Thursday, February 11  
8:15 am — 9:15 am

Tom Rizzo is Senior Director of Microsoft’s SharePoint team, where he helps customers and partners understand, develop on and deploy SharePoint. Before heading up the SharePoint effort, he was Director of Product Management for SQL Server. Tom is also the author of a series of Microsoft Press books on topics ranging from developing collaborative solutions using SharePoint, to deep-dive technical references on SQL Server and Exchange Server.

Thursday, February 11 
5:30 pm — 6:30 pm

Ted Pattison is a SharePoint MVP, author, instructor and cofounder of Critical Path Training. In 2005, Ted was hired by Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism group to create the Ascend developer training curriculum for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Server 2007. Ted is the author of "Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0" (Microsoft Press, 2007), He also writes Office Space, a regular column for Microsoft Office developers, in MSDN Magazine.