Thursday, Oct 21
8:15 am – 9:15 am

Steve Fox has worked in IT for over fifteen years. For ten of those years he has worked at Microsoft in the areas of natural language, search, and more recently SharePoint and Office development in the Developer and Platform Evangelism group. He is currently a Sr. Evangelism Manager and works with developers, business owners and managers, and technical decision makers to help them understand how they can leverage Microsoft technologies to further their development and business goals. Steve regularly speaks to developers worldwide and has contributed to numerous technical books and articles. Recent titles include Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Development using Silverlight 2 (Wrox), Microsoft .NET and SAP (MSPress), and the forthcoming Beginning SharePoint 2010 Development (Wrox). Steve received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, with a focus on social computing, and currently resides in Seattle, Washington.

Thursday, Oct 21
4:45 pm – 5:45 pm

A well-known author and trainer, Bill English is a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server. Bill is a founder of English, Bleeker and Associates, Inc., a training and consulting company for SharePoint products and technologies that is known today as Mindsharp. Bill has written or co-written many books on SharePoint Portal Server, including 2004’s SharePoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices, and Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator. Bill has been training people and consulting on Microsoft technologies for almost 20 years, and is a highly regarded conference speaker.