The Seven Most Important SharePoint Success Factors
Richard Harbridge, SharePoint Evangelist 

When implementing SharePoint Solutions and SharePoint as an Enterprise platform there are a considerable number of non-technical (people focused) factors that influence whether it is successful or a failure. What you can expect to see/get from this session:

• Tips and Tricks relating to the non-technical challenges of SharePoint implementations that you can use tomorrow
• How to select and evaluate the Right Technology
• How to achieve strong Buy In and Set Expectations
• How to measure and evaluate ROI and Priorities
• How to achieve effective Governance
• How to Approach SharePoint Projects
• How to Effectively Support your SharePoint Environment
• How to achieve successful User Adoption
• How to handle and plan for New Work and Growth
• Entertaining Stories and an Energetic Speaker

From Static to Social: Energize Your SharePoint Intranet
Julie Muccillo, Solution Architect

Why is it that some sites generate traffic and excitement from the get-go, while others launch and fizzle almost immediately? It takes the right combination of people and tools to make a site social - it's all about making it social in the context of your business, and we'll help you do just that.

In this session we'll look at SharePoint tools that help promote social interaction around your business. We'll also discuss key techniques for engaging your users and making them want to spend time on the intranet, contribute content and create new tools to share with their co-workers. From MySites to add-ins, to just good process, we'll cover the aspects that will make your intranet the meeting place for your employees.

For the Record: Document and Records Management
Liam Cleary, SharePoint MVP

Every business has a requirement to store documents and records. SharePoint
does not just solve these requirements, too many companies implement SharePoint for this and expect it to fix the worlds problems. In this session we will look at best practice document management and whether SharePoint can actually help you as a business with document lifecycle aswell as how you can implement records management policies to govern your users.

10 Best SharePoint Features You’ve Never Used
Christian Buckley, SharePoint MVP

Your team is competent in the SharePoint basics of adding, editing, and removing content. Maybe someone on your team has even become quite adept at building SharePoint Designer workflows. But most books and articles seem to jump from the basic to the incredibly complex, where you have to be a dev to understand the content much less utilize it in your SharePoint environment. This session seeks to bridge that gap, demonstrating 10 of the best features that you've likely never used, but should be using.

Composite Solutions: SharePoint Mashups for the Enterprise
Steve Witt, Vice President of Product Management & Training

A lot of SharePoint's value lies in the fact that it is part application and part platform with loads of powerful features that allow business users to create applications without writing code. Microsoft refers to this concept as 'Composite Solutions' or Enterprise mashups. In this sessions you will learn how to use a number of the features in SharePoint 2010 to create your own mashups...without the need for code.

Five Must-Have SharePoint Add-Ons
Terry Simpson, Solutions Architect

You can dramatically accelerate the development of applications and solutions by tapping into the large and growing set of components offered by a wide range of third party products. Everything from basic user interface controls through fully customizable applications has already been built.

This session is a broad overview of the SharePoint ‘After Market’ and present an overview of the range of functionality available.

SharePoint Goes Public: Web Sites built on SharePoint 2010
Julie Muccillo, Solutions Architect

SharePoint has come a long way since its first incarnation over a decade ago, and we will take a look at why some of the world’s top web sites are built on this platform. We’ll look at examples that defy common objections, and how you can run a good looking, functional and feature-rich web site on the SharePoint 2010 platform. We’ll also talk about additional tools that make SharePoint even better on the web.