Top Ten Reasons to Attend SharePoint Conference .ORG 2012
#1: Content!
We make it our personal mission to find the very best SharePoint speakers from around the entire country in order to enhance your SharePoint expertise through extremely practical “how to” sessions, highly relevant industry case studies, and expert panel discussions. Our speakers are all SharePoint MVP’s and/or experienced SharePoint experts who have personally architected and designed a vast array of SharePoint deployments in organizations both big and small. We also bring you trusted non-profit industry leaders who have implemented SharePoint for their own organizations and who come to SharePoint Conference .ORG to share essential lessons learned.
#2: Best Value!
Not only does SharePoint Conference .ORG provide the most industry-relevant instruction, case studies and expert panel discussions of any SharePoint conference anywhere -- all meals are included, parking is free, the Sunday reception and Monday Night Conference dinner are both included at NO additional charge and as if all that weren’t enough, all association, education and government attendees receive a $200 discount on the already bargain-priced registration – making SharePoint Conference .ORG the best conference value on the planet.
#3: Networking, Networking, Networking!
From the moment you register and start adding social tags to your badge (we have photographic evidence that you can add up to 75 without impeding your ability to walk), we do everything possible to provide you with a multitude of effective networking opportunities so you can develop or evolve professional connections with other SharePoint professionals who share similar responsibilities at other organizations. You can also speak one-on-one with a wide array of SharePoint experts and MVP’s from around the country.
#4: Location, Location, Location!
What location could be more convenient or fun than Reston Town Center? It’s just a short trip from anywhere in Northern VA, DC or Maryland and is accessible via a free and frequent shuttle bus from Dulles Airport. Reston Town Center is known as Northern Virginia’s “downtown” and features 30 restaurants, 50 retail shops, a 13-screen Multiplex Cinema and the Hyatt Regency Reston Hotel, where we’re holding the Conference. Everything is in easy walking distance and we’ve even negotiated a great ‘conference-special’ discount at the Hyatt if you want to come early and make a weekend out of it.
#5: See and Demo SharePoint Add-Ons!
The best SharePoint product developers in the country come to SharePoint Conference .ORG every year to present and demo products that can make your SharePoint life easier and more efficient. From workflow to migration to marketing campaign tools, you can see and test the latest and greatest SharePoint extension technology options all in one place. And unlike other SharePoint events that only offer an hour or two of open booth time, our SharePoint product vendors are set up and available from the moment the Conference starts to the moment it ends.
#6: Dive Deep with Full-Day Workshops!
For those attendees who desire a more immersive experience in either SharePoint development or SharePoint user interface best practices, we are offering full-day deep-drill workshops presented by SharePoint Academy on the day before and the day after the Conference. The SharePoint UI Essentials Workshop will be led by SharePoint Experience Specialist, Kyle Schaeffer, and SharePoint MVP, Marc Anderson, and the SharePoint Developer workshop will be led by SharePoint Academy Director, Michael McManus.
#7: Three Tracks are Better Than One!
We’ve created three separate tracks – for technical users, for business users, and for design and content professionals – so all our sessions can be specifically geared to provide you with the most relevant, practical information for each SharePoint subject area, whatever your SharePoint role. All registrants always have the option to attend sessions in whatever tracks they like and can attend sessions in different tracks.
#8: Where Else Can You Actually Attend a SharePoint Piano Session!?
If you’ve ever been fortunate enough to attend a session on Business Intelligence or Content Query Web Parts led by SharePoint Architect Pete Serzo, you already know how knowledgeable and informative he is, but this year, Pete’s agreed to also do his renowned SharePoint piano session for us!
#9: Best Prizes Ever!
We’ve always been known as the most generous conference anywhere and we’ll definitely be earning that reputation again this year and will be taking it to a whole new level. Not only does every attendee get their own SusQtech Duck (with some exciting new colors for 2012), but we’ll be giving out Amazon Kindles, iPads, Xbox 360 Kinects, Flat Screen TV’s and a grand prize for two at an amazing and exotic vacation spot (Hint: it has lots of sand and your colleagues will be jealous for weeks!).
#10: Nobody Knows Associations and Non-Profits Like SusQtech
SharePoint Conference .ORG is the nation's ONLY SharePoint Conference designed specifically for association, non-profit and government organizations that are using or evaluating SharePoint. SusQtech, the Conference organizer, is the country’s premier provider in delivering SharePoint solutions for these extremely specialized markets and no other organization has as much experience identifying, understanding and addressing their unique SharePoint challenges and opportunities.