Today, I participated in the first Microsoft Summit held in Tirana, representing AESS Group together with two colleagues. As I have mentioned before, I’m co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of AESS Group, which is one of the best software companies in Albania. It was founded in summer 2005 and was the first Albanian company to achieve the Microsoft Certified Partner status in the country. All our developers have the Microsoft Certified Professional status, with two of them being Microsoft Certified Application Developers and me Microsoft Certified Solution Developer.

As this was the first Microsoft Summit here, it was mainly a general overview of what Microsoft is doing and focused on licensing Microsoft products. However we hope that the increased presence of Microsoft in the country will bring benefits to us as a software company because people “will get used” to pay for licensing software which currently is very difficult.

I got several pictures, but since I forgot my digital camera I used the phone and as you can see the quality is poor (sorry for that). I choose the best two to put them in the site.

Picture taken during the presentation.

Picture taken during the coffee break between the sessions.