Join North East Bytes for our third event of the year.  Following on from two great events to start the year we've lined up another two great speakers who are delivering two very interesting sessions.  Register now, you won't want to miss this opportunity!

"Visual Studio 2010" by Richard Fennell (Black Marble)

Visual Studio 2010 has many new feature, too many to cover in a single hour. For this reason I propose that I divide my hour into 4 mini sessions and cover items that are of most interest to the group, you get to vote. You can choose if the session is architect, developer, tester or project manager focus, or a bit of each.  It's all down to you - choose the four sessions that you'd like to see from the list it is the NEBytes members choice.

Richard Fennell is a Director of Black Marble, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Yorkshire. He is a Chartered Engineer, Member of the British Computer Society, MCAD and MCSD.NET, with over 20 years experience in the IT industry. Richard is a regular speaker at DDD and other community events, speaking on a variety of subjects.

"System Center in the R2 Wave" by Matt McSpirit (Microsoft)

With more and more organisations thinking about virtualisation, there has never been a better time to investigate what the complimentary System Center management tools can bring to the table.  From deep monitoring, patching, backup, and virtual machine management, the System Center Management Suite is the most comprehensive, unified management solution in the marketplace today, for organisations big and small.  In this session, you'll learn about a number of the key technologies making up the suite, how they are licensed, and how they can help you achieve a new level of efficiency and control.

Matt McSpirit, a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, and a VMware Certified Professional, has worked at Microsoft since January 2006.  Matt's role, as a Partner Technology Advisor, aims to ensure Microsoft Partners understand the 'Art of the Possible' when it comes to Microsoft technologies, and how to build solutions around the platform.  Matt's role has taken him across products, from Client to Server, through to Virtualisation & Management.  Matt has delivered a number of high-profile events, including IT Forum in Barcelona, the Partner and Customer UK Launches of Windows Server 2008, and the UK Virtualisation Launch.

Location

The event will be hosted in Room 120 of the Claremont Building at Newcastle University.  For a detailed campus map - http://www.ncl.ac.uk/documents/Campus-Map-Print.pdf 

Travel Information

We understand some people who registered to attend our February event had issues with Car Parking etc due to a Sporting event taking place in Newcastle.  Therefore see this link for information on available Car parking in Newcastle - http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/core.nsf/a/parkingonandoffstreet?opendocument

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