My agenda of Tuesday july 9th will look like this:
•7.00-9.00 : breakfast
10.30-11.30: Break out session: SPeaker: Dene Cleaver; Kevin Custer: Office and SharePoint Store: a new way to reach customers: The Microsoft Office and SharePoint Store provides the ability for you to reach millions of Office and SharePoint users in their work environments. The store enables end users to find and download SharePoint and Office apps right from within the product. With the store available to Office users worldwide, come and find out about this opportunity to grow your business, reach new customers and markets, and find out about plans for the store going forward.???
•12.00-12.30 : Lunch
•12.50- 13.10: Breakout session: speaker: Jeff Wettlaufer; Karen Roberts; Suzanne Buchanan: Intelligent systems and Windows Embedded technology: devices and services offering in the health industry:The health industry continually strives to deliver high-quality care and the best-possible outcomes for patients and citizens at lower costs. Microsoft works with partners, health organizations, and communities around the world to help realize this goal. Partner solutions built on Microsoft can help connect people, processes, and information to advance collaboration and enable insightful decision making. These solutions work in concert with existing systems and provide capabilities to help improve efficiency and quality of care. This session will cover the Windows Embedded platforms and device category solutions available to support your health industry offerings.
•13.30-14.30 : Break out session: Speaker: Rohit Rahi: Why Microsoft over Amazon Web Services for public cloud workloads :Your customers are looking at public clouds to reduce their IT costs, gain agility and speed, and maximize their investments in on-premises infrastructure. Did you know that some of the most popular workloads in the public cloud include test/dev, storage, backup, and disaster recovery? Are you ready to support customers who are planning to run their workloads in a public cloud environment? In this session, you will learn about the opportunity available to you for teaming with Microsoft to serve customers that are exploring public clouds. You will also learn about the unique value proposition of Microsoft over Amazon Web Services for public cloud workloads.
•15.00-16.00 :break out session: speaker: Michael Schutz: Managing and monetizing the consumerization of IT: It’s estimated that in 2015, the number of connected devices will be twice the number of people on the planet. Expectations of technology and IT are changing. And so are the opportunities for the IT-solutions and services partners that support our mutual customers. As the lines between personal life and work are blurring, people want a consistent and personalized experience, no matter what device they’re using. They also expect IT to support these many PCs, devices, and apps. This can be expensive to support and can tie up IT with 24×7 management, and can cause a risk to the security of company assets and information. Find out more about how Microsoft IT is forging exciting new opportunities for partners to grow their existing business and secure a share of the huge growth in device management.
•16.30-17.30 : Break out session: speaker: Katie Larson: SharePoint Partner evolution: The Microsoft program for SharePoint partners is evolving to support the development of your Microsoft SharePoint business. In this session, you will learn about Microsoft plans to keep the competency updated with everything you need to ensure you can capture the growth in services opportunities with SharePoint solutions.
•18.30-22.00 : Running Dinner with Microsoft
I Think this Tuesday programme will be very interesting for Devoteam as we look at the topics which will be dealt with: SharePoint, Consumerization of IT, Cloud services. In Short another very rocking day!
Looking forward to it!
Jean-Claude Chan
email: jean.claude.chan@devoteam.com