I’m really honoured to be asked to present twice at the Australian TechEd 2010 conference in Queensland. I presented last year alongside Andrew Coates and had a great time! I’m really looking forward to going back again this year! For SharePoint’ers there is an Office Track along with a Development Track. I have sessions in each, one on my own in Dev Track and one with William Cornwill (my Manager at Microsoft in my vTSP role).
DEV330 - A day in the life of a SharePoint 2010 Developer - Breakout Session
Jeremy Thake
In this session Jeremy Thake, a SharePoint MVP, will demonstrate how developers can run SharePoint 2010 on their Windows 7 machine to develop a custom solution within Visual Studio 2010 that can be packaged and deployed to a site hosted in the cloud. Jeremy will demonstrate the ease of the new SharePoint Project Template to create a Visual Web Part that displays personalised weather information from an external source and will also be showing the tricks of the trade for experienced SharePoint Developers during demos which you can take back and use on your projects.
OFS3002 - Building Solutions with Business Connectivity Services - Breakout Session
Jeremy Thake, William Cornwill
Business Connectivity Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 enables integration with line-of-business applications and other enterprise and Web 2.0 data sources. It was known in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 as the Business Data Catalog (BDC) and has been significantly improved in SharePoint 2010. This session shows building BCS External Content Types with both the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 designer and with Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010. This provides multiple ways to expose line-of-business data, from a variety of sources, as SharePoint 2010 External Lists.
Unfortunately it seems that the TechEd site needs a little work as my Speaker page is blank 
and Andrew’s page doesn’t include our talk either. Here is the direct link to last years session web cast.
"The Microsoft Office system evolved from a suite of personal productivity products into a comprehensive, multifaceted, and integrated system. Building on a solid foundation of familiar tools, the Microsoft Office system today includes applications, servers, services, and technologies designed to work together to solve a wide array of business problems. Jeremy Thake and Andrew Coates will present the SharePoint server and Office client tools available. This session will walk you through the journey of discovery on how to best leverage the client/server platform to build your solutions. Discussions around the new client side VSTO tools and the server side VSeWSS tools will focus on the creation of solutions from initial development to deployment. Come along to this demo-filled session to learn how to take advantage of the millions of programming hours that have gone into the Office platform and the .NET Framework and truly Stand on the Shoulders of Giants!""