I have been confirmed as a speaker for Tech Insights 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  Branded “Ignite your passion” this is sure to be a busy three days of content covering a range of IT Pro and Developer topics.  Some of the interesting ones I see on the agenda include “What do you see from cloud computing? Rainbow or thunderstorm” and “BPOS – Tips and Tricks from the Field”.  The event is scheduled to run from 29 June to 1 July at the Faculty of Computer Science & IT, University of Malaya Main Campus. 

Registration fees are very reasonable, just RM120 (SGD 50) with a RM40 discount for early bird registrations.  They have a pretty cool AJAX-based web site up and running at http://www.techinsights.my.  Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend for the full three days and my two sessions will be on 30 June.  Here are my two sessions:

Upgrading to SharePoint 2010

While SharePoint 2010 brings significant improvements, you may be wondering how well your environment will upgrade. If you currently have a SharePoint investment, and you’re planning on upgrading, this is the session for you. We’ll look at the hardware recommendations, upgrade options, how to deal with customisations, and discuss what steps you should begin today to ensure you're upgrade goes smoothly. For the demos, we'll look at the output from the Pre Upgrade Checker in SharePoint 2007. We'll then do a live upgrade of a fairly complex SharePoint 2007 content database to SharePoint 2010 so you can see exactly how the upgrade works. We'll then fix some of the problems encountered on the spot.

What's Changed for Developers with Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint 2010

SharePoint's strength as a development platform improves in this new release. This talk will overview the major changes such as building visual web parts and consuming RESTful web services. We'll also look at something called sandbox solutions and will introduce the new client object model. Finally, we'll cover the improved tooling in Visual Studio 2010 which will help simplify the development and packaging of your SharePoint WSP solutions.