This coming Thursday, Microsoft is hosting the annual Toronto Architect Forum at their offices in Mississauga. The target audience is architects that are *not* in the financial service industry. Here's the agenda:
| 8:00 - 8:30 am |
Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:30 - 9:00 am |
Welcome by Mark Relph |
| 9:00 - 9:30 am |
Architectural Agility as Business Value, Dave Remmer |
| 9:30 - 10:30 am |
Office Business Applications, Mike Walker |
| 10:30 - 10:45 am |
Break |
| 10:45 - 12:00 pm |
Visual Studio 2008 “All Up”, Adam Gallant |
| 12:00 - 1:00 pm |
Networking lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:15 pm |
Architectural Implications of LINQ, Barry Gervin |
| 2:15 - 2:30 pm |
Break |
| 2:30 - 3:00 pm |
Project Experiences using AJAX, Amalan Ponnampalam |
| 3:00 - 4:15 pm |
How to be an Effective Architect, Mohammad Akif |
| 4:15 - 4:30 pm |
Wrap-up and Prize Draw |
As you can, I've secured the ever so popular "right after lunch" time slot. I don't know if there are detailed abstracts online for each session, but here is mine:
LINQ: Architectural Implications
Support for Language Integrated Query in the .NET 3.5 Framework promises to simplify and unify querying operations across object collections, relational data, DataSets and XML. The opportunity to simplify or even eliminate the notion of a data access layer is one many architects are considering. During this session we will quickly introduce the capabilities of LINQ, LINQ to SQL and the upcoming Entity Framework, and then discuss how this may affect the design of our data access logic moving forward.
Registration is still open - here.
Update - the event is for Architects not in the financial services industry (my mistake).