Overview
In order for attendees to get the greatest benefit from the MVP Summit, we are sharing our high level plans for content coverage before attendee registration launches in January 2009.
As is customary for previous MVP Summits, we design the content plan based on a product lifecycle stage analysis for Microsoft products and technologies balanced against the needs of MVPs. The stage each product or technology is in varies greatly based on time. Consequently, at the time of the MVP Summit, content availability and community feedback are more relevant for some products or technologies versus others.
Content is delivered via breakout sessions and keynote speeches. Sessions at the MVP Global Summit include deep technical sessions as well as highly interactive sessions where attendees evaluate plans or share community feedback. Breakout sessions are aligned to the MVP award program expertises. Many sessions will be exclusive to specific expertises, while others will be open more broadly.
Keynotes
Five keynotes are scheduled:
| |
Keynote |
Topic |
| 1 |
Richard Kaplan |
Voice of Community |
| 2 |
Mike Nash |
Windows 7 |
| 3 |
Steve Ballmer |
Community Impact and Futures |
| 4 |
S. Somasegar & Technical Leadership Panel |
Dev 10 |
| 5 |
Bob Kelly |
Software and Services & Azure |
Sessions Plan
Since the Summit will be held in March, we expect to deliver breakout sessions covering the expertises listed below. If your expertise is not listed, you will have the opportunity to attend sessions that are open broadly to a variety of expertises.
| 1 |
Access |
| 2 |
Admin Frameworks/PowerShell |
| 3 |
ASP/ASP.NET |
| 4 |
BizTalk |
| 5 |
Client App Dev |
| 6 |
Cluster |
| 7 |
Communications Server |
| 8 |
Connected System Developer |
| 9 |
Consumer Security |
| 10 |
DDK - limited number of sessions |
| 11 |
Device Application Development |
| 12 |
Digital Media Experience |
| 13 |
Directory Services |
| 14 |
DShow/Media Foundation |
| 15 |
Dynamics CRM |
| 16 |
Enterprise Security |
| 17 |
Essential Business Server |
| 18 |
Excel |
| 19 |
Exchange Server |
| 20 |
Expression |
| 21 |
File System Storage |
| 22 |
Forefront |
| 23 |
Games for Windows cancelled due to organizational changes and low expected attendance |
| 24 |
Groove |
| 25 |
Group Policy |
| 26 |
Help |
| 27 |
Internet Explorer |
| 28 |
Internet Information Services |
| 29 |
Live Meeting |
| 30 |
Macintosh cancelled due to low expected attendance |
| 31 |
Mail |
| 32 |
Management Infrastructure |
| 33 |
Media Center |
| 34 |
Outlook |
| 35 |
PowerPoint |
| 36 |
Project |
| 37 |
Setup & Deployment |
| 38 |
SharePoint Server |
| 39 |
SharePoint Services |
| 40 |
Small Business Server |
| 41 |
SoftGrid |
| 42 |
Software Distribution |
| 43 |
Solution Architect |
| 44 |
SQL |
| 45 |
System Center Configuration Manager |
| 46 |
System Center Data Protection Manager |
| 47 |
System Center Operations Manager |
| 48 |
Tablet PC |
| 49 |
Team System |
| 50 |
Terminal Server |
| 51 |
Update Services |
| 52 |
Virtual Machine |
| 53 |
Visual Basic |
| 54 |
Visio |
| 55 |
Visual C# |
| 56 |
Visual C++ |
| 57 |
VSTO |
| 58 |
Windows Desktop Experience |
| 59 |
Windows Embedded |
| 60 |
Windows Home Server |
| 61 |
Windows Live |
| 62 |
Windows Live Messenger |
| 63 |
Windows Live Platform |
| 64 |
Windows Media -- limited session offerings |
| 65 |
Windows Mobile |
| 66 |
Windows System & Performance |
| 67 |
Word |
| 68 |
Xbox |
| 69 |
XML - limited session offerings |
| 70 |
XNA/DirectX |
| 71 |
Zune |
