As the Director of the Developer and Platform Evangelism team John is responsible for working with developer, IT professional, academic, startup, and venture capital communities in Singapore.

His team leverages software as an enabler to innovation, entrepreneurship, and the next generation, be it students, business models or technology paradigms.

The topics he'll cover include:

• An overview of the Windows Azure platform: Technology and business model
• Using the Windows Azure platform: Application scenarios
• The cloud platform context: Google, Amazon, Salesforce.com, and more

The goal is to provide a foundation for thinking about the Windows Azure platform, then offer guidance on how to make good decisions for using it.

David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates (www.davidchappell.com) in San Francisco, California. Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, he helps software professionals around the world understand, use, and make better decisions about new technologies.

David has been the keynote speaker for many conferences and events on five continents, and his seminars have been attended by tens of thousands of developers, architects, and decision makers in forty countries.

This will include a detailed look at both Azure Compute and Storage as well as SQL Azure and the Windows Azure Platform AppFabric. Mr Auld will use reference to real world example applications to provide pointers to architects and technical decision makers investigating the Azure platform for their application needs.

Chris is the Director of Strategy and Innovation at Intergen, a Microsoft specialist consultancy based out of New Zealand. Chris has been a key global trainer for the Azure Services Platform early adopter program and brings extensive theoretical and hands on experience in building high scale web applications.

Chris is a Microsoft Regional Director for the Australia/New Zealand region and a regular presenter at events such as TechEd and MIX.

The topics he'll cover include:

• Why team-oriented tools are important for team development
• An overview of Visual Studio 2010
• Using Visual Studio 2010: Example scenarios

The goal is to provide a broad understanding of the technology and when it's most useful.

David Chappell is Principal of Chappell & Associates (www.davidchappell.com) in San Francisco, California. Through his speaking, writing, and consulting, he helps software professionals around the world understand, use, and make better decisions about new technologies.

David has been the keynote speaker for many conferences and events on five continents, and his seminars have been attended by tens of thousands of developers, architects, and decision makers in forty countries.

In this session, we present a solution which enables these on-demand services for enterprise applications running on Azure. The solution uses Azure AppFabric service bus to ensure easy, seamless integration of the services to your applications. Learn how the solution integrates with Azure-based apps, and how you would consume the messaging and collaboration services in your application.

In addition, gain insight into how .NET applications and SQL Server databases are ported to Azure. We shall look at a real-world example of Azure’s on-demand computing capabilities being used for processing large sets of data using Azure’s hosted .NET and SQL Server services.

Mr Lee Lup Yuen is a Principal Consultant at NCS Group, a subsidiary of the SingTel Group. Lup Yuen has 15 years of experience in IT.

He leads a team of architects specialising in .NET enterprise, mobility and digital media solutions, under the Chief Architect Office in NCS.

He was the architect for several large .NET solutions implemented in government and commercial organisations.

Lup Yuen received the Microsoft Worldwide IT Hero Award in 2007.

Jerry Low, a veteran in the ICT industry, has more than 15 years of experience in service management and development of new SaaS offerings. His areas of specialisation span from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Domino and Exchange Messaging, Infrastructure solution and support for managed services.

Jerry heads a team of engineers in NCS to manage the service delivery of mission-critical projects in both the public and private sectors. He also drives initiatives to develop service management policies and provide effective leadership to ensure successful implementation of projects based on ITSM methodology.

Backed by his domain expertise, Jerry holds a portfolio in business development for new SaaS offerings and services. He is currently working with Microsoft to emulate some of NCS existing Enterprise Messaging and Collaboration services to Azure.

Plus, come take a look at Project NIMBUS – Singapore’s first online data marketplace – brought to you by Microsoft’s Innovation Centre Singapore.