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Networking from 12 noon, Formal presentation from 12:30 Adrian Kearns is a Solution Architect with the New Zealand Transport Agency. He has 10 years of industry experience in both commercial and public sectors, mainly as a developer using mostly Microsoft technologies and building web-based applications. As an architect and supporter of Agile practices and principles he sometimes feels like a stranger ion a strange land. Adrian's session will be basically a case study of his time at the NZTA (almost two years): * What he does, what others think he does and what actually happens. * The Merger: Transit (Java, Novell) meets LTNZ (.Net, Microsoft and Mainframes), different cultures, 2-into-1, etc. * Differences between working in the public and private sectors.