The event is more like a social event, an opportunity to meet other MVPs from the Region, networking and mingling with each other, and get to know the Microsoft vision for the next Fiscal Year (FY13, which started on July, 1st).
Throughout the year, we have some opportunity to meet each other but this is the best way to do it. It’s an event specifically for you, and this year it’s even bigger than the one we held in Greece 2 years ago: it will involve ALL the MVPs in the Region (which is 280 Microsoft MVPs!). Having people from all over the Countries, with different cultures and opinions and background but with the same PASSION that animates all of us: SHARING your knowledge, be the first to know what’s coming next in regards of Microsoft products, be supportive in your COMMUNITIES, be available when it comes to give FEEDBACK to the Product Teams and the list goes on! And, as said, this is the first time CEE & Italy meet together in one place during a (hopefully) memorable event.
The event will be an event inside another event. KulenDayz is one of the most popular community-oriented event in the Region and it was the best place to organize OUR event inside it. The event will take place in Osijek and Beli Manastir, Croatia, a beautiful town right in the middle of the Region. The public event will held from August 31st to September the 2nd. While the Regional CEE & Italy MVP Summit will happen from Friday the 31st of August till Sunday the 2st of September.
All Friday sessions are taking place in Hotel Osijek, Osijek.
Keynote
09:00 - 10:20 Office 365
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Alessandro Teglia
Damien Caro
Jamie Mann
Jeremy Chapman
Tomislav Bronzin
Bernardin Katić
After exciting professional beginnings as games developer in assembler for 8-bit processors, thesis on real-time operating system and demanding development of expert systems, last ten years he has dedicated to design and development of portfolio management systems for financial institutions and their integration in enterprise environments. In hard-to-find free time he leads local Microsoft Community. Because of experience in game development, every byte and every processor tick is important to him, so he really enjoys optimizing systems, using all available resources and make them run faster, better and more reliable.
A New Hope: What's new in Office PI - End User
10:30 - 11:20 Office 365
Jeremy Chapman
Win8 Dev/Async
10:30 - 11:20 Development
Welcome to an asynchronous world
In the beginning of time, code was lineal.
We complicated it adding threading, evolving it over the time in a spaguethi code of methods and callback functions that, for real life coding can end in a nightmare of callbacks and synchronization – coordinating methods.
So, asynchronous code came at a price that not all of us was ready to pay. We needed a change.
And Microsoft is bringing it to us with .NET 4.5 and the new Async/Await feature of C#.
The most surprising of this change is that they have made Asynchronous easy. So easy and powerful that its really surprising what you can do with Async.
In this session we will see the basics of Async and how easy it is to do complicated things with it.
We will go, from the ground up, over the foundations, basics and concepts to basic synchronization methods and get to more complicated things that from this session, will look easy.
Jose Luis Latorre Millas
Jose Luis is a Senior Developer working for Accenture Switzerland, he is a Microsoft Silverlight MVP, Toastmaster’s Competent Communicator, INETA Speaker, has been a speaker at conferences like TechEd, KulenDayz, etc. STEP member, technical writer and reviewer. He is also a trainer with over two years of experience in Windows Phone and Silverlight and is deeply involved with the technical communities through his collaboration with INETA Europe, Barcelona Developers user groups and Microsoft in general.
Jose is strongly focused on XAML technologies like Silverlight, Windows 8, Windows Phone and WPF. He has written several articles on these topics, reviewed books, and done several talks over the last years in both Spanish and English.
He is currently finishing a book dedicated to .NET 4.5 and Windows 8.
Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2012
10:30 - 11:20 Database
All tables are changing over time. A data warehouse that is based on those tables needs to reflect these changes. However, a process that periodically copies a snapshot of the entire source consumes too much time and resources. Alternate approaches that include timestamp columns, triggers, or complex queries often hurt performance and increase complexity. The change data capture feature captures DML activity applied to SQL Server tables, and makes the details of the changes available in relational format. An Integration Services 2012 package can easily harvest the change data in the SQL Server databases to perform efficient incremental loads to a data warehouse.
Aleksandar Talev
Aleksandar Talev is R&D Manager in company Semos - Microsoft Gold Partner, Skopje- Macedonia. He is professionally oriented to development of IT projects based on Microsoft technologies, primary Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 -2012 as well as SharePoint Portal Server 2007/2010. He has been working with SQL Server 6.5 since 1996. As a Microsoft trainer he is holding a Microsoft Official Curriculum courses focused on SQL Server. One of the founders of SQL Server User Group (PASS) Macedonia and in his “free” time he is engaged in developing the SQL Server community in Macedonia. He is a regular presenter on all the Microsoft conferences and events in Macedonia. In 2005 Microsoft awarded him title for technical knowledge and engagement – SQL Server MVP.
Windows Server 2012 – what's new for ITPros
10:30 - 11:20 Private Cloud
This session will cover most important new features and technologies in Windows Server 2012, from the aspect of ITPro people. We start with new way to manage multiple servers (in a private cloud or separately), and then talk about some specific management scenarios and new features. We will also discuss deployment options for Windows Server 2012, and options for configuring user interface (between Core and Full GUI). Session continues with Hyper-V 3.0, Active Directory enhancements and Dynamic Access Control. Presentation will include several live demonstrations to show some key features of Windows Server 2012. This session is intended for people with previous Windows Server experience, or decision makers who plan upgrades to new server OS.
Damir Dizdarević
Damir Dizdarevic is a b.sc.math and IT professional. He works as a manager of MS CPLS Learning Center in Logosoft Sarajevo, and as a lecturer and author of MOC courses. Occasionally, he also works as a system designer for complex enterprise environments. He is a founding member and president of Bosnian Microsoft Community. He has been working with Microsoft platforms for the last 17 years and he is particularly specialized in Windows Server, Exchange Server, mobility and virtualization.
Microsoft awarded him with the Most Valuable Professional – MVP status, five years ago, for his outstanding contribution in sharing knowledge about Microsoft Server products, large number of lectures he delivered, and for his high technical competence. Damir owns several technical certificates (MCSE, MCTS, MCITP, and MCT) for Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012, Exchange Server and Hyper-V.
He is regular presenter on conferences in ex-Yu region. On Microsoft Sinergija conference, for previous 6 years, each time he was graded as one of top three speakers. He is also a regular and highly graded presenter on other Microsoft conferences in region such as Microsoft Vizija, NT Conference, Windays, MS Network, etc.
Damir is one of very few trainers in Europe who works as an author and reviewer of official MOC courses. During this year, he is intensively engaged in producing official courses for Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012. Also, he is preparing to write the course on Exchange 15.
In addition, he has been working for 14 years now as one of the editors of BiH IT magazine INFO, where he published more than 350 technical articles, and he is also writing for the famous Windows ITPro Magazine (some of his work can be found at: http://windowsitpro.com/authors/authorid/1761/damir-dizdarevic.html). He is also blogging about Microsoft Server products and Microsoft Learning at : http://www.mscommunity.ba/blogs/ddamir/
Windows Phone 8 - Development
10:30 - 11:20 Windows Phone
This session will show some new features in WP8 application development and also new UI. Come to this session for a sneak preview of Windows Phone 8.
Andrej Radinger
Andrej Radinger is Microsoft Windows Phone Development MVP, MCSD, MCDBA, MCT. Andrej is co-founder of APPA Mundi, company focused on implementing Mobile Solutions into enterprise environment and developing mobile client applications. Andrej has over 15 years of experience as a developer, trainer and consultant, with over 16 years of experience working on all aspects of mobility and is focused on Microsoft technology. He is also a Technology Champ for a mobility user group and local newsgroup. Andrej has developed various mobility applications, ranging from data collection and mobile sales, to warehouse and asset inventory. Andrej is a regular speaker at Microsoft events in the region, including TechEd.
Survival kit for PMs
10:30 - 11:20 Project Managment
To go with the overarching idea ...to make a conference "a little different"... , this unplugged version of survival kit for project managers will bring a surprising blend of traditional PMI-based best practice, a first hand „I lived trough the projects and survived to tell the truth“ speaker's recollection of past national and EU projects and the applicable lessons learned published by a member of one extremally unortodox association.
Golden paragraph:
Marija Bajica
Bajica Marija, MSTC, PMP Bsc in mathematics, Head of Business services at Oikon – Institute of Applied Ecology; has over 30 years experience as IT manager, management consultant and project manager and instructor. She successfully coordinated and participated on number of international projects and is activlely involved in forvarding project management profession as practicioner, tuitor and PMI Croatian Chapter member of the Board.
Currently, she is responsible for implementing project management principles in Oikon consulting practice and mentoring of Oikon’s project managers. As the Board Advisor she is responsible for the Oikon's ISO 9001, 14001 and BS18001 certified Integrated Management System and provides QA on Oikon’s international engagements. As IT expert and roject manager she lead and/or participated on a number of complex national and international projects specialising in application of geoinformatics solutions in environment and nature protection. Before joining Oikon in 2002, she was Business development manager, Professional services manager and the principal for ERP in IBM Croatia Global Services consulting practice following a number of years spent in NSW, Australia as the IT Security Manager.
Managing Remote Work
10:30 - 11:20 Chalk & Talk
Do you have remote colleagues on your team? Do you need to deliver products with them but you keep running into personality or other issues? In this session I will share some of my experiences with running remote teams and enabling them to work more efficiently together
Adam Granicz
Adam Granicz is a long-time F# insider and key community member, and the co-author of four F# books, including Expert F# 3.0 with Don Syme, the designer of the language. His company IntelliFactory specializes in consulting on the most demanding F# projects; shaping the future of the development of F# web, mobile and cloud applications; and developing WebSharper, the most mature web and mobile development framework for F#. You can read his blog at http://bit.ly/JEGeW0, follow him on Twitter at @granicz, or find him on FPish, the largest online functional programming community.
Return of the Technical Jedi: What's new in Office P2 - IT Pro
11:30 - 12:20 Office 365
Jeremy Chapman
Contracts in Windows 8
11:30 - 12:20 Development
Everybody loves contracts, but you'll love Windows 8 ones even more! They give you two things developers want – easy way to develop sexy features and more visibility to your application. Join us on this session where will cover a few most popular contracts in Windows 8 – search, share and print.
Domagoj Pavlešić
Domagoj Pavlešić has been writing code since he was a kid. Last ten years he was living in the web-development, but lately he has found a new love – mobile device development for Windows Phone and Windows RT. He almost exclusively uses Microsoft technologies, but is a big fan of standards as well. He has written several hundred articles and co-authored a book about .NET development. He delivers technical trainings and speaks at conferences. He is a founder and a leader of a Web User Group in Zagreb and he was awarded with Microsoft MVP title. Works in the company called Web-ideja d.o.o. In the spare time, he loves to spend the time with his family, likes to travel and enjoys home improvement projects.
The Curse of the Cursors
11:30 - 12:20 Database
The Curse of the Cursors
In this presentation we will challenge many Famous Myths about cursors and show the right way of using different types of cursors. In the first part of presentation we will use known problem and compare different solution. Two Set Based: Correlated Sub query, Self Join, One T-SQL Cursor solution and One SQLCLR solution. Result will be unexpected for majority of audience.
Second part of this presentation will explain in detail new window functions in sql server 2012, extension on over clause and how to them for building well performing, scalable and stable application.
For this presentation we have prepared 6 demos on SQL Server 2012
Daniel Joskovski
Daniel Joskovski work in IT since 1985, he is a database-centric application developer, architect, instructor, course author, user group leader and Owner of Omnis LLC. Over the Past 10 Years he's been teaching Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, .NET Development and SharePoint product and technologies courses to premier customers in Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania for SEMOS - first Macedonian Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solution. Starting from July 2009 Daniel is awarded with Microsoft MVP award for SQL Server.Daniel currently hold MCDBA, MCITP Database Administrator and Business Intelegence Developer and MVP for SQL server 2009,2010,2011,2012. More information about Daniel’s work in his you can find in his MVP profile: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/Profile/Daniel.Joskovski
Windows 2012 Networking
11:30 - 12:20 Private Cloud
Come and learn what is new in Windows Server 2012 networking. Learn how to utilize new Hyper-V virtual switch, how to deploy same subnet networks in single etehrnet subnet ot how to combine multiple network cards to work as one bo matter what manufaturer they where made by. Come and se thing that other operating systems or applications do not offer even at a price.
Marin Franković
Marin was born in Makarska in 1976., where he completed elementary and finished first three years of high school. In 1993. he graduated from high school in the USA as an exchange student. In 2003. Ihegraduated from Faculty of Economics in Zagreb, majoring in business computing. While he was a student, he worked as desktop support technician at Faculty of Economics computer center. After graduating from university, he started working in Algebra, Microsoft gold CPLS. In Algebra, He works as Microsoft cloud, virtualization and infrastructure consultant and instructor for Microsoft Official Courses and IBM ACE. Later on he became Head of department of operating systems and instructor for several courses at University College for applied computing. In June 2008., his colleague and himself became User Group leaders for MS Community IT Pro user group in Zagreb, iT Pro. Currently he hold numerous Microsoft certifications, including MSS, MCDST, MCSA + S, MCSE + S, MCTS, MCITP and MCT. Third year in a row, Microsoft awarded him MVP for Management Infrastructure status. Marin participated as speaker in Windays conferences (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012), both pre-conference and regular conference days, Security Days (2006, 2007, 2008), regional Microsoft Community conference, KulenDayz (2009, 2010), NT Konferenca (2012) and Microsoft TechEd (2010). In 2011., he received Microsoft ISV award for community contribution. He also writes articles for special and regular edition of Mreza magazine. Several years in a row he was elected one of Top 10 speakers at Windays conference. His main interests now are cloud computing, virtualization and consolidation based on Microsoft operating systems, Systems Center applications and corresponding cloud services.
WP 8 is around the corner, what now?
11:30 - 12:20 Windows Phone
What it will be the effect of that for us and our applications? So when to develop for WP 7.8 and when to for WP 8? Our old application published, what will happen to them… will work on WP8? Is there any reason to target WP 7.8? What will bring 7.8? What to take care when developing for WP 7.8? What we will be the basics and main differences when developing for WP 8?
These are some of the question we will try to answer in this presentation, meant to ease the transition to WP8/WP 7.8.
Catalin Gheorghiu
Catalin Gheorghiu, founder, CTO and Lead Solution Architect at I Computer Solutions from Romania.
More than fifteen years experience as developer and/or solution architect. The last five years focused in complex mobile solutions based on Microsoft technologies. Has an extensive experience as trainer and consultant, all these revolving around Microsoft technologies. Regular speaker at user group events in his country or abroad.
In the year 2011 was awarded Microsoft MVP Device Application Development.
What project managers should learn from Titanic disaster
11:30 - 12:20 Project Managment
We'll try to check what should we learn from Titanic disaster, which happened 100 years ago. What project management mistakes and oversights they did and what can we learn from that, dealing not only with disaster, but also with the recovery if (when?) disasters happen.
Stanislav Stresnjak
Stanislav was born in Osijek in 1971. He graduated in 1995 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Osijek, where he also earned his Master Degree, from the field software testing, in 2012. Since year 2000 he is working in Siemens, where he spent last few years as Project Manager of the Software Verification part for various customer projects, including T-Mobile International, CTC China & TKS Indonesia. Currently he is working as Project Manager in the Multimedia Solutions department dealing with over-the-top solutions. He is certified Project Manager Professional since April 2012. He's also external assistant on Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Osijek on topics Java and C++.
Social Media
11:30 - 12:20 Chalk & Talk
As an MVPs, we contribute to the community and spread the word about us and our work via so many different channels. Some of us blog, some don't. Some of us speak at the conferences, some don't. Some of us are user group leads, some are not. But almost everyone uses social networks, so as an MVP who turned to the dark side, I am going to show you how to use social networks to reach more audience and present yourself and your company to others.
Ilija Brajkovic
Ilija Brajković is an virtualization MVP who turned to a dark side, and decided to help others to use social networks for marketing and sales. Still quite involved in Microsoft community as ITPRO user group Split lead, geek in a soul, spends days helping clients with their social media efforts. Co-founder of the Akcija Ltd and FenixApps.
Becoming the Jedi Master: New Office Deployment and Architecture Deep Dive
12:30 - 13:20 Office 365
Jeremy Chapman
Building scalable social web apps on Windows Azure
12:30 - 13:20 Development
Band of Brothers, building scalable social web apps on Windows Azure with ASP.NET MVC3, MongoDB, RabbitMQ.
The presentation will be deep dive into how to build scalable social web apps on Windows Azure IAAS by utilizing latest technologies based on document based storage
Marjan Nikolovski
A tech addict and a senior software engineer who is mainly hooked on the .NET platform as development platform and its derivatives, but from time to time knows to kill some time with open source software.
Usually spends his time writing systems backend and testing cutting edge technologies.
In spare time actively participating in holding technical presentations on conferences and researching. Specially interested in Distributed programming, Software architecture, Middleware, SOA, Non-relational databases and Workflow driven systems.
SQL Server Myths & Legends
12:30 - 13:20 Database
There are many supposed truths about SQL Server circulating around forums and in user communities -- but many of those are only just myths and legends. Things like:
* CHECKPOINT writes only commited changes to disk
* there are non-logged transaction-aware operations in SQL Server, like TRUNCATE TABLE
* every single INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE operation is an all-or-nothing atomic operation -- hm, is it?
* and the list goes on and on.
Join as at this fun and very informative level 400 session. And don't forget to bring your own myths and legends along!
Dean Vitner
Dean Vitner works as mentor for Solid Quality Mentors and a dev lead and DB designer/developer for one of the leading Croatian ISVs. He's been programming in various languages for some 20 years or more, and works with SQL Server since version 6.0. Earned several MS certificates (MCSD, MCSD .Net, MCDBA, MCITP), is a MCT, was awarded a SQL Server MVP, manages local community, organized and helped organize several conferencies and other community events, spoke or served as ATE at them and many other events, wrote about SQL Server for some local technical magazines, and so on.
Marko Culo
Dean Vitner works as mentor for Solid Quality Mentors and a dev lead and DB designer/developer for one of the leading Croatian ISVs. He's been programming in various languages for some 20 years or more, and works with SQL Server since version 6.0. Earned several MS certificates (MCSD, MCSD .Net, MCDBA, MCITP), is a MCT, was awarded a SQL Server MVP, manages local community, organized and helped organize several conferencies and other community events, spoke or served as ATE at them and many other events, wrote about SQL Server for some local technical magazines, and so on.
Windows 2012 Storage
12:30 - 13:20 Private Cloud
Damien Caro
WP - Augmented Reality
12:30 - 13:20 Windows Phone
At the time of advanced technology which enables device manufacturers to insert tiny but very sophisticated sensors into smartphones, many new development scenarios become available. Sensors such as accelerometer, compass and gyroscope combined with the image received from the camera (technically a light sensor), accessed through Windows Phone SDK and open source libraries, make it easy to create augmented reality applications. Suddenly, a Windows Phone device becomes aware of the world it lives in, and becomes a bridge between the physical and the digital world, connecting them with endless possibilities. The session will cover basics of the available sensors and how to use them, Windows Phone SDK support for creating augmented reality apps, open source libraries that make the job even easier, and in the end demonstrate how difficult (or easy) is to develop one such app.
Igor Ralić
Igor Ralic is a Microsoft Student Partner and a developer focused on Windows Phone and WinRT. He's studying computer engineering in Osijek, Croatia. He's developed and published 5 Windows Phone apps (2 awarded at various competitions) and was a speaker at Microsoft WinDays12 conference and Developer UG in Osijek, as well as at various academic events. He's currently working on several Windows Phone and WinRT projects, writes articles on his blog (http://igrali.com), likes Twitter (@igrali) and enjoys good photography.
Influence of emotional intelligence (EQ) on project management
12:30 - 13:20 Project Managment
Poznato je da voditelj projekta 90% svog vremena komunicira s različitim sudionicima u projektu. Komunikacija je razmjena energije između ljudi. Uspješnost komunikacije u velikoj mjeri ovisi o kvocijentu emocionalne inteligencije (EQ).
Predavanje nas uvodi u pitanje optimalnog rasporeda osobnih napora u razvoj IQ, EQ i XQ faktora. Predavanje nudi definicije i osnovna područja manifestacije emocionalne inteligencije, kao i načine i tehnike za stjecanje emocionalnih kompetencija. Nekoliko primjera iz prakse dobrog i lošeg EQ.
Ivan Matejašić
Direktor i suosnivač tvrtke Spin Informatica ima više od 30 godina vizionarskog iskustva u projektima dizajna i implementacije složenih informacijskih sustava u Hrvatskoj i svijetu. Temeljno ekonomsko obrazovanje stečeno na Ekonomskom fakultetu u Osijeku, nadograđeno je znanjem i vještinama na poslijediplomskim studijima iz marketinga i poduzetničkog managmenta, brojnim poslovnim i stručnim školovanjima IBM-a, HP-a i Microsofta. Osim informatike posjeduje široka znanja i iskustva sa područja psihologije i upravljanja ljudskim potencijalima, poslovne inteligencije (BI), vođenja projekata po PMI metodologiji i poslovnog savjetovanja. Od lipnja 2009. godine nositelj PMI PMP statusa. Strast i pokretačka ideja: dokazati da možemo stvoriti superioran poslovni softver s hrvatskim predznakom.
U slobodno vrijeme izučava alternativne modele življenja, svira flautu i djembe (afričke bubnjeve), posvećen je širokom spektru istočnjačkih znanja, vještina i tehnika.
Building Distributed Web Systems
12:30 - 13:20 Chalk & Talk
The session will focus “Building Distributed Web Systems” with addressing of important upcoming real-life scenarios. It will be shared in two subtopics:
a) Long Async Request Processing and Push-Streams in Backend
ASP.NET 4.5 Async Handlers
Push of data streams from Server to Client
SignalR + WebSockets
b) Composing Hybrid Applications
Windows Azure ServiceBus Server and Windows Azure Workflow
Damir Dobric
Damir Dobric is co-founder, managing director and lead architect of DAENET GmbH, which is the Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and leading technology integrator specializing in the Microsoft technologies. DAENET is also the worldwide winner of world wide Technology Innovation Award for year 2005, German innovation award 2008 for SOA and Microsoft Partner of the year 2010. For more information please see: http://www.daenet.eu.
Damir is working with Microsoft on helping the industry adopt Windows related technologies. He has well over two decades of experience as a developer, architect, speaker and author. He focuses practical implementation of enterprise, web, desktop and mobile applications.
You can visit: http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/default.aspx
He has been awarded as Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for extraordinary efforts in Connected System Developer technical communities .
Lunch
13:20 - 15:00 Office 365
SharePoint 2010 vs SharePoint 365
15:00 - 15:50 Office 365
SharePoint Online in Office 365 – when you are better to be in the clouds and when down to earth is still better.
Sometimes is better to reach the sky and go to the clouds, and sometimes we need to be firmly standing on the ground. This session will try to find where this thin line between cloud (SharePoint Online in Office 365) and ground (SharePoint 2010 on premise) is. And of course we need also need to have a small look in the future, to make our decisions better.
Zvonimir Mavretić
Zvonimir Mavretic is a cofounder and Chief Technology Officer of the eVision, Croatia . With over 10 years experience in the SharePoint technology , 8 years of K2 and more than 20 years working in IT business Mr. Mavretic has high level of expertise in architecture, design and solution implementation for collaboration, document management, record management, enterprise content management, business process management and enterprise application integration. So far, eVision, has successfully developed some of the biggest, most complex and most sensitive projects for several governments and enterprises in SE Europe region within the Microsoft SharePoint and K2 BlackPearl domain under Zvonimir’s guidance as a team leader . For his project achievements, partnership commitments and years of evangelism as key note speaker for Microsoft SharePoint technology and as well as K2 technology Zvonimir was awarded as Microsoft Technical Person of the Year, Microsoft virtual sales technical person for SharePoint(VTSP), K2 insider and many more (not to forget his Taekwondo black belt award :)).
Beside his family and his two children Zvonimir’s passion and hobby are eVision’s clients which he serves as trusted advisor for Microsoft SharePoint and K2 issues.
VS + Specflow: Behaviour Driven Development
15:00 - 15:50 Development
Behaviour Driven Development with Visual Studio and SpecFlow
BDD is way to create focused tests through collaboration between product owners, developers, and testers. SpecFlow is a tool that employs natural human language to create executable NUnit or MSTest tests. In this session we will learn how to use SpecFlow to write and execute BDD tests within Visual Studio and how to seamlessly integrate BDD in your current specification gathering and programming processes. Depending on accepted usage pattern in your team BDD can act as a successor or supplement of Test Driven Development practice.
Ivan Pavlović
Software Craftsman (MVP For C#, ScrumMaster) with more than 12 years of professional engagement in software development. During that period he took part in various projects ranging from deployment and configuration of team development environments, IT training and Windows and Web application development. He is co-founder and managing director of Hive Studios d.o.o. (www.hive-studios.com). Current project roles are defining business requirements, application infrastructure design, project management and agile coaching.
Fraud Detection – Notes from the Field
15:00 - 15:50 Database
One of the most popular uses of Data Mining is fraud detection. Card issuers, banks, insurances and other financial institutes are always interested to detect frauds in advance, before customers do. In this session, we are going to discuss how to implement a fraud detection solution. You will learn how to prepare data, which algorithms to use, and how to measure results.
Dejan Sarka
Dejan Sarka, SQL Server MVP, focuses on development of database & business intelligence applications. Besides projects, he spends about half of the time on training and mentoring. He is the founder of the Slovenian SQL Server and .NET Users Group. Dejan Sarka is the main author or coauthor of nine books about databases and SQL Server. Dejan Sarka also developed two courses for SolidQ - Data Modeling Essentials and Data Mining with SQL Server.
As an MCT, Dejan Sarka speaks on many local and international events. Some of the international events include conferences such as PASS, TechEd, and DevWeek. He is also indispensable on regional MS events, for example on the NT Conference, the biggest MS conference in Central and Eastern Europe. He spoke on SQL Server 2005, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012 local launch / airlift events in many countries around the world.
SCVMM 2012 i App Ctrl 2012
15:00 - 15:50 Private Cloud
Get acquainted with two members of System Center 2012 family, one old with new improvements and features, and one completely new product, which will enable us to manage centralize and transparent administration of cloud resources. You guessed it!, we're talking about Virtual Machine Manager and App Controller. Look how these two products jointly manage virtual and cloud infrastructure.
Romeo Mlinar
Works as the head of IT department in Ekobit. Professionally connected with computer technology for more than a decade. Passionately devoted with Microsoft products and technology, for instance, System Center, (VMM, CM, App Controller, Service Manager, SCOM), Team Foundation Server, planning and design of Active Directory, as well as
Windows Server services, devoting special attention to virtualization (Hyper-V), which is his recent preoccupation. He bears large number of Microsoft industrial certificates, including MCSA, MCSE, MCDST, MCTS, MCITP, MCSE: Private Cloud. He gave lectures at DevArena, Windays, MS Network, NT Konferenca and at Microsoft IT Pro User groups. He spends his free time with people from IT world, acquiring new knowledge, eagerly sharing it with others, while at the same time enjoying his life with his family.
Agile vs Waterfall
15:00 - 15:50 Project Managment
Do you know what are real differences between Agile and "Classic" Project Management? When to use which? What to avoid? How to combine those two aproaches? How does Agile fit PMBOK?
If you want to get answers for those questions - this sessions is the Perfect one!
Nenad Trajkovski
Rođen u Zagrebu 1963. godine. Nakon završetka fakulteta radi na poslovima razvoja i uvođenja poslovnih sustava (ERP) u firmama raznih područja djelovanja (banke, kartičari, proizvodne tvrtke,
auto industrija, veleprodajne tvrtke, naftne kompanije, i druge). Posjeduje veliko iskustvo u radu s poslovnim procesima i ljudima, te u znanju informacijskih tehnologija i financijsko računovodstvene djelatnosti.
Sada radi kao konzultant za uvođenje poslovnih sustava (MBS DYNAMICS NAV) i Project Manager. Redovni predavač na području Upravljanja projektima na MS Innovation Center U Varaždinu.
Na WINDAYS-ima 2008 proglašen najboljim predavačem, a njegovo predavanje najboljim predavanjem. na WINDAYS-ima 2011 proglašen drugim najboljim predavačem i drugo najbolje predavanje.
Među TOP 10 predavača na MS SINERGIJI 2009 i na MS VIZIJI 2009. Najbolje predavanje i predavač na MS VIZIJA 2010 Dijeli prvo mjesto kao najbolji predavač na Kulendayzima 2009 i 2010, na PMI konferneciji u Zagrebu 2009. Redoviti predavač na MS community.
Ovlašteni je računovođa, PMP (Project Manager PRofessional) i RMP (Risk Manager Professional), MCP, MCTS-Microsoft Project 2010.
Responsive Web Design
15:00 - 15:50 Chalk & Talk
The use of smartphones and tablets has been growing steadily, so it is necessary that you provide a better user experience for the users of your Web sites and applications. One possibility is to use "Responsive Web Design" to customize how your web site will look according to the size of the device through which users access the website. Learn more about this approach, find out what we need and how to start using it.
Toni Podmanicki
Toni Podmanicki is Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist. He is programmer, web and graphic design are his occupation and his passion, and as postgraduate he studies marketing. He likes to be up-to-date regarding these areas and to acquire new knowledge.
SharePoint in the clouds
16:00 - 16:50 Office 365
The way in which the users create and consume information is changing all the time, with always greater pace, and without any signs that these changes will stop anytime soon. While only a few years ago important information was stored on the local drives, and consumed through classic PCs with Windows Desktop operating systems, today, information is being consumed through a variety of devices with different operating systems.
Today SharePoint is the leading collaboration and knowledge platform throughout the world, on premise as well as SharePoint Online / Office365. For that reason, there is a greater need for consuming SharePoint data through various devices and operating systems. This session will show the ways and techniques in which to develop cross-platform and native apps for different devices and different operating systems, including: Windows 8 (Metro Style), Windows Phone, iOS and Android.
Different development platforms and architecture patterns will be presented, and the crucial topics like authentication and impersonification will be addressed.
This session is intended to all SharePoint architects and developers which want to investigate the means to present the SharePoint data on different mobile and tablet systems.
Adis Jugo
Adis Jugo is a software architect with over 20 years of experience. He has first met SharePoint (and Microsoft CMS server) back in 2002, and since 2006 his focus was completely shifted towards architecture and development of solutions based on the SharePoint technology. He is also a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint.
Adis is working as a Technology Advisor and Principal Architect for PlanB., a company with headquarters in Germany, and branch offices in Bosnia and Bulgaria. He is also a speaker at various conferences, including German ShareConf, TeamConf/ALM Days, Microsoft WinDays, Microsoft NetWork, Microsoft Sinergija, Microsoft DevDays/TechDays CEE, as well as at meetings of the various Microsoft User Groups.
Adis' SharePoint blog, with the topics which are covering SharePoint architecture, development, planning and governance can be found at http://adisjugo.com
Kinect Programming
16:00 - 16:50 Development
Jerislav Bobić
SQL Server Columnstore Indexes
16:00 - 16:50 Database
Columnstore indexes and new vector execution plans (batch mode) could speed up execution of your data warehouse queries from 10 to 100 times. Given those performance gains they are great information source for the reporting and analitical processes. However, this performance gain don't come without the price, like the outer joins, unions and some specific query constructs, where you don't get the perf autamatically, as well as the fact that the coulmnstore index on a table prevents the table to be updated in a classical way. Through many samples you'll get the chance to see how to overcome such shortcomings.
Dragoslav Ogar
Dragoslav Ogar is the CEO/consultant/lecturer with A4ATCP d.o.o. Belgrade. He has over 20 years of experience in Microsoft's technologies. He majored in mathematics.
As a MCT he held over 70 MOC seminars with over 15.000 hours of lectures. Today he most often creates his own material for the lectures and labs.
Dragoslav is the most awarded speaker at Microsoft conferences in Serbia. At four international Sinergia conferences (2004, 2006, 2010 and 2011) he was awarded as one among the three best speakers at the event.
Besides SQL Server, he likes speaking about Entity Framework, OData, MVC, Lightswitch and SOLID.
Managing Private Cloud with PowerShell
16:00 - 16:50 Private Cloud
Automation is foundational to successful cloud computing, and Windows PowerShell 3.0 in Server 2012 includes numerous enhancements and improvements that extend its usefulness in server/cloud administration. You can now use Windows PowerShell to automate tasks around cloud datacenter management, starting from deploying your infrastructure servers, building your virtual machines, and ending with monitoring your datacenter environment and performance. Join us to learn how to manage multiple remote servers across your cloud datacenter.
Aleksandar Nikolić
Aleksandar Nikolic is Microsoft MVP for Windows PowerShell. He is one of the earliest adaptors of Windows PowerShell. Aleksandar is a frequent speaker at the conferences (Sinergija, PowerShell Deep Dive, NYC Techstravaganza) and participates regularly in IT Pro/PowerShell user groups worldwide. He is also a co-founder and editor of the PowerShell Magazine (http://powershellmagazine.com). You can find him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexandair
Motivation of the team in crisis
16:00 - 16:50 Project Managment
All of these words in the title of this lecture are magical words that all managers, not just project managers, what to understand and use. If you attend this workshop hopefully you will take some tool ad and use some magic
Mirna Koričan
After studying how the human mind works and how people can be influenced she decided to use the skills in corporations and continued education in business administration. After understanding that people trust others with titles she is striving to get the PhD title (so far, so good). In not with books you can find her in the garden, disco dancing or in the gym.
Parallel Programming 101
16:00 - 16:50 Chalk & Talk
Do you have your boss on your back asking you for better performance in your application? Do you feel like the hardware manufacturer have abandoned you, and instead of faster processors they deliver several cores in one processor? Well this session is for you because you are not alone.
Tiberiu Covaci
Tiberiu works for Falafel Software Inc. (www.falafel.com) in countries like Bermuda, Romania, Sweden, and USA as senior trainer and mentor for .NET and other technologies built on top of .NET. He works closely with Microsoft, both as Author, and Technology Reviewer for the Microsoft .NET Official Curriculum courses. He is an INETA Speaker, IASA Speaker, and INETA Country Lead for Sweden. He is interested in technologies like multi-core programming, ASP.NET, new programming languages and trends. For his contributions in the area of Parallel Computing he was awarded MVP title by Microsoft. He is an ASP Insider and a Telerik MVP & Insider.
Coffee Break
16:50 - 17:10 Office 365
Office 365, Lync, SharePoint and Exchange integration with Windows Phone
17:10 - 18:00 Office 365
Windows Phone has a very advanced business features that make it a powerful business tool. Windows Phone is naturally integrated into the existing infrastructure, especially the 365 Office, Exchange Server and SharePoint. This session provides an overview of integration and use of mobile devices in business environments. It will also show Lync Mobile, a tool for "live" communication among users within an organization.
Željka Knezović
Employed at the Agency for Education, Split Branch as a senior advisor for IT / computing for the area of Dalmatia. She is actively collaborating with Microsoft through the "Partners in Learning" program for the sixth year in a row. Actively participates as a speaker at regional conferences: WinDays since 2007., Synergy since 2008., Kulendeyz, Mobility Day since 2007., and KOM conferences. Since April 2009 she gained the title of Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Lync.
F# Web Application Development
17:10 - 18:00 Development
Web frameworks for functional programming languages are hot today. Not only do they provide a more robust framework to develop large, enterprise-grade web applications, they also tend to raise programmer efficiency by enabling to express more functionality with less code.
In this talk, I will demonstrate how you can develop web applications in F# using WebSharper, a mature open-source web framework for F#. You will learn about representing your web applications, your web pages, and your user interfaces as first-class, type-safe and composable F# values, putting a great deal of clarity and fun into your web development.
Adam Granicz
Adam Granicz is a long-time F# insider and key community member, and the co-author of four F# books, including Expert F# 3.0 with Don Syme, the designer of the language. His company IntelliFactory specializes in consulting on the most demanding F# projects; shaping the future of the development of F# web, mobile and cloud applications; and developing WebSharper, the most mature web and mobile development framework for F#. You can read his blog at http://bit.ly/JEGeW0, follow him on Twitter at @granicz, or find him on FPish, the largest online functional programming community.
SQL Server 2012 Statistical Semantic Search
17:10 - 18:00 Database
SQL Server 2012 introduced an important extension to its integrated Full-text Search, namely the Statistical Semantic Search.
In this session you will learn how to install and configure this new functionality, how to use it to extend your existing full-text search capabilities, and how to utilize it properly to improve your information management solutions.
You will learn how to automatically extract key phrases from your documents, and how to find similarities between individual documents of your information corpus based on the key phrases that they contain.
Matija Lah
Matija Lah has more than a decade of experience working with Microsoft SQL Server, mostly architecting data-centric solutions in the legal domain. His contributions to the SQL Server community have led to the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award in 2007 (Windows Server System SQL Server). In 2008 Matija joined SolidQ as a Mentor, located in Central and Eastern Europe. He spends most of his time on projects involving advanced information management, and natural language processing.
SC Orchestrator
17:10 - 18:00 Private Cloud
During the session dedicated to new System center member – Orchestartor we will try to get the private cloud idea of automating tasks and automating reactions that happen in dynamic cloud environment. When we are thinking about private, hybrid or public cloud as a platform of future IT we are thinking about automated processes. Orchestrator does that and much more ass you will se during the session and demos. Orchestrators web service allows you also to implement additional solutions that are not there out-of-the-box. If you want to make your life easier this for sure the not-to-miss session.
Luka Manojlović
Luka Manojlovic works as an extrenal administrator for more than 30 companyes in Slovenia and abroad. He works mainly in the filed of Small business server but in last two years his focus has changed to private cloud solutions, hosting and virtualization. He is also running a technical blog and presenting in major IT conferences in the region. In 2008 he become an Microsoft MVP for managment infrastructure.
Project in problems - challange for PM
17:10 - 18:00 Project Managment
During the presentation Vesna will discuss situations when you as a project manager would mostly like to refuse the project given, but because of various circumstances, you are not in the position to do so. She will mention some of the project situation that you as PM are often faced with and possible resolutions. All the examples are based on real projects, and her own experience. She will also emphasize the PM skills that should be fulfilled and roles and responsibilities of the project manager for project in problems, and particularly possible actions that project manager is able to undertake in order to prevent possible problems later (being proactive not reasctive).
Vesna Hitrec
Graduated in 1992 at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Zagreb (ETF) in Branch Automatics and mr.sci. title she earned in 2004 at Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb (FER) with Masters in GIS. She is PMP certificate holder from July 2010. She is a Board member of PMI Chapter Zagreb, Croatia since 2011.
With 20+ years of experience in ICT and 10+ years of experience in Project management Vesna has an opportunity to talk about her projects she had a chance to manage in the past years. She used to work for Teb Informatika company before, and later for GDi GISDATA, but these days she starts her own free-lance career. She will continue with activities she used to work on for past 10 years, but as a standalone consultant.
In private time she likes skiing, sailing, walking in the mountains, riding the bicycle, …
SOLID - clean code for mere mortals
17:10 - 18:00 Chalk & Talk
The one constant of software development is change. Changing requirements, changing environments, changing methodologies. How can we embrace this inevitable process and design software that will adapt and grow as the world around it changes? SOLID is a set of principles that (in principle) ensures that our best designs survive first contact with the users and clients.
Wekoslav Stefanovski
Wekoslav Stefanovski has over a decade of professional developer experience using a variety of development technologies. Has been using .net and C# since the first public beta. Currently works in Seavus as a Senior Developer. He is specially interested in functional programming, static code analysis, compiler design and code quality metrics.
Exchange 2013/Lync 2013
18:10 - 19:00 Office 365
New and improved MS Exchange 2013 and MS Lync 2013
New versions of well-known collaboration tools for enterprises have been redesigned and carry new version number. They haven’t only changed version numbers, but they also bring new architectural, functional and administration changes. In this session, participants will be introduced to this changes and they will see new products on the run, both on-prem and in the cloud as part of Office 365 Wave 15 suite.
Igor Pavleković
Igor Pavleković is working in Algebra Educational Group as a Chief Technology Officer. He is also lecturer and trainer on systems and network administration and engineering field in Microsoft Official Course education. In University College Algebra he is assistant professor on few courses. On his way in search for place in the IT world he used to do software development, but today he almost forget this discipline. More and more of his attention is devoted to secrets of engineering and administering MS Windows server systems, MS ForeFront products, MS Exchange and MS Lync systems. Collaboration tools are his weak point, especially Exchange, no matter if it is in cloud or on prem.
Currently he holds MCSE+S, MCITP, MCT, CEH and CEI industrial certificates.
Microsoft has awarded him with MVP: Office 365 award.
GPdotNET – Darwian's teory of evolution in solving engineering problems by C#
18:10 - 19:00 Development
GPdotNET is tree based genetic programming application for solving engineering problems by applying genetic programming and genetic algorithms. GPdotNET can be applied in various engineering problems of modeling, optimization, forecasting and predictions. Project contains several C# libraries with Genetic programming implementation algorithms and Windows Forms application for graphical and visual results presentation. GPdotNET also support parallel processing for multicore processors based on ParallelFx library. Started from the version 2.0, GPdotNET is multiplatform application with 100% the same code for .NET and Mono.
The Session will present various implementations behind this application i.e. parallel processing implementation, memory pooling for fast memory object access, compatibility between Mono 2.8 and .NET 4.
Beside C# knowledge this application requires knowledge from Math, Evolutionary algorithms, and Engineering.
Several master and PhD thesis are successfully applied GPdotNET in modeling, and some of these real examples will be presented during this session.
Bahrudin Hrnjica
Bahrudin Hrnjica is Senor Software Developer and Microsoft MVP. He has over 12 years of experience in software development on Microsoft technologies. In spare time, he is contributing open source projects GPdotNET Genetic Programming tool and WPWidgetLibrary HTML widget for Windows Phone 7, writing blog at http://bhrnjica.net and leads Bihac .NET INETA User Group. He is speaker at domestic and regional Microsoft and User group meetings and conferences. Microsoft recognized him as an MVP in Visual C# for 2011.
Solving common cube design problems
18:10 - 19:00 Database
This session summarizes typical problems every Business Intelligence developer encounters, sooner or later, while working in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) on SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) projects. As you might have already learned the hard way, it's not always easy to identify where exactly the problem is and hence it may pay off to learn from the experience of others. During the session, each problem will be described in detail, showing what went wrong, why did it happen and what does the error message or the hint mean (if present at all). Finally, one or more solutions for fixing each problem will be given.
Tomislav Piasevoli
Tomislav Piasevoli is a Business Intelligence (BI) Specialist with years of experience with SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS). He successfully implemented many still-in-use BI solutions and now specializes in dimensional modeling, cube design and MDX consulting worldwide. In addition to regular work, Tomislav finds the time to present at conferences and to occasionally write an article or two for magazines and his blog (http://tomislav.piasevoli.com). His recent experience of living by leaving the legacy behind is a highly praised book named "MDX with SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services: Cookbook" published by Packt Publishing Ltd (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1849681309). Tomislav's contribution to the community has been recognized by Microsoft honouring him with the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award every year since 2009.
Deploying Private Cloud
18:10 - 19:00 Private Cloud
If you are planning for deployment of your private cloud (or clouds), either for test or production purposes, and don’t know where to begin, this session will is right for you – we will discuss some of the highlights of how to deploy Private Cloud components, how to integrate them, show you how they are working together once deployed and give you some tips about the subject. Session will also include live demonstrations of some specific parts of the deployment…
Tomica Kaniski
Tomica is Microsoft MVP for Management Infrastructure, working as a Tech Lead at Microsoft Innovation Center in Croatia. He is also presenter at various conferences (WinDays, Mobility Day, Kulen Dayz), Microsoft Certified Trainer and IT Pro community lead. Fully engaged with Microsoft products and technologies, and mostly interested in products that are still to be released...
Rx & Async
18:10 - 19:00 Chalk & Talk
We live in an increasingly connected world and we have to deal with both asynchronous and event based programming. To ensure that writing such code is both easy and maintainable, we use two different sets of libraries: TPL and Rx and a language extension for C#, VB.NET and F# called Async. You can retain synchronous mental model while extracting all the benefits of asynchrony. Rx will help you treat all event sources as event streams which can then be easily composed, filtered, aggregated and more. Together, these two libraries cover the entire asynchronous domain and help you write better code without the usual hassle, and with all the benefits of a asynchronous model.
Toni Petrina
Diplomirani inženjer matematike. U Ekobitu radi kao C++ i C# razvojni inženjer na Microsoftovim platformama (MFC, .NET, Windows Phone 7). Predaje na User Grupi i na raznim regionalnim konferencijama poput DevArene, WinDaysa i NT Konference. Prije dolaska u Ekobit bavio se 3D grafikom, web developmentom na PHP i ASP.NET platformama te raznim drugim tehnologijama. Obožava WP7 development, 3D grafiku i korištenje najnaprednijih tehnologija u programiranju. Slobodno vrijeme provodi s djevojkom, prijateljima i raznim hobi projektima
All Saturday sessions are taking place in Hotel Patria, Beli Manastir.