Registration for the VirtualStudy Conference 2010 has opened

Yesterday at exactly 10:00, registration for the VirtualStudy Conference 2010 was opened. Both the registration and participation in the conference are completely free – you can take part using the free LiveMeeting client.

VirtualStudy Conference 2010 is the first edition of the virtual, worldwide conference, meant for the widely understood circle of fans and IT specialists. The Conference was created to enable the exchange of the technical expert knowledge and help IT professionals increase their professional skills. An editorial staff of the VirtualStudy.pl and the best IT specialists, cooperating with the portal are organizers of the conference. You can participate in the event for free, thanks to the LiveMeeting client. It only takes 2 minutes to register and then enjoy the best e-conference sessions on Saturday, 19th of June 2010.

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VirtualStudy Conference 2010 is an excellent chance and a possibility of the participation in sessions conducted by the first-class specialists. During numerous sessions it will be possible to hear both Polish and foreign specialists.

The conference will consist of 3 thematic tracks led in Polish and 2 English-speaking tracks. Every track consists of 5 sessions, so certainly everyone will find something interesting for oneself. Polish tracks will be meant for: ITPro specialists, Database Administrators and Developers.

English-speaking tracks will be divided in sessions about ITPro and computer systems security. Polish-speaking sessions will be on Saturday from 9:00 AM see world time – 05:00PM see world time (UTC +2) and English-speaking sessions from 06:00 PM (UTC +2) see world time till, so everybody who is interested in taking part will be able to attend this conference.

We want this conference to be one of greatest and best virtual conferences in the world.

The conference will feature speakers such as Andy Malone – MVP Security, Dr Thomas Shinder – MVP ISA Firewalls, Sander Berkouwer – MVP Directory Services, Paula Januszkiewicz – MVP Security, and many other equally well‑known experts.

The participation in the conference is free of charge, but the number of sits is limited so first come, first served.

Agenda:

Session:	Speaker:	SEATTLE TIME (UTC-7)
IT Pro Track – Polish: Robert Stuczyński
0. Introduction	Robert Stuczyński	00:00AM – 00:15AM see world time
1. DirectAccess – How it Works	Krzysztof Pietrzak	00:15AM – 01:30AM see world time
2. Blue screen of death for everybody!	Grzegorz Tworek	01:45AM – 03:00AM see world time
3. SharePoint 2010 – building a business solution	Michał Bojko	03:15AM – 04:30AM see world time
4. Windows Security Management -simple or this is only an illusion?	Paula Januszkiewicz	05:10AM – 06:25AM see world time
5. ADFS (v2) re-loaded: Keys to the kingdom	Tomasz Onyszko	06:40AM – 07:55AM see world time
SQL Track – Polish: Beata Zalewa
0. Introduction	Robert Stuczyński	00:00AM – 00:15AM see world time
1. Where SQL Trace can’t help, there use eXtended Events?	Łukasz Grala	00:15AM – 01:30AM see world time
2. Microsoft Clustering od A do Z	Marcin Szeliga	01:45AM – 03:00AM see world time
3. SQL Server Reporting Services – Tips & Tricks	Bartek Graczyk	03:15AM – 04:30AM see world time
4. Free applications for performance troubleshooting in SQL Server 2008	Paweł Potasiński	05:10AM – 06:25AM see world time
5. The Key to success in the database	Marek Adamczuk	06:40AM – 07:55AM see world time
Dev Track – Polish: Bartek Pampuch
0. Introduction	Robert Stuczyński	00:00AM – 00:15AM see world time
1. IoC containers – everything what you must know to their topic	Krzysztof Koźmic Bartosz Pampuch	00:15AM – 01:30AM see world time
2. OData – exchanging the data!	Tomasz Wisniewski	01:45AM – 03:00AM see world time
3. Windows at your fingertips – touch applications programming for Windows 7	Szymon Kobalczyk Freena Eijffinger	03:15AM – 04:30AM see world time
4. Reactive Programming – a new paradigm of programming	Marcin Najder	05:10AM – 06:25AM see world time
5. Remote Services	Szymon Pobiega	06:40AM – 07:55AM see world time
IT Pro Track – English: Michał Bojko
0. Introduction	Michał Bojko	09:00AM-09:15AM see world time
1. SharePoint 2010 – building a business solution	Michał Bojko	09:15AM-10:30AM see world time
2. Active Directory Best Practices in Hyper-V environments	Sander Berkouwer	10:45AM-12:00AM see world time
3. SQL Server User-Defined Functions – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly	Maciej Pilecki	12:15AM-01:30PM see world time
4. Make Reporting Services Work For You	Jessica Moss	02:10PM-03:25PM see world time
Security Track – English: Paula Januszkiewicz / Grzegorz Tworek
0. Introduction	Paula Januszkiewicz Grzegorz Tworek	09:00AM-09:15AM see world time
1. Secure Endpoint: DirectAccess and Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010, the Complete Remote Access Solution	Thomas Shinder	09:15AM-10:30AM see world time
2. Catching one tail with three heads – Kerberos explained	Tomek Onyszko	10:45AM-12:00AM see world time
3. Cybercrime: The Gathering Storm!	Andy Malone	12:15AM-01:30PM see world time
4. Killing Botnets	Chris Davis	01:45PM-03:00PM see world time
5. Password secrets revealed! Everything you want to know but are afraid to ask (or had no time to check it)	Paula Januszkiewicz	03:15PM-04:30PM see world time

Descriptions:

IT Pro Track – Polish

1. DirectAccess – How it Works – Krzysztof Pietrzak

DirectAccess is currently at hype in VPN technologies. But what makes it work? Is it a new protocol, or just clever reusing of old ideas? This session will try to answer those question, going deeper into DA implementation, including IPv6, Transition Technologies, and IPSec.

2. Blue screen of death for everybody! – Grzegorz Tworek

Blue screens of death are the favorite topic of IT jokes. For some blue screens are ridiculous, for others – irritating. But in reality very few people can use them wisely and with premises – to solve the problem. During the session there will be shown techniques for standalone analysis and system’s restoration.

3. SharePoint 2010 – building a business solution – Michał Bojko

Have you ever wondered, if there is any tool that could help you solve your problems at work? If yes, You should take part in this session,as it will present methods that will support your every day work. We shall try to solve a not so easy business case with what SharePoint 2010 gives you out of the box.

4. Windows Security Management -simple or this is only an illusion? – Paula Januszkiewicz

Ideas related to new technological solutions always bring to many problems to people involved in security. On the other hand, our natural reluctance to changes makes, that everything what is related to information security, is seen as an impediment. As a result, the management of security often boils down to eliminate the problems stemming, which sources istechnology. How easy and fun is to solve some of the problems of IT security? How few clicks build safe ” user-proof” solution? About this and other interesting facts related to safety management, you can learn during the session of Paula Januszkiewicz.

5. ADFS (v2) re-loaded: Keys to the kingdom – Tomasz Onyszko

Years ago, the industry has made a change and turnover the steam engine to electricity, and then from private power plants and generators to a common access network and energy suppliers. Do you wonder how to connect our system to the electric network? Probably not.
Does the same revolution await us on the web and e-services in terms of methods of authentication and access management? How in the changing conditions, services held in the “cloud” and leased server rooms manage access to them in a secure way? The session will present the changes in the approach to the problem of authentication and authorization, the architecture and solutions of ADFS version 2 services. What is STS and claims, how they are to ADFS and what constitutes a service, how to connect to infrastructure existing applications? All of this will be answered in this session.

SQL Track – Polish

1. Where SQL Trace can’t help, there use eXtended Events? – Łukasz Grala

Probably all DB administrators had to use the SQL Trace (Profiler), or systems dynamic views (DMV). And probably most of them were in situation, when it was hard to recognize problems with use of these tools, or whether such identification was not realizable. This session will show the possibility of a new solution in SQL Server 2008,which is the eXtended Events.
What are the XE? Is it something more familiar than the old solutions? Can we use eXtended Events? Which opportunities this solution offered for administrators?
The answers, not only for these questions, will be found in this session.

2. Microsoft Clustering od A do Z – Marcin Szeliga

The more complex data is, the more difficult it becomes to organize them – the classification of cases based on several attributes (eg price, color, size and brand) we made intuitively, but the classification of cases where the signatures are made up of several attributes far beyond our capacity. No wonder that Microsoft Clustering algorithm is one of the most widely used data mining algorithms for SQL Server 2005/2008.
This algorithm classifies the cases into distinct groups based on the values of their attributes, so that each group contained similar cases. In addition, it allows to estimate the probability, with which a specific case will be classified in the group. A unique feature of this algorithm is able to predict – after classifying the data of the cases can be used to predict the state of the other, assigned to the same groups of cases. For example, demographic data about customers may be used to rating the probability with which John Smith will be our customer.
During this session, we will get familiar with principles of the Microsoft Clustering algorithm, learn to create and evaluate models of clustering, and interpret their results, we will look at the use of clustering for anomaly detection (incorrect data or abnormal operation).

3. SQL Server Reporting Services – Tips & Tricks – Bartek Graczyk

Is really SSRS and BIDS allows you to flexible building and distribution reports? Do you ever thought during creating a report – perhaps with another tool it would be easier to prepare this report? But let’s do that with SSRS – an excellent report and less perfect SQL Server Reporting Services. This session is dedicated to all, who had, have now, or feel, that may have a problem during working with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services & Microsoft Business Intelligence Studio.

4. Free applications for performance troubleshooting in SQL Server 2008 – Paweł Potasiński

SQL Server 2008 offers a powerful range of tools for monitoring activities of servers and users. However, when performance problem occurs, usually a man must decide, where the bottleneck exists or which component of the system/ which query needs optimization. There are free tools – that are not always created by Microsoft – to help the DBA make the right decisions regarding the optimization process. See their features in action. Perhaps some of these tools will join your own DBA toolkit.

5. The Key to success in the database – Marek Adamczuk

Summary: Should we use keys in a relational database? There is no doubt we should. However there is a question – what kind of key? Are natural keys better than surrogate keys, and if yes when and where should we use them? How to obtain surrogate keys? You are welcome to join the discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of this “key” decision.

Dev Track – Polish

1. IoC containers – everything what you must know to their topic – Krzysztof Koźmic, Bartosz Pampuch

The session will be carried out in the form of an interview with one of its co-authors Castle Project, Krzysztof Koźmic. During the meeting we will hear inter alia what the inversion of the control is, what purpose Dependency Injection containers are applied for in applications and what possibilities they offer. Watching a few selected projects we will learn what one should be pointed when choosing containers, as well as which mistakes to avoid using them.. We will show you some anti-patterns which we should beware of, we will give you a pieces of advice which considerably will streamline using Dependency Injection in your own project.

2. OData – exchanging the data! – Tomasz Wiśniewski

Description: The amount of data available in variety of network types from the Internet through to corporate intranets is enormous. However, the use of these data is difficult and requires a lot of effort from developers and business employees, who would easily take their decisions using this data. During this session, we will get familliar with Open Data Protocol – protocol, which aims is to simplify these problems. We’ll see how you can benefit from existing network OData data sources and create your own using different technologies.

3. Windows at your fingertips – touch applications programming for Windows 7 – Szymon Kobalczyk & Freena Eijffinger

Users hearts are quickly conquered by touchscreen devices, mainly due to a much more natural way of interaction than traditional methods such as keyboard and mouse. Windows 7 was designed for this type of devices. During session I will show how developers can exploit these new capabilities into their applications, in particular written in WPF 4.0, Silverlight and Surface. I’m going to also speak about best practices for design of tactile devices.

4. Reactive Programming – a new paradigm of programming – Marcin Najder

Nowadays more and more systems created by us work in the cloud. Client while connecting using WebService is performing certain operations. Remote calls have longer time of duration than local methods, so often we are forced to perform them asynchronously. .NET Framework provides mechanisms, such as threads, APM pattern (Asynchronous Programming Model) or EAP (Event-based Asynchronous Pattern.) But the problem arises, when we want to coordinate a number of simultaneous asynchronous requests. What will happen in a situation where one of the operations will be canceled, or there is an unexpected error? Code that supports such a scenario becomes unreadable, and thus – difficult in maintenance and testing. During this session will be presenting several approaches to reactive programming, including Reactive Framework, TPL, asynchronous workflows in F # and AsyncEnumerator project.

5. Remote Services – Szymon Pobiega

The session concerns the topic of programming services in broad terms: from architectural issues through case studies of technologies (WCF, NServiceBus), and ending with real code examples. After introduction, Szymon will discuss four topics related to remote services:
Compatibility (the ability to cooperate) services. This section will discuss the different communication protocols available in WCF Web Services. The emphasis is on ease of integration with clients made in other technologies. This part will be a live demonstration of the code (Visual Studio + Fiddler).
Activation. This section will discuss the modes of activating the services (session / non-session).
Transactions. Analysis of the impact of transactions on remote services.
Interaction. Discussion (other than a query-response) modes of interaction with services (eg, one-way, one-way queue)
This session contains both parts that refer to the code (and technology) and those more oriented on systems architecture .

IT Pro Track – English

1. SharePoint 2010 – building a business solution – Michał Bojko

2. Active Directory Best Practices in Hyper-V environments – Sander Berkouwer

Virtualization offers huge benefits in flexibility, cost-effectiveness and eco-friendliness. However, some design choices need to be made towards deploying Active Directory Domain Controllers in virtual environments. Some of these choices are general choices, but some of them apply to Hyper-V enabled environments specifically. Join Directory Services MVP Sander Berkouwer for this session and find out about the best practices he formulated while virtualizing Domain Controllers for the past years.

3. SQL Server User-Defined Functions – The Good, The Bad, The Ugly – Maciej Pilecki

User-defined functions are a nice feature for improving code reuse and lowering code maintenance burden. But what most developers do not know, they come with a cost. During this session we will look at different types of functions: scalar-valued and table-valued, both in T-SQL as well as SQLCLR, and their behavior and performance impact. We will go through real-life examples of how, why and when use of functions in your queries can backfire and cause performance problems. We will also establish some best practices for use of UDFs, based on the lessons learned.

4. Make Reporting Services Work For You – Jessica Moss

Are you frustrated with building reports in SQL Server Reporting Services? Tired of telling your users that you can’t give them the perfect report due to limitations in the product? If so, this session will calm your nerves and make you a guru by showing how to utilize custom code and expressions to shine up your new or existing reports. Specifically, we will show how to create dynamic data groups, use paging techniques, add color and formatting, and more. This session is best suited for people with some knowledge of SSRS.

Security Track – English

1. Secure Endpoint: DirectAccess and Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010, the Complete Remote Access Solution – Thomas Shinder

Spend an hour learning about Microsoft’s complete remote access vision and how UAG and Direct Access Technology together provide seamless remote access to users while reducing IT risks and costs. This session includes a live demonstration of the features and the remote access solution in action!

2. Catching one tail with three heads – Kerberos explained – Tomek Onyszko

Kerberos is well established and secure authentication protocol which is being in use for many years now. Maybe because original Kerberos is being imagined as a three headed beast it is still not widely used in many organizations which struggles with simple problems which can be solved with Kerberos. It is also number one issues when it comes to user authentication in services like CRM, MOSS, SQL and ASP .NET applications.
This deep dive session is intended to explain in details how Kerberos authentication works, what is covered under the enigmatic term S4U, what PAC is and how applications are utilizing this protocol to reach the ultimate goal – single sign-on heaven. It will provide guidance on how to avoid most common pitfalls and how to troubleshoot Kerberos in case problem has occurred.
Tools, troubleshooting techniques, “tips and tricks” and references packed into single session.

3. Cybercrime: The Gathering Storm! – Andy Malone

With the dark forces of Cybercrime continuing to grow it’s critical that individuals and businesses are fully aware that doing business in the “wild west” of the 21st century can be potentially disastrous. The sophistication of the latest generation of attacks is simply mind boggling. In this hard hitting 75min session Andy Malone spills the beans on the latest tools and tactics used by the bad guys. Packed with stories, demos, tips and tricks, this is a security session you will not want to miss.

4. Killing Botnets – Christopher Davis

Killing Botnets – a talk on how YOU can help with the cleanup of the internet. This is quite a simple thing to do, so long as you have a webserver or even just a single domain. Using the data from your own access logs from your domain or server you too can help kill a botnet.

5. Password secrets revealed! Everything you want to know but are afraid to ask (or had no time to check it) – Paula Januszkiewicz

How old will be your grandchildren when you finally break your 12 character password with mid-complexity? What are the encryption methods? Where passwords are stored and how to decrypt or catch them? Everybody uses passwords, hardly anyone knows how exactly they work. Have you ever wondered what content do you share in the network? Have you ever wondered what could happen if somebody intercepted all your network transfers? In this intensive 75 min session Paula will guide through the encryption and decryption techniques being used nowadays in systems, networks and applications. You will also gain knowledge about how to secure ourselves from being fully decrypted. Be smart, be the aware administrator, know the true.

Speakers:

We want the best speakers to appear at our conference. Negotiations with them are still in progress. We will keep you abreast. We are encouraging everybody who is interested to visit our site regularly and reading news.

Here is the list of the speakers who had already confirmed their virtual presence.

Marek Adamczuk – MVP SQL
Graduate of the University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin, faculty of physics. For 11 years he has been cooperating with Asseco Business Solutions (former Softlab) at implementations of ERP systems. Participating in planning the architecture of business systems of Asseco BS’customers. Currently manages the Quality Department. Active member and the PLSSUG Warsaw speaker. He is interested in a classical music. He plays on the classical guitar and on the violin. From July 2009 holds Microsoft Most Valuable Professional title (MVP) in SQL Server category.

Sander Berkouwer – MVP
As the lead architect at OGD in the Netherlands, Sander designs and implements a lot of Active Directory environments. For a company with roughly 700 employees, best practices and reference architectures are eminent success criteria and Sander has developed these for OGD in the past years. To help others benefit from this information as well, Sander blogs and presents on various Active Directory related topics. For two years, Microsoft has awarded him a Microsoft MVP award in Directory Services.

Michał Bojko – MCTS, MCITP
Currently working as a project manager at Starsoft SharePoint Competencies Center. Projects managed by Michal are focused on production and delivery of complex Information Management systems on SharePoint platform. Michal is involved in IT since 2000, working as IT trainer, developer, designer, analyst, process engineer and project manager. His adventure with Microsoft begun in 2003, and now his main area of expertise is SharePoint 2007/2010, Project Server 2007/2010 and SQL Server 2005. Michal Bojko is also strongly involved in production and project management processes development. He holds few Microsoft Certififed Technology Specialist certificates.

Christopher J. W. Davis
Websites – www.Malwareremoval.com www.cjwdavis.co.uk & http://phpbb-help.essexhosting.com/helpforum/index.php
Occupation : Commercial Accountant www.robert-leonard.com
Other interests:
Business manager for www.phpbb.com forum software.
Church Steward for Trinity Methodist Church – www.trinity-westcliff.org
Microsoft Consumer Security MVP for 5 years.

Freena Eijffinger
(Surface evangelist and entrepreneur), Owner of Freena.nl
Freena has a background in IT for over 10 years and graduated cum laude for her Bachelor degree in Information Technology in The Netherlands. The last two years she is mainly occupied with everything involving Microsoft Surface. She is also a speaker at conferences (incl. TechEd EMEA, DevDays, SDN) and gives training at schools about application development for NUI platforms. In The Netherlands she is a role-model for young girls with an ambition in ICT and she motivates them by speaking at public schools. Currently she is involved in her lifetime project in helping people with autism by means of multitouch. Freena proved girls can be real geeks by winning the Guitar Hero competition at last years TechEd EMEA convention and DevDays.

Bartłomiej Graczyk – MCT
Participant of many IT projects, SQL Server consultant and architect with special consideration of the high availability. Author of SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 programming solutions created for the purposes of the largest international and Polish companies, fe. Mars Poland, Polskapresse. Initiator Microsoft offline gorup in Lodz. From 2007 Microsoft Certified Trainer. Author of articles to IT magazines. Certification held: MCT, MCITP: Database Administrator, Database Developer, MCDBA, MCSE, MCSA

Łukasz Grala – MCT, MCITP
Łukasz is Independent consultant (Database, Data Mining, and Business Intelligence), projects manager and trainer (MCT). Certification: Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), MCITP: Database Administrator: SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, Developer SQL Server, SQL Server 2008, Developer Business Intelligence. His passions are information technology (database, data mining, data warehouse, Business Intelligence, operations research, theory of computation, ERP) and jazz. It is a leader PLSSUG (Polish SQL Server User Group) Poznan.
Speaker at many computer conference and meetings IT community.

Paula Januszkiewicz – (IT Security Auditor), CEO in CQURE
Paula is Enterprise Security MVP and active trainer (MCT). She conducted many IT security audits and penetration tests. She is also a speaker on many well-known conferences (incl. TechEd, CyberCrime) and writes articles on Windows Security. The trainings and workshops she conducts usually cover Security, Virtualization, Windows system topics. Paula is passionate about sharing her knowledge with others. She is the leader of Women in Technology community group in Poland and she organizes Warsaw Girl Geek Dinners. Having her Master of Science in Computer Science, Paula speaks also on scientific conferences about organizational security, security policy and risk management methodologies.

Szymon Kobalczyk – (MVP)
Szymon for 7 years has been using .NET technologies mostly concentrating on user interface design for Smart Client and web applications. His current focus is set on building solutions based on Windows Presentatation Framework (WPF). His journey with WPF began with CME project made for TSRI – one of the first implemented WPF applications. Recently he has won in prestigious competition “Lab49 WPF in Finanace Innovation Contest”. Member of Composite Application Guidance for WPF (aka Prism) advisory board. Leader of .NET Developers Group in Kraków and frequent speaker at other UGs and conferences. Chief organizer of CodeCamp conference in Kraków.

Krzysztof Koźmic
Automation converted to programmer during studies thanks to .NET technology. Fan of light methodologies and tools, clean code, using conventions in the code and Boo language. Linked to the ALT.NET movement and several Open Source projects. In particular, the Castle Project where he develops DynamicProxy AOP framework, Inversion of Control Windsor container and several others.

Andy Malone – MVP Security
Andy Malone is the CEO of Quality Training Ltd and founder of both the Dive Deeper Technology and Cybercrime Security events. Based in Scotland, Andy is a popular international event speaker and technology evangelist with over 15 years’ experience. Andy was also the 2006 winner of the Microsoft TechEd Speaker Idol contest. Andy has delivered technical and security content to thousands of delegates worldwide at various technical conferences, such as Microsoft TechEd, IT Pro-Connections and Tech-days. His passionate style of delivery, combined with a sense of fun has become his trademark.
Technology never sleeps and Andy continues to work with the Microsoft product teams to create and deliver ground breaking material on Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 and beyond. Recent projects have included security training & consulting in Kuwait, Dubai and the US for Government, Military and civilian clients. For 2010 / 11 Andy is scheduled to deliver content in Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the US to name but a few.

Jessica Moss – MVP SQL BI
Jessica M. Moss, an architect with Ironworks Consulting and a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, is a well-known practitioner, author, and speaker in Microsoft SQL Server business intelligence. Jessica has created numerous data warehousing solutions for companies in the retail, internet, health services, finance, and energy industries and authored technical content for multiple magazines, websites, and the book “Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Problem-Design-Solution”. Jessica enjoys working with the central Virginia community and speaks regularly at user groups, code camps, and conferences.

Marcin Najder
Since 2004 Marcin deals with the .NET technology. He currently works as an architect in R & D team in Comarch company, where he develops solutions based on the latest Microsoft technologies, in particular applications based on . NET 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0. As the only person from Poland he took part in the NET 4.0 Deep Dive meetings, held at the end of the 2008 in Redmond. One of the leaders of reactivated Wroclaw .NET Group.

Tomasz Onyszko – Microsoft
Wroclaw University of Technology graduate, for over 10 years he has been working on operating systems. That is also his hobby. For 6 years the main area of interest has been focused on technologies related to Windows Server and other technological aspects related to identity and access management, information systems and the Internet. Since 2005 he has been working as a consultant in Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS), focusing on issues and projects related to identity and access management (ID&AM) and directory services. Active participant in community wss.pl.

Bartosz Pampuch – MVP
Director of research and development center at Comarch, CTO of ERP sector. He is a head of the research team developing a platform for building systems in the SaaS model, and a head of another group focused on modern user interfaces based on Silverlight and WPF. His team is also building applications for the Microsoft Surface. Specializes in modern projects development methodologies and system architectures. Since 2007, Microsoft MVP (originally in category Visual Developer – Team System currently Visual Developer – Connected System).

Krzysztof Pietrzak – MCT
CISSP, CISA, SSCP,Security +, MCSE:S, MCSA:S, MCITP (EA,SA,EST), MCTS(ISA,SCOM,SQL, MDOP, OCS), MCT, CCNA, CCSA, CCSE and others – as you can see, I’m deeply addicted to passing certification exams, mostly IT Security related. My day-to day work consist of planning and deploying Microsoft based infrastructure solution, especially those concerned with security. I’m also deeply interested in network design, mainly, but not limited to CISCO, HP and CheckPoint solutions. As for sport, I prefer extreme server-into-rack putting, especially if it consist of handling 2U UPS-es, Blade boxes or SAN arrays.

Maciej Pilecki – MVP SQL, MCT
Maciej Pilecki, an independant consultant at company Project Boticelli. He is Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in SQL Server category and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). Maciej had several years of experience in delivering training and consulting services around the world. In the past, he worked as a network administrator and IT security consultant. Maciej specializes in developing efficient applications and databases, high availability, security and administration. He travels around the world, providing services expertise and leading presentations at major international conferences, which theme are different aspects of SQL Server and applications development.

Szymon Pobiega
He works as software designer at Krakow VSoft S.A. company. His main task is to act as systems architect. These systems are mainly OLTP applications, built for specific customer needs, but not only. Szymon treats his role comprehensively: from the initial sketches, UML and negotiations, by developing an outline of architecture, to the “normal” code writing.
He also deals with the implementation of the Domain-Driven Design methodology in the company through trainings and mentoring. Also serves as an internal trainer – specializes in the following topics:
– Good practices and design patterns,
– Communication (both in terms of architecture and technologies: WCF and NServiceBus)
– Domain-Driven Design (along with technological support, such as NHibernate)

Paweł Potasiński – MVP SQL
A Senior SQL Server Developer for Asseco Business Solutions S.A. Previously he used to work as a database administrator and a trainer. He’s been working with SQL Server since version 7.0. He specializes in query optimization, data transfers and dynamic code generation. In 2007 he founded the Polish SQL Server User Group.
Frequent speaker at many polish and international conferences, such as European PASS Conference nad Microsoft Technology Summit. Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in SQL Server category since July 2008.

Thomas Shinder – MVP
Dr. Thomas W. Shinder is an MCSE, MCP+I, and MCT. He has worked as a technology trainer and consultant in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metro area, assisting in development and implementation of IP-based communications strategies for major firms such as Xerox, Lucent and FINA. Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in ISA Firewalls category.

Marcin Szeliga – MVP SQL
Independent consultant (if You have a problem with SQL Server, I’m the right man), writer (I wrote a couple of books not only about SQL but also about security and various Microsoft technologies), trainer, teacher and university lector. One of founder Silesian division of Polish SQL Server User Group.

Grzegorz Tworek – MVP Security
Around thirty years ago I saw a huge hall with an enormous 24-bit computer in it. From that moment I rarely did anything else than watching computers gradually gaining more understanding of how the things work – from soldering ISA cards and writing video card and printer BIOS to comprehending Windows systems. Since Microsoft is developing his products faster than I am able to properly learn them, the fun never seems to stop.
I like to share my knowledge with other people, which results in publishing book and articles, active participation in scientific conferences or just telling others what I think about the IT. It is hard to say why but since 1999 I am almost completely absorbed by the issues of IT security and currently employed by ISCG, which I greatly enjoy. From time to time I manage to take a break from the every day pressure and travel to some distant destination, however, finding a place without computers proves to be quite difficult.

Tomasz Wiśniewski
Passionate of Microsoft technologies. Currently a programmer at LGBS Poland. Active member of the Silesian Regional Group of Microsoft. The winner of Speaker Idol contest at the Microsoft Technology Summit 2009 conference.
His main interests: C # language, LINQ, user interface in applications. Tomasz’s certifications: MCP, MCTS, MCSA.

Organizators:

The organizator of the conference is VirtualStudy portal.

The editorial section consists of:

Robert Stuczyński (MVP) – the owner of the ITPro track
Daniel Gabryś
Mateusz Dragan
Dariusz Porowski
Łukasz Sękowski
Beata Zalewa – SQL track owner

Additionally involved in the organization of the conference are:

Bartosz Pampuch (MVP) – .NET track owner
Michał Bojko & Robert Stuczyński (MVP) – owner of the ITPro track
Paula Januszkiewicz (MVP) i Grzegorz Tworek (MVP) – owners of the English-speaking track concerning the security of computer systems

Here is the Conference page itself:

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21 Years of Publishing!

Daniel Gabryś

Encyclopaedia

"Original War"

21 Years of Publishing!

Daniel Gabryś

Encyclopaedia

"Original War"

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