I have organised a SharePoint Saturday Event with the help of a few other guys in Perth for 6^th February, if you happen to be in the area…please come along!

Join SharePoint architects, developers, and other professionals that work with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/2010 for 'SharePoint Saturday' event.

SharePoint Saturday is an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-orientated topics. 

SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint!

There's even a chance of winning one of the raffle prizes, to be given away in the wrap up at the end of the day including: a Readify training voucher for the SharePoint 2007 Solutions course (valued at $3120), a Office 2007 Ultimate license from Clayko Group, a digital camcorder valued at $450 from Diversus, and a netbook valued at $300 from Velrada.

A big thanks to Microsoft for sponsoring the venue, AvePoint for sponsoring the free lunch and Synergy for sponsoring the free breakfast!
A big thanks also goes to Clayko Group, Diversus and Seven Sigma for helping funding the stationary and other printing expenses for the event.

There are 3 tracks: Information Worker, IT Pro and Developer with six one hour sessions throughout the day.

Out of WA speakers include:

• Michael Noel, of 'SharePoint 2007 Unleashed' author fame, is flying in from the US to present to IT Pro's on Virtualisation in SharePoint
• William Cornwill from Microsoft is flying in from Melbourne to present on Information Worker (End User) info for SharePoint 2010
• Milan Gross from Synergy is flying in from Sydney to present to IT Pro's on Disaster Recovery
• Joshua Haebets from Evolve Information Services is flying in from Brisbane to present to Information Workers on working offline with SharePoint Workspace 2010
• Neil Haddley from Mad Blue Duck, is flying in from Adelaide to present to Information Workers on Document Imaging
• Garth Luke from AvePoint, is flying in from Sydney to present on SharePoint Architecture Best Practices

Local speakers include:

• Adam Bell from ZettaServe will be presenting to IT Pros on PowerShell
• Ian Loughton from Alcoa will be presenting to Information Workers on using Views instead of Meeting Workspaces in SharePoint 2007
• Peter Chow from Seven Sigma will be presenting to Information Workers on integrating SharePoint with Real-Time data case study in SharePoint 2007
• Phil Duffy from Clayko Group will be presenting to Information Workers on Document Imaging
• Michael Hanes from Diversus will be presenting on Best Practices with developing against SharePoint Lists
• Sezai Komur from Ignia will be presenting to Developers on Workflows in Visual Studio 2008 for SharePoint 2007
• Stephen Roche from Velrada will be presenting to Developers about Business Connectivity Services in SharePoint 2010
• Tommy Segoro from L7 will be presenting on the differences for Developers between Visual Studio 2007 and Visual Studio 2010 with SharePoint
• Garry Stewart from Aijilon will be presenting to Developers on Access Services in SharePoint 2010
• Frik Stuart from CSG will be presenting to IT Pros on FAST Search in SharePoint 2010
• Chris Tomich from Seven Sigma will be talking about Accessibility with the ARF Framework in SharePoint 2007
• Jonathen Wade from Citrix will be talking to IT Pros on Load Balancing and Web Optimisation within SharePoint

For more information on the schedule and speakers please visit the SharePoint Saturday Perth web site.