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Microsoft Office and Productivity at DevCon 2016



    Dear friends, we are pleased to present the final announcement of the program of our conference, namely the announcement of the Office track at DevCon 2016.

    Many have already felt the challenges associated with a huge number of unsystematized sources of information; uncontrolled growth in data volumes; the critical importance of mobility and accessibility in decision making.

    We invite you to the track on Office, where we introduce the concept of productivity in the modern world, as well as new tools and approaches to collaboration! CTO and developers will be able to delve into cross-platform development, which directly affects the productivity of embedded solutions, expanding and making them available to the billion-strong army of Office users.

    We also prepared many surprises for participants who visited the Office track. :) The



    key visionary report of the conference about Office and the concept of productivity will be presented by Zinaida Kudrina , С
    Head of the Office Information Systems Promotion Department at Microsoft, Russia and Konstantin Goldstein , the company's technology evangelist. Konstantin and Zinaida will open the session together and present to the participants a lot of interesting information about the various approaches of Microsoft to promote Office services and products, as well as about what opportunities appear for developers.









    On the same day, technology evangelists Microsoft, France, and Vorlon.JS tool developers Julien Corioland and Etienne Margraff will speak at the key technological session of the Office track . Microsoft experts will introduce students to the course of the new concept of “Office as a platform” for developers, talk about various aspects of the technology in terms of implementation and use of new opportunities to develop their own solutions.










    Vitaliy Zhukov , a leading developer of Ai-Teco, will make a presentation on Microsoft Graph. Ready Big Data for your solutions . The report will talk about the main features of Microsoft Graph and creating Big Data solutions based on it. We’ll look at various scenarios for using Microsoft Graph: getting related data from Office 365, sending data about various user activities, and much more.












    Alexandra Chizhova Business Intelligence and DataWarehouse Solutions Architect, Microsoft Russia, will give a presentation on Power BI features for developers . After a brief review of the application for business analytics and building interactive reporting Power BI, the speaker will talk about the possibilities of connecting to various data sources and their processing, advanced visualization capabilities, as well as plans for the development of the product for the next few months.











    Mikhail Bondarevsky Architect, Microsoft Technology Center, Russia, will give a talk on Building New Generation Portals Based on Office 365 SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2016. The report will discuss approaches to creating next-generation solutions (NexGen Portals) based on SharePoint. NextGen Portals is the code name for next-generation portals that will be “smart”, providing relevant, user-oriented information, integrate with corporate systems, and remain functional and convenient when visiting from a mobile device. Vivid examples of such portals are Office 365 Video, Delve and Planner. NextGen Portal combines a number of concepts and modern web development technologies. During the report, we will analyze the architecture of such solutions, discuss the tools and technologies that can be used in your solutions now. Take a look at the future of a SharePoint developer.





    DevCon 2016


    DevCon is the largest Microsoft conference for developers in Russia. We spend its sixth year and traditionally try to gather those who are not indifferent to the Microsoft platform outside the city, in a comfortable country park hotel, to discuss current technologies together and try the latest versions of products in practice.

    In 2016, DevCon will appear in an updated format and we are pleased to share with you the secrets of preparing our conference, as well as the main announcements:

    This year, event participants will have more opportunities to immerse themselves in technology and gain new knowledge. We have prepared a large number of new interesting master classes, which we will discuss in more detail in the next announcement. At the same time, DevCon is still more than just a conference, with a rich program and communication with experts and colleagues outside the program. On the site you can learn more about how to become a member.

    We remind you that this year we offer a simplified participation in DevCon 2016 with a new category of Guest Pass tickets for 2500 rubles , which includes a transfer to the venue, visiting all the reports and workshops on the first day of the conference, and an interactive exhibition!

    Hurry to have time to buy GUEST PASSto DevCon 2016.

    See you at the conference!

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