Keynote Presentations

Tuesday, October 16

The Trusted Platform for Your Business: Windows Server, SQL Server, and Visual Studio
9 a.m.
D.Britton Johnston, Product Unit Manager, SQL Server
David Lowe, Senior Product Manager for Windows Server
Dave Mendlen, Senior Product Manager, Security Division
In this keynote session, you will learn how Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, and Visual Studio 2008 provide a trusted platform for creating and running your most demanding applications. Combined, these products provide a solid foundation for next-generation Web applications, broad support for virtualization technology, and the ability to deliver relevant information to your users. Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 provide a secure, highly-available and proven platform for mission-critical workloads and applications. Visual Studio 2008 provides the industry-leading tools to help developers craft the most demanding applications on Windows, SQL Server and the .NET Framework.

Wednesday, October 17

The Microsoft Data Platform and the Data Programmer Experience
9 a.m.
D. Britton Johnston
Explore the initiatives at Microsoft to improve the data programming experience from client to cloud and the impact of those initiatives on the tools programmers use every day.

The world of data storage and programming is growing in scale, direction and complexity at a rapid rate and impacting the development of all types of applications.  Businesses are harnessing their internal and shared data in new ways every day in an attempt to increase productivity and competitive advantage. The need to collaborate with data continues to open new scenarios for data sharing and aggregation.

Microsoft's vision for a data platform provides services and infrastructure that empowers developers to deliver on the asks of today as well as the promises of tomorrow.  See how Microsoft is raising the abstraction layer from a logical to conceptual representation while providing first class data programming experiences for developers across form factors and deployment models.  We will also see how the conceptual representation becomes the basis for convergence of many of Microsoft’s existing data storage and interaction assets.