For the 4th year in a row, I will, again, be speaking in Microsoft TechED 2007 Asia in KL, Malaysia. I have spoken on a good breadth of topics for the past few years. This time around, I will be focusing on 2 architectural tracks. Here are my session topics and agenda:

• Languages, Frameworks and Architectures
  New language solution frameworks are emerging to make solution development less cumbersome. For example, AJAX for building rich, interactive, internet applications, SCA for composing components into services, Ruby-on-Rails for building web applications, and Blinq for generating ASP.NET websites based on a database schema. This session will look at how these languages are evolving to include architectural constructs and where that evolution will go.

• Real World SOA with Microsoft Technologies
  In this session I will show a very interesting look, from different perspectives, on what SOA in the real-world really is. Hear about whether one of the biggest IT buzzwords  in recent years has delivered what it promised and why. We will also hear the different implementation approaches to institutionalize a good SOA practice inside your organization and let the audience decide on what approach best suits their environment.  After that, he will share what the Microsoft platform can offer, in terms of value, to help the customer achieve their end-goals.

The latter topics will be very interesting as I relooked at how "SOA" has performed in organizations and if it has really lived-up to its promises. If not, I will offer some different perspectives on how Microsoft can help in that. I had, orginally, intend to talk about Event-Driven Architecture but decided against putting my audience to sleep, literally and figuratively . As usual, I will see what I can dig up to give away during the event. Do swing by and say "Hi" and attend the sessions for an interesting look from another perspective.