After the success of last year, Tuga IT 2017 is one week away from returning to Lisbon! From May 18th until the 20th, a variety of world-class speakers (local and international) will present a wide range of “fresh” and “hot” topics on Microsoft Data Platform, SharePoint, Office 365, Enterprise Integration, Agile Methodologies, Open Source Technologies, Azure, and much more. And this is only possible thanks to the collaboration of all 9 communities taking part in the Tuga IT 2017 event, the organizers, and the track owners.
Once again, I was invited to lead the Integration track, and yes, we will once again have a dedicated Enterprise Integration track! The integration track on Saturday, the 20th, will be packed with amazing sessions by Azure MVPs Nino Crudele, Steef-Jan Wiggers, Eldert Grootenboer, Tomasso Groenendijk, me, and Ricardo Torre.
📝 One-Minute Brief
A preview of TUGA IT 2017, a multi‑day technology conference in Lisbon bringing together international and local experts across Azure, enterprise integration, DevOps, data platforms, and open‑source technologies, with a dedicated Enterprise Integration track.
Enterprise Integration Track Agenda
8:30 Registration
9:00 How to face the integration challenges using the open-source by Nino Crudele [Azure MVP]
“The open-source space offers a lot of different options and opportunities in order to face the endless challenges that we normally need to face in the integration of technologies.
During this session, we will explore the best open-source options to meet the most advanced and complex requirements.
We will explore new options to extend current technologies and how to use open-source software in conjunction with technology stacks such as the .NET Framework, BizTalk Server, and Microsoft Azure to solve complex integration scenarios.
During the session, we will also examine the best options available in the market and in the open-source space.”
10:10 Coffee break
10:30 The speaker nightmare: Eval Forms & OCR & Logic Apps & Power BI by Sandro Pereira [Azure MVP]
“An evaluation form is something that a speaker loves and hates, especially if the results are processed in real-time and publicly available. If the result is excellent, it is extremely rewarding; at other times, it may “hurt” the speaker who has made himself available to share his knowledge and has been evaluated negatively. Sometimes the attendees are unfair in their evaluations, like being too basic in a 100-level session (these types of sessions are supposed to be basic or introductory), or sometimes the speaker had a bad day (it happens to everyone).
I speak from personal experience: over the last 6 years that I have been speaking at community events in Portugal and abroad, I have been evaluated in all ways: badly, reasonably, well, and excellent. Sometimes, I have seen in the same sessions that attendees with different profiles evaluate me both poorly and excellently. The key point for the speaker is:
- All feedback is good, either negative or positive; he can learn to improve himself, if that’s the case, or if a specific topic is not good for a certain audience.
- He only needs to give his best! We cannot please everyone, and the goal is to feel happy with yourself and your performance.
I love evaluation forms, and I love for them to be publicly available, even better if they are publicly available during the event. Because, at least, it will provide a good topic of conversation for people who do not know each other, and it will keep the conversation flowing (naturally). People normally are afraid or shy to start a conversation with unfamiliar people; this is a good ice breaker.
In this session, I will show and explain a real-life demo on how we can easily build a robust solution for process evaluation forms using OCR software and integrate it with Power BI to present the results in an interactive, beautiful way. But most important: How can you educate your enterprise Developers and IT pros users to easily extend capabilities for power users, who understand their business challenges the best, and allow them to use their familiar tools like OCR software to process Evaluation forms and quickly build and deliver Power BI solutions to build Interactive Data dashboards. And at the same time, integrate these tools, platforms, or systems quickly and robustly using Azure integration features, such as Logic Apps, API Apps, and Azure Functions. How to start from a simple solution and evolve it, enabling new functionalities.”
11:50 Cloud Integration: so many options! by Steef-Jan Wiggers [Azure MVP]
Traditional integration has evolved with the rise of cloud computing. And connectivity between on-premise systems will evolve to connect to services and solutions in the cloud. Data is everywhere, applications are everywhere, and people are everywhere with their devices always connected. In this world, integration is key. Azure offers us various ways to implement integration solutions to provide connectivity to the business to their data. This talk will be a journey of the options you have when building these types of solutions!
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Using DocumentDB to make your API App high-performing and secure it with API Management by Tomasso Groenendijk [Azure MVP]
APIs are becoming more important for organizations, and people even talk about the API economy, but how can you create your own API, expose it globally, and make a profit with it? In this session, Tomasso will show how to use API Apps and DocumentDB to create a highly performant API, and how to use API Management in combination with Web Apps to expose it.
15:10 Sponsor Session
15:30 Coffee Break
15:50 BizTalk 2016 in a hybrid world by Ricardo Torre
The integration landscape has definitely evolved to be a hybrid; significant on-premises investments have accumulated over the years, while cloud computing has brought new challenges and new ways of implementing integration. Let’s navigate the innovations in both worlds and how BizTalk and the cloud currently coexist.
17:10 Azure IoT Hub Deep Dive by Eldert Grootenboer [Azure MVP]
Azure IoT Hub enables us to manage, secure, and support bi-directional communication with billions of IoT devices. In this session, we will dive into these possibilities to show how you can easily set up a robust, hyper-scalable solution for your IoT needs.
18:20 Closing
Invitation to a social game.
A social SPEAKER game… There might be other games (and awards), but that is still under NDA!
Speaker game has 1 objective: to get you the MAXIMUM social experience, to LEARN about your fellow speakers, about the event, and about THE ATTENDEES.
The winner/s will be determined by the collection of the maximum number of points, and we shall determine the winner on Saturday evening … (the prize, again, is still under NDA), and here is how you can start collecting points on the game card you will receive at the airport/event:
- Get to know 5 people at the event and write down their name, company, IT area & specialty: 5 points.
- Vote for your favorite Tuga IT 2017 speaker (you will need to attend that session): 1 point.
- Write down the number of countries that Tuga IT 2017 speakers represent: 1 point.
- Write down the number of countries that Tuga IT 2017 attendees represent: 1 point.
- Name all Tuga IT 2016 sponsors: 1 point.
- Name the person who was the most influential in your career: 1 point.
- Name 3 IT Celebrities (MVPs/Speakers/PMs) who started outside of IT: 1 point.
- Name the creation dates of the involved User Groups: 1 point per correct answer (there are 9 groups in total).
- Name the youngest speaker of Tuga IT 2017: 1 point.
- Discover how many MVPs/Microsoft MVPs/Oracle Aces we have at the Tuga IT 2017? 1 point.
And even more for the social part:
- Post a blog about your session/pre-con at Tuga IT 2017: 5 points.
- Make 3 tweets on Twitter with #tugait hashtag: 1 point.
- Post 1 Facebook post with #tugait hashtag: 1 point.
- Join the event on Facebook: 1 point.
It might be worth playing… You know… You never lose in trying.
Registration For TUGA IT 2017
TUGA IT 2017 will take place at Microsoft Portugal’s offices in Lisbon on May 18-20, 2017. It will feature 3 days of breakout sessions and full-day workshops by world-class speakers, where IT Professionals can spend 3 amazing days exploring the future of IT and take time to network with top-level speakers and other IT Professionals.
Registration for TUGA IT 2017 costs a few euros or is even free if you require lunch (the fee is there to reduce waste and prevent an abundance of food).
