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Rizzo, Pattison to Keynote SPTechCon San Francisco

SharePoint Technology Conference offers 80+ classes and workshops, many focused on the brand-new SharePoint 2010

Huntington, N.Y., Jan. 7, 2010 — BZ Media LLC today announced the keynote speakers and stellar faculty presenting at SPTechCon™: The SharePoint Technology Conference San Francisco.

SPTechCon San Francisco will be held Feb. 10-12, 2010. The three-day conference will offer more than 80 technical classes and workshops for IT professionals, systems administration managers, information workers, business analysts and software developers.

The lead-off keynote at SPTechCon San Francisco will be Tom Rizzo, Senior Director of Microsoft’s SharePoint team, speaking on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 8:15 AM. He will be followed on Friday by Ted Pattison, a SharePoint MVP, and author of “Inside Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0.”

The SPTechCon keynote speakers lead an expert faculty offering more than 80 courses in all aspects of SharePoint. Many of the SPTechCon speakers are from Microsoft; others are Microsoft MVPs, who are independent experts awarded the Most Valuable Professional designation by Microsoft to recognize their outstanding expertise and many community contributions.

Building on the two prior SPTechCon events in 2009, and as the first large independent SharePoint event following Microsoft’s announcement of SharePoint 2010, BZ Media projects 750-1,000 attendees at SPTechCon San Francisco.

With faculty drawn from Microsoft’s SharePoint team, as well as Microsoft MVP experts in the field, there’s no better place to get a SharePoint education than SPTechCon.

Many classes at SPTechCon San Francisco will cover SharePoint 2010, the latest version of Microsoft’s platform. Attendees will learn how to migrate to SharePoint 2010 and leverage its many new capabilities. However, realizing that many organizations take a gradual approach toward upgrading their enterprise software, there will also be classes at SPTechCon for administrators and developers using SharePoint 2007 and even SharePoint 2003.

A Three-Day Full Event Passport for SPTechCon San Francisco costs $1,595, but a discounted rate of $1,395 is available through Jan. 22. The conference also offers discounted group rates as well as alumni discounts for past SPTechCon attendees.

SPTechCon San Francisco will have a trade-show floor where more than 45 exhibitors and sponsors will be demonstrating compelling third-party applications, add-ons, plug-ins, tools and services built for SharePoint. For the few sponsorship opportunities that remain, contact David Lyman, Sales Manager, at dlyman@bzmedia.com or +1-978-465-2351.

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