I will be delivering Indigo Ascend in Asia Pacific in the coming months on behalf of the Indigo and Ascend team in MSFT Corp, Redmond, US.

It will start in Sydney, Australia later this month, then move upwards (northwards) to my own local backyard, Singapore. There are a few more countries Microsoft and I are interested to look at bringing this event as well.

This will be a good time for me to meet up with real customers from the enterprises who are using Microsoft distributed technologies or are planning to look into using it in the future. Drop me an email here if you would like to engage me for a discussion.

If you are reading this blog post and you work for an ISV or an enterprise that does a fair bit of distributed computing technology and you are interested in attending this Indigo Ascend in Singapore (I think we are a little bit late in nominations for Australia), do drop me a mail here and I will see what I can do to hook you up for this 3 day event.

If you are from anywhere else besides Australia or Singapore (in APAC) and would love to attend an event like this, do drop me an email as well and I will see what I can do to bring Indigo Ascend to your country.

I have been invited to deliver a few Ascends before such as Visual Studio 2005 and such. However, I have always turned it down because I dont consider myself to be a "professional" trainer since I have always been on the field working on real projects with real problems in distributed technologies for some time (and not some simulated fanciful classroom labs scenarios) ...

... BUT...

Indigo is an Ascend which I am proud and excited to deliver because it is a future facet of Windows Server 2003 that I have spent quite some time on and I believe it is something that real customers need in the field to solve real-world problems today.

There is really nothing quite like it out there at the moment or in the immediate future outside of Microsoft. It is really one of Microsoft's innovation at its best.