In the footsteps of Tech ∙ Ed Russia 2011: Conference Results

The largest Microsoft technology conference in Russia was attended by over 2,500 specialists from Russia and the CIS countries, as well as more than 50,000 people online.



The largest Microsoft technology conference in Russia, Tech - Ed Russia 2011, took place in Moscow. Over two days of work, more than 2,500 information technology specialists from different regions of Russia and the CIS countries attended 160 reports in 15 tracks to learn about tools, technologies and solutions Microsoft. Traditionally, on the conference website http://www.msteched.ru in a few weeks videos of all reports and materials from the event will be available.

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For information about Tech ∙ Ed Russia 2011, please visit http://www.msteched.ru . Video records of the plenary report in Russian and English are already available on the site. In addition, published all the guidelines for laboratory work conducted at the conference.



The conference was opened by a plenary report with the participation of Nikolay Pryanishnikov, President of Microsoft in Russia, Kevin Turner, Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft Corporation, and S. Somasegar, Corporate Vice President for Development Tools of Microsoft Corporation. The report announced the launch of the Russian-language version of the online academy Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA) and announced the second annual conference on the development of DevCon'12 , which will be held May 23-24, 2011.



ABBYY has announced a new service for ABBYY Cloud OCR SDK developers on Windows Azure, Begun has launched a solution to monetize mobile phone applications on the Windows Phone platform. The most popular Russian applications for Windows Phone were demonstrated. During the plenary report, it was announced that all conference participants will receive free trial access to the Visual Studio Team Foundation Foundation Service - an integrated platform for collaborative software development in the cloud.



“Twelve times we held a conference in Russia called“ Platform. Defining the future ”, which has become a good tradition and a landmark event in the IT industry. Over the years, we have gone from Windows 2000 to cloud computing and the latest client platforms. All this time, we have listened attentively to your wishes to increase the number of topics for the conference and to involve more international experts. And today we have opened a new page in the history of Microsoft in Russia together, having held Tech ∙ Ed Russia for the first time, ”said Nikolay Pryanishnikov, President of Microsoft in Russia, in his welcoming speech to the participants of the conference.



“Russia is one of the strategically important countries on the world stage, which is the center of innovation, economic growth and entrepreneurial talent,” said Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer. “As industry leaders, we are constantly improving our products, technologies and solutions, opening up new opportunities for partners, customers and users to always be successful.”



The first Tech ∙ Ed Russia 2011 conference brought together over 200 speakers, including world-renowned experts such as Thomas Shinder, Scott Shnol, David Chappell, Rafal Lukavetsky, Richard Riley, Brian Syurasi, Jay Schmelzer, Matthew Benke, Lutz Ziob, Bari Shilmover, Michael Niehaus, Boris Baryshnikov, Vishal Joshi, Lari Lieberman and others.



The key technological topics of the conference were cloud computing and mobile technologies:



Private cloud



Microsoft private cloud solutions were presented as part of a separate track where event attendees got acquainted with new products - System Center 2012 and Windows Server 8.



Public cloud



The public cloud reports covered in detail the architecture of the Windows Azure cloud platform, the principles of creating cloud applications based on the Microsoft platform and the use of the Azure SQL cloud database, as well as the key scenarios of Office 365 as a collaboration platform in the cloud.



Windows Phone Mobile Platform



The conference participants got acquainted with the details of developing mobile applications for Windows Phone, as well as with the plans for the development of the Microsoft mobile platform.



Also at the conference the following topics were discussed in detail: databases, business analytics, software development languages ​​and tools, application and system architecture, solutions based on the Microsoft Office platform, information security, IT infrastructure management, foundations for building an enterprise IT infrastructure, unified communications , optimization of client jobs, Microsoft Dynamics solutions, the practice of applying IT technologies to solve business problems.



Laboratory work, certification exams, demonstration area



During the Tech ∙ Ed Russia 2011 conference, participants were offered 36 laboratory work, they were given the opportunity to pass Microsoft certification exams for free, the Xbox and Kinect entertainment zone worked.



In addition, as part of the conference, a demonstration zone of private cloud technologies was deployed, which in the production mode served the laboratory work of the conference. Participants were able to personally verify the reliability, performance and scalability of Microsoft solutions: the entire IT infrastructure of the event was deployed in a mini data center (DPC) right on the conference site.



Exhibition solutions



At the Tech ∙ Ed Russia 2011 conference, participants were also able to attend the Microsoft Expo, which presented the latest Microsoft products and solutions and more than 30 partners of the company.



Special attention was attracted by the Microsoft booth, which consisted of 19 thematic areas where participants could get acquainted with the entire product line of the company, with the latest equipment using Microsoft technologies, and also ask questions to Microsoft employees, key conference speakers and experts with the status of Microsoft Valuable Professionals ( MVP).