A SharePoint Saturday on Monday #SPConfRU
June 23, 2011
It was a very pleasant and unusual experience for me this week to speak at the SharePoint Conference Russia – 2011. The conference was awesome and the crowd was much more interested in SharePoint than I was expecting. My session was the last before conference wrap up, and we stayed for almost half hour after the session for Q&A! The biggest challenge for me – surprisingly – was to keep speaking Russian, and not switch to English completely when using all the SharePoint terminology.
Having been to a number of different industry events in the US and Europe before, I cannot help comparing this conference to some of those. As far as I can tell, SharePoint Conference Russia is very close to the SharePoint Saturdays. The event is completely driven by community, in this case – Russian SharePoint User Group, and it is completely free to attend. (Thanks to the sponsors, and I am happy that my employer participated as the sponsor as well!)
- SPConfRu had simultaneous live stream online from all 3 concurrent sessions. Never seen this at any other SharePoint event really.
- The food was absolutely awesome :-) I’m not complaining about the food at other events, but here it was way better than one can expect to get a free event.
- Unlike other SharePoint Saturdays, good part of the attendees were seriously looking people in good suits – IT directors and CIO’s, not a typical attendee for a free event. I think this shows there is a lack of (and the need for) SharePoint-centric events targeted more at the business users and IT decision makers in Russia. There are no SPTechCon or SharePoint Best Practices here.
- Finally, the event was on Monday – so they had to call it SharePoint Conference instead of SharePoint Saturday :-)
So once again I’d like to say thank you to the SPConfRU organizers – Oksana and the team did absolutely great job, and I really look forward to more events from the user group in Russia.
BTW, here’re the slides from my “Planning SharePoint 2010 backup and recovery – where do I start?” session
Speaking at ICS SharePoint Showcase in the UK
October 15, 2008
ICS Solutions, one of the leading IT solution providers and Microsoft Gold Partner in the UK are hosting a one-day SharePoint Showcase conference tomorrow, October 16 at their location in Basingstoke, England. There are about 10 ISV partners coming to the event to talk about their products, and I will be representing Quest Software there together with our Director of Marketing for SharePoint product line.
Sorry for the last minute notice (did not want to post this until I get the UK Visa), but as far as I know ICS has planned this conference to be the first in a series of similar events. Anyway, if you are attending the event tomorrow be sure to come by and say hello, or even better – book the 30-minute one-on-one meeting so that we have a chance to talk.
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Are you coming to SharePoint Connections or IT Forum?
November 5, 2007
Quest is sponsoring and exhibiting at SharePoint Connections in Vegas this week and then at IT Forum in Barcelona next week.
If you’re at the Connections, Quest’s booth is #309 and it is all about SharePoint this year. So come by to stamp your entry card to win a Harley see all the migration, management, and app development tools we have for SharePoint – and, of course, the only SharePoint granular recovery tool that does not require any additional backups except SQL database!
I will not be in Vegas, but if you’re in Europe you can try and see me at Quest’s booth A10 at IT Forum the week of Nov 12. Besides the SharePoint product group, you’ll find experts on lots of other Quest products for Microsoft infrastructure management there, including the exciting free UI for PowerShell. Send me an e-mail to ilia at sharepoint dash recovery dot com if you want to meet there. Looking forward to see you in sunny Barcelona!
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