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Today, we've sent out the invitations for our new Innovation & Discovery Day. If you didn't receive one in your mailbox, please contact Fien Keijzer.

Soon I will post the abstracts for each session as well. Stay tuned ...

The new format of this event is the start of a number of new initiatives from our DPE team to help our ISV's and partners become more successful. An opportunity you don't want to miss !

Here's is a copy of the most important info from the invitation:

It’s with a lot of pleasure we see the Microsoft ISV community in Belgium and Luxembourg growing, both from a qualitative and from a quantitative point of view. ISV’s are very dynamic partners and Microsoft is keen on exchanging information with them regularly.

Consequently, we organize every quarter an ISV Innovation day covering a mixed agenda of Business –and Business-technical topics. Based on your feedback, we feel strengthened to continuing doing so. However, we also feel a strong need to do something more specific for the technical profiles working at our partners: for the people who are creating the technology that make ISV’s successful. 

For this reason we will setup our ISV day in a new format. It will improve and strengthen our partnership both from a business and technical point of view. The event will contain two consecutive tracks with a different focus: the Innovation day (AM), for Business/Technical Decision Makers & Partnership Managers and the Discovery day (PM) oriented towards the Technical Decision Makers and Technology Professionals.

It’s our pleasure to invite you for the Spring edition of our new ISV INNOVATION (Morning session) & DISCOVERY DAY (Afternoon session) on May 8th from 10h00 until 17h00.

  • The Innovation day will inform you, next to the traditional business and partnership updates, on Microsoft’s approach how to integrate your powerful Line of Business Applications in the Microsoft Office Suite. This technology, called OBA (Office Business Applications), attracts more and more attention from many ISV and Development partners.
  • The Discovery day will focus on how ICT departments can benefit the most from their Microsoft partnership. Targeted audience is CIO, CTO, Project managers, (Chief) Architects. In this edition you will learn and experience the power of some of the new Microsoft products and strategies, which are the foundation for the current exciting wave.

Agenda

Innovation day

09.30 – 10.00: Welcome and coffee
10.00 – 10.30: Intro: ISV news at Microsoft - Carl Vanden Eynde
10.30 – 11.15: OBA: A new breed of applications  - Johan Roosen
11.15 – 11.45: What’s new in the Microsoft Partner Program - Lien Deleenheer
11.45 – 12.00: Q & A
12.00 – 13.00: Lunch (*)

Discovery day

12.00 – 13.00: Lunch (*)
13.00 – 13.45:

Getting the most out of Microsoft’s adoption programs - Johan Roosen
13.45 – 14.30: OBA: Building End-to-End solutions - Philippe Destoop
14.30 – 15.00: Break
15.00 – 15.45: SQL2008 and the S+S model - Microsoft speaker
15.45 – 16.30: An ISV success story - Simon Ferris (Real Dolmen)
16.30 – 17.00: Closing & drink - Carl Vanden Eynde

(*) Lunch is included for both AM and PM attendees.

Venue

DE MONTIL NV, Moortelstraat 8, 1790  ESSENE

Registration

The registration options are (not mutually exclusive)

  • Registration of 1 or more participants for the Innovation track  (BDM focus)
  • Registration of 1 or more participants for the Discovery track (TDM focus)
  • Registration of 1 or more participants for both tracks

Subscribe

To subscribe please send an E-mail to Fien Keijzer and indicate clearly to which session(s) you wish to participate and the names of the attendees.