, and Glaxowellcome Pharmaceutical. |
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Best Practices for Securing your IT Assets |
| DS | Enterprise IT Security Auditing
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| Paul Wang |
| Sr. IT Account Manager, Microsoft China |
| IF |
MS IT Showcase: Operation Excellence |
| DS | MS IT Showcase: Operation Excellence
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| Jian Wang |
| Migration Solutions Manager, Microsoft China |
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UNIX and Windows Server 2003: Interoperability, Migration and Case Studies |
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