The SharePoint® Conference 2011 in Anaheim, California marks my third major SharePoint® conference I’ve attended over the years. It is very exciting to see how the product has progressed over these years and how Microsoft® stood behind it to get it to where it is today. With over a 100 million licenses sold, it is truly an amazing story.
And here we go again, around the circle we travel. We travel with partners, clients, colleagues, x-coworkers, and friends. We bring excitement wherever we go. We boost the economy and overload the inter-webs with social and blogging traffic. I heard that Microsoft® is expecting over seven thousand in attendance this year. That’s pretty cool.
As far as sessions, there are plenty of everything. I am personally looking forward to attending Cloud and Office 365 related sessions. I am going to focus in on the 400’s and 300’s level sessions this year with few 200’s here and there.
Sessions that I will attend include the following:
| Title | Speaker | # |
| Out of the Sandbox and into the cloud: Build your next SharePoint… | Andrew Connell | SPC410 |
| How Microsoft Builds, Deploys and Runs SharePoint Online: A Peek … | Roberto Taboada, Doron Bar-Caspi | SPC352 |
| Deep Dive on Developing Custom Service Applications | Todd Bleeker | SPC401 |
| Advanced SharePoint Data Access with Silverlight | Robert German, Ryan Sockalosky | SPC400 |
| Identity in SharePoint Online | Phil Wicklund | SPC259 |
| SharePoint, Azure and Claims Integration for Developers | Steve Peschka, James Petrosky | SPC412 |
| Deep Dive: Implementing Kerberos for your BI Applications | Tom Wisnowski | SPC404 |
| Building Business Applications on Azure using Office365 and Windows … | Tony Meleg, Jesus Rodriguez | SPC320 |
| Cloud Packing: Preparing for the Move into SharePoint Online | James Petrosky, Kimmo Forss | SPC327 |
| Branding SharePoint Online Sites | Randy Drisgill, John Ross | SPC205 |
| Exploring the Office Developer Story in Microsoft Office 365 | Tanuj Bansal, Devinder Singh | SPC346 |
Now, last time, Microsoft® did setup a purchasing system where you could buy the conference material if you didn’t get to attend it. I would think they’ll have something like that again this year.
References
- SharePoint Conference: http://www.mssharepointconference.com/pages/default.aspx
- SharePoint: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/default.aspx
- Office 365: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/online-software.aspx
Till next time, stay thirsty my friends.
Johnny Harbieh 