Reza Alirezaei’s Blog

On behalf of the SharePoint Summit Board of Directors, I am excited to send out this Call for Speakers for SharePoint Summit 2012 which is being held in Toronto from May 14th to 16th, 2012.

This is a great opportunity for you to showcase your expertise and knowledge of SharePoint as part of a group of SharePoint experts and thought leaders. With over 600 people expected to attend SharePoint Summit 2012, this will be one of the SharePoint community’s most important events.

All speaker applications will be presented to the selection committee which has been created in order to ensure that the topics and speakers being submitted will bring value and help attendees in optimizing their SharePoint installations. To meet the needs of our attendees, we want to target presentations for both technical and business-oriented audiences. This means we are looking for presentations that will not only help developers and IT management plan and architect successful SharePoint solutions, but we also want to pay particular attention to topics that will help business decision makers, business analysts and information architects ensure that they can use SharePoint as a platform to drive business value. Clear abstract and proper level (100,200, etc) is very important in the selection process.

Please take a look at the suggested topic areas below as you prepare your application submission. Consider also whether your presentation is directed to those who are new to SharePoint (Level 100) or those who are more advanced in their knowledge and expectations (Level 300). We are looking for a good mix of content to address attendees with differing levels of experience.

Presentations will be categorized by level, target audience, and general topic:

LEVELS
100 – Introduction
200 – Intermediate
300 – Advanced

AUDIENCES
Developer
Business Manager
Architect
Project Manager
IT Management
IT Professional

TOPICS
Development
Administration
Architecture
Business Solutions
Information Architecture
Best Practices
Case Studies

If you wish to submit a session, please go to: http://www.sharepointsummit.org

Submission Deadline: October 25th, 2011

For more information on SharePoint Summit 2012 and becoming a speaker please do not hesitate to contact me at reza@sharepointsummit.org

Hi Everyone,

On behalf of the SharePoint Summit Board of Directors, I am excited to send out this call for speakers for SharePoint Summit 2011 which is being held in Toronto from January 31 to February 2, 2011.

This is a great opportunity for you to showcase your expertise and knowledge of SharePoint with your peers that are also interested in SharePoint technology and implementing best practices to meet their organizations business needs.

If you wish to submit a session, please go to: http://www.sharepointsummit2011.com/Toronto/call_speakers.asp. The deadline for submissions is October 4, 2010.

With over 500 visitors expected to attend SharePoint Summit 2011, this will be one of the most important SharePoint event for the community.

All submitted applications will be presented to the selection committee which has been created in order to ensure that the topics and speakers being submitted will bring value and help attendees in optimizing their SharePoint installations.To meet the needs  we want to target presentations for both technical and business-oriented audiences.  This means we are looking for presentations that will not only help developers and IT management plan and architect successful SharePoint solutions, but we also want to pay particular attention to topics that will help business decision makers and information architects ensure that they can use SharePoint as a platform to drive business value.

Please take a look at the suggested topics below as you prepare your application submission.  Consider also whether your presentation is directed to those who are new to SharePoint (Level 100) or those who are more advanced in their knowledge and expectations (Level 300).  We are looking for a good mix of content to address attendees with differing levels of experience.
Presentations will be categorized by Level, target Audience, and general Topic:

LEVELS
100 – Introduction to SharePoint
200 – Intermediate SharePoint
300 – Advanced SharePoint

AUDIENCES
Developer
Business Manager
Information Architect
Project Manager
IT Management

TOPICS
Knowledge Management
Governance
Information Architecture
Development
Case Studies
Implementation Methodology
Change Management
Tools and Techniques

For more information on SharePoint Summit 2011 and becoming a speaker please do not hesitate contact me by leaving a comment in this blog post.

Gotta love Canada Day that’s the anniversary date for my MVP award!

It’s a late kind of announcement, but just a quick note that I was awarded MVP status again.  This makes it my fourth year as a SharePoint MVP and I’m looking forward to another exciting year of helping the SharePoint developer community through my presentations, upcoming new book (will be announced later), articles and blog posts.

I am pleased to announce that after several months of working on my second writing project, the book is finally available for preorder: Pro SharePoint 2010 Development. I wrote several chapters of this book and I hope you like them:

The book has shipped to the printer and will be at the bookstores by May 10th. Unless I’m mistaken, this book is the *first* SharePoint 2010 Development book on the shelves for those who might be interested.

Sorry for a couple months break from blogging. I’m back to blogging again, I hope.

My silence certainly does not mean that I’ve been sitting around doing nothing and it does not mean I’ve run dry on SharePoint 2010 topics. Actually, it’s been quite the opposite. My experiences with SharePoint 2010 over the last ten months have given me plenty of ideas to write about, but I had no time to blog them! I’ll try to post more now that I have the book off my shoulder. I’m planning to keep my posts in the same flavor but with the focus on SharePoint 2010 . I have many posts already lined up in my brain and I’ll try to publish them gradually.

I’m pleased to say that I’ll be presenting at the fifth Annual Toronto Code Camp in a few weeks time. I will be doing THREE sessions on SharePoint 2010.

Location (Different than previous years): Seneca College

Session1: Why SharePoint is a great application development platform
May 1, 2010/ 09:00 AM – 10:15 AM
Do you want to find out why SharePoint is a great application development platform? Join this session and learn why SharePoint is rapidly becoming many organizations #1 platform for building and deploying enterprise-scale applications. This session will also include an overview and demonstration of the new features in SharePoint 2010.

Session2: Architectural and Code Level Best Practices for Developing Applications in SharePoint 2010
May 1, 2010/ 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
In this 400-level session we will explore some of the best practices that you should know for developing enterprise-level applications, built on the top of SharePoint 2010 platform. We will also cover some of the architectural decisions you need to make upfront, and then will deep dive into code-level best practices and some of the IT Pro enhancements, made to the core platform, that may affect the design and implementation of your applications. This presentation will be split 70/30 between lecture and the actual demonstrations.

Session3: Building InfoPath Applications in SharePoint 2010
May 1, 2010/ 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM
With the power of SharePoint Server 2010 platform, Forms Services 2010 represents even more significant improvement over its predecessor. Some of the improvement came from the core platform itself and some of them were made available in InfoPath 2010 and Forms Services 2010. In this session, we will explore new features in InfoPath and Forms Services 2010 from form authoring all the way to publishing your forms to SharePoint.

More about Toronto Code Camp can be found here.