Material & Downloads – 1st Microsoft Architect Conference

It was a great pleasure for us and for me in specific hosting the 1st conference for software architects in the history of Microsoft Austria. Finally I managed getting all the material we are allowed to share from our speakers. A good time for a reflect a little bit on the conference.

First of all the most important part: you can download all the presentations from the conference from the following Windows Live Skydrive folder:

Click me to get to the folder

As announced during the conference we were not allowed publishing all presentations. You definitely will find all presentations we were allowed to share at this place.

The whole conference was really a great experience for us and for me. Therefore I want to especially say thank you to all participants of the conference – you made it a special event for us all and with that the you made this day and evening to a great memory.

Some facts on the great day:

• 140 architects attended the event – sold out.
• Average session rating – 2,16 on a 1-9 scale (1=best)
• The top 3 sessions where:
  • Architecture in Agile Projects – Mitch Lacey
  • Cloud Computing – A Crash Course for Architects – Beat Schwegler
  • Scalable, Evolveable, Understandable Event-based Components – Ralf Westphal
• A wine tasting until 23.00 with exciting wines from Johannes Fiala and superb discussions across the evening.

As announced at the conference, it was the closing of a step and opening of a new step in my life. After a long and enjoying path with my career within the Developer and Platform Evangelism Group and my responsibility as an architect evangelist has ended with that conference. My next step has started a month ago as a senior architect within Microsoft enterprise services working for a really large, international customer.

Thank you for a great time! Thank you for shaping the architect community together with me! Looking forward to meet you at one of the next architect forums either as participant or as invited speaker, maybe;)

Cheers
Mario