Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
KEYNOTE: Search Patterns: Making Maps for Knowledge Discovery
8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
Search is among the most disruptive innovations of our time. It influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe. It's also a radically multidisciplinary, creative challenge. In this talk, Peter Morville defines a pattern language for search and discovery that embraces user psychology and behavior, crosschannel information architecture, multisensory interaction, and emerging technology. He identifies design principles that apply across the categories of web, ecommerce, enterprise, desktop, mobile, social, and real time. And, he explains how futures methods and user experience deliverables can help us to create better search interfaces and applications today and invent the improbable discovery tools of tomorrow.
KEYNOTE: Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
The ability to act on organizational knowledge is not about improving search, it’s about leveraging unstructured content to achieve sustainable and measurable benefits in business processes. This talk describes a new model the U.S. Air Force Medical Service is using with automatic extraction of conceptual metadata, auto-classification of content, and rapid deployment and maintenance of organizational taxonomies. Hear about their experience driving records management, compliance, FOIA, e-discovery, reducing data exposures, and dramatically improving search outcomes. The new paradigm is the foundation that transforms metadata to be the agent of change that drives organizational agility.
Coffee Break
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
KEYNOTE ANALYST DEBATE: SharePoint Pros & Cons
10:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
Adherents call SharePoint the greatest thing since sliced bread, while detractors describe an uncontrollable beast that ultimately dampens productivity. The truth, of course, lies somewhere in between. So for you the customer, what are really the best parts about SharePoint, and where might it fail to live up to expectations? Join a panel of leading industry analysts who will kick off the track on SharePoint Pros and Cons.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Search in SharePoint, But Were Afraid to Ask ...
12:00 p.m. - 12:45 p.m.
With SharePoint, you have many different choices to apply search services within and beyond your team sites. Microsoft itself provides several different flavors of search, and third-party suppliers offer various addons. Join this fast-paced session led by SharePoint guru Shawn Shell, as he outlines your options and describes how to achieve the best search outcomes for different scenarios.
Attendee Lunch
12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Should I Use SharePoint for Web Content Management?
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
With SharePoint 2007, Microsoft added web content management (WCM) services to the platform, and those capabilities have been upgraded in SharePoint 2010. Yet, SharePoint has not swept the WCM marketplace, and its main competitors continue to expand. What’s going on, and what does it mean for you? Join a panel of WCM integrators who implement multiple different tools to learn about when to use SharePoint for web content management and when to explore other alternatives.
Managing Taxonomies and Metadata in SharePoint 2010
3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
SharePoint 2010 offers substantial new metadata, taxonomy, and folksonomy services. Join an information architecture guru who will lead you through your choices and identify best practices for using metadata to better organize information you manage in SharePoint.
Coffee Break
3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Which Approach to SharePoint Governance Is Right for You
4:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Everyone agrees governance is critical — even essential — to long-term success with SharePoint. But how to do it and where to start? Join a panel of consultants and customers who will outline different ways that they’ve gotten SharePoint under control within their organizations. There’s no simple answer here — but you should come away with an approach that works for you.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
KEYNOTE: SharePoint “Idol” Five SharePoint Partner Vendors Duke It Out
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
The SharePoint ‘ecosystem’ includes dozens of 3rd-party software firms that complement, supplement, or replace functionality in the core platform. These include services like back-up and disaster recovery, reporting, replication, imaging, social computing, and more. Come watch five vendors deliver fast-paced, six-minute demos showing off the best features of their products—with three judges keeping them honest. But the best part is, you vote for the winner.
Coffee Break
10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Stump the SharePoint Consultant (and win a prize!)
10:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Bring your toughest, thorniest, most intractable Share-Point project challenge to the session. A team of experienced consultants will compete to offer you the best advice in 2 minutes or less. The twist, though, is that none of the consultants can hear the answers that the others give. You’ll hear clever, insightful, likely controversial, and sometimes entertaining answers to your questions. The real winner of the session is the audience. Not only do you get some great advice, the attendee deemed to have submitted the toughest problem will win a prize.
Spotlight on Solutions
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Four top SharePoint solution providers and their customers share successful deployments built on what is arguably the industry's most versatile platform.
Attendee Lunch
12:45 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
SharePoint as a Gov 2.0 Platform
2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
SharePoint is a powerful platform that can provide various Government 2.0 solutions such as citizen empowerment, project transparency, inter-government agency collaboration and public reporting.
In this presentation, you'll see real-life case studies of how SharePoint was deployed and the benefits it provided to:
•Project Transparency Platform for the Washington DC Department of Transportation
•Inter-Agency Collaboration Platform for the DOD-VA Interagency Program Office
•Educational Collaboration Platform for VA Beach Public School System
What End Users *Really* Want from SharePoint
3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
This "myth-busting" session that looks at SharePoint from an end-users' perspective. What works well? What doesn't? What do project leaders, developers, and administrators need to know about how actual employees want to use SharePoint? Join us for a fresh look at how to really succeed with this platform.
CLOSING KEYNOTE: Knowledge-Driven Enterprises of the Future: Analysts’ Panel
4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
The last 5 years have seen a fundamental sea change in information technology. The primacy of the end user in every organization has fomented a mini-revolution in information management technology that emphasizes better user experiences and the power of collaborative interaction. What will the next 5 years bring to knowledge and information management technology and practices? How can you prepare your enterprise to take advantage of the new future?