Learn about IT architectural best practices and business value of Microsoft-related products and technologies. This complimentary forum will fuel your thinking as an IT Leader and IT architect, support networking with peers and industry leaders, and help you learn and share best practices and experiences in an informal environment. We will have two separate tracks which will cover Big Data and BI and...

Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London based research company FutureText which specializes in identifying and researching cross-domain technology trends. In 2009, Ajit was nominated to the World Economic Forum's 'Future of the Internet' council. In 2011, he was nominated to the World Smart Capital program (Amsterdam). Ajit moderates/chairs Oxford University's Next Generation Mobile Applications Panel...

Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of the venture backed company Telerik , a leading vendor of developer and team productivity tools. He is the co-founder and executive director of AcceleratorHK, Hong Kong's first start-up accelerator. Involved in several start-ups, he was the co-founder of Triton Works, which was acquired by UBM (London: UBM.L) in 2010 and was the Chief Technology Officer...

Enterprise Information Management (EIM): Bringing Together SSIS, DQS, and MDS On May 31st, 2013, Microsoft Canada will host Enterprise Information Management (EIM): Bringing Together SSIS, DQS, and MDS. This half day event that will feature Matt Mason, Senior Program Manager from the SQL Server Integration...

Last chance for SecTor early bird pricing! Security Education Conference Toronto Oct 7- 9, 2013 MTCC Toronto   Soon the first round of SecTor 2013 speakers and keynotes will be announced, but not before the price goes up. You've got until May 15th to save on this year's premier security education conference. SecTor is the security education conference built by security professionals, for security...

I am heading out this week: Vancouver, Toronto, Frankfurt, Geneva. In Geneva, I am speaking on Thursday May 16th starting at 9h00 (Geneva time, 12am PDT, 3am EDT) at the ITU/UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).   The session theme chaired by IFIP IP3 board chair Brenda Aynsley is, “Why We Need an ICT Profession to Grow Our Citizenry, Our GDP and Our International markets (IFIP)....

Robert Deutsche Principal Architect/Systems Engineer — Enterprise Cloud Solutions, SOA, IT Transformation & Data Center Consolidation Bob Deutsche provides business and technical advisory services as well as thought leadership to mid-level and senior-level executives in the Global 50 and public sector. With 30 years of experience in industry, Bob has held senior level positions with...

I got back from board and related meetings in San Francisco and earlier in the year Paris where I spoke at the UNESCO WSIS+10 Review . Next week I leave for Geneva where I am speaking at the ITU/UN WSIS Forum . The week after I leave for Astana in Europe/Asia for the Astana Economic Forum ASTEX 2013 where I am speaking. Then off to New York again for board and related meetings. Look to see new interviews...

The International Telecommunication Union is proud to present its Young Innovators Competition 2013 edition , offering young and talented social technopreneurs the opportunity to present their ideas to industry leaders on a global stage at ITU Telecom World 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand, from 19 -22 November. Young Innovators Competition aims to attract dynamic, engaged young people and identify projects...

Frans van der Reep (1954, LinkedIn, http://twitter.com/fvdr ) is a thought-leader renowned worldwide for his accurate and early forecasts of business and technological trends, valued highly for his ability to unveil hidden assumptions and relate directly to genuine underlying issues. Having witnessed many passing fashions in business advice, Frans is well-known for his ability to recognize meaningless...

There's never been a better time to build for Windows. Attend the Virtual Summit and listen to Steve Guggenheimer, Corporate Vice President and Chief Evangelist of Microsoft Developer Platform & Evangelism, talk about the Windows ecosystem opportunity, design and monetization tips, partner development frameworks, and even reviews from iOS and Android developers.

The Microsoft Research Machine Learning Summit will be streamed live from Paris on April 23 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EDT (1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. GMT) . This free online event offers highlights from the Machine Learning Summit, providing keynotes from machine learning experts and enlightening discussions with leading scientific and academic researchers about approaches to challenges that are raised...

Ron McLaren has long-term practical IT industry experience, having worked extensively with the development, introduction and marketing of new technologies, products and techniques since 1966. This has involved the management of technical people in customer-facing, product development and service delivery environments. Latterly he has concentrated on the management of the IT capability of individuals...

Not only do we have a great way to help you turn your WordPress Blog into a Windows 8 app, if you hurry you could do it with very little development and recoup your Windows Store Developer Account costs. Here's how it works: IdeaNotion, is offering 200 Canadians a $50 Visa Gift Card as reimbursement for your Windows Store Developer Account cost. To get your gift card, all you need to do is publish...

Did you like to take things apart as a kid to see how they work? Do you still do it today? Do you like to get under the hood from time to time and get your hands dirty? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then the new Office Garage Series show is for you! Tune in to the new Office Garage Series show - www.microsoft.com/garage ! The show presents what’s new, different and better...

Joanne is the global practice lead for Continuous Delivery at ThoughtWorks, a company that is devoted to the art and science of delivering custom software. Joanne's professional passion is for finding practical ways to implement processes in IT that provide enough control to give visibility and transparency into what is happening without bogging teams down in unnecessary activities that waste resources...

Get the resources, hands-on experience and knowledge you and your team need to take advantage of what Microsoft Virtualization and the Microsoft Private Cloud have to offer. You’ll be able to spend less time on day-to-day maintenance and more time on your strategic objectives, helping you add value to your business and further your career. Plus with two all-new TechNet evaluations, you...

Register TODAY to attend the next complimentary ACM Webcast, "Engineering Software as a Service," presented on Wednesday, May 8, 2013, at 2 PM ET (1 pm CT/12 noon MT/11 AM PT/6 PM GMT). Join David Patterson, Director of the Parallel Computing Lab (ParLab) at UC-Berkeley (and a former ACM president) in a special virtual event moderated by his ParLab colleague Armando Fox. The talk will be...

David Alan Grier is the 2013 President of the IEEE Computer Society. He has served the society as its Vice President of Publications, Director of Magazines, and Editor in Chief of the IEEE Annals. He writes on the subject of technology and its social implications. His books include: " When Computers Were Human " (Princeton 2005), " Too Soon To Tell " (Wiley 2009), " The Company...

Learning. It’s one of those things that we know is good for us, but we can never seem to do it. It’s good for the job that we’re currently in and it’s helpful in building your skill set, which could lead to career advancement. And yet we can’t seem to find the time. In a lot of ways it’s like exercise for me. I know I should do it, but I put it off. I keep putting...

Paul Orlando [ about.me/porlando ] runs a lean startup bootcamp called Startups Unplugged [ startupsunplugged.com/bootcamp ] and is also co-founder of AcceleratorHK [ acceleratorhk.com ], a mobile startup accelerator. Previously, he co-founded a startup in New York and worked in telecom in China. He focuses on early-stage startups (pre product-market fit). Paul has a BA from Cornell and an MBA from...

We often work with Anthony, Pierre and Mitch, the evangelists from the IT Pro team at Microsoft Canada. They asked us to share this important message with you. The team at Microsoft Canada is focused on ensuring that they help set you up for success by providing the information and tools you need in order to be get the most out of Microsoft based solutions, at home and at work. Twice a year, Microsoft...

Learn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in in 90% of schools: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc Starring Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, will.i.am, Chris Bosh, Jack Dorsey, Tony Hsieh, Drew Houston, Gabe Newell, Ruchi Sanghvi, Elena Silenok, Vanessa Hurst, and Hadi Partovi. Directed by Lesley Chilcott, executive producers Hadi and Ali Partovi. http://www.Code.org

We gather and receive feedback in a lot of ways at Microsoft. One of the things that has been clear to us, (regardless of where the feedback comes from) is that you'd like us to spend a little more time on Windows 8. We've heard you loud and clear so in addition to hands on events that we've been running, we're also delivering more technical content online via our blog. Windows 8 continues to be...

On April 9 th & 10 th , Unity and Microsoft will be hosting a Building Windows Games with Unity event . This event is a free, two-day training being held in Mountain View, California in the United States but will also be live streamed online on Channel 9 . The event is intended to help game builders and designers to port their Unity games to be published into the Windows Store and Windows Phone...