Exclusive Pre-announcement: Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day (14th March 2013 – Oporto, Portugal)

I’m delighted to pre-announce that the BizTalk Innovation Event is coming to Portugal! The event is called Oporto BizTalk Innovation Day and will take place in Oporto, Portugal, on Thursday, 14 March 2013.

This is the first time in Portugal (also on Iberia) that we are conducting a full-day event dedicated to Microsoft BizTalk Server.

As you may already know, BizTalk Innovation Day is a one-day event focused purely on Microsoft BizTalk Server-related topics that has been conducted in several major European cities since Feb 2011: Milan (Italy), and Stavanger (Norway). The last event took place in London, and it was a huge success! It was fully sold out with 130 attendees from 16 different countries.

We’re still finalizing all the arrangements for the final venue, but we can share that it will be in the historic center of Oporto (Ribeira), and it will be an excellent opportunity to visit one of the trendiest cities in Europe this year (more on this later).

But here’s a glimpse that you can expect:

• Steef-Jan Wiggers talking about BizTalk Server 2013: Cloud-based adapters. BizTalk 2013 will feature some new adapters, which are targeted for integration with the cloud. You will learn the characteristics of the WCF-BasicHttpRelay, WCF-TcpNetRelay, SB-Messaging, and WCF-WebHttp adapters and how each can be applied in various use cases. These adapters will bring the cloud closer to on-premise systems.
  • Steef-Jan is an IT architect/Consultant at motion10 with over 14 years of experience as a technical lead developer and application architect, specializing in custom applications, enterprise application integration (BizTalk), Web services, and Windows Azure. He has experience in architecting, designing, developing, and supporting sophisticated and innovative software using many different Microsoft technologies and products. Steef-Jan is very active in the BizTalk community as a blogger, Wiki author/editor, forums moderator, and public speaker. He is a published author (BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook) and Microsoft Integration MVP. He received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for his contributions to the worldwide BizTalk Server community in 2010. He was re-awarded his MVP status in July 2011 and 2012.
• Nino Crudele talking about BizTalk assessment and architecture review, strategies, methods, and troubleshooting. There are many kinds of requests in a BizTalk solution, including troubleshooting, assessment, and architecture review. With BizTalk Server, it is possible to develop the same solution in many different ways, some of which are the best, others not. Making an assessment or solving a problem quickly implies a good and long experience in many types of solutions and situations in the field, and there are many different technologies in order to be considered. There are many aspects to be considered and many things to inspect in order.
  • Nino Crudele has been a BizTalk MVP for 5 years. Besides that, he is also a Virtual Technology Specialist for BizTalk Server, a role in which he works closely with Microsoft Italy. He enjoys this role as it enables him to work with many different clients seeing BizTalk in different scenarios from a technical point of view, size, and criticality. Nino has worked with most of the BizTalk accelerators, RosettaNet, HL7, SWIFT and has done some big projects on EDI and RFID. In the past, he also had the opportunity to be part of a big integration project with a major Italian enterprise organization that integrates many technologies like SAP, AS400, TIBCO and others using BizTalk.
• Saravana Kumar is talking about the Monitoring and Management of BizTalk environments using BizTalk360. Organizations face various challenges in the operations and monitoring of their BizTalk infrastructure and applications. BizTalk360 is designed to address most of the challenges. In this presentation, Saravana will go through the various pain points organizations face and how you can tackle them with BizTalk360.
  • Saravana Kumar is the Founder and CTO of BizTalk360,an enterprise software that helps Microsoft BizTalk server customers better manage their production or any controlled BizTalk environments. Saravana Kumar has been a Microsoft BizTalk Server MVP since 2007, a blogger, an international speaker, and an active community member in the BizTalk Server area. In the year 2005, he won the worldwide developer competition conducted by Microsoft for building the SQL Server Service Broker Management studio. Saravana has spent the majority of his career working with organizations in the UK, helping them build their enterprise software solutions. Prior to BizTalk360, he worked for the past 5 years helping Fidelity UK build its SOA/BPM platform using Microsoft BizTalk Server. In the past, Saravana has worked for some of the big consulting companies like Accenture, NHS, Microsoft, BT, Unilog (now Logica), etc., as an independent consultant.
• Tord Glad Nordahl is talking about Proactivity in BizTalk. BizTalk is the leading integration platform; in order for the enterprise to maintain a stable environment, proactivity is important. There are many things to be aware of in BizTalk, and it’s one thing to solve problems that occur; it’s even more important to be proactive to maintain the stability and high availability that BizTalk brings. This presentation will dig into counters, database and best practices when it comes to proactivity in BizTalk.
  • Tord Glad Nordahl is a BizTalk Administration Expert for Bouvet ASA, with over 5 years of experience with BizTalk. His passion for operations and administration has led to a BizTalk Admin Deep Dive course. You can follow his contribution to the community through his blog (www.biztalkadmin.com), TechNet Wiki, TechNet Wiki Blog, and the MSDN Forums. Tord was the first BizTalk Administrator to receive the Microsoft Integration MVP award (2013).

I’ll probably be presenting a session too, but for now, I will keep it secret. Stay tuned for more information soon!

Travel

This event will be fully taught in English, and with low-cost airfares and reasonable hotel prices, we will make sure this will be a very attractive proposition for anyone living in Western Europe.

Porto Airport, otherwise known as Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, is located 10 km north of Porto, on the northwestern coast of Portugal. There is a Metro connecting the airport to Porto, with journey times to various city locations of 25-35 minutes at a cost of approximately 2 Euros. There are also regular bus services to the city, the surrounding area, or north to Vigo in Spain. Bus fare to the city is approximately 2 Euros, and 12 Euros to Vigo.

Here are some of the estimated flight times from some of the cities with direct flights to Oporto Airport:

If you want more information about the event, you can send me an email: obid2013@devscope.net

Call to Action: Add the dates to your calendar now!

Author: Sandro Pereira

Sandro Pereira lives in Portugal and works as a consultant at DevScope. In the past years, he has been working on implementing Integration scenarios both on-premises and cloud for various clients, each with different scenarios from a technical point of view, size, and criticality, using Microsoft Azure, Microsoft BizTalk Server and different technologies like AS2, EDI, RosettaNet, SAP, TIBCO etc. He is a regular blogger, international speaker, and technical reviewer of several BizTalk books all focused on Integration. He is also the author of the book “BizTalk Mapping Patterns & Best Practices”. He has been awarded MVP since 2011 for his contributions to the integration community. View all posts by Sandro Pereira