MVP Led TechDays Online February 2017

Quantum Computing is the future, Blockchain and BOTs are reality! So what does this mean for you in the real world? These are just some of the topics we will be tackling as part of the latest iteration of MVP led TechDays Online. On 20, 21 and 22 February leading MVPs and technical experts will be sharing their knowledge and expertise on how to make sense of your data, Document DB, Server-less and PHP-MySQL web apps in Azure App Services. This year's impressive line-up includes Haiyan Zhang from the BBC's The Big Life Fix demonstrating how technology can really help people! Along with Ilyas Khan who is the CEO and co-founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing. IIyas is also a Fellow of St Edmund's College at the University of Cambridge and he is currently the Chairman and a founding Trustee of The Stephen Hawking Foundation.

· On Monday, 20 February 2017: We will be talking about the benefits of choosing the right data store when designing highly available, highly scalable and cost effective cloud based systems. The session will explore the range of offerings on the Azure platform, along with guidance on how to best match the right store for your workload requirements. This will be followed by two sessions from MVPs James Mann and Gary Pretty looking at the changing world of BOTs and offering you the tools to create real chat-bots today! And we close the day sharing the secrets of Document DB with MVP Allan Mitchell who will demonstrate the scale capabilities not only in terms of RUs and storage but also how you can leverage JavaScript

· On Tuesday, 21 February 2017: The theme shifts to DevOps and MVPs from across Europe and the world talking about Dockerizing Your Cross-Plat .NET Development, monitoring Linux in Azure with Microsoft Operations Management Suite Log Analytic and DevOps by examples, a presentation designed to illustrate the DevOps vision with the help of a mix of technologies including GitHub, Linux, ASP.NET Code, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), Azure and more

· On Wednesday, 22 February 2017: We change gear and delve into the world of Quantum Computing, how technology is really helping people to improve their lives and we hear from Professor Bradley Love from UCL and the Alan Turing Institute. Also, Microsoft Regional Directors from the UK join forces to talk about IT Pro and Developer skills together with the transforming age of technology!

You can pre-register for the event @ https://aka.ms/uktechdays2017

20 February 2017:

· 10.00am: Data, data, data – How and where to store it on Azure? Microsoft's David Gristwood and Amy Nicholson

· 11.00pm: Conversational UI using the Microsoft BOT Framework Microsoft's Simon Michael and MVPs James Mann and Gary Pretty

·12.00pm: Microsoft Bot Framework and Cognitive Services: Make your BOT smarter! Microsoft's Simon Michael and MVPs James Mann and Gary Pretty

·1.00pm: The best kept secret, Document DB. Microsoft's Andrew Fryer and MVP Allan Mitchell

·2.00pm: Let's discuss Server-less. Microsoft's Andrew Fryer and MVP Rik Hepworth

·3.00pm: Keynote: Dr Mike Rys What is an Azure Data Lake?

·4.00pm: Close

21 February 2017:

·10.00am: Creating a PHP-MySQL web app in Azure App Service and deploying using FTP. MVP Muhammad Bilal Amjad (www.bilalamjad.net)

·11.00am: Gain profit from Azure app service tooling as an OSS developer. MVP Mike Martin

·12.00pm: Dockerizing Your Cross-Plat .NET Development. MVP Rainer Stropek

·1.00pm: Communication Driven Development. Jessica Rose

·2.00pm: Monitoring Linux in Azure with Microsoft Operations Management Suite Log Analytics. MVP Gordon McKenna

·3.00pm: The Open Source World of Xamarin. MVP Garry Whittaker

·4.00pm Close

22 February 2017:

·10.00am: Bootstrapping blockchain. Microsoft's Mike Ormond and Jonathan Collinge

·11.00am: How IOT and data is changing lives. Haiyan Zhang from Microsoft Research

·12.00pm: An introduction to Quantum Computing. Ilyas Khan from Quantum Computing

·1.00pm: Social Scientist Professor Bradley Love from University College London and the Alan Turing Institute

·2.00pm: Microsoft Regional Directors panel. Richard Conway, Andy Cross, Steve Thair and Simon Sabin

·3.00pm: Close

If you have any questions, please email csmyth@microsoft.com