Microsoft Office and productivity at the DevCon 2016 conference

Dear friends, we are pleased to present the final announcement of the program of our conference, namely the announcement of the Office track at DevCon 2016.

Many have already experienced challenges associated with a huge number of unsystematic sources of information; uncontrolled growth of data volumes; critical importance of mobility and accessibility when making decisions.
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We invite you to the track on Office, where we will introduce the concept of productivity in the modern world, as well as new tools and approaches to working together! CTO and developers will be able to delve into cross-platform development, which directly affects the productivity of embedded solutions, expanding and making them available to the billionth army of Office users.

And we prepared a lot of surprises for the participants who visited the Office track. :)



The key visionary conference report about the Office and the concept of productivity will be presented by Zynaida Kudrin , S
The head of the department for the promotion of information office systems at Microsoft, Russia and Konstantin Goldstein are the technological evangelist of the company. Konstantin and Zinaida together will open the session and present the participants with a lot of interesting information about the various approaches of Microsoft to promote Office services and products, as well as what opportunities appear for developers.

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On the same day, the technological evangelists Microsoft, France, and the developers of the Vorlon.JS tool Julien Corioland and Etienne Margraff will speak at the keynote session of the Office’s key technology session Office. Microsoft experts will introduce students to the course of the new concept of “Office as a platform” for developers, will talk about various aspects of technology in terms of the implementation and use of new opportunities to develop their own solutions.

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Vitaly Zhukov , lead developer at I-Teco, will make a presentation on Microsoft Graph. Ready Big Data for your solutions . The report will cover the main features of Microsoft Graph and the creation of Big Data solutions based on it. We will look at various scenarios for using Microsoft Graph: getting related data from Office 365, sending data about various user activities, and more.

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Alexandra Chizhova Architect of Business Intelligence and DataWarehouse Solutions, Microsoft Russia, will make a presentation on Power BI opportunities for developers . After a brief review of the business intelligence application and building an interactive reporting, Power BI, the speaker will talk about the possibilities of connecting to various data sources and their processing, advanced visualization capabilities, as well as product development plans for the next few months.

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Mikhail Bondarevsky Architect, Microsoft Technology Center, Russia, will make a presentation Building a new generation of portals based on Office 365 SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2016 . The report will consider approaches to creating a new generation of solutions (NexGen Portals) based on SharePoint. NextGen Portals is the codename of the new generation of portals that will be “smart”, providing relevant, user-oriented information, integration with corporate systems, as well as being functional and convenient when visiting from a mobile device. Vivid examples of such portals are Office 365 Video, Delve and Planner. NextGen Portal combines a number of concepts and modern technologies of web development. In the course of the report, we will analyze the architecture of such solutions, discuss tools and technologies that can be used in our solutions now. Let's look into the future of the SharePoint developer.

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DevCon 2016

DevCon is the largest Microsoft conference for developers in Russia. We spend its sixth year and traditionally try to gather those who are not indifferent to the Microsoft platform outside the city, in a comfortable country park hotel, to discuss current technologies together and try out the latest versions of products in practice.

In 2016, DevCon will appear in an updated format and we are happy to share with you the secrets of the preparation of our conference, as well as the main announcements:

• DevCon Secrets # 1. Traditional DevCon in a new format
• DevCon Secrets # 2. How the conference grid is formed
• Microsoft DevCon 2016 - Introducing the First Wave of Community Track Speakers
• Microsoft DevCon 2016 - Introducing the Final Wave of Community Track Speakers
• Finalized the community track program of the DevCon 2016 conference
• The program of the cloud track of the DevCon 2016 conference has been finalized
• Announcement of the Windows track of the DevCon 2016 conference
• Announcement of a startup track: is a new Yandex, Parallels or Nginx possible now in Russia? Easily !
• Microsoft DevCon 2016 - computer vision, SQL Server 2016, Data Science and more
• Xamarin Development Workshop: Technology Overview and Immersion in Solution Development
• Announcement! DevCon 2016 participants will be available a master class from Intel
• Intensive announcement on ASP.NET Core at the Microsoft DevCon 2016 conference

This year, participants in the event will have more opportunities to immerse themselves in technology and gain new knowledge. We have prepared a large number of new interesting master classes, which will be described in more detail in the next announcement. At the same time, DevCon is still more than just a conference, with a rich program and communication with experts and colleagues outside the program. On the site you can learn more about how to become a member.

We remind that this year we offer simplified participation in DevCon 2016 with a new category of Guest Pass tickets for 2500 rubles , which include transfer to the venue, attendance of all reports and workshops of the first day of the conference, and an interactive exhibition!

Hurry up to buy GUEST PASS for the DevCon 2016 conference.

See you at the conference!