Building Innovative Software in China and Experience Sharing with Microsoft Employees

Speaker:	Enwei XIE, Director of Microsoft ATC Shanghai
		Alex CHAN, Group Manager, Connected System Division
		Terry LEEPER, Group Manger, Developer Division
		Microsoft ATC Shanghai

Title:		"Building Innovative Software in China and Experience Sharing
		 with Microsoft Employees"

Date:		Tuesday, 26 September 2006

Time:		2:00pm - 3:00pm

Venue:		Room 3412 (via lift nos. 17/18)
		HKUST

ABSTRACT:

Microsoft ATC Shanghai was formed in March 2005 as a testament to
Microsoft's commitment to fostering the growth of the software ecosystem
in China. It works closely with partners in the Shanghai area and help to
develop software talent in the region. We work on many strategic products
for Microsoft's Server and Tools business (STB) including high performance
computing, web services, identity access and management, enterprise
management, data access, development tools, enterprise security, and
Windows Server solutions. We are integrated with product teams in Redmond,
Washington and around the world. Our office is growing and we are part of
a dynamic environment that helps bring together top talent from Shanghai,
Greater China and across Asia to help Microsoft achieve innovative
products for our customers.



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Biography:

Enwei XIE - As the Director of Server and Tools Business China (STB China)
of Microsoft China R&D Group, Enwei Xie is responsible for building a
global multi-site development center in Shanghai that integrates with all
STB product groups in Redmond and across the world, and are committed
long-term as a division to global engineering and multi-site development
that enables engineering agility for product teams, opportunities for
in-country/regional partnerships and increased penetration of Microsoft
software and services, and the ability for STB to develop local
opportunities. STB China works on strategic products including high
performance computing, web services, identity access, enterprise
management, data access, development tools, enterprise security, and
Windows Server solutions with the top talents from Shanghai, Greater
China, across Asia and the world. Previously, Enwei served in various
leadership roles across groups in Developer and Windows Server divisions
since he joined Microsoft in 1994. Enwei holds a BA in Physics,
Mathematics, and Computer Science from the Luther College, Iowa, USA.



Alex CHAN joined Microsoft in June 2005 to help build the Server and Tools
Business (STB) in China. He currently serves as Group Manager of the
Connected Systems Division (CSD) in China, responsible for global product
development and local partnership in the country. Before coming to
Microsoft, Alex Chan helped start a new business venture at Cisco Systems.
As a founding team member, Mr. Chan played an instrumental role in
incubating the internal venture to develop networking infrastructure for
distributed applications and services. In addition, he represented Cisco
at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to drive the development and
standardization of XML technologies. Mr. Chan joined Cisco in 1998, and
had played leadership roles in corporate entrepreneurship, engineering,
marketing, and industry standards setting around new technologies
including L4-7 networking, voice over IP, and wireless LAN.  Prior to
that, Mr. Chan created business process automation software at Aspect
Communications and Delrina (acquired by Symantec). Mr. Chan is an inventor
of thirteen US Patents (four issued).

Mr. Chan received his MBA with Honors from the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania where he was on the Director's List (top 10%).
He also holds a Master's degree in computer science from the University of
Waterloo, and a BSc in computer science from The Chinese University of
Hong Kong. Active in the community, Mr. Chan serves on the Board of
Advisors of the Chinese Software Professionals Association (CSPA) and
served as President of CSPA before returning to China. Mr. Chan also
served as SIG Chair and Executive Council Member of the Software
Development Forum (SDForum). He is active in the Wharton network in
Shanghai and the Bay Area as well.


Terry LEEPER has been with Microsoft since 1999.  He currently serves as
Group Manager for Developer Division China where he leads global product
development for the Developer Division in Shanghai.  Prior to coming to
Shanghai, Terry worked out of the United Kingdom as part of the EMEA
(Europe Middle East Africa) division of Developer and Platform Evangelism.
In EMEA, he ran a cross-continent team of technical specialists and
speakers who educated audiences in areas such as software development,
software architecture, IT architecture and technologies, and web hosting
and development.  Terry originally started Microsoft in the Developer
Division where he owned key technologies such as code generation and
optimization, C++ libraries, 64-bit, High Performance Computing, and Unix
Migration.

Prior to coming to Microsoft, Terry was Director of Engineering at an
embedded developer tools company where he was responsible for multiple
product lines of embedded compilers, debuggers, simulators, and Integrated
Development Environments.