This huge event will take place on 19th – 21st of April, 2010. Why huge? Just have a look at the speakers list : a long list of professionals, trainers and SPS consultants (I can identify some Microsoft MVPs like Agnes Molnar , Claudio Brotto , Daniel Wessels , Mirjam van Olst , Jan Tielens , Muhanad Omar , Alex Pearce , Andrew Woodward , Ben Robb , Chris O'Brien , Nick Swan , Penny Coventry, Spencer Harbar , Steve Smith , Stephen Cummins and Zlatan Dzinic but I’m sure that there are plenty more

And another MVP Global Summit is gone. It’s always sad when everything’s done, everybody’s going home, especially when you have to stay longer. You see the city (Bellevue, in this case) differently as you can’t feel the same atmosphere you got during the Summit. Anyway it was great, at least for me and for the numerous Microsoft MVPs I had the pleasure to talk to. great sessions, great venue, even no complains about the food this time We had around 700 technical sessions, around 1.300 Microsoft MVPs

On March, the 30th and 31st Microsoft Bulgaria organized the Microsoft Days 2010 , Annual Conference dedicated to the latest technologies (from Windows 7 to Windows Azure, from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Office and Visual Studio 2010). Highlighting the presence of Microsoft technical spokespersons and Microsoft MVPs (very well represented by Martin Kulov and Emil Stoychev ), the agenda has not been finalized yet but, looking at the speakers, I guess it will be a 2 days deep dive into some of the most

On January 23rd, it will be held the first online EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Sharepoint Conference, covering all the different timezones, called “ SharePoint Saturday EMEA ” Featuring MVPs Ágnes Molnár (Hungary), Claudio Brotto (Italy), Jan Tielens (Belgium), Marwan Tarek (Egypt), Mostafa Elzoghbi (USA), Muhanad Omar (Jordan), Nicolas Georgeault (France), Steve Smith (United Kingdom), Zlatan Dzinic (South Africa) and other important IT Professionals and Developers from all around the Globe,

Last month, Microsoft Cyprus organized the New Efficiency Launch, called Microsoft Momentum 2009, dedicated to both ITPros and Developers. During the event, the popular Cyprus .NET User Group (CDNUG) organized a community area where attendees and community members could reach UG Leads and Microsoft MVPs and network each other. Artemakis Artemiou , Microsoft MVP and INETA Country Lead, together with Bojan Mijuskovic , Community members and my colleague and friend Karl Davies-Barrett , DPE Evangelist

And here we are again with another MVP, this time an ITPro: Damir Dizdarevic , Management Infrastructure MVP from Bosnia-Herzegovina: Damir is the co-founder and active member of the MS Community BiH User Group in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Interview with Damir Dizdarevic, Management Infrastructure MVP

On November the 28th, the Polish SQL Server User Group organized this “meetup” event to celebrate its second birthday. The User Group is “a community of Microsoft SQL Server geeks/Professionals/users and enthusiasts who voluntarily share their experiences and knowledge on SQL Server. PLSSUG is the official chapter of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) in Poland, it’s a non-profit group and very available to cooperate with other SQL Server Communities and User Groups around the World.”

One of the biggest IT Conference in CEE is now starts its engine: from the 17th to the 19th of November, ITPros, Developers and Information Workers can benefit of an early bird price (until the 5th of November) for Sinergija 09 that will be held in Beograd, Serbia. The event will be split in these main areas: Business Intelligence and Database platform Developer Tools Office and SharePoint Unified Communication, Messaging and Mobility Server, Management tools and Security Windows Client Microsoft

One of the most important Italian IT Conference on Microsoft Technologies is starting its engine (24-25-26 November 09) ! Microsoft TechDays-WPC2009 is a 3 deep-dive technical days dedicated to ITPros and Developers. From Windows 7 to Windows Server 2008 R2, from SQL Server to  Exchange Server 2010 to Windows Azure, Silverlight and many more! So, as you can imagine, the Agenda is pretty intense, highlighting some of the most important lectures and professional speakers in Italy, including 20

When: 22th October 09 (from 9 to 16.30). Location: Hotel International, Zagreb (Croatia) Ekobit DevArena 2009 is a technological conference strongly focused on IT professionals that use Microsoft tools and technologies. The idea behind the conference is to provide high-level technological knowledge for participants, so all sessions are held by IT pros with lots of experience in the real world software projects. Team System, BizTalk Server, MOSS, SQL Server, Silverlight are some of the technological

The Microsoft Vizija Conference is taking place today and tomorrow (7-8 October,09), the largest Technical Conference held in F.Y.R.O. Macedonia for IT Professionals, Developers and IT Managers. The conference is divided in 4 different tracks (from Level 100 to Level 400): Business solutions and methodologies Applications Development, tools and technologies Communication, collaboration and mobile technologies Infrastructure and Security The lectures have been made with the support of the local User

Around 3000 people expect including almost 600 people from the communities . These are some of the numbers of the most important Microsoft Conference happening in Warsaw on September 29-30: the Microsoft Technology Summit 2009 ! MTS 2009 is Poland's largest technology conference aimed at IT professionals, developers, and enthusiasts of new technologies. Highlighting MVPs Kimberly Tripp , Grzegorz Tworek , Paweł Pławiak , Jacek Doktór , Sebastian Wilczewski , Bartosz Pampuch , Marlon Grech and many

“The fourth edition of the premier developer conference on Microsoft technologies in CEE will take place October 12-13 in Arena Cinema Mladost in Sofia, Bulgaria. DevReach 09 will give you the unique opportunity to gain valuable knowledge directly from the industry experts. Boost your productivity and maximize your progress, while taking advantage of numerous formal and informal networking opportunities. This annual event features world recognized industry experts who share their knowledge in a stimulating,

On September 22-23, Microsoft Italy will be hosting the first Microsoft Virtualization Conference: a 2 days event dedicated to technologies and virtualization products, aiming to share the technical expertise of some of the most qualified experts in the field (and I would like to mention MVP Marco Russo in this prestigious list) together with colleagues and friends Lorenzo Barbieri and Giorgio Malusardi . Also highlighting Jeff Woolsey (Principal Group Program Manager for Windows Virtualization)

On June 2nd and 3rd In 2-3 June in Skopje (FYRO Macedonia), Dejan Sarka and Aleksandar Talev organized a very technical workshop, dedicated to SQL Server, called “Spring the Expert 00001001”. The content was mostly related to Data Mining, from the upper theory deep down to the analysis using SQL Server 2008. Attendees were mostly from the local online and offline communities and User Groups like the SQL PASS MK , the .NET User Group MK and the MEUG MK (Exchange User Group). Some peculiar comments

from June 23rd to June 25th Microsoft Prague, in collaboration with Daquas (also thanks to Visual FoxPro MVP Igor Vit ’s help and efforts), held this important IT event, the DevCon 2009 , dedicated to Developers and SQL Server enthusiasts and professionals. Especially dedicated to FoxPro developers and database professionals, and highlighting MVP participation as speakers ( Robert Haken , Michal Blaha , Jürgen Wondzinski and Christof Wollenhaupt ) together with very skilled consultants, this conference

Yes, it was a great event. And yes, it was fun too! I had the pleasure to be invited (and I need to thank a lot of people for that) to the latest Microsoft NT Konferenca 2009 in Portorož , Slovenia. The venue was darn lovely: the Grand Hotel Bernardin . The event, well: with more than 2.200 attendees, it’s THE biggest IT event ever held in Slovenia (out of a population of 2.000.000, that’s pretty astonishing, isn’t it?!)      4 days, 700 Companies present, more than 100 lectures, 20

Hi, if you are a SQL Server enthusiast, if you want to deep-dive into SQL Server 2008, if you like the life of the communities (and if you can understand Italian ), this is totally an event you wanna join The Italian SQL Server User Group (UGISS) organized a free event “from the community, to the community” on June 16th @ the Microsoft Innovation Center in Turin : 6 sessions covering Databases, Business Intelligence, Auditing, Virtualization, all within SQL Server 2008. You can find the Agenda, venue

I’m very happy to announce that the very popular KulenDayz Community event will be taking place again! From June 12 to June 14 (in Osijek , Croatia) the Conference has been organized in 4 different tracks to meet different audience needs: ♦ Advanced Development ♦ Databases ♦ System Infrastructure ♦ Project Management “The sessions at the KulenDayz 2009 will be technically oriented, level 300/400, covering new Microsoft Products and Technologies (Visual Studio 2010, Azure, SQL Server 2008, Windows

After the success of the last BASTA! Italia Conference , held in Rome 3 months ago, the event will happen again in Milan, Italy, on 28th – 29th of May. Featuring the MVPs and other important speakers, this time the event will cover: 6 Power Workshops in a single day 1 Architectural Power Workshop in 2 days Best Practices on .NET and Visual Studio From Silverlight to ASP.NET to Entity Framework to Sharepoint etc etc. Recognized “dev gurus”/MVPs such as Andrea Saltarello , Daniele Bochicchio , Dino