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Microsoft patterns & practices symposiums are held regularly in the U.S. and abroad, with top speakers on current topics. Most of the speakers are from Microsoft patterns & practices (p&p) team. The event is aimed primarily at software architects, developers, and technical managers. Patterns & practices develops applied engineering guidelines to help software developers and architects build great solutions on the Microsoft platform.

The April 24th online p&p symposium program 2012 will include keynote sessions and technical sessions focusing on building scalable applications in Azure, mobile development, node.js, CQRS, .NET Gadgeteer and a general overview of p&p roadmap.*
Planned Schedule: *

09:00-09:05	Welcome	Soma Somasegar
09:05-10:10	Keynote	Udi Dahan
10:15-11:10	A Journey into CQRS	Julian Dominguez, Grigori Melnik
11:15-12:10	Windows Azure App Scaling to Need	Grigori Melnik, Julian Dominguez
12:10-12:30	Break
12:30-13:25	Hybrid Cloud Applications	Scott Densmore
13:30-14:25	node.js on Azure	Yavor Georgiev
14:25-15:25	Non sequitur: Gadgeteering	Pete Brown
15:30-16:25	Building testable phone applications	Francis Cheung
16:30-17:25	Bringing WOW to the mobile web	Christopher Bennage
17:25-18:30	Keynote: Big transitions in small steps	Kent Beck

All sessions will be streamed live, but we will also record them all for those unable to attend the event.
* Currently planned and approved sessions. Topics and times subject to change. All times pacific.
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