Upcoming Architectural Conference

If you happen to be in the neighborhood of Newport, Gwent in early March, you might want to stop by the Mcrosoft Architect Insight Conference. Of course, I'm not quite sure where Newport, Gwent exactly is except I think it is part of Wales.

Still, the conference is being held at the Celtic Manor Resort which appears to be several notches above the Howard Johnson's the boss insists that I stay at. In any event, the two day conference targets "senior enterprise, solutions,and infrastructure architects, plus CTOs and senior IT decision makers." It doesn't sound like MASM will be a covered topic.

Speakers include Ivar Jacobson, creator of the Rational Unified Process and frequent Dr. Dobb's contributor (he has a two-part article coming up in DDJ), and Alan Cameron Wills and JackGreenfield, software architects and members of Microsoft's VSTS Architect Team.

The agenda is split into seven tracks covering Enterprise, Real World, Identity, Lifecycle, SaaS, Collaboration and Dynamic Systems; the main content sessions will be 75 or 150 minutes in length to accommodate the different formats and levels of interaction that may be required.

There will be an emphasis on architectural "investigation" through the use of small focus groups, as well as a structured networking clinic where individuals from similar vertical business backgrounds can discuss and work through a particular problem domain.

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