Speaking Engagements

Faizal’s presentations are engaging, simple and articulate the value of Windows Azure / SharePoint to consumers, developers, architects and entrepreneurs. He frequently speaks at premier technology events and consistently gets a high feedback rating.

SharePoint 2013 the way to go...
ikms.org, The British Council, Napier Road, Rooms 205-206
November 23, 2012, Audience: 30


Take this opportunity to learn more about SP 2013 and find out about the plans other organizations have for SP 2013. Some of the common concerns now include:

  • Should I wait for SP 2013 or move on with SP 2010?
  • How do I justify for SP 2013's investment?
  • With great improvements in features and usability, the SP product team now says that the web/intranet team can focus more on engaging with users needs rather than vendors' implementation. So what role do we play in SP 2013, and what role do vendors play?
  • What does it mean for migration from earlier versions of SharePoint?
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 SharePoint 2013 Sneak Peek
@ 8th SharePoint Community Gathering, September 17, 2012
Audience: 35


This session provides a “Sneak Peek” of SharePoint 2013 IT Pro / Developer perspective. The session is designed to help the audience to understand the changes architectural changes have occurred, storage considerations, browser support, social media supports, workflows and ect… This is a must attend session for leading edge SharePoint IT Pro/Developer looking to jump start their 2013 experience curve.
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Enterprise Social Network on SharePoint and List of 3rd party products
@ 7th SharePoint Community Gathering, Singapore
Audience: 40

When people come in the door here these days, they say, 'Hey, how do I connect with people? Do you have a social network? Social networking and collaboration are converging in many ways, During this session I would list talk about Enterprise Social Network on SharePoint and Share List of 3rd party products around this.
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Topic : Managed metadata services & tag cloud web part
Singapore 24th May 2012, @ SharePoint CoP
Audience: 25

Managed metadata services is one of the most exciting new features in SharePoint 2010. Columns that can store Hierarchies and Content Types that can be shared across Site Collections! It makes ECM easier , allows companies to better store and support business taxonomies (and folksonomies) and simplifies the management of metadata across a large enterprise. Learn the process end to end. The demonstrations will work through all steps
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Topic : Build and Deploy LightSwitch Application on Windows Azure
Singapore : 7th Jan 2012
Venue : Plug-In@Blk71, Blk71 Ayer Rajah Crescent,  #02-18, Singapore 139951

Visual Studio LightSwitch is the simplest way to build business applications for the desktop and cloud.

LightSwitch simplifies the development process by letting you concentrate on the business logic, while LightSwitch handles the common tasks for you.

In this session you see the demo, Which shows you end-to-end, how to build and deploy a data-centric business application using LightSwitch and deploy to Windows Azure  
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Title: Deep Dive into Windows Azure Traffic Manager
Singapore : 27th Sep 2011
Audience : 20

This month Faizal discussing and demonstrates Windows Azure Traffic Manager which on CTP. Traffic Manager provides several ways to load balance traffic to multiple hosted services. You can choose from three load balancing methods: Performance, Failover, or Round Robin.
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Topic : Securing Knowledge and Collaboration Systems SharePoint 2010 Permissions, Identities, and Objects
ANSES RahRah 9 @ Singapore : 4th August 2011 

Audience : 200
The SharePoint security model can be confusing, with its deep hierarchy of securable objects, granular permissions and policies, and clunky user and group management interfaces. This session demystifies SharePoint security by dissecting each of these components and presenting best practices for implementing and managing security. Learn when and why it makes sense to leverage Active Directory groups or use SharePoint groups, and take away options for new permission levels and settings that address common business requirements.
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Topic : Must-Have Tools for Windows Azure
Singapore : 27th July 2011
Audience : 15

Any platform, by its own nature, creates an ecosystem for third-party tools and helpers. Windows Azure is no different. In this session we look at a variety of the third-party tools available in the Windows Azure ecosystem. Included are tools for both developers and IT professionals. We look at tools that will help manage storage and resources, migration, scaling, diagnostics and software components that will help you build cloud applications.
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Topic : Explore and Implement: Permissions, Identities, and Objects for SharePoint 2010 environment.
Singapore : 21st July 2011 @ NCS P Ltd. On SharePoint CoP
Audience : 20
The SharePoint security model can be confusing, with its deep hierarchy of securable objects, granular permissions and policies, and clunky user and group management interfaces. This session demystifies SharePoint security by dissecting each of these components and presenting best practices for implementing and managing security. Learn when and why it makes sense to leverage Active Directory groups or use SharePoint groups, and take away options for new permission levels and settings that address common business requirements.
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Topic: Assessing Cloud Readiness at Microsoft Cloud Power Events
Singapore (20th May 2011)
Audience : 40
What are the key business and technical issues/factors that impact a company’s “cloud readiness”? What are the key cloud-usage scenarios (Transferring existing applications and data to Azure; Integrating / synchronizing Azure and in-house resources; Writing new applications to the cloud and managing them).
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Topic: Assessing Cloud Readiness at Microsoft Cloud Power Events
Manila (19th May 2011)
Audience : 45

What are the key business and technical issues/factors that impact a company’s “cloud readiness”? What are the key cloud-usage scenarios (Transferring existing applications and data to Azure; Integrating / synchronizing Azure and in-house resources; Writing new applications to the cloud and managing them).
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Topic: Building Web application with Azure Storage
Date 27th April 2011 at Microsoft Singapore
Audience : 200

This is the session description you gave to me:
A key component of any cloud computing offering is durable storage. Windows Azure provides 3 forms of durable storage: tables, blobs, and queues. Join me as we explore the highlights of these 3 important implementations.

I this session you will learn storage capabilities of Windows Azure, Blobs, Tables and Queues. Discover how to create storage accounts; upload and retrieve blobs and blob metadata; create, update and query tables; and create a simple service that uses a message queue for communication
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Topic: 2 Day’s Windows Azure Boot camp for Developers
1st Intake: 4-5th October 2010 at NCS P Ltd.
2nd Intake: 3-4th March 2011 at NCS P Ltd.
3rd Intake: 14-15th April 2011 at NCS P Ltd.
4th Intake: 14-15th July 2011 at NCS P Ltd.

Each in take the Audience : 20
In this course, you will learn the concept of cloud computing and the implementation in Microsoft Windows Azure Service Platform including Windows Azure, SQL Azure, and AppFabric.
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Topic: Exploring Windows Azure Storage
Date 26th January 2011 at Microsoft Singapore
Audience : 30

In this session, you will learn the persistence storage services offered by Windows Azure, called Windows Azure Storage. Windows Azure Storage consists of Tables for storing tabular data, Blobs for storing large binary data, and Queue for asynchronous processing
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Topic: Word Automation Service (Covert Doc to PDF) at Server
Date 13th January 2011 at Microsoft Singapore
Audience : 20

This session you will lean creating custom solution to convert Word documents to PDF using document library list item event receiver to call Word Automation Services to convert Word documents to PDF when they are added to the list. The event receiver checks whether the list item added is a Word document. If so, it creates a conversion job to create a PDF version of the Word document and pushes the conversion job to the Word Automation Services conversion job queue.
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Topic: Windows Azure Hands On Lab at Community Technologies Proview
Date 18th December 2010 at Microsoft Singapore.
Audience : 18

Lap Around Windows Azure Hands on Lab which help user to develop and upload project to Windows Azure Platform.
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Topic: SharePoint 2010 List Improvements at Tech Insights 2010 in Penang, Malaysia. Branded “Ignite your passion” 3 day events
Location : Eureka Building, University of Science Malaysia (USM), Penang
Date : 23rd September 2010
Audience : 70

In this session you will learn SharePoint 2010 List Improvements such as
• Column Validation,
• List Validation Settings,
• List Lookups and Relationships,
• List inline editing and
• Listing customization on Info path.
• Form Web part
• Calendar Overlay
• Per location view
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Topic: Explore SharePoint 2010 Enterprise & Document Management features at Tech Insights 2010 in Penang, Malaysia. Branded “Ignite your passion” 3 day events
Location : Eureka Building, University of Science Malaysia (USM), Penang
Date : 24th September 2010
Audience : 70

This session you learn about SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Content Management offerings.
• Enterprise Content Management
• Document Management features
• Metadata Management
• Term Store, Term Sets & Terms
• Content Hub
• Content Type Syndication
• Document IDs
• Document Sets
• Document Centre
• Content organizer
• Sent to Location
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Topic : A Lap around Windows Azure
Date & Time : 2nd September 2010 1900 hrs – late
Location : Microsoft Singapore, Level 21 Auditorium
Mohamed Faizal & Wely Lau

The Windows Azure platform is a set of high-performance cloud computing services that can be used together or independently and enable developers to leverage existing skills and familiar tools to develop cloud applications. In this session, we’ll provide a developer-focused overview of

• What is cloud computing?
• Lap around Windows azure
• Using the Windows Azure and local developer cloud fabric
• Working with table & blob and queue storage
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SharePoint 2010 List Improvements (SharePointPro.SG)
11th Feb 2010 Location : Microsoft Singapore Level 22 CF22
Timing 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Audience : 25
In this session you will learn SharePoint 2010 List Improvements such as
• Column Validation,
• List Validation Settings,
• List Lookups and Relationships,
• List inline editing and
• Listing customization on Info path.
• Form Web part

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Community Training program (NCS)
SharePoint 2007 Developer Training
From 2nd November 2009 to 4th November 2009 at NCS Hub
3 full day class room base training for developers
Audience : 20

The agendas are as follows:
• The Business Side of SharePoint
• SharePoint Architecture
• Installation Planning
• Installing SharePoint
• Post-Install Configuration
• Exploring SharePoint Central Administration
• SharePoint Site Administration
• Exploring the SharePoint User Interface
• Working with MOSS Sites, Office Workspaces, and Site Pages
• SharePoint Lists and Libraries
• Web Parts in SharePoint
• The MOSS My Site
• The STSAdm Command Tool
• Master pages, Site Columns, Content Types, and Content Management
• SharePoint Site Definitions
• Features and Solutions
• Infopath and services
• Building Web Parts (Custom code .NET)
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SharePoint User Group
Introduction to Branding SharePoint 2007 (SharePointPro.SG)
20th August 2009 Microsoft Singapore Level 22 CF-12 @ 6:45pm
Audience : 20

In this session you will learn about how to change SharePoint site style and design?. We will review the topic related to branding as it relates to SharePoint as well as dive into the use of themes, master pages, page layouts and CSS to create a more good look and feel for SharePoint. We will also discuss the entire branding process from the creation of the design to the deployment.

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SharePoint Intranet Mass briefing
Audience : 750 (3 sessions each session 250 users)

SharePoint Intranet Mass briefing was greater exposer to me first time I face 750 audiences and presented the intranet portal and demonstrated the live system demo. The overall response of the presentation response given below.