Agenda - Developer 29th Nov, 2011
Agenda Topic Speaker
09:00 - 09:30 DPE Audinece Marketing Manager welcome Keynote
09:30 - 10:30 A Lap Around .Net 4.5 Mohammad Halabi
10:30 - 10:45   Break 
10:45 - 11:45 Building Windows Phone Applications with the Windows Azure Platform Fauzan Khan
11:45 - 12:00   Break 
12:00 - 13:00 HTML5 and CSS3 Techniques You Can Use Today Muhammad Umair
13:00 - 14:00   Lunch 
14:00 - 15:00 SharePoint 2010 Site Branding Shoaib barry
15:00 - 15:15   Break 
15:15 - 16:15 How to move your application and Database to the Cloud Fauzan Khan / Nabeel Derhem
16:15 - 16:30   Closing and Prize Draw 
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Mohammad Halabi Close
Microsoft MVP & DevLifeStyle Lead Mohamad works as a connected systems architect at the Ministry of Higher Education and has vast experience in MS technologies such as the .NET Framework, BizTalk Server, WCF, WF, and has great interest in Cloud Computing and Windows Azure. He is a frequent speaker in MS events such as GDC, Tech-Ed Dubai, and Open Door. You can reach him at http://thedotnethub.blogspot.com"
Fauzan Khan Close
Fauzan Khan is currently working as a Solutions Architect for Microsoft. He is a certified MCSD.NET / MCDBA and a prior MVP with over 20 years’ experience. Fauzan has extensive skills in architecting and developing solutions around Visual Studio, Team System, SharePoint and SQL Server. He participates in worldwide events such as Microsoft TechEd and is an active speaker at community events. Fauzan can be reached via his blog www.fauzankhan.com or via twitter @fauzank
Muhammad Umair Close
Muhammad Umair is the Head of IT for TATWEER Education Holding Company (One of the biggest project in the Kingdom to develop education system). He is a recognized technology leader known for crafting the requisite strategic vision to achieve business goals, Muhammad Umair offers a unique blend of executive acumen, team-building and IT solutions development credited with strong ROI and operational improvements. As Head of IT , Umair has built a responsive IT organization that consistently delivers results by aligning technology initiatives with business goals. Prior to joining TATWEER he has served as Web Specialist/Solutions Architect at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for past four years and is specialized in Development and Architecture on .NET technologies. He is passionate about software development and enterprise architecture. Muhammad has also worked as Senior Applications Developer at Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia where he designed, developed and supported enterprise scale solutions. Apart from community meetings and presentations, Umair has also delivered several technical sessions at international conferences as well as participated as technical expert at several expert panels. Being certified on ITIL, Umair also provides IT Service Management consultancy to companies implementing ITIL framework. Umair is also a TOGAF Certified Architect providing expertise in Enterprise Architecture domain as well.
Umit Tiric Close
Amer is freelancer Microsoft Dynamics AX Solution Architect and Dynamics AX community lead in Saudi. Currently he supports the Saudi market with his expertiese in Dynamics AX. He started working with Microsoft Dynamics AX since its earlier versions for the last five years during which he experienced many types of businesses, processes, technologies, and projects. He has been a speaker for Microsoft Dynamics AX in GDC '09 and the local technical communities. You can reach Amer through his technical blog: http://www.amer-ax.com/category/blog/.
• Advice and assist customers to design and implement integrated systems to meet their business, organizational and technical requirements
• Designing and developing applications using various technologies, programming languages and products
• Provide thought leadership in development and implementation of service provisioning models, service and operational management frameworks
• Training, facilitation, presentation and public speaking
Fauzan Khan Close
Fauzan Khan is currently working as a Solutions Architect for Microsoft. He is a certified MCSD.NET / MCDBA and a prior MVP with over 20 years’ experience. Fauzan has extensive skills in architecting and developing solutions around Visual Studio, Team System, SharePoint and SQL Server. He participates in worldwide events such as Microsoft TechEd and is an active speaker at community events. Fauzan can be reached via his blog www.fauzankhan.com or via twitter @fauzank
Nabeel Derham Close
Nabeel is a Solutions & Database Architect with more than 12 years of experience. He is an MCT, MCITP, MCSD, and TOGAF 9 certified with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) , He is a frequent speaker in many local communities and Microsoft events, and is widely recognized for his SQL Server expertise. Nabeel is the founder of SQLServerPath community group (http://www.SqlServerPath.Org/blog), and a board member in DevLifeStyle(http://www.DevLifeStyle.Net). Surprisingly, he's also a top ranked boxer.
A Lap Around .Net 4.5 Close
We'll take a look at some of the most important features of the newly accounced .NET 4.5. Attend this demo-based session if you want a jump-start on how to improve your applications
Building Windows Phone Applications with the Windows Azure Platform Close
Learn how to build Windows Phone applications that are backed by scalable cloud components hosted in Windows Azure. This demo-focused session covers the end-to-end experience and addresses how to tackle issues such as authentication, storage, notification and data synchronization using the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone
HTML5 and CSS3 Techniques You Can Use Today Close
As more browsers deliver rich support for the next generation of standards-based web development,new techniques are enabling web developers to design with unprecedented levels of control. In this session,learn practical HTML5 and CSS3 techniques that you can use in any web project today. Learn how to easily add drop shadows to HTML objects,how to quickly create rounded corners,how to use custom fonts,and even how to animate with CSS. All techniques are demonstrated with special attention to cross-browser support and tips for supporting older browsers
Technology in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 Close
This session is a light weight technical session describes the new Dynamics AX 2012 for new as well as experienced Dynamics AX technical and non-technical attendees , Tremendous changes and efforts have been made on the technology side from the Dynamics AX 2012. Layers in database, new Modeling system, Reports only on SSRS, Enterprise Portal on MOSS 2012, AOT in VS.net... and many other new updates you would really like to watch
How to move your application and Database to the Cloud Close
This session will provide an overview of what it takes to move your application and database to Windows Azure and SQL Azure