Say what? Microsoft Malaysia One ISV Technology Blog : Innovation Day

Innovation - Ready

hoongfai — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:30:22 GMT

Microsoft Innovation Day MSC Technology Commercialization Center @Cyberjaya (21st October 2008)
This event had attracted 43 attendees. Developers from Shell IT, Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam (JPA) and Sapura IT were among the attendees.
The technology focus for this month is Windows Presentation Foundation and the next generation browser, Internet Explorer 8. Mr Peter Tam, Senior ISV Manager from Microsoft gave a welcome remark which emphasized on Metro Early adopter program and InnovateOn. Chris Leong, the Technology Advisor from Microsoft then demonstrated to audience on how to differentiate their product from competitors by employing Microsoft's presentation frameworks such as Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight.
Another hot topic were addressed by Mr Rohan Thomas, a Senior Web Platform and User Experience Technology Advisor who had demonstrated what makes IE8 the best browser to render Web 2.0 web solutions. The session was ended with the entrepreneurial talk by Aila Zafira, the Assessment Manager from MDeC on Technopreneur fund, which is a conditional grant given to Malaysian to develop their business idea into commercially viable ICT projects.

Innovation - Get Set

hoongfai — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:06:58 GMT

Microsoft Innovation Day MSC CyberCenter, Plaza Sentral @Kuala Lumpur Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) @Cyberjaya (5st August 2008) – Repeated event

This event had attracted 87 breadth audiences ranging from project manager, architects, developers, IT professional to students.
With the theme of Software plus Services(S+S), Mr. Aaron Tan Dani, Director of Financial Platform Strategy at Microsoft completely fascinated the audience with his simple explanation on how S+ S evolves to deliver promising IT solutions by leveraging both of Software and Services worlds. His personal touch on the real world scenario used to demonstrate the importance of S+S effectively addressed the true meaning of S+S.
The duo presentation by Patrick Yong, Application Platform Advisor from Microsoft as well as Ervin Loh gave the developers a good start to create S+S enabled application using Visual Studio 2008. The audiences were also given a short entrepreneurial talk by Jaime Haniff, a senior executive from MDeC on Technopreneur fund to develop their business idea into commercially viable ICT projects.

Innovation Day - where innovation is sparked

hoongfai — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:03:17 GMT

This event report came from my colleague, Rahimah, who is the Microsoft Innovation Center (MIC) Manager at Cyberjaya.

Microsoft® Innovation Day events offer an inspiring and productive day of previews of emerging technologies and trends, resources, and business benefits that will keep you competitive and help you to energize and maximize your technology. See firsthand, real-world demonstrations that will motivate you to create exciting new products and amazing new solutions for your customers!
This monthly event is brought to you by Microsoft Innovation Center Cyberjaya, a physical facility designed to foster strong, self-sustaining local software industries. This center empowers local startup to focus on innovative development, technology and software solutions through technical consultancy, training, industry partnership, references and best practices.
We have successfully conducted 3 events under Microsoft Innovation Day. More information about innovation day can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/events/innovationday/