Office Developer Conference 2008 Blog

We are pleased to announce our first-ever Unconference winners from ODC2008. Thanks to all presenters who participated and the great audience turnout for this event! Title Presenter Award Three SharePoint Development...

Winners of the OBA Solution of the Year Award Contest 1st place: SmartAsset ODC 2nd place: Intrasphere PharmaCM 3rd place: IntelliSafe Vault Desktop for Microsoft Office 2007 Congratulations!! Congratulations to Round 2 Finalists...

It's almost time to pack your bags and head out to San Jose - ODC 2008 starts in less than a week! A quick recap of ODC 2008 agenda/highlights by day: Sunday Feb 10 2008 10am: Registration open 11am: Pre-conference sessions start ...

Round 1 of the OBA Solution of the Year Award Contest ended yesterday and finalists have now been announced. Top 3 OBA solutions from among these will be recognized at ODC 2008 ! Full details at: http://blogs.msdn.com/oba/archive/2008/02/01/oba-solution...

As you might recall from an earlier blog post, we have a series of Office/SharePoint developer focused regional contests going on right now and the grand finale/announcement of winners will take place at ODC 2008 ! Regional sleepless contests have...

ODC 2008 gets underway in just under 2 weeks! The ODC event team was on a visit to the San Jose Convention Center and we thought it might be interesting to share a few of the site photos with you. The San Jose Convention Center main entrance area...

Hard to believe but ODC is now only 20 days away! We've now published details of all technical content on www.odc2008.com so if you haven't yet, please check out the various tracks and sessions. There are some last minute updates remaining, and those...

The ODC 2008 team is pleased to announce that Hugh MacLeod (“Blue Monster” creator, avid blogger and artist) will be at ODC 2008! ODC attendees will be able to meet him on Sunday Feb 10 during the informal registration get together (5-7pm) and also during...

Since we’re in the midst of development for the next version of Office and SharePoint (aka Office 14), we have been asked to what extent ODC will focus on the futures vs current products. The majority of content at ODC will be focused on Office and SharePoint...

First off, a reminder - we're exactly 4 weeks from ODC 2008! If you haven't done the registration and/or made travel arrangements, now's a good time to do so while you can still get decent air fares and choice of hotels. Register here . We also wanted...

Many of you have asked about Executive track session details. Chris just finalized these and we wanted to share these with you via the blog. The details will also get posted to the site in the next few days. You'll notice a couple of sessions are still...

The ODC 2008 team is pleased to welcome our newest sponsor, FedEx . Now, you might be wondering why a company known for delivering packages on-time is sponsoring an Office developer conference. All I can say is it's very cool and you’ll just have to come...

Hard to believe but we're only 5 weeks away from ODC 2008! Preperations are in full swing for ODC 2008 and I will be sharing details of a recent site visit and other prep details over the next few blog posts. If you haven't checked out tracks and sessions...

Happy New Year! By now, you’ve hopefully seen the details of sessions in each ODC track. If you haven’t, check out the various sessions by track: Architecture , Client , Server , Services , & RealWorld . But if you thought you now know all there...

We recently did some internal analysis of ODC 2008 content and speakers and wanted to share some basic stats with you: FYI - initial session list titles are now posted by track on www.odc2008.com and the abstracts will be published later today. ...

Several Microsoft groups have teamed up to bring a series of Sleepless events to you! The finals will take place in San Jose and winners will be announced at ODC 2008! If you are wondering why Sleepless and what the event is like, check out this...

John and Jerome, track onwers for the realworld and server tracks respectively, recently sat down with Rob Barker and talked about themselves, hobbies, and of course ODC 2008! You can check out their videos here: John Graham: http://channel9.msdn...

Steve's just posted his initial list of client track sessions and labs. Looking like a great lineup.. http://blogs.msdn.com/odc2008clienttrackblog/archive/2007/11/30/list-of-sessions-in-odc-client-track.aspx - Khawar

Time's almost up for the ODC 2008 Early Bird registration. If you have been meaning to but haven't got around to registering yet, today would be a good day to take care of it! - Khawar

Some of you have asked about sessions planned for ODC2008. As you can imagine, selecting sessions for a conference of this scale is a challenging task, but we are on track to get the initial list published next week. In the meantime, check out the following...

The above question, or some variation, has come up a few times lately, so let's try to clarify this here. The SharePoint Conference ( SPC2008 ), which will take place in March 2008 in Redmond, WA is primarily intended for those in IT who use, deploy...

Just a reminder that ODC2008 Early Bird registration ends Nov 30th (Fri) this week! If you want to take advantage of the discounted rate, or have started but not completed your regisration yet, you only have 3 days left! To register, go to www.odc2008...

Wouter van Vugt stopped by the Office development booth at TechEd Developer. The name sounded familiar and it turned out he had submitted speaking proposals on Open XML for ODC 2008 in response to my earlier call for proposals on the blog. He's also...

First of all, thanks to all those who have been submitting proposals for sessions! As of my last count (which was sometime last week), we had ~ 120 sessions identified (both internal and external submissions). This is far more than the total sessions...

Want to present at ODC2008? If so, there's still time to send in your session ideas. We're looking for innovative sessions that are grounded in Office and provide a unique perspective about developing Office applications. Perhaps you are an expert in...