European Best Practises Conference – London

Um, What?  Has it really been a year since SPEVO 2010?  My how time flies when you’re having fun with SharePoint.

The European SharePoint Best Practises conference kicks off on Monday and the social networks are abuzz with excitement.  You just need to take a look at the awesome speaker line-up to get a sense of how big this conference will be. Follow #BPCUK to get all the info coming out from London town next week.  The conference website can be found here: http://www.sharepointbestpractices.co.uk/

Last year’s event was marred by the chaos during the now infamous Icelandic Volcano and without wanting to tempt fate, hopefully – we shouldn’t have to endure such a headache this year.  See my review of last year’s events here and here which despite the voncanoes best attempts, was a huge success.  One of the (non-SharePoint) lessons I learned last year was that the iPhone camera really does suck, so this year I’ll be taking a proper camera with me and I’ll get some better shots.  I’ll be posing them to Facebook afterwards.

Once again, it’s going to be a remarkably busy time.  Sunday sees the return of the football match organised by Mark Macrae: http://macraem.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/sharepoint-best-practices-conference-football-tournament/, Monday night is the vendor exhibition, followed by the official SharePint event at The Old Star Pub and Tuesday sees the return of the conference’s party night.  This year, there is free transport being laid on to the secret venue.  Steve Smith and his folk really like to keep the details secret so we will only find out on Monday what the plan is.  If last year’s party night was anything to go by, then we are all in for a real treat.

Due to time constraints, I haven’t even managed to plan out what sessions I’ll be attending so I’ll be playing it as we go along this year.  If you want to meet up, then just ping me via twitter (@DPyett).  Once again, the thing I’m looking forward to the most is meeting all the great people I’ve come to know in the SharePoint Community.  I’ve met very few of these people in person so can’t wait to get to sit down over a pint and talk SharePoint.  Problem though is that there are so many people to meet, I know I’ll miss out on meeting loads of folk so will have to charm up the boss to send me to the next conference as well

See you all on Sunday!