Next December 4th 2008 we’re gonna run in Madrid, Spain, a special event (Architect Forum XXII: S+S and Microsoft Azure services platform).

Azure platform and Windows Azure is the new Microsoft S+S platform (for apps. development), a big bet for ‘computing in the cloud’.

If you are a Software Architect, and you are interested and want to attend to this event we’re gonna run in Madrid, just register yourself in the following address:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032395293&Culture=es-ES

Here is the whole agenda:

AGENDA

Our main speaker: Clemens Vasters (Azure Service Bus Technical Lead, Microsoft Corp.)

For more info about Clemens, see his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/clemensv/

Architect Forum: S+S Platform– Microsoft Azure Services Platform

9:00 – 9:30

Registration                                                                  

9:30 – 11:00

Keynote (Spanish):

– Welcome & Agenda

– Microsoft global visión about S+S

– Windows Azure introduction

Enrique Fernández-Laguilhoat Blanco – Director DPE, Microsoft

César de la Torre – Architect Advisor, Microsoft

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee

11:30 – 12:30

Azure Services Platform – An Overview (English)

Clemens Vasters · Service Bus Technical Lead, Microsoft Corporation

12:30 – 13:15

.NET Services – A closer look at the .NET Service Bus (English)

Clemens Vasters · Service Bus Technical Lead, Microsoft Corporation

13:15 – 14:00

.NET Services – A closer look at the .NET Access Control and Workflow Services (English)

Clemens Vasters · Service Bus Technical Lead, Microsoft Corporation

14:00 – 15:00

Lunch-Cocktel

15:00 – 15:45

Developing & Deploying services ‘in the cloud’: Azure .NET Services (Spanish)

Matias Woloski, Software Architect – SouthWorks 

15:45 – 16:30

Azure SQL Services – Data Services in the Internet (Spanish)

Fernando Guerrero, CEO · Solid Quality

16:30 – 17:30

Enterprise App in Azure (Spanish)

Eugenio Pace – Architect – Microsoft Corp 

17:30 – 18:00

Architectural vision: Comparing Azure platform with Microsoft ‘On-premise’ platform and competing technologies (Spanish)

César de la Torre · Architect Advisor, Microsoft

If you don’t really know what the Azure platform and Windows Azure are about, here you have two posts about it I wrote several days ago, which summarizes it:

http://blogs.msdn.com/cesardelatorre/archive/2008/11/02/microsoft-azure-services-platform.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/cesardelatorre/archive/2008/10/27/pdc-2008-disclosures-the-cloud-windows-azure-services-platform.aspx