Conference Tracks Overview

OVERVIEW     I     SESSION STRUCTURE     I     SESSION TOPICS

100 – Introduction to SharePoint: The introductory track is designed for SharePoint newcomers and beginners. The goal of these sessions is to support people in exploring how SharePoint can help them solve business challenges and issue. Typical sessions will include informational presentations on topics such as "What's New", Basic Tutorials in key concepts, and a high-level features comparison between the SharePoint 2007 and the SharePoint 2010.

200 – Intermediate SharePoint: The intermediate track is designed for those who have some experience with SharePoint but are looking to gain a greater understanding. For example, participants at this level may have implemented one or more SharePoint site templates but now have questions about integrating SharePoint with their business processes or extending its usage within their organization. A selection of topics and workshops will be offered to provide a deeper delve into SharePoint yet will remain at a level to ensure that only a minimal amount of experience is required to comfortably participate and follow along. Sample topics might include taxonomy/classification building through site columns, list templates, or content types, mapping of the document life-cycle to SharePoint features, or refining a team-site for specific business needs.

300 – Advanced SharePoint: The advanced track is targeted at those with an extensive experience of administrating, configuring and/or developing for SharePoint. Participants might have a fairly robust implementation but are seeking consultation on tricky integration points (i.e. integrating bar-coding or connecting a Balanced Business Scorecard to specific operational metrics). Sessions would focus on a 'deep dive' in products, components, or solution architectures through presentations or interactive workshops, with the assumption that the audience is experienced enough to keep up and/or complement what is presented with their own research. Topics covered would range from the technical, operational, management or development communities.

400 – SharePoint Customer Experiences: The key focus of the user stories track is to highlight what organizations are doing with SharePoint. User stories will often pay attention to ‘what not to do with SharePoint.’ The presentations will ordinarily be presented at a high-level, but presenters will come prepared to answer specific questions to help understand how the concepts were applied. Where possible such stories are to be presented with a summary of measurable results and anecdotal outcomes from the effort. And of course, what would a story be without an understanding of lessons learned from the experience?

500 – Hands-On SharePoint: Hands-on sessions will be more like tutorials than presentations. The focus should be the consideration and discussion of a specific feature, component, or business application of MOSS. The audience is expected to self-classify as having intermediate experience or expertise. The sessions themselves could cover any aspect of SharePoint.

600 – SharePoint Business Solutions: The goal of this track is to delve deeper into examples of SharePoint being used in business settings (like the 500 track, but with a definite business focus). To support the possibility that the audience may be less technically inclined presenters would be expected to provide a hands-on discussion of SharePoint from the business' perspective.