Live Event - 05 October 2022
When
Wednesday 5 October 2022, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Where
Microsoft Campus, Thames Valley Park, Reading, UK
We're very excited to be able to invite you to join us at Microsoft’s newly refurbished office in Reading. This fantastic location presents a unique opportunity to network with Microsoft speakers, as well as experts from the Grey Matter team and representatives from some of our most in-demand partners.
Why attend?
ISV Partner Day is the only Microsoft-focused tech event in the UK dedicated to ISVs, SaaS providers, and application builders.
New for 2022, we’ve re-vamped our tracks to include Data and Infrastructure alongside the ever-popular Developer track. We hope you’re ready for an incredible line-up of speakers from Microsoft covering topics like:
- Harness the Power of Data with Azure
- Adopting the Azure Well-Architected Framework
- Microsoft Business Intelligence, Data Analysis & Reporting
- Microsoft Teams Integration & Application Development
ISV Partner Day is known for its buzz and community feel, and we can’t wait to soak up the atmosphere with you in October.
Tracks and agenda
Data
Developer
Infrastructure
| 08:30 | Registration
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| 09:30-10:00 | Keynote James Chadwick Microsoft |
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| 10:15-11:15 | IoT Mark Trippier Cloud Know How |
Session description coming soon. |
| 12:00-13:00 | Harness the Power of Data with Azure Taygan Rifat Cloud Solution Architect Microsoft |
For any organization to succeed in a world of unprecedented uncertainty, a new level of agility is required. Core to that agility is the ability to quickly gain insights from data at any scale, power ultra-low latency applications that deliver personalized experiences, and empower all users in an organization, regardless of size. This requires a computing platform that provides limitless scale, performance, and possibilities for what can be achieved with data.
Join us for a whistle stop tour of Azure services within the data and artificial intelligence domain. The intent of this session is to attain a greater appreciation and understanding of the broad spectrum of capabilities on offer, from various database technologies, IoT, machine learning, and more, followed by a demonstration on the art of the possible with modern data architectures! |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch
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| 14:00-15:00 | Embed actional analytics everywhere with Power BI Embedded Paul Henwood |
Power BI Embedded Analytics enhances Power BI, enabling developers to embed stunning data visualizations in any platform, product, website, portal, or service. In this session, we will demonstrate how to get started with Power BI embedded and how you can quickly embed interactive reports and visualizations into your application. With the serverless architecture, you can automatically scale embedded analytics capabilities from a few to hundreds of thousands of users, without the need to build, set up and manage your own analytics information.
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| 15:15-16:15 | Mapping Clemens Schotte |
Session description coming soon. |
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| 08:30 | Registration
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| 09:30-10:00 | Keynote James Chadwick Microsoft |
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| 10:15-11:15 | Visual Studio April Edwards Microsoft |
Session description coming soon. |
| 12:00-13:00 | DevOps & GitHub Mike Ormond Cloud Solutions Architect Microsoft |
Building modern, cloud-native software brings many challenges, not least the need to respond to customer demands faster than ever before; enter DevOps. DevOps is many things: automation, collaboration, ownership, feedback, continuous learning; all important aspects of a DevOps approach. In this session we’ll look at features of the Microsoft platform designed to support and enrich the DevOps journey. Whether it’s planning, security, CI/CD, team collaboration or improving the developer experience there’ll be a demo for everyone. |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch
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| 14:00-15:00 | Azure Infrastructure as Code April Edwards Microsoft |
Session description coming soon. |
| 15:15-16:15 | Microsoft Teams Integration & Application Development Jack Lewis Cloud Solutions Architect Microsoft |
In this session you will learn all about how Teams Apps/Integrations work, and how to use the various interfaces that exist to surface an application's capabilities within the collaborative framework that exists inside Teams. This session will include technical information and demonstrations on how the various interfaces work, including; iFrames, chatbots & advanced bot integrations (such as messaging extensions/actions). It will also include guidance on how to work with the Graph API and Azure AD SSO for your app to provide amazing experiences for users when you build an app for Teams! |
| 08:30 | Registration
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| 09:30-10:00 | Keynote James Chadwick Microsoft |
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| 10:15-11:15 | What is the Cloud Adoption Framework and how does it apply to me? Richard Cheney Microsoft |
More customers and service partners are pivoting around the Cloud Adoption Framework, Well Architected Framework and opinionated Azure Landing Zone deployments for management and governance. Azure services such as Azure Lighthouse and Azure Private Link Service are blurring the boundaries between service integrators, ISVs and customers. What does this mean for the deployment of your products into customer environments in a SaaS context? |
| 12:00-13:00 | Adopting the Azure Well Architected Framework Luke Fussell Microsoft |
Session description coming soon. |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch
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| 14:00-15:00 | TBC TBC |
Session description coming soon. |
| 15:15-16:15 | Building for Microsoft Marketplace TBC |
Session description coming soon. |
Speakers
Taygan Rifat
Microsoft
Cloud Solution Architect (Data & AI)
April Edwards
Microsoft
Senior Cloud Advocate
James Chadwick
Microsoft
ISV Ecosystem Lead
Richard Cheney
Microsoft
Senior Cloud Solution Architect
