| Time | Topic | Presenter | ||
| 08:30 – 08:45 | Tea, coffee, small talk and any nice biscuits anyone brings | all | ||
| 08:45 – 09:15 | The Excel Window Excel is the window to most corporate data, and most corporate logic. This session looks at trade offs you make by placing different elements at the various layers. |
Simon Murphy | ||
| 09:15 – 09:45 | Keeping track of development with working papers. Branched arguments and conclusions from an Excel Workbook – a management concept in VBA |
Stephen Allen | ||
| 09:45 – 10:00 | Questions and answers & Tea and Coffee | all | ||
| 10:00 – 11:15 | Will Self-Service BI Happen? - Excel as the BI presentation layer - PowerPivot as an end-user tool - Bringing it all together. |
Bob Phillips | ||
| 11:15 – 12:15 | VBA to ExcelDNA The trials and tribulations of migrating from VBA to VB.net and ExcelDNA. - Writing VBA UDFs that convert to C# and C++ - Using ExcelDNA to create XLLs - Running VB.NET without Visual Studio |
Mike Staunton | ||
| 12:15 – 13:30 | Dinner/Lunch PUB | all | ||
| 13:30 – 13:50 | Managing the development process Excel Development is RAD. What does that mean? how does it impact project management and planning? The good and bad of RAD And how to maximise one and minimise the other |
Simon Murphy | ||
| 13:50 – 15:05 | The .NET hammer: VSTO for Excel Compared to other Excel automation approaches, VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) is heavyweight. We’ll illustrate some of its benefits (full access to all the power of .NET, modern IDE and development languages, team development, testable code, automated deployment), and discuss when using VSTO is and isn’t a good idea. |
Mathias Brandewinder | ||
| 15:05 – 15:30 | Break Questions and answers over Tea and Coffee | all | ||
| 15:30 – 16:30 | VBA to C : Pratfalls and Perils - Stories based on a c++ newby’s efforts to convert 10K lines of VBA UDFs to C++ XLLs. - Demonstrations and examples using Visual Studio 2010 and Planatech XLL+ |
Charles Williams | ||
| 16:30 – 17:30 | The FAST spreadsheet modelling standard An industry proven, easily accessible, collaboratively developed, set of guidelines and recommendations to facilitate building robust spreadsheet models efficiently. |
Morten Siersted | ||
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Questions and answers and general lurking and conf close | all | ||
| 18:00 – late | P-U-B | all | ||
| Drinking and arguing |
November 22, 2011 at 10:09 am |
[...] I have published the latest draft agenda here. [...]
November 22, 2011 at 2:45 pm |
I’m still interested in seeing the video for this. Hope you remember to push record and put it on the net!
November 24, 2011 at 10:32 am |
When I look at the presentation list, there is a lot of programming. Do you think it would be interesting to look at a simpler approach, more targeted to non-programmers?
We develop SpreadsheetConverter, see http://www.spreadsheetconverter.com/spreadsheetconverter-version-6-news.htm
We are based in Sweden, so UK is not that far away.
December 8, 2011 at 11:40 am |
There are lots of conferences/seminar/training sessions of that ilk, but few targetted at Excel/VBA developers. That is why this exists, trying to fill that gap.
December 8, 2011 at 12:08 pm |
I see a BA flight from Stockholm Arlanda Apt to London City (which is very convenient) on 24th return 26th fro £126, so maybe we will see you there.
November 26, 2011 at 11:33 am |
Hi
I am Basavaraj K H, Interested in learning Excel, VBA Macro
Plz send articles for Excel.
Thanks & Regards
Basavaraj K H
Bengaluru
Karnataka
India
November 26, 2011 at 5:48 pm |
Jon, the venue might have working AV. so you wont need to rely on me.
Excel2Web, this is a dev conf hence the development focus, I am planning a more user oriented one in July.
Although if your snow is better than ours this year, I might be visiting you for a demo…
November 27, 2011 at 8:59 pm |
[...] took shape. As of now, the planned date is in the January 24 to 26 range, with a pretty cool agenda, covering most of the recent developments Excel developers should know about. I am looking forward [...]
November 27, 2011 at 11:05 pm |
Wish I could travel to UK, but funding is unavailable. Have fun without me.
Come to Dallas next year
December 8, 2011 at 11:38 am |
@Erika, if there was enough demand, we would love to come to Dallas.
December 14, 2011 at 2:32 pm |
[...] If you’re in or around London in late January, don’t miss the UK Excel User Conference. It’s Wednesday, January 25th at Skills Matter Here’s the agenda. [...]
December 18, 2011 at 5:49 pm |
[...] agenda is here (subject to change of course), and you can sign up here. (its an absolute bargain at [...]
January 3, 2012 at 3:00 pm |
Hello Sir,
I am from India and highly interested in this conference. Of course I would not be able to attend it. Will be sharing a video or any document which will summarize all the discussions of this conference
It would be helpful for people like me in sharpening the Excel skills
Thanks in Advance!
January 3, 2012 at 3:33 pm |
Optimus
Yes there is a loose plan to video the event, not sure yet how that will be made available.
I guess some of the presenters may make their slides and demos available too.
Keep checking back as we sort ourselves out…
January 15, 2012 at 3:16 am |
[...] data by Mathias 14. January 2012 14:16 I am putting together a demo VSTO add-in for my talk at the Excel Developer Conference. I wanted to play with charts a bit, and given that I am working off a .NET model, I figured it [...]
January 25, 2012 at 11:35 pm |
[...] http://xlconf.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/uk-excel-developer-conference-london-january-2012/ [...]
February 6, 2012 at 5:24 pm |
[...] part of a series providing commentary on the VSTO Stocks project. I initially developed it for the Excel Developers Conference in London, to illustrate some of the benefits or interesting features of VSTO add-ins compared to [...]
February 20, 2012 at 4:37 am |
[...] part of a series providing commentary on the VSTO Stocks project. I initially developed it for theExcel Developers Conference in London, to illustrate some of the benefits or interesting features of VSTO add-ins compared to [...]