INVITATION: Windows Azure Open Platform Services (OSS) Summit - Paris, France - Dec 4, 2012

Learn more about how Windows Azure has helped companies realize the true value of the cloud.  Windows Azure supports multiple development platforms, languages, and tools providing first-class choice beyond .NET for developers and enterprises. Register now for our Open Services Summit to learn how you can take advantage of an open, flexible, rock solid platform.

Windows Azure Open Platform Summit Goals

Delivered by our Redmond- based Windows Azure OSS experts & product team, attendees will learn and understand topics such as:

• What does Open Source Software means for Windows Azure?
• How Infrastructure-as-a-Service provides virtual machines and virtual networks for Linux- and Windows-based applications
• Experience the Developer Story with Eclipse, along with SDKs for Node.JS, Python, PHP, and Java
• Learn about Windows Azure’s varied data offerings, both SQL- and NoSQL-based, with such technologies as MySQL and MongoDB

Detailed Agenda

Time	Agenda / Topic
8:00 - 9:00	Breakfast and Registration
9:00 - 10:00	Windows Azure Overview and Roadmap
	In this session, we will present the Windows Azure platform  overview and  end-to-end Windows Azure story as it relates to OSS. We  will also highlight OSS & Windows Azure success stories.
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 11:00	The Developer Story – Languages, Tooling, SDKs
	We will show how to develop applications using programming  languages such as Java, PHP, Python and Node.js. Also, we will dive into  language specific SDKs and the developer experience using popular IDEs and  tools, including Eclipse and Github.
11:00 - 12:30	IaaS – Linux, Virtual Machines, Networking
	The Infrastructure-as-a-Service session will cover Virtual  Machines, Virtual Networks, and hybrid solutions using multiple operating  systems including Linux and Windows Server.
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:45	The Data Story – SQL, NoSQL
	We will cover both SQL and NoSQL.  We will cover  relational databases like Windows Azure SQL DB and MySQL and on NoSQL side we  will cover Windows Azure Table Storage and MongoDB.  We will dive into  hosting MongoDB in your own virtual machine and MongoDB-as-a-service.
14:45 - 16:00	Node.js
	Many apps are being built with Node.js today. We’ll show how a  node.js app works in Windows Azure, as well as its applicability to Windows  Azure Web Sites and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB.
16:00 - 16:15	Wrap-up
16:30 - 17:30	Round Table with select ISVs
17:00 - 17:30	Wrap-up