FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SPTechCon, the SharePoint Technology Conference, serves
IT Pros, Business Managers and Developers
New technical conference offers classes, workshops for
enterprises seeking to maximize the benefits of using Microsoft Office
SharePoint Products and Technologies
Huntington, N.Y., August 8, 2008 — BZ Media LLC
today announced
SPTechCon™: The SharePoint Technology Conference, an exciting new event
for IT professionals, business leaders and software developers whose
organizations use Microsoft Office SharePoint Products and Technologies.
SPTechCon
will be held January 27-29, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco
Airport. The three-day conference will offer dozens of technical classes and
workshops for IT professionals, systems administration managers,
line-of-business managers, business analysts and software developers.
BZ Media is the publisher of
Systems Management News,
the authoritative source for IT professionals and systems administrators,
and SD Times, the
newspaper of record for software development managers. BZ Media also
produces the Software Test
& Performance Conference and
FutureTest events.
The first day at SPTechCon is filled with intensive
half-day workshops, while the next two days contain several keynote
addresses and dozens of concurrent classes. All classes are focused on
maximizing the benefits of using Office SharePoint Server 2007, which is a
Microsoft technology that provides a single, integrated platform where
employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational
resources, search for experts and corporate information, manage content and
workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.
Many classes at SPTechCon also cover complementary
Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft Windows Server, the Microsoft
Office System, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. The conference, expected
to attract more than 500 paid attendees, will have a trade-show floor where
exhibitors and sponsors can demonstrate compelling third-party applications,
add-ons, plug-ins, tools and services built for Office SharePoint Products
and Technologies.
Ted Bahr, President of BZ Media, said, “SharePoint is
the platform of the future. Increasingly, enterprises are finding that
SharePoint goes beyond solving their internal collaborative challenges.
Companies are expanding how they use SharePoint, integrating it into their
public-facing Web sites, and their Service-Oriented Architecture. We’ve
heard from the readers of Systems Management News and SD Times that they use
SharePoint, and they need technical training on how to use it more
effectively and extend it throughout their organizations. We’re proud to
offer SPTechCon to serve this pressing educational need.”
Tom Rizzo, Director of SharePoint at Microsoft, said,
“The phenomenal uptake of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is transforming
organizations of all sizes, all industries and all geographies. Business
leaders are envisioning new uses of SharePoint, and IT professionals and
developers are gearing up to implement new applications as well as integrate
SharePoint to other enterprise software. This is creating significant demand
for training and education. We're delighted BZ Media is introducing this new
SharePoint technical conference.”
The
Call for Speakers for SPTechCon is open through August
15, 2008. Sponsorship opportunities are also available; contact Donna Esposito at
desposito@bzmedia.com or
+1-415-785-3419.
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SPTechCon™ is a trademark of BZ Media LLC.
SharePoint® is a registered trademark of Microsoft.
