Speaking

A number of local IT professionals are putting the Channel Islands on the IT map by speaking at conferences and other events...

GOTO Aarhus 2012 ... international software development conference
Simon Brown, Jersey

Simon Brown is running a tutorial called Effective architecture sketches that will help people communicate their software architectures in a simple yet effective way..

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British Computer Society Software Practice Advancement 2012
Simon Brown, Jersey

Simon Brown is running a tutorial called Effective architecture sketches that will help people communicate their software architectures in a simple yet effective way.

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Atlassian Summit 2012
Steve Streeting, Guernsey

Steve Streeting is presenting a lightning talk about how SourceTree, a Mac DVCS client, can help teams get up to speed with Git.

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Experts to Experts Virtualization Conference

Ronnie Isherwood invites you to join him as he unravels the layers of game changing functionality in the new Microsoft Private Cloud Stack. Peak through the demo window at configuration, deployment, monitoring, optimization and operations. The key take away is understanding what's new and takes virtualization to new heights with System Center 2012 and how we can apply the benefits to customers.

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GOTO Amsterdam 2012 ... international software development conference
Simon Brown, Jersey

Simon Brown is presenting a talk called Master-builder; the original generalising specialist? that looks at the software architecture role in modern software development.

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GOTO Copenhagen 2012 ... international software development conference
Simon Brown, Jersey

Simon Brown is hosting the software architecture track and presenting a session called Master-builder; the original generalising specialist? that looks at the software architecture role in modern software development. He is also running a tutorial called Are you a software architect?.

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British Computer Society, Edinburgh branch
Simon Brown, Jersey

Simon Brown is presenting his "The Frustrated Architect" talk at the Edinburgh branch of the British Computer Society.

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24 Hours in a Private Cloud

Ronnie Isherwood will present a session called "Service Delivery and Automation in the private cloud" where he will introduce and discuss the System Center 2012 Cloud and Datacenter management toolset before going into service and request offerings, business process automation, self-service an systems automation.

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International Association of IT Architects
Simon Brown, Jersey

Simon Brown presented a session called Why do Software Projects Fail? that highlighted some of the common problems software development projects face from a software architecture perspective.

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Microsoft Worldwide Government Solutions Forum 2012
Stephen Hart (States of Jersey) and Rob Leader (C5 Alliance)

Stephen Hart and Rob Leader presented several aspects of the States of Jersey web strategy at this annual invitation-only event.

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Skills Matter ... "in the brain" session
Simon Brown, Jersey

Simon Brown ran an interactive, gamestorming session called How much up front design is "just enough"? that looked at the vague gap between waterfall's "big up front design" and agile's "emergent design".

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The International SharePoint Conference 2012
Aonghus Fraser, Jersey

Aonghus Fraser presented a talk called Delivering a Search-Driven User Experience with SharePoint and FAST that looked about how to combine SharePoint and FAST technology to provide a compelling user experience.

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DevWeek 2012 ... UK's biggest independent conference for software developers
Simon Brown, Jersey

Simon Brown presented an extended version of his The Frustrated Architect talk along with a 1-day post-conference workshop called Effective Sketches that focussed on how to communicate the architecture of your software using a simple collection of effective sketches.

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SharePoint User Group UK
Simon Brown, Jersey

Simon Brown presented a short talk called "Share the Point" about effective architecture sketches and their part in SharePoint projects.

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Chartered Institute for IT - International Sections Convention

Jersey "more 1's and 0's per sq km than you might think", Ronnie Isherwood represented the 288 members of the Jersey International and Members section offering a compelling talk on the momentum of the Islands vibrant digital economy along with information on our events and involvement with Education.

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QCon London 2012 ... international software development conference
Simon Brown, Jersey

Simon Brown ran a 1-day tutorial called Are you a software architect? that explored the role of the software architect and its importance in all types of software projects.

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