As I wrote in part one of my SPC preview, this year's event is shaping up to be the biggest and best one yet (much like SharePoint 2013 itself, come to think of it). In this second part of my preview of anticipated Bamboo Nation SPC coverage, we'll take a look at the SPC sessions that are calling out most loudly for my attention. Backing up Ed Hild's statement (at last month's Bamboo-presented SharePoint Leadership Forum) that "the social stack [in SharePoint] has received more enhancements than anywhere else in 2013," there are far more social-centric sessions at this year's SPC than ever before. (Regular readers will recall that social SharePoint sessions are like catnip to me.) There are, of course, far more sessions of immediate interest than I'll actually be able to physically cover, but if I could manage 'em all, here are the sessions I'd be most looking forward to next week:
Monday
- 2 pm Deployment Wizard: SharePoint 2013 Installation Tips, Tricks and Scripts (Dan Holme)
- 2 pm Overview of Enterprise Social (Mark Stone)
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3:45 pm Enterprise Social 101 (Jared Spataro , Adam Pisoni , Pavan Tapadia , James Patterson , Jessica Halper , Lauren Antonoff)
Tuesday
- 9 am Becoming a next-gen organization with SharePoint and Yammer (Mark Fidelman)
- 9 am How Yammer and SharePoint are Approaching Social (Bill Morein)
- 9 am Lead the Enterprise Social Revolution: 5 Steps to Drive Culture Change (Dux Raymond Sy)
- 10:30 am Driving business strategy with Enterprise Social (Moritz Berger)
- 10:30 am Overview of SharePoint Mobile and the New SharePoint apps (Mark Kashman)
- 10:30 am Wish I'd Have Known That Sooner! SharePoint 2013 Demystified (Dan Holme & Jeremy Thake)
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5 pm An Overview of the Personalized SharePoint 2013 Social Experience (Ben Wilde)
Wednesday
- 9 am Building Vibrant Communities in SharePoint 2013 (John Pruitt)
- 9 am How to Extend Social in SharePoint 2013 (Andrew Harris)
- 1:45 pm Best Practices for using SharePoint, Mobile and Media to Connect Knowledge and Communities within your Organization (Ludovic Fourrage)
- 3:15 pm Overview of the Top 10 Ways that SharePoint Will Help Drive End User Adoption (Chris Bortlik)
- 3:15 pm SharePoint 2013 – Fun with SharePoint Social, CSOM and Windows 8 (Mark Rackley)
- 5 pm Moving from Social theory to application by leveraging the Social adoption maturity model to help business users (Bart Bischoff)
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6:15 pm Ask the Experts
Thursday
- 9 am Deep Dive of the Social Architecture in SharePoint 2013 (Anup S. Parameswaren)
- 10:30 am AvePoint: Living in a Hybrid World: Compliance and Governance Meet Cloud (Dana Simberkoff)
I will, of course, also be covering most of the events that were listed in part one of my SPC preview, so you can bet that I'll be earning my keep next week. Don't forget to visit the Bamboo team at booth #941 in the Exhibit Hall, 'cause we're all looking forward to seeing you in Vegas!