Matt Deacon's digestive blog : Events

Next UK IASA Meeting: Applying Design Principles in Practice

matt deacon — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:08:43 GMT

With Christmas fast approaching I thought I’d grab a moment to remind you of the busy year ahead at IASA so you can put placeholders in your diaries! Next IASA Meeting: Applying Design Principles in Practice Tuesday, January 12, 2010 from 6:00 PM - 9:00...(read more)

Architect Insight Conference breakout videos now live!

matt deacon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:58:00 GMT

Finally after much angst the breakout sessions from AIC09 are now live here!

Upcoming North Eastern Cloud Events

matt deacon — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:31:04 GMT

Quick note before going on leave to make sure you are aware of the following cloud events in Newcastle on the 29th July.

Both Simon Davies and I will be there but if that's not enough then there will be loads of other great talks on ...

CloudSeminar

How 'the cloud' can help your IT operation

Date: Wednesday 29 July
Venue: Newcastle University

Time: 1pm-5.30pm
Cost: £10 (free to Codeworks Connect members)

For more information and to book your place go to http://www.amiando.com/CloudSeminar.html

CloudCamp

Venue: The Beehive, Newcastle University
Times: 18.00 - 21.30
Cost: Free

To register please go to: www.cloudcamp.com/north-east-england2

Architect Insight Pictures

matt deacon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT

I'm still battling to get the video's of the event up on www.microsoft.com/uk/aic2009 - and they'll be there reall soon!!

But in the meantime click here to see some of the pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/architectinsight/

Announcing the 4th Microsoft Architect Insight Conference

matt deacon — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:44:00 GMT

After much effort by a great many people I'm delighted to say that we'll be holding the 4th annual Architect Insight Conference this year!!!

The format has changed to reflect the new world but the quality bar is still set as high as before:)!!!

Microsoft Architect Conference
May 8th, Microsoft Offices Cardinal Place, London

www.microsoft.com/uk/aic2009

After a rapid fire set of keynotes we'll split into two tracks of informationals and a parrallel set of roundtable meetings then back together to close up and have some drinks!

Green, Azure and Oslo - implications for architects

matt deacon — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:52:00 GMT

Me and a couple of colleagues are talking at an great Architect event in Bradford next 3rd December covering the following subjects:

Green
Application Patterns
Azure Services platform
Oslo, SOA and Modelling

If you're around then why not pop by!

IASA UK Meeting: Mapping the Architecture of Applications

matt deacon — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:35:00 GMT

The UK IASA Chapter is pleased to announce the next UK meeting will be sponsored by SCL and Lattix:

Mapping the Architecture of Applications, Frameworks and Databases with a Dependency Structure Matrix

Dependencies are key to managing Software Architecture

Learn a new approach to representing and managing software architecture by utilizing inter-module dependencies using a Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM). There will be an actual demo and several real life examples.

Understanding Dependency Structure Matrix
Architectural Patterns
Design Rules
Architectural Evolution (Demo)
Exploring Real Projects
Q&A

If you're in London on November 4th then come along and find out more about the IASA

Tuesday, November 04, 2008 from 06:00 PM - 09:00 PM (GMT)

A few comments on Architect Insight ...

matt deacon — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:39:00 GMT

Just nosing around for any comments on the recent Architect Insight Conference and came across the following full review from Matt Johnson at EduServ.

There are also a few comments from Richard Steel from Newham City council who gave his 10 prinicples for IT - you can find the deck of the Insight site.

Found a great comment of why we don't do this in the US too from Doug Holland at Intel - they (meaning Microsoft US) could learn a lot from us here in the UK methinks!

Plus a pile of blogs from Black Marble who were there in force - shame I couldn't get a spot for you guys to present -seems they're going to run a series of events covering Oslo so I'd suggest getting along to one of them if I were you.

By the way - if you went then I really should have done this earlier and say a huge thank you to you for making it probably the best Insight we've done so far!

Here's to already looking forward to Insight 4.0 ... but I guess we've got the PDC and a few TechEds to look forward to first;)!

Architect Insight Slides now available ...

matt deacon — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:03:00 GMT

if you missed the event last week you can still get to see some of the content here!

We filmed some of the sessions and will make them available as soon as they've been editied etc.

UK Services Revolution Architect Forum

matt deacon — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:33:00 GMT

We held a great forum in the UK last week on the future of software and services and finally I have got the slides posted up on to the web!

Here's a brief write up from the event by Richard Yeryard in which he challenges Phil Wainwrights view of Microsoft's Kool-Aid in the Cloud

Architect Insight Registration now Live!

matt deacon — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:46:00 GMT

The Microsoft's premier UK Architect conference is now open for registration.

Now in its third year I am pleased to say that we have truly surpassed ourselves in delivering what I believe is the strongest line up so far!

So go on – get a prize for being the first to register before the invitations go flying out of the door from the marketing teamJ!

View the Architect Insight Conference 2008 agenda and registration

Technology mega-trends talk

matt deacon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:51:00 GMT

I'm also doing a talk on the 17th January in London where I'm going to talk about Industry Mega-trends but also plan to spend time reviewing 'Oslo' and what we know of the so far ...

If you want to come and ask some questions then register here ... http://skillsmatter.com/menu/808

Software Architects - who needs 'em (and are they overpaid)?

matt deacon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:43:00 GMT

Well I have my opinions - but do you?

For some reason I agreed to share mine at an upcoming BCS meeting in Cambridge!

If you're in the area why not drop in!

Software Architects - who needs 'em (and are they overpaid)?
January 16th 2008, 7:00pm (light buffet) 7:30pm (talk)
Venue: Room 14, David Building, AngliaRuskinUniversity, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT UK.