I found this whilst looking through colleagues blogs. http://blogs.technet.com/sanger   - a very comprehensive guide on the process and decision making that happens in large scale Microsoft events. Its written by the guy (Kevin Sangwell, an MS guy worh his weight in gold pressed latinum)who was in charge of content for IT Forum 2005.

We get so many questions about presentations, or what does it take to present, etc. So this blog is a great place to start. In EMEA - we usually have a web site that people can submit their session submissions for. But if you do want to do it, make it about the content - new ideas, that are solution focused (verus just product) are welcome, and get serious consideration. "Using Group Policy in AD for Windows 2000" just isn't new enough, or has already been done 20 times before, so that would be more difficult.

In the security tracks we look for sessions not just on the security specifics of products, but also product solution sets or architectural security sessions. We also feature security up and coming topics or product futures, but usually they will be done by Microsoft speakers. If you have any suggestion of the type of content you would like to see in EMEA events (Europe Middle East Africa) then let me know, I will pass your suggestions forward. fred at microsoft is the email address.