Enterprise Lead Beat Schwegler, Microsoft Western Europe

Beat Schwegler is the Enterprise Lead for early adoption projects in Western Europe. He provides advice and consulting to enterprise companies on software strategy and architecture and he really loves to share his thoughts and ideas and is therefore a frequent speaker at international conferences.

Beat has many years of experience in professional software development and architecture and has been involved in a wide variety of projects, ranging from real-time building control systems, best selling shrink-wrapped products to large scale CRM and ERP systems. Recently, his prime focus belonged to the area of Collaboration, Enterprise Search and Software plus Services.

When not typing on a laptop, he might be either reading a book or stretching his back while he is rock climbing in his backyard...

Presentation: "Next Generation Web on .NET : Introduction"

Track: Next Generation Web on .NET

Time: Friday 09:00 - 09:15

Location: St. James's Suite

Presentation: "Introduction to the Azure Service Platform - Microsoft's Platform for the Cloud (part 1)"

Track: Next Generation Web on .NET

Time: Friday 09:15 - 10:15

Location: St. James's Suite

Abstract: Windows Azure and the Azure Service Platform are key parts of Microsoft's cloud computing initiative. Learn what it takes to write services which run on Windows Azure and get an introduction to the Azure services such as SQL Services and .NET Services. We will discuss how to create or extend applications and services to take advantage of this new platform.

Presentation: "Introduction to the Azure Service Platform - Microsoft's Platform for the Cloud (part 2)"

Track: Next Generation Web on .NET

Time: Friday 10:45 - 11:45

Location: St. James's Suite