It's that time of the year again! Yes, TechEd India 2006 is here!!!
Last year's TechEd was huge. We had honestly stretched ourselves and if you had asked us if we could make it bigger, we would have disagreed. But this team has a habit of surprising itself. This year's TechEd is bigger (6 cities), has deeper content (9 tracks across 3 days) and some of the best speakers on the topics being discussed.
The fun quotient is also higher this year with several interesting contests and online communities that you can participate in. An interesting thing we have done this year is to get speakers to record video clips about the sessions they are presenting. There is also a series of webcasts about the content being featured in the various tracks. Promises to be one heck of an event!
This year, I own the Data Platform and Architecture tracks, and if you ever wanted to know how we go about deciding the content for TechEd or have feedback to share, we are doing a series of webcasts this week. The first one begins in a few hours from now.
Over the next few posts, I will be talking about the topics I am speaking on. It is mostly security and a couple more areas. On the dev track, I am talking on how to make systems "Hacker Proof", this is actually a consolidation of excerpts from some of the webcasts I had done for the Building Secure Software series, with some new material. On the WinFX track, the topic is Developing Secure Services using WCF, where the attempt is to try and de-mystify the model for securing services, without getting into the Web-Services or WCF jargon. On the Architecture track, I am talking about Threat Modeling - we'll take a real system and try and build a threat model for it. Again on the architecture track, I am doing a joint session with Kumar on the MS Product Roadmap. This is not the usual Product version timelines gyan. We will try and give a view in the strategic thinking behind our vision for the technologies being built at Redmond. Besides, I am a backup speaker for a couple more topics: Edge Architecture and Steve Riley's Attacker Trends and Techniques session.
So yeah, that's a lot of sessions, and if you see the amount of research that goes into preparing this stuff, its a bit of a knockout! I am almost done with this work, and plan to use the next week's time to unwind a bit and take feedback from folks on what exactly would they like to see being covered in these sessions. So if you have a thought / suggestion / feedback, please do drop in a line.
