SharePoint Saturday EMEA

SharePoint Saturday is putting together a full day of sessions, with first-class speakers from around the world. And this time it's set up on a time suitable for us living in Europe, the Middle-East and in Africa (EMEA). And the best of all: it's FREE!

The date is Saturday 23rd of January, and it starts at 08:00 AM GMT, which is London time. To find the startup time in your region, visit this page. It finishes around 5:00 PM GMT.

The content of the sessions is mostly concerned around SharePoint 2010, but a few also on MOSS 2007. A full list of the sessions and its speakers visit this page.

I've registered, and looking forward to attend this. It will just be me, my laptop, and a lot of coffee this day. Can't wait!
If you'd like to attend, go here for registration.

Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 Announced!

Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 is finally announced. This year's conference has been pushed from March, when it's been usually held, to October. This is probably due to the upcoming release of Office "14".

The conference is being held October 19th to 22th 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, and full attendance will cost you $1199. Register among the first 500, and get a $300 discount!

The agenda will mostly contain what's new in Office "14", but will also contain sessions on experiences and best practices on SharePoint 2007.

Whether you're an IT Professional, an IT Decision Maker, an Architect or a Developer, this will be the place for you SharePoint dudes!

For more information, agenda and registration, visit http://www.mssharepointconference.com/.

SharePoint Conference 2008

Don't miss out the SharePoint Conference 2008.
It will be held in Seattle, between March 3-6.

For more information, see http://www.mssharepointconference.com/.

PDC 2007 postponed

I was really looking forward to attend this year's PDC. But late on Thursday May 24 2007, Microsoft announced the cancellation of this year's conference.

For those who haven't heard about it, PDC (Professional Developer Conference) is a conference solely for developers. Its function is to present the latest on development tools and technologies coming out from Microsoft in the future.

However, since many of the new tools and platform technologies already exist among developers as betas and CTPs (Windows Server 2008, SQL Server "Katmai", Visual Studio "Orcas" and SilverLight), Microsoft chose to postpone the event until further notice.

Instead of waiting for it to be rescheduled and since it is a bit late to register and attend Tech Ed 2007, here's some alternative conferences for you to attend this fall:

• VSLive! in New York – September 16-19, 2007
• VSLive! in Las Vegas – October 16-19, 2007
• DevConnections in Las Vegas – November 5-8, 2007
• TechEd Developer in Barcelona, Spain – November 5-9, 2007

For more information, check the official PDC 2007 web page, and this article at ZDNet.