The annual conference run by Mark Minasi is on again this year, this time in April in Virginia Beach, USA. The agenda as of now (subject to change) is:
Sunday, April 19, 2009
- 1:00 pm: Welcome
- 1:15 pm: TBD Keynote by Windows IT Pro
- 2:30 pm: Break
- 2:45 pm: Mark Minasi Introducing Windows 7
- 4:00 pm: Break
- 4:15 pm: Aiden Finn Hyper-V – The Future of Infrastructure
- 5:30 pm: Close
Monday, April 20, 2009
- 9:00 am: Eric Rux The Big One – Merging 2 Companies!
- 10:15 am: Break
- 10:30 am: Nathan Winters The Future of Email: Exchange 14 and Online Services
- 11:45 am: Lunch
- 1:00 pm: James Summerlin SQL Reporting Services
- 2:15 pm: Break
- 2:30 pm: Roger Grimes How I Fixed the Internets!
- 3:45 pm: Break
- 4:00 pm: Todd Lammle TBA
- 5:30 pm: Dinner organized with coach transport
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
- 9:00 am: Rhonda Layfield Windows 7
- 10:15 am: Break
- 10:30 am: Mini Session A TBD
- 10:55 am: Mini Session B TBD
- 11:20 am: Mini Session C TBD
- 11:45 am: Lunch
- 1:00 pm: Mark Minasi More Windows 7
- 2:15 pm: Break
- 2:30 pm: Curt Spanburgh Hybrid Solutions, SaaS
- 3:45 pm: Break
- 4:00 pm: TBD Light Session (Photography or other topic)
- 5:30 pm: ‘No Host’ dinner at local restaurant (one last chance to rub elbows with people in the know)
- 6:30 pm: Vendor Evening – Details TBD – An evening with various vendors either on site or via Web conference, to look at relevant products.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- 9:00 am: Stacy Hein SQL for the Windows Administrators
- 10:15 am: Break
- 10:30 am: Joe McGlynn SBS 2008 for the Small Business
- 11:45 am: Closing thoughts and summing up
- 12:00 pm: Final Lunch
- 1:00 pm: Round Table Discussion
You can register by following the instructions on the site. Oh yeah, that is me following Mark on the opening day, talking about Hyper-V 🙂 And local guy Joe McGlynn is also speaking on the Wednesday about SBS 2008.
Other speakers include MVP’s Nathan Winters, Curt Spanburgh, Rhonda Layfield and Eric Rux. James Summerlin is the rarest of creatures: a developer and an IT pro! Todd Lammle is a well known Cisco author, trainer, speaker and consultant. Those of us from year 1 still shake from when he scared us with his IPv6 talk. Roger Grimes is a security expert with 7 books to his name. Stacy Hein is a SQL wizard well known to us on the forum. And Mark Minasi is the famous author, speaker, trainer and consultant specialising in AD and Windows.