Join international and local SharePoint experts in Amsterdam and learn how to master your SharePoint environment. Sponsored by Quest Software and Microsoft.
Date: Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Time: 10.30 - 16.30 (Registration begins at 10.00)
Location: Auditorium, Microsoft Netherlands (map)
Cost: Free (Lunch is included)
Agenda:
10:00 Registration
10:30 Welcome and Introductions
10:40 SharePoint Successful Deployments in 10 Steps
Joel Oleson, Quest Software
11:30 SharePoint, the Social Computing Platform (Business Strategy and Adoption)
Daniel McPherson, zevenseas
12:30 Lunch
1:30 SharePoint Logical and Physical Infrastructure Fundamentals
Joel Oleson, Quest Software & Robin Meure, zevenseas
2:30 Backup Demystified
Mike Watson, Quest Software
3:30 Experts Panel and Q&A
4:30 Wrap Up
Meet the Experts:
Joel Oleson
SharePoint Expert, Quest Software
Joel is a senior product manager and SharePoint evangelist at Quest where he is responsible for product direction and strategy. He is well known in the SharePoint community as an enthusiastic trainer, evangelist and architect and he maintains a popular blog. Prior to Quest, Joel worked at Microsoft and was a part of the first Microsoft global deployment of SharePoint. During his Microsoft tenure Joel helped various customers achieve the critical governance they needed to upgrade and achieve scale with SharePoint 2007. He would later design the extranet and hosted SharePoint deployments. http://www.sharepointjoel.com
Mike Watson
SharePoint Expert, Quest Software
Mike Watson (MCSE, MCSA) is a senior product manager at Quest specializing in SharePoint manageability, scalability and availability. Before moving to Quest Software, Mike was instrumental in planning and deploying Microsoft Managed Services and Microsoft Online, as well as Microsoft Services efforts such as MOSSRAP (MOSS Risk Assessment Program) and SLM (Service Level Manager). http://www.sharepointmadscientist.com
Daniel McPherson
SharePoint Business Consultant and Co-Founder, zevenseas
Daniel has been involved in SharePoint since attending the first public announcement of project “Tahoe” at the Microsoft Technical Briefing in January 1999. It has had a profound impact on his career, taking him to the doorstep of hundreds of companies, of all shapes and sizes, in a range of industries,and in over 25 different countries. After 10 years at Microsoft, spent mostly in Microsoft Consulting Services, he is a co-founder and business consultant. http://community.zevenseas.com/Blogs/Daniel
Robin Meure
SharePoint Technical Consultant, zevenseas
Robin joined Atos Origin in 2004 and was immediately introduced to the rapidly emerging Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies At Zevenseas, Robin helps customers plan, deploy and build solutions on SharePoint, and participates actively in the broader SharePoint community though his blog and many contributions to Codeplex. He is a founding member of the Elite SharePoint Black Belts established by Microsoft in Holland to promote skills sharing among its partners. http://community.zevenseas.com/blogs/robin
Matthijs Hoekstra
Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Netherlands
Waldek Mastykarz
SharePoint MVP
Waldek Mastykarz is a Dutch SharePoint MVP specialized in Web Content Management solutions in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, web standards and accessibility. Waldek Mastykarz is a Dutch SharePoint MVP specialized in Web Content Management solutions in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, web standards and accessibility. http://blog.mastykarz.nl
Matthijs is a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft in The Netherlands. He joined Microsoft in 2002, worked 6.5 years as a consultant for Microsoft Services working with customers in the areas Information Worker, Portals and e-business. Matthijs mostly works with products as: SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services, Office, Unified Communications and .NET. http://blogs.microsoft.nl/blogs/mhoekstra