PDC Birds-of-a-Feather

We are pleased to announce that Eugene Shustef will be one of the expert hosts for the BOF @Lunch: Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? on Tue 11/17 12:30-1:15 pm.

Eugene Shustef is a Chief Engineer for Global Technology & Offering Development (GTOD) at Xerox Global Services, where he has worked in various roles since 2004. His current assignment is to lead the GTOD Advanced Technology Team responsible for:

• ·         Incorporation of emerging technologies into current platforms
• ·         Delivering preview version of the future technology platforms
• ·         Development of advanced software services and components

Eugene is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology with a BS degree in Computer Science and an MBA in Finance.

We are pleased to announce that David Pallman will be one of the expert hosts for the BOF @Lunch: Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? on Tue 11/17 12:30-1:15 pm.

David Pallmann is Director of Custom Application Development for Neudesic, a Microsoft National System Integrator, where he is responsible for Azure technical readiness and delivery. He is a co-organizer of the national Azure User Group and a regular contributor of community software including Azure Storage Explorer, Azure ROI Calculator, and AzureDesignPatterns.com.  Prior to Neudesic David worked at Microsoft on the WCF product team. He has written 3 technical books and is rumored to be working on an Azure book. He lives in Southern California with his wife and 3 children.

We are pleased to announce that Simon Guest will be one of the expert hosts for the BOF @Lunch: Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? on

Tue 11/17 12:30-1:15 pm.

Simon Guest is the Senior Director of Technical Strategy in the Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) group at Microsoft, responsible for helping developers worldwide deliver practical and elegant solutions using Microsoft technologies.

Since joining Microsoft in 2001, Simon has led the Microsoft Platform Architecture Team, acted as Editor-in-Chief of the Microsoft Architecture Journal, pioneered the area of .NET and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) interoperability, worked with customers on mission critical .NET solutions, and has been a regular speaker at many conferences worldwide, including PDC, TechEd, and JavaOne.

We are pleased to announce that Michael Stiefel, principal of Reliable Software, Inc. will be one of the expert hosts for the BOF @Lunch: Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? on Tue 11/17 12:30-1:15 pm.

As a member of an OASIS Technical Committee he helped develop a core SOA Reference Model and related Reference Architectures.  He is also a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP.

He was a Lecturer in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his research and teaching focus was understanding how people build mental models in order to solve problems. As Adjunct faculty, Stiefel has taught graduate and undergraduate software engineering courses at Northeastern University and Framingham State University.

Michael Stiefel’s education is from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a Interdisciplinary Ph.D degree in Nuclear Engineering, Political Science, and History of Technology; M.S. in Nuclear Engineering; and B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He is an active member of the IEEE Consultants Network.

We are pleased to announce that Aaron Skonnard will be one of the expert hosts for the BOF @Lunch: Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life? on Tue 11/17 12:30-1:15 pm.

Aaron is co-founder of Pluralsight where he focuses on cloud computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA), XML and Web services technologies. He focuses primarily on the Microsoft platform and is considered an expert in the Microsoft community on Windows Azure, the Azure Services Platform, Windows Communication Foundation, BizTalk Server, SOAP/REST, and XML technologies. Aaron frequently consults with small companies to the largest enterprises on how to approach realistic service-oriented architectures using these technologies. You can read more about what he’s up to on his blog.

We are excited to announce the second in our series of special lunchtime BOF sessions. Don’t forget there is still time to submit your own BOF session proposal.

For the BOF Team
Chris

Tuesday, 11/17 12:30-1:15 p.m.

“Cloud Computing” is a reality and is changing the technology industry. Your professional life will be impacted whether you choose a solution from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, or others.

• How quickly will it change the economic paradigm of companies and their priorities?
• How much will you have to learn?
• What new opportunities will arise?
• How soon will it affect your job?

You will benefit from this special discussion whatever your role is in the technology world.

We’re pleased to announce the first of three special lunchtime Birds-of-a-Feather sessions we’re calling the BOF @Lunch Sessions. In addition to getting you excited to attend the BOFs, we hope you’ll be inspired to propose a BOF session of your own. More session announcements shortly.

For the BOF Team,
Stuart

BOF @Lunch: ASP.NET MVC – Share Your Stories From The Trenches

Wed 11/18 12:30-1:15 p.m.

Have you written a web application using the ASP.NET MVC framework based on the model-view-controller pattern yet? Are you thinking about it, but not sure if it’s the right choice? If you have worked with ASP.NET MVC you know it requires you to think quite differently about the architecture of a web site.

What worked? What hurt? How did you compensate? What was valuable? Did you use the source code? Practice TDD? Will you use MVC again?

Come share your real-world experiences — your stories from the trenches — and compare notes with others who’ve been there.