I’m delighted that the first SharePoint conference focused on business users has been announced in Sydney, Australia from November 29th – December 1st, 2010.  This conference is innovative due to the amount of market research that was conducted to identify the conference topics.  From the event website:

“More than 130 people from 75 companies using SharePoint have collaborated through a series of round table discussions to identify the Hot Topics around which the conference will be based.”

The Hot Topics that were identified are similar to topics that are beginning to be included in other SharePoint conference events; however, when you look at the topics as a group they are unique in their focus on the business side of SharePoint.

• User Training and Change Management
• Business Process Automation and Workflow
• Information Architecture; Information Discovery
• Collaboration
• Document and Records Management
• Reporting and Analytics (Business Intelligence)
• Integration with other Systems
• Resourcing and Support
• Social Networking
• Selling the Value and Demonstrating ROI
• Security
• Going 2010
• Extranet Collaboration with External People
• Third-Party Partners and Products

I’m looking forward to speaking at this event along with Dux Raymond Sy and Michael Sampson.  The conference agenda will be posted by August 27th, 2010 and I will be sure to announce my topics here when they are available.