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Web 2.0 talk at TechTalk

We held the first "TechTalk" today at Al Murooj Rotana for Partners who work with Microsoft with sessions on: · Introducing Windows Azure - Anton Delsink · Windows 7 - Wilson Xavier · Web 2.0 - Pooya Darugar · Network Access Protection - Zahid Tikrity Read More...

Posted Sunday, January 25, 2009 2:18 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments

Filed under: web 2.0, events

Gulf Developers: Profile yourself to receive event invites and news from Microsoft Gulf

A lot of people have been asking me what the best way is to recieve invitations to our Microsoft Gulf events for developers and to recieve news from us on new technology. We have lots of sources for this, but the best way is to profile yourself and let Read More...

Posted Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:30 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: microsoft, gulf, events

SOA Day at Microsoft Dubai

I hosted severl of our customers for an "SOA Day" at Microsoft Dubai today. It was an interesting discussion focused around SOA that also touched on specific areas where Microsoft has great technology enablers of SOA, Biztalk, WCF, ... . I'm posting the Read More...

Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 5:12 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments

Filed under: soa, events, uae, presentaions

Java and .NET interoperability session at Egypt Java Developers Conference

I had the pleasure of speaking at the 2nd annual Java Developers Conference being held in Cairo ( where Microsoft was a gold sponsor ) by the Egyptian Java User group . The session was about interoperability , specifically interoperability at the application Read More...

Posted Saturday, March 15, 2008 4:49 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: .NET, events, interoperability

Attachment(s): java developer's conference - egypt - publish.pptx

MIX08 Steve Ballmer keynote - web developers, web developers, web developers

I somehow got a front row seat for the Steve Ballmer keynote ; blogging from here right now :) A funny and interesting keynote session, you have to see it to fully get the title. The audience questions are, as expected, mainly around the proposed Yahoo Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:50 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments

Filed under: microsoft, events, MIX08

Day 1 at MIX

After a long long journey from Dubai, I finally arrived in Las Vegas for the first day of MIX08. A very exciting day for me to see Microsoft make some big announcements around the future of our technologies on the web. Check out the official MIX blog Read More...

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 7:25 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments

Filed under: web 2.0, webcast, events, MIX08

Kuwait Community Open Day on Feb 16th

For those in Kuwait, mark your calendars for Saturday Februrary 16th. DotNetBoom and Pro Rangers will be hosting a Community Open Day covering the latest Microsoft technologies. Amr El Garhy and Anton will be there for sure with the communities, with Read More...

Posted Wednesday, February 06, 2008 1:15 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: gulf, events, communities, kuwait

Gulf eCommerce Forum talk

I'll be presenting at the Gulf eCommerce Forum tomorrow in Bahrain. My session is on Connected Commerce, going beyond the traditional eCommerce and looking at multi-channel distribution, data analysis for real time marketing decisions and all of the new Read More...

Posted Sunday, November 25, 2007 10:38 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: events, bahrain

Attachment(s): Connected Commerce - Gef Bahrain - publish.pdf

MSDN Roadshow: Software + Services Presentation

Some people have requested my presentation from the MSDN Roadshow on Software plus Services. Please find it below. Resources: http://www.codeplex.com/LitwareHR (Litware on Codeplex) http://www.codeplex.com/LitwareHR/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=6113 Read More...

Posted Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:26 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments

Filed under: gulf, events, bahrain, kuwait, qatar, oman, presentaions

Attachment(s): S+S MSDN + Techdays - publish.pdf

MSDN and TechNet Roadshow - Will be in kuwait in 2 days

If you haven't signed up already, there's still time . My session is right after lunch on Software + Services . There's a lot of travel coming up this week, Kuwait on the 14th, Oman on the 17th and Bahrain on the 19th. Hope to see you at one of the venues Read More...

Posted Monday, November 12, 2007 12:40 PM by pooyad | 4 Comments

Filed under: gulf, events, kuwait

World party at teched emea (Wed Nov 7th)

Please join me and Anton along with the other attendees from TechEd Barcelona at the World Party on Wednesday November 7th . If you are going to TechEd, please drop me a note and we can connect. I'll be working at the "Ask the Experts" Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:39 PM by pooyad | 1 Comments

Filed under: microsoft, events

Official MSDN Roadshow invite .... See you there

The TechNet and MSDN Roadshow proudly presents the “Gaining Insight Tour 2007”. This tour, coming to Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, is packed with live demonstrations and technical content on upcoming and much anticipated solutions from Microsoft. Get Read More...

Posted Wednesday, October 24, 2007 12:52 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: gulf, events, bahrain, kuwait, qatar, oman

Register to attend this year's MSDN Roadshow

You can already sign up to attend this year's MSDN Roadshow . See my last post for the dates and cities. make sure you choose your city and track (Developer vs. Technical) in the registration process, I almost missed it during my registration. Look for Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:53 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: gulf, events, bahrain, kuwait, qatar, oman

MSDN Roadshow time again

It's time for another MSDN Roadshow. I had a great time last year presenting in all the countries and now have the opportunity to do it even better this year. Last year I presented on Service Oriented Architecture , this year I will be presenting on the Read More...

Posted Monday, October 22, 2007 1:04 PM by pooyad | 0 Comments

Filed under: gulf, events

Geeks II: SOA presentation

Geeks II was a great success and thanks to everyone who attended, the best part for us is to get to interact with the developer community in our region. You can see some of the coverage of the event already. I've had some requests for the SOA presentation Read More...

Posted Monday, April 02, 2007 2:50 PM by pooyad | 2 Comments

Filed under: gulf, soa, events, presentations, uae

Attachment(s): SOA - Geeks II - Pooya Darugar - publish.pdf