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BZ Media Announces SPTechCon San Francisco for 2010, After Two Sell-Out SharePoint Events in 2009

Popular SharePoint Technology Conference returns to the San Francisco Bay Area in February 2010

Huntington, N.Y., July 6, 2009 — BZ Media LLC today announced that SPTechCon™: The SharePoint Technology Conference is returning to the San Francisco Bay Area next year.

SPTechCon San Francisco will be held Feb. 10-12, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport, in Burlingame, Calif. The three-day conference will offer more than 70 technical classes and workshops for IT professionals, systems administration managers, information workers, business analysts and software developers.

In 2009, BZ Media held two SPTechCon events. The first, Jan. 26-28, was also at the Hyatt Regency SFO, and drew more than 600 registrants. The second event, Jun. 22-24 at the Hyatt Regency Cambridge, near Boston, had more than 575 registered attendees.

Building on SPTechCon’s 2009 momentum, and as the first large independent SharePoint event following Microsoft’s announcement of SharePoint 2010, BZ Media projects 750-1,000 attendees at SPTechCon San Francisco.

The first day at SPTechCon San Francisco will be filled with intensive full and 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, a Microsoft technology that provides a single, integrated platform where employees can efficiently collaborate with team members, find organizational resources, manage content and workflow, and leverage business insight to make better-informed decisions.

With faculty drawn from Microsoft’s SharePoint team, as well as Microsoft MVP experts in the field, there’s no better place to get a SharePoint education than SPTechCon.

Many classes at SPTechCon San Francisco will cover SharePoint 2010, the latest version of Microsoft’s platform. Attendees will learn how to migrate to SharePoint 2010 and leverage its many new capabilities. However, realizing that many organizations take a gradual approach toward upgrading their enterprise software, there will also be many classes at SPTechCon for administrators and developers using SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2003.

SPTechCon San Francisco 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 SharePoint.

Ted Bahr, President of BZ Media, said, “In today’s unsettled economy, one fact remains certain: Enterprises and organizations of all sizes are seeking to save costs and improve efficiency by leveraging technology. For many businesses, the not-so-secret weapon is Microsoft’s SharePoint Server. The workshops and technical classes at SPTechCon will help attendees deploy SharePoint faster, use it better, and offer more benefits to their companies faster. We’re proud that SPTechCon serves this pressing educational need.”

The Call for Speakers for SPTechCon San Francisco is open through Aug. 6, 2009; contact David Rubinstein, Conference Chairman, at drubinstein@bzmedia.com or +1-631-421-4158 x105.

For sponsorship opportunities, contact David Lyman, Sales Manager, at dlyman@bzmedia.com or +1-978-465-2351.

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