Microsoft Theater and Pavilion

This year, InnoTech is, once again, excited to offer dedicated Microsoft Presentations and the Microsoft Partner Pavilion, Inside Exhibit Hall E, the perfect place to experience, hand-on demos of the products you've been wanting to try!

Microsoft hosted Educational Sessions @ InnoTech include:

9:00am - 9:30am
Combining Polycom Videoconferencing with Microsoft Office, SharePoint and OCS
Michael Clark, Vice President, Pacific Intermedia
Robert Herman, Polycom

9:45am - 10:15am
Closing the Business Intelligence loop with SharePoint 2010
Kevin McVicker, Vice President, CSG Professional Services
Stas Tregubov, Consultant, CSG Professional Services
Learn how to use SharePoint 2010 as a data collection and BI presentation hub. Stas Tregubov will discuss new data collection and storage techniques with SharePoint 2010, and new visualization and presentation features in SharePoint 2010 and SQL Server 2008

10:30am - 11:00am
Clear Skies: Insights on Cloud Computing
Michael Brown, National BPOS Offering Lead, Slalom Consulting
You know cloud computing is out there. But what's the best approach? Join Slalom Consulting, one of Microsoft’s go-to partners for implementing Microsoft Online Services, for a clear look at the realities of moving to the cloud. Drawing on deep expertise helping clients of all sizes, Slalom's National Practice Director will highlight the best practices and common pitfalls of this potentially business-changing move.

11:15am - 11:45am
SharePoint 2010 - How To Get There
Chad Layman
Marquam Group SharePoint 2010 Team
SharePoint 2010 is a ground breaking enterprise platform, but where do you start and how do you get there?  This session offers a chance to hear from the experts how to tactically and strategically deploy SharePoint 2010 using industry best practices, tools and techniques.  Learn how to approach the design and architecture of your solution and create an execution plan for SharePoint 2010.

1:00pm - 1:30pm
How Windows Azure Can Transform Your Business - and Why You Should Adopt It
David Pallmann, Manager, Neudesic
David Pallmann will share the compelling business and technical merits of Windows Azure and explain how it can transform your business in tangible, lasting ways. He'll also discuss what cloud computing means for I.T. departments, how to determine a cloud computing strategy, and why now is the right time to adopt cloud computing in the enterprise. You'll also see a demo of a cloud computing enterprise application.

1:45pm - 2:15pm
Unified Communications:  Deploying a Single Identity and Presence
Nexus IS
Technology has brought us a very long way in terms of how we communicate.  Email, telephones, instant messaging and conference calling enable us to do things today that were unthinkable twenty years ago. But as these technologies have evolved, they have done so independently, in parallel with one another, making it difficult and expensive to maintain.  Unified communications reduce complexity by putting people at the center of the communications experience. This presentation will discuss how to plan and integrate all of the ways we contact each other in a single environment  by walking thru existing client case studies and product demonstrations

2:30pm - 3:00pm
Enable more data-driven decisions using SharePoint, BCS and Office
Piyush Prakash, Group Manager, iLink Systems, Inc.
Discover how to lower the last hurdles between business users and the data they crave using Office Business Applications (OBAs) and BCS (Business Connectivity Services). Your business users will rave about meaningful real-time access to consolidated data from systems such as Dynamics CRM and SharePoint via user-friendly, intuitive web, Outlook, Word, and Excel interfaces. Your business will enjoy improved collaboration and reduced costs because business users can consume more of the data they need to make better decisions, faster, with fewer interventions from your IT department. Practice Manager Piyush Prakash will share a wealth of tips, techniques, and lessons learned by iLink Systems, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
Right! Systems

3:15pm - 3:45pm
Secure Identity and Access with Microsoft Forefront Technologies
Thomas Amato , Vice President, Technical Services, Certified Security Solutions
Learn how an organization can provide Secure access to individuals or other enterprises to applications inside a  corporate network.  It will address many of the important issues of provisioning, directory synchronization, strong authentication, remote access, federation, and application gateways.  Organizations will learn about current options in the Microsoft Forefront suite that provide maximum security in a highly integrated system.  Supplemental live demonstrations will be available after the speaking session

4:00pm - 4:30pm
Dynamics AX 2009 - ERP solution with integrated Business Intelligence
Shilpa Karnik, Principal and Dynamics AX Practice Leader, Strategic Solutions NW
AX 2009 is the flagship ERP solution in the Microsoft Dynamics product family.  It's the most scalable and feature rich product for Microsoft in its suite of ERP solutions.  Business Intelligence functionality is built into the latest version of AX, specifically BI components, prebuilt BI cubes and BI reports.  Strategic Solutions NW is a Gold-certified Microsoft partner based in Beaverton and will give an overview of Dynamics AX 2009 and its BI functionality.

Microsoft Partner Pavilion Exhibitors Include:

Microsoft Partner	Booth Number
Compucom	212
CSG Professional Services	217
CSS (Certified Security Solutions)	130
DigiSphere, Inc.	221
iLink	327
Marquam Group	122
Microsoft	128
Neudesic	224
New Horizons Computer Learning Center	117
Nexus IS Inc.	125
Pacific Intermedia	307
Slalom Consulting	129
Strategic Solutions NW	121