Global MVP TechDays Online Scheduled for 20-22 February 2017

This year's global MVP TechDays will deliver sessions on subjects like data, DevOps, and Quantum Computing and it will all be offered for no cost online.

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

February 7, 2017

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Global MVP TechDays Online Scheduled for 20-22 February 2017

This year's three day MVP TechDays online conference is coming up and is less than two weeks away.

MVP TechDays is a free conference that you can participate in from work, home, and on your device of choice. As long as you have Internet and can access Microsoft's Channel 9 to watch the live video stram.

All you need to do is register and then decide which days/sessions you want to watch and participate in ahead of the 20 February start date.

Here is the agenda for this year's event (Time is based on United Kingdom):

February 20th

  •        10 am: Data, data, data – How and where to store in on Azure? With Microsoft’s David Gristwood and Amy Nicholson.

  •        11 pm: Conversational UI using the Microsoft Bot Framework with Microsoft’s Simon Michael and MVPs James Mann and Gary Pretty.

  •        12 pm: Microsoft Bot Framework and Cognitive Services: Make your bot smarter! With Microsoft’s Simon Michael and MVPs James Mann and Gary Pretty

  •        1 pm: The best kept secret, Document DB with Microsoft’s Andrew Fryer and MVP Allan Mitchell

  •        2 pm: Let’s discuss Server-less with Microsoft’s Andrew Fryer and MVP Rik Hepworth

  •        3 pm: Keynote: What is an Azure Data Lake? With Dr Mike Rys. 

  •        4 pm: Close

February 21st

  •        10 am: Creating a PHP-MySQL web app in Azure App Service and deploying using FTP with MVP Rik Hepworth

  •        11 am: Gain profit from Azure app service tooling as an OSS developer with MVP Mike Martin

  •        12 pm: Dockerizing Your Cross-Plat .NET Development with MVP Rainer Stropek

  •        1 m: Communication Driven Development with Jessica Rose

  •        2 pm:  Monitoring Linux in Azure with Microsoft Operations Management Suite Log Analytics with MVP Gordon McKenna

  •        3 pm: The Open Source World of Xamarin with MVP Garry Whittaker

  •        4 pm Close

February 22nd

  •        10 am: Bootstrapping blockchain with Microsoft’s Mike Ormond and Jonathan Collinge

  •        11 am:  How IOT and data is changing lives with Haiyan Zhang from Microsoft Research

  •        12 pm: An introduction to Quantum Computing with Ilyas Khan from Quantum Computing

  •        1 pm: Social Scientist from the Alan Turing Institute

  •        2 pm: Microsoft Regional Directors panel. RDs; Richard Conway, Andy Cross, Steve Thair and Simon Sabin

  •        3 pm: Close

As you can see these three days are heavily represented by Microsoft MVPs but also include industry experts, leaders, and Microsoft employees to bring you the latest on all of the subjects listed above plus it is absolutely free. You just need to invest the time to watch the sessions and learn from these various resources.

More about MVP TechDays Online is available on the MVP Award Program blog.

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About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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