TechMeet held @ DECC, Kathmandu

27th May, 2009
Venue: DECC, UMTC, Tripureshwor, Kathmandu

As scheduled, Microsoft Nepal today organized the meeting with Mr. Jonathan Murray, World Wide Technology Officer, Microsoft and Mr. Oliver Bell, Regional Technology Officer, Microsoft Asia Pacific. Also, attraction of the program was the presence of Mr. Feroz Mahmud, Country Manager of Microsoft Bangladesh.
Everything got started formally at 9 am in the morning with a welcome speech by Mr. Allen Bailochan Tuladhar, Country Manager, Microsoft Nepal.

Back to the era of 1960s to 2009 and a decade forward to 2020, Mr. Murray presented his perspective on the trend in the growth and advancement of internet and software industry in the world. He put forward his views on Cloud Computing in Windows Azure platform and subsequent technology shift to the age of Ambient Intelligence. Mr. Murray also wanted to let people have an idea that the present education system in colleges and universities is not going to be of much significance to address the ever changing and ever growing technology needs, problems and solutions. So, what is going to be the matter of interest is a person’s ability to learn, unlearn and relearn the relevant technology capsules to meet the global IT requirements.

Mr. Feroz Mahmud in the other hand expressed his belief on the high end competency level of the South Asian IT community of people to deliver world class softwares and IT solutions provided they have access to some core guidances, healthy environment and good opportunity but made an early exit from the speaker’s desk.

Last, but not the least, Mr. Oliver Bell, APAC Officer, Microsoft talked on the issues of interoperability. He expressed his descent concern over the matter by saying that in an increasingly interconnected computing landscape, enabling interoperability between products from different vendors has become more important than ever. Achieving effective interoperability between a wide range of products to meet customer needs is where Microsoft sees future in.

At the end of all the sessions, Microsoft Student Partners among the presentees smartly took TechMeet reason as an opportunity for a short GD(Group Discussion) on their own diverse MSP issues.