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Heroes Community Launch on 17th May 2008 - Powered by the Community

 Heroes Community Launch 2008

 Event Information

Date 17th May 2008, Saturday
Time 0830 hrs - 1600 hrs
Venue Microsoft Singapore, One Marine Boulevard
Lunch is provided

Heroes Community Launch 2008 is a joint product launch of the new family of Microsoft products - Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008, organised by your local User Group. This event promises to be a deep dive on some of the most interesting topics of the products and you'll be guaranteed not to walk away empty handed! This time, we've lined up 3 tracks, covering IT Pros, Developers and a special interest track which cuts across both tracks.

Update: Due to overwhelming response, online registration is closed! We thank you for your support. Registered participants will receive an email confirmation within these 2-3 working days. Thank you for your patience.

Update: Please bring the email confirmation on the day itself, either in your pda, or in hard copy form, and sign-in before 9am. Afterwhich, seats will be released to walk-in registration on demand basis.

For those that did not manage to register, you may try walk-in registration. However, priority goes to registered members, hence walk-in registration will commence at 9am.

  Members of the {insiders} community. Attend the event wearing the {insiders} polo, we have a pleasant surprise for you.

What you can expect to get by attending:
1. Enjoy exclusive offers. Some offers are only valid if you attend the event.
2. Everyone gets a door gift. We make sure no one leaves empty handed.
3. At the end of the day, return your survey form for raffle. You could take home one of the following;
a. 1 year TechNet Plus subscriptions
b. MS Press and O’Reilly Books
c. Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 NFRs
d. Microsoft Exam Vouchers and others…

4. Catch up with your community leaders and peers.
5. Ask questions… Almost the entire MVP Community will be around to meet you.

 

 Agenda

Time
Details
Location
8.30am - 9.00am
Registration and Door Gifts Handouts
Auditorium
9.00am - 9.30am
Opening Gambit and Heroes Highlights (5 mins)
Opening Keynotes (20Mins)
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3 UGs represented - Current Scorecard and Future plans
(Windows, SGDotNet, SQL)
By Pom, Dennis & Alvin
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15 Community Heroes  
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Community Members with Perfect Score for
"You Certify, We Pay" program - Receive their prizes from MSL
Auditorium
9.45am - 10.45am

IT Pro Track 1
Pom Figueroa
Show casing SQL 2008 and Windows 2008 Clustering
(Code: IT1-1)
Location: Auditorium

Dev Track 1
Hammad Rajjoub
Programming WCF
 (Code: DEV2-1)
Location: 22CF12

Special Track 1
Edwin Sarmiento
Linq to SQL
 (Code: ST3-1)
Location: 22BR01

Auditorium
22CF12
22BR01
10.45am - 11.00am
Coffee Break 1
Respective Level

11.00am - 12.00pm

IT Pro Track 2
Bryan Oliver

Benchmarking: The Forgotten Role of Performance Tuning (Code: ITI-2)
 Location: 22CF12

Dev Track 2
Andre John Tamayo Cruz
Silverlight and Unit Testing
(Code: DEV2-2)
Location: Auditorium

Special Track 2
David Hodkinson
Using Spatial Data Types in SQL 2008
 (Code: ST3-2)
Location: 22BR01

Auditorium
22CF12
22BR01

12.00pm - 1.00pm

Lunch Break (Lunch is provided)

Respective Level

1.00pm - 2.00pm

IT Pro Track 3
Sarbjit Singh Gill
Windows 2008: What to talk about on Security
(Code: IT1-3)
Location: 22CF12

Dev Track 3
 Wee Hyong Tok / Alvin Lau
A developer's Guide on using data mining
(Code: DEV2-3)
Location: Auditorium

Special Track 3
Eugene Tan
Windows Essentials Server Solutions
 (Code: ST3-3)
Location: 22BR01

Auditorium
22CF12
22BR01
2.10pm - 2.40pm

MS Press: The Next Generation Certifications
by: Yugesh / Sukhdev (MSL)

Auditorium

2.40pm - 3.40pm

DEV & IT Pro Combine
Jonathan Tan, Head Solution Architect, Transitions Systems
Database Security and Imperva Database IPs
Location: Auditorium

Auditorium

3.40pm - 3.50pm

Coffee Break 2

Level 21

3.50pm - 4.30pm

Closing and Coffee Break
Closing Speaker: Matthew Hardman
Provide a view at security and looking forward

Auditorium

For detailed agenda, please refer to Agenda on the left. Agenda and Topics may be subjected to change.

 
 

 Registration

Update: Due to overwhelming response, online registration is closed! We thank you for your support. Registered participants will receive an email confirmation within these 2-3 working days. Thank you for your patience.

 

 Organised By

 Sponsors

Transition Systems
Imperva
Microsoft
Microsoft Press
Insiders Community
MVP
OReilly's
Biz-Era