European SharePoint Conference kicked off this morning
The European SharePoint Conference was kicked off this morning at the Estrel Convention Center in Berlin, Germany, by Derek Burney, GM of SharePoint Platform and Tools, with a keynote presentation that provided an overview of the 2007 version of SharePoint Products and Technologies and an update on SharePoint’s growing market momentum and it’s central role to every company’s Business Productivity Infrastructure. Derek’s presentation slidedeck is now available for public download here (PPT2007, PPT2003, PPT Slide Library). Derek’s presentation was effectively complemented by Mike Fitzmaurice’s demos, for which alas, I do not have the video capture to post at this time.
Here are a few snapshots of the keynote presentation.
What is most impressive about this conference thus far is that it has almost 2,400 registered attendees from over 50 countries as well as over 100 Microsoft partners with SharePoint specific addons, tools, solutions, and services. Overall, this conference is twice as massive as the inaugural SharePoint Conference that was held in Bellevue, WA in May of last year.
And a few snapshots of the 3 separate partner pavillions:
Lastly, Derek pre-announced the new SharePoint Community Portal (at http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/sharepoint), which has been built entirely on top of SharePoint Server 2007 as was the website for the European SharePoint Conference. More detailed info on both implementations will be forthcoming.
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