9:00 – 10:15 10:30 – 11:45 12:30 – 1:45 2:00 – 3:15 3:30 – 4:45 H102 Workflow, Forms, Data & Reports: SharePoint business apps with K2 Level: 100 Track: Business See how K2 offers an easier way to build and automate workflow-driven apps in SharePoint. Rapidly build forms that combine SharePoint and line of business data. Combine those with workflows that reach across your enterprise. Provide management and department heads real-time insight into how their business functions. Deliver all of this with visual design tools, without writing a line of code and with SharePoint at its heart. Mohamed Elkholy Technical Specialist K2 K2 Appit for SharePoint – Workflow and forms apps for SharePoint, in the cloud Level: 200 Track: IT-Pro, Developer, End-User, Business Build workflow and forms apps in the cloud with K2 Appit for SharePoint. Appit is an exciting new cloud-based offering that allows you to deliver workflow and forms apps for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online, without code. Available for use moments after you’ve signed up, it allows you to focus on building great solutions instead of installing software. Using intuitive, drag-and-drop designers, you can turn a simple document library or list into an app by rapidly designing forms that combine SharePoint and your line-of-business data. Add workflows that involve the right users and automate tasks across systems, regardless of whether they’re on premises or in the cloud. In this session you will learn how Appit: * Delivers workflow apps using no-code designers, quickly and easily within SharePoint. * Adds intuitive forms and data from line-of-business systems to deliver more full-featured apps. * Runs in the cloud and works equally well with your on-premises SharePoint 2013 environment or with SharePoint Online. SharePoint on AWS Level: 100 Track: End-User, Business Bonnie Donovan Amazon Enhance your SharePoint with the Power of Search Level: 200 Track: End-User, Business In this session we will use the out of the box features of SharePoint to provide enhanced search capabilities for your existing SharePoint on premises installation or your Office 365 environment. We will cover display templates, query rules, result sources, result types, managed properties and refiners and more. This will be a content packed session so come prepared to drink from the information fire hose. John Ramminger Architect - SharePoint Development Lead Intellinet @johramm Leveraging External Data in SharePoint Level: 200 Track: IT-Pro, Developer In this session we will dive into surfacing external data through BCS in SharePoint. Starting with SharePoint Designer and then moving on to Visual Studio. We will cover complex scenarios where we associate more than two external content types together and talk about the best practices in doing so. Finally we will talk about searching the external data and building custom display templates to render the data in the most appropriate way. John Ramminger Architect - SharePoint Development Lead Intellinet @johramm H106 jQuery SharePoint integration Level: 100 Track: IT-Pro, Developer Introduction to jQuery along with how to integrate said libraries into SharePoint and consuming Web Services via SPServices. David Underwood SharePoint Premier Field Engineer Microsoft Workshop: Create your own SharePoint 2013 dev./ test VM, Live! Level: 200 Track: IT-Pro, Developer Get ready to create your own SharePoint 2013 dev./ test VM from scratch using a single click PowerShell installation script that employs industry defined best practices to not only install SharePoint but also prepare the server for the installation. In this deep dive session, we will: 1. Review the steps of creating a new Win Server 2012 R2 VM with the goal of installing SQL and SharePoint on it. 2. Walk-through and customize the single click scripted installation package that: a. Prepares the Windows Server VM created above for the installations b. Configures a local Active Directory on the VM c. Installs and prepares SQL server 2012/ 2014 for SharePoint 2013 installation d. Installs and configures SharePoint 2013 on it 3. As a bonus, based on interest & time permitting, we will also set up a fresh Win Server 2012 R2 VM from scratch. Optionally, a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM with a 180 day trial license will also be available for download through the speakers blog. Upfront software and script download information, script samples and steps will be provided on the speakers blog at: http://gauravmahajan.net/ so you can follow along and create your own ready to click SharePoint installation package. While for beginners, the session will provide an opportunity to learn how to create their own SharePoint 2013 VMs, for advanced IT Pros, it will provide an opportunity to learn how to create repetitive single click installation PoSH scripts to automate creation of multiple environments with ease. While the scripts and demo will revolve around SharePoint 2013, they will work equally well with SharePoint 2010. Finally, help will be available after the session as well in case you'd like to start your SharePoint installation while at the event and subsequently walk away with your very own copy of a VM with SharePoint installed and operational on it. Gaurav Mahajan SharePoint Architect, CEI Creating Requirements for SharePoint Projects Level: 100 Track: End-User, Business If all stakeholders in a SharePoint project knew exactly what their role was, what is expected of them, how they will perform their tasks and exactly what the end goal is, SharePoint projects could all be successful. In this session, we will review the documentation every SharePoint project should cover, the different types of documents & tools to create SharePoint requirements, review some real-world scenarios and send you off with examples to use on your next project! Matthew Bailey SharePoint Technical Manager EmberJS & SharePoint Applications Level: 300 Track: Developer The SharePoint app model is growing up, and apps are growing up with it. More and more, users are demanding full-fidelity applications inside of SharePoint, and coding everything up by hand with JavaScript and jQuery can be time consuming, tedious, and impossible to maintain as your application grows. In this session, we’ll take a look at how EmberJS is particularly suited to writing full Applications, explore application views, data binding, routing, and, of course, SharePoint integration for authentication and data. Greg Hurlman President Meedcraft, Inc. Using the Javascript Object Model in Sharepoint (I PROMISE it will be good) Level: 300 Track: Developer, End-User In this session we will cover many ways to use the javscript object model. I will cover the basics of updating and adding items and will also show you how to use it to create cascading lookup dropdowns and also show how to use jQuery Promises to streamline and speed up some repetitive code. Daniel Walker SharePoint Developer H162 Modal Mania using JavaScript Level: 200 Track: Developer Come and learn how to take advantage of the out of the box modal dialog framework within SharePoint 2010 and 2013. There are many different scenarios where you can use modals, and we will cover a range of uses through live code demonstrations. You will also learn how to manipulate forms that exist in the _layouts directory using only JavaScript. Matthew Bramer UI/UX Developer Planet Technologies Getting your Mobile Dev on with Xamarin and Azure Mobile Services Level: 200 Track: Developer, Business, Cloud Azure Mobile Services leverages the entire Azure Platform including Storage via Azure SQL, Windows Azure Active Directory for Authentication. Add Xamarin to the mix and you have an IDE that any Visual Studio C# Developer wil love as it builds upon your existing knowledge of C# and your familiarity to the VS-IDE. Come to this session to find out how you can build rich native mobile apps using Azure Mobile Services. We will specifically target the ToDo example that comes with Azure Mobile Services and Extend it by modifying the underlying database schema in SQL Azure, and then the Model in the Mobile Service and finally create View controllers for an iOS device to make the magic happen. Fabian Williams SharePoint Architect Adotob Introduction to building Single Page Applications (SPA) with Angular JS & SharePoint 2013 Level: 100 Track: Developer In this session we will be covering the basics of working with Angular JS to build a simple Single Page Applications within a SharePoint 2013 Application. As part of this session we will be making use of Angular Apps, Controllers, Directives, Services, and Modules that we will combine all together to build a simple application that is driven by SharePoint data retrieved through SharePoint REST Services. During the presentation we will be discussing some best practiced and common challenges with implementing client side solutions. Joshua Carlisle SharePoint Solutions Architect B&R Business Solutions Anatomy of a Mail App Level: 200 Track: End-User, Developer Apps for Office introduces a new programming model that is so flexible, you may not believe it unless you see it with your own eyes. You might say it is dangerously simple to enhance the functionality of Office. Apps for Office allow you to enhance the user experience for Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project and Word, most likely using your existing skills. Starting with a brief discussion surrounding the roadmap for the various types of Office apps, this talk will focus primarily on Mail apps and how you can use them to provide very valuable enhancements to the message and appointment reading, and composing, experiences. You will learn about what if takes to develop a Mail app (a real app, currently under development will be shown), what the infrastructure looks like to deploy a mail app, what the licensing process looks like and how easy they are to monetize. After the discussion, you will likely be beaming with ideas and be rushing home to begin building your very own App for Office. J. Dan Attis Senior SharePoint Solution Architect B&R Business Solutions @jdattis The Evolution of SharePoint Event Receivers from On-Prem to the Cloud Level: 100 Track: Developer Event Receivers are a fundamental part of SharePoint. They have evolved from server side only to now include App events in the cloud. Knowing how to use them and what features are available for which version of SharePoint is crucial for all SharePoint developers. Drawing on my extensive experience over the past seven years, this session will give every developer a solid foundation for using Event Receivers in SharePoint (both onprem and in the cloud) built on best practices and real world usage. This session will provide an overview of Event Receivers in SharePoint with specific focus on List Item Event Receivers. You will learn from real world examples, tips, tricks, and hear about how event receivers have been utilized at different clients. I discuss the pros and cons of using Event Receivers as well as compare them to SharePoint Workflows. I will key on the differences between the versions of SharePoint related to Event Receiver functionality and discuss new Event Receivers in SharePoint 2013, including some that work in the cloud. Finally I will show a demo of how to quickly get up and running using Visual Studio and some common use examples. Tim Ferro Senior Software Engineer RDA Corporation H170 SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflows – An Introduction Level: 100 Track: End-User, Business Learn how to create SharePoint Designer workflows from the ground up. This session is full of live demos designed to provide a solid foundation for creating workflows. List workflows, reusable workflows and site workflows will all be discussed and created live. Learn how easy it is to automate processes by using SharePoint Designer workflows. This session will also highlight new features in SharePoint 2013 Designer workflows and differences from Designer 2010 workflows. Scott Shearer SharePoint Evangelist Haystax Technology Advanced SharePoint Designer 2013 Workflows Level: 200 Track: End-User, Business This session is designed to help you take your Designer 2013 workflow skills to the next level. Full of live demos, you’ll learn how to use Designer workflows to set permissions on list items and use new features such as App Steps, Loops and Task Actions. We’ll also explore the Designer string actions and show you when to use them. If you ever wondered how and why to use an Association Column, this session is for you. Unlock the power of no-code solutions with Designer 2013 workflows. Scott Shearer SharePoint Evangelist Haystax Technology Office 365: Is Governance Affected and Where Do We Start? Level: 100 Track: IT-Pro, Business As we all know, more and more organizations are starting to question “Do we or do we not implement Office 365?”. However, as these discussions are taking place; governance is rarely addressed or considered. The main reason is that the majority believe that once they have implemented governance that they are done; unless there is an update such as a server name change or an employee change (such as a departure or addition). During the initial planning around governance it is likely that there were discussions around auditing of the governance document and potential quarterly reviews to ensure that the document is up to date and still fits the business. However, it is common to forget that after that fact; even though it is documented “within the governance document”. Governance becomes even more important with Office 365 because it’s all cloud based. This means all of the content, backup, recovery, etc. are all handled by Microsoft and you have virtually no control over it. In this session we will review the areas of concern and how they can be addressed within the governance document, the importance of reviewing the document frequently; and ways to make the information available to your internal SharePoint Community. In addition, we will review the features of Office 365 that will have a major impact on Exchange, SharePoint, Office Apps and Lync. We will review each of these applications and the areas of importance that should be addressed in the governance document, as well as why each of them are important. Stacy Deere-Strole (MCT) Sr. SharePoint Solutions Architect - Business Owner Focal Point Solutions, LLC User Profiles: I Didn't Know I Could Do That?? Level: 200 Track: IT-Pro, Business Many think that the User Profile service is simply used for connecting SharePoint to Active Directory so that the attributes can be synced into their user profiles in SharePoint. They also know they can add really cool pictures to their profile along with some additional information that the others can see if you give them the ability to. User profiles are so much more than that and I could talk for hours about all the great things that it can do. Many don't realize it but you can increase user adoption by implementing some of cool features and connections to other service applications such as Managed Metadata and Search. In this session we go through the configuration of the user profile service application and the integration with the other service applications to build your one stop shop for company information. Areas that will be covered in this session: • • • • • • • • Custom User Properties Deeper Active Directory Integration Social Relevant Searching Company Directory Deep Dive into a Profile Audiences MySites Stacy Deere-Strole (MCT) Sr. SharePoint Solutions Architect - Business Owner Focal Point Solutions, LLC Build It and They Will Come: SharePoint 2013 User Adoption Level: 200 Track: Business Everyone has seen the movie Field of Dream where a farmer sacrifices part of his cash crops to builds baseball field. It just so happens after he built it numerous famous baseball players come back from the beyond to play baseball and people come from all around the world to watch and in turn the farmer became rich for charging admission, food, beverages, etc. SharePoint 2013 and building user adoption share a lot of the same concepts and overall goals to ultimately come out with the same end result. Lots and lots of people from all around the company start utilizing SharePoint and all its features and functionality. In this session you will see first-hand information from a company that I have been working with since they had 2007, 2010 and now 2013. I will review the project and all the steps taken to increase user adoption. • Discovery Sessions • Governance • Build & Implementation • Migration • Next Steps To prove the success of the overall project I will show various statistics from the previous versions and SharePoint 2013. We will also take a look at some additional successes that have come from this upgrade and increase in user adoption. Stacy Deere-Strole (MCT) Sr. SharePoint Solutions Architect - Business Owner Focal Point Solutions, LLC H178 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle with SharePoint Level: 100 Track: End-User Learn to use SharePoint more efficiently! This session will give you an overview of many of the ways you can save time and prevent redundancy by using various SharePoint features in your sites. We'll discuss (and see in action) things such as Site Columns, Content Types, Templates, re-usable Workflows, External Data, and more. Sandy Ussia Senior Technical Support Lightning Tools Load Balancing and AutoScaling Your Application Like a Pro Level: 200 Track: IT Pro, Developer, Cloud With Microsoft Azure, load-balancing and autoscaling your application are now simple routines with mouse-clicking. This session explains the concepts and demos step by step a scenario to loadbalance an application frontend on demand and configure monitoring and autoscaling based on set criteria. Yung Chou Technology Evangelist Microsoft An Introduction to Microsoft Azure Level: 200 Track: IT Pro, Developer, Business, Cloud Microsoft Azure is a subscription-based multi-tenant self-service cloud solution platform with a rich set of compute, application, data and network services for IT to develop, deliver and manage solutions at a global scale. This session serves as a primer of and presents a technical overview of Microsoft Azure relevant to IT capabilities, processes and operations. Attendees can take the opportunity and learn the essentials to get started on cloud computing and employ Microsoft Azure as a vehicle to facilitate developing solutions. Yung Chou Technology Evangelist Microsoft Climbing the Social Ladder Level: 100 Track: Business Social seems to be everywhere, but for business, social can take a wrong turn fast if you're not careful. In this presentation, you will hear a case study as it progresses and learn what went well, and what didn't. From the grassroots effort to building the business case, you will take away five key pieces of advice when looking to start your business' Enterprise Social Network. Liz Sundet Applications Architect OneNeck IT Solutions Streamline Your Document Management Strategy Level: 100 Track: Business As with any career that you may choose, seeing someone perform the job and experiencing it yourself before you decide to invest in learning it is very important. We will do a "round the world" review of how the job market is changing and new skills you will need in the next few years for onpremise SharePoint, O365 and Azure. We will also look at some quick samples of what each job position might be like day-to-day, discuss the current SharePoint job market and the skills currently needed to move into any of these job roles. Maggie Swearingen Sr. Manager and Experience Architect Protiviti H250 Managing your project portfolio with SharePoint Level: 200 Track: IT-Pro, End-User, Business While there are a number of dedicated project portfolio solutions available, SharePoint offers the ability to tailor something to fit your particular needs. We will look at how you can use search and other webparts to show project status information in multiple contexts. We will also show techniques for color-coding status indicators. Finally, I will show how you can create a polished dashboard for executive use. Randy Mullis Senior Business Systems Analyst SAS Institute Inc. @randymullis Optimizing SQL Server 2012 for SharePoint 2013 Level: 300 Track: IT-Pro Knowing the vast majority of the content accessed via SharePoint is stored in SQL Server, and also knowing an incorrect configuration of SQL Server can have a detrimental impact on the performance of SharePoint it is important to understand the integration of these two products. Regardless of whether you have a dedicated DBA, or the SharePoint administrator is also the DBA, there are critical SQL Server configurations that can be made that will improve the performance of SharePoint. Often DBA’s are familiar with how to manage SQL Server, but may not be familiar with some nuances that SQL Server has when integrated with SharePoint. In this session we will demonstrate how some default SQL Server settings negatively impact SharePoint and what changes can be made to improve the performance of SharePoint. These changes include database file settings and SQL Server instance settings. We'll also examine how to properly install SQL Server and SharePoint so they work together as efficiently as possible. This discussion will introduce the Best Practices framework that will allow your SharePoint administrator and/or your DBA to configure SharePoint and SQL Server to provide optimal performance for your SharePoint implementation. Brian Alderman Trainer at CBT Nuggets CBT Nuggets Office Web Apps with SharePoint 2013 Level: 200 Track: IT-Pro Office Web Apps with SharePoint 2013 Brian Alderman Trainer at CBT Nuggets CBT Nuggets Implementing Information Architecture with SharePoint Level: 200 Track: Developer Learn about how implementing Information Architecture (IA) will improve your organization's intranet. I will provide an overview of: what is IA, why it's important to your organization, and how your organization can benefit by implementing IA with SharePoint. I will also discuss implementing IA-driven site maps, taxonomy, and managed navigation. James Hunter SharePoint Architect BrightStarr PowerShell for SharePoint Admins Level: 200 Track: IT-Pro Scripting for the power admin. Let's get some automation within our environment and make daily task go away. If you have to do it more than once it should be scripted to make sure that it can be repeated. Not everything can be done in a day, but you can make things easier on yourself it you take the time. Paul Telkamp Sr. SharePoint Admin Ferguso H260 Developing Branding Solutions for SP 2013 Level: 200 Track: Developer This session is for the developer type or person interested in learning how to deploy custom branding assets to your SharePoint 2013 sites for both on premise and cloud environments. This process begins once you’ve finalized your design assets (Master Page, CSS, JS, and Composed Look) and are ready to push out to your SP2013 site. You’ll learn step by step on how to assemble a Visual Studio 2012 solution, and add in those assets that you want to deploy to your site collections or sites. We will also cover some of the more advanced topics such as how to apply these assets programmatically, cache busting CSS/JS, differences between on-prem & cloud, along with some gotchas and tips & tricks. Thomas Daly SharePoint Developer B&R Business Solutions Create Tailored Search Results through Customized Display Templates Level: 100 Track: Developer SharePoint’s Search infrastructure has become an important tool for content discovery and delivery supporting not only ad-hoc queries, but also rich dynamic content throughout your system. SharePoint 2013 includes the capability to customize how the results are rendered for the user using a feature called Display Templates. This session will provide a solid overview of how SharePoint 2013’s Display Templates work and how they are used by the search web parts to display content to the user. We will dig into the details of how to extend and customize them to provide tailored search results in a format your users will love. The information learned in this session can help you with everything from minor tweaks of the search result format to full on search driven applications. Mike Oryszak Sr Solution Architect B&R Business Solutions PowerPivot Service: Demystified Level: 300 Track: IT-Pro Ever wonder what the SharePoint PowerPivot Service is, how does it work on SharePoint, how to property configure it, is dedicated server needed, what is the PowerPivot Service Dashboard, or what are the differences between Excel pivot table and PowerPivot? The session will answer many of the lingering questions you may have on SharePoint 2013 PowerPivot service. In this session, we will cover the concepts of PowerPivot, the software architecture of PowerPivot Service, configuration of the PowerPivot Service including data refresh and authentication options, capacity planning for PowerPivot Service, and common problems with PowerPivot Service. Charlie Chirapuntu Senior Consultant Microsoft Ask your Fabian if SharePoint Hybrid is right for you Level: 200 Track: IT PRO, Developer, Business With SharePoint Server 2013 with Service Pack 1 and SharePoint Online it provides this vital goal of serving up content and managing the end user experience seamlessly through its Hybrid topology. This session provides an overview of all three Hybrid Models with an emphasis on following technologies, Search, BCS, Duet. Whether it's having your data discoverable on premises and in the cloud through Search, accessing on-premises line-of-business application data through BCS, we all understand that the seamless presentation of that data through SharePoint provides instantaneous meaning and empowers us to take swifter actions and make better decisions. Fabian Williams SharePoint Architect Adotob Correlation or Bust? Admins guide to fix the toughest problems! Level: 200 Track: IT-Pro So we all have seen a Correlation ID or some other sort of error message as a Power User, Administrator, Business Analyst so where do we go now? We will give tips, hints, tools and other information on how to resolve common issues with SharePoint 2010, 2013 and Server Side Issues. How to Resolve these common issues? IIS Settings and Configurations and much much more. Tools too help you do your job more effectively! Toby McGrail Senior SharePoint consultant HP Enterprise Services @sptoby1 H278 Getting Started with Office 365 Level: 100 Track: IT-Pro, End-User, Business So your business is getting rid of its old e-mail provider and wants to move their local SharePoint to the cloud and they’ve asked you to investigate this “Office 365 thing”. You’re left with a few questions quickly realize there’s more to it than you anticipated. No worries mate, we’ve got you covered. In this session we’ll run through the basics of Office 365, what it means to you from a licensing perspective, for an end user perspective, from a service description perspective and most importantly how to provision a tenant, setup user accounts and setup your DNS entries so that you can start collaborating using SharePoint. We’ll finish this session up with planning for considerations for more advanced topics around directory synchronization and federation. Dan Usher Lead Associate Booz Allen Hamilton Scott Hoag Senior Systems Engineer AIS Office 365 and Cloud Identity - What Does It Mean for Me? Level: 100 Track: IT-Pro, Business Office 365 brings a host of productivity options, but one of the most overlooked components is how we'll authenticate to the Cloud. With Azure Active Directory (AAD) driving access and authentication to our Office 365 tenants, it is important to understand how we can interact with it. Join us as we explore Cloud Identity, Identity Federation, Directory Synchronization and most importantly Azure and its impacts on user experience and access of Office 365. Throughout this session, we'll answer the questions that impact you and how your decisions around identity shape your Office 365 experiences. Dan Usher Lead Associate Booz Allen Hamilton Scott Hoag Senior Systems Engineer AIS Office 365 and Hybrid Solutions... what works for my organization? Level: 100 Track: IT-Pro, Business Microsoft Office 365 leveraging SharePoint 2013 and integrated capability sets provide for globally distributed workforces with the simple ease of administrative oversight and application development without all the mess of setting up servers, maintaining patches and being concerned with disaster recovery plans. While Office 365 is a great platform to utilize, moving an entire IT infrastructure may not always be the best approach for some organizations. In this session we'll discuss the various aspects of why an organization may wish to stay in a hybrid solution with both on-premises and cloud hosted solutions that are integrated with one another. Further, migration tips and tricks, planning techniques and processes will be discussed. Dan Usher Lead Associate Booz Allen Hamilton Scott Hoag Senior Systems Engineer AIS To the Cloud! Using IaaS as a Hosting Provider for SharePoint Level: 100 Track: IT-Pro, Business To the cloud! This phrase seems to come up more and more often for organizations looking to reduce their SharePoint footprint and operational expenses in their on premise data centers. In this session Dan will give a brief overview of a few of the premier Infrastructure as a Service hosting providers for SharePoint, how SharePoint in the cloud stacks up against Office 365 and how to quickly get your SharePoint system built in a repeatable fashion for development environments. Attendees will have a better understanding of core Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers. Attendees will understand the complexities of what is involved with implementing SharePoint in a cloud hosted environment. Attendees will see SharePoint what some of the nuances and workarounds are for hosting SharePoint in the cloud. Dan Usher Lead Associate Booz Allen Hamilton Scott Hoag Senior Systems Engineer AIS SharePoint and the Mystical OneDrive for Business Level: 100 Track: IT-Pro, End-User, Business Security, accessibility and availability are three keys to ensuring information workers success when they go mobile. In the 2013 release of SharePoint, SkyDrive Pro was bestowed upon end users, providing information workers with a new tool to better synchronize data before they hit the road. With Service Pack 1 being released, the name was changed to protect the innocent, to OneDrive for Business. Microsoft continues to press forward, providing innovative solutions to meeting the core needs of information workers. In this session we'll cover the basics of OneDrive for Business, how it stacks up when hosted on-premise vice in the cloud as well as how it stacks up against other service providers. Further, we'll show some of the benefits of using it as an integrated collaboration suite for small organizations that may not need all of the capabilities of SharePoint. Dan Usher Lead Associate Booz Allen Hamilton Scott Hoag Senior Systems Engineer AIS Theater The Lost Art of Mind Mapping: Using Mind Mapping for SharePoint Content Planning Level: 100 Track: Business Mind Mapping can be used in such a variety of ways, from facilitation of a brainstorming session to defining the information architecture of SharePoint implementations. While many people have heard of this technique, few have used it for little more than taking notes or brainstorming. We will explore this technique from it's origins to creating mind maps of your own. Learn how to use this technique to guide your architecture decisions and taxonomies.y. We'll show you several real-world examples that were used to guide SharePoint implementations. While this versatile technique can be done on paper or on a whiteboard, there are also apps to use for creation of your artwork. We'll discussion different applications and the pros and cons of some of the big ones in the market. Maggie Swearingen Sr. Manager and Experience Architect Protiviti @mswearingen Liz Sundet Applications Architect OneNeck IT Solutions Careers in SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Level: 200 Track: IT-Pro, Developer, End-User, Business As with any career that you may choose, seeing someone perform the job and experiencing it yourself before you decide to invest in learning it is very important. We will do a "round the world" review of how the job market is changing and new skills you will need in the next few years for onpremise SharePoint, O365 and Azure. We will also look at some quick samples of what each job position might be like day-to-day, discuss the current SharePoint job market and the skills currently needed to move into any of these job roles. Matthew Bailey SharePoint Technical Manager SPEasyForms - No Code SharePoint Form Customizations (and it's free!) Level: 100 Track: End-User, Business SPEasyForms is an easy to use tool (published on CodePlex) for the customization of SharePoint new, edit and display forms through a list settings page. No code is required. Just deploy the solution to your site collection, go to a list settings page, and configure through the drag and drop GUI tool. With the SPEasyForms GUI, you can configure: *Tabs *Accordions *Columns - the ability to put fields into 2 or more columns instead of one per row *Conditional Visibility - control when a column is visible based on the SharePoint group membership of the current user and/or the current value of another field in the form *Cascading Look Ups And more... In this sessions, you'll learn how to install and use SPEasyForms to quickly customize out of the box SharePoint forms with absolutely no code. Scott Shearer SharePoint Evangelist Haystax Technology Real World SharePoint 2013 Implementation Level: 400 Track: IT-Pro In this session you will learn about how to architect a SharePoint 2013 farm, taking into consideration licenses, virtualization, high availability, disaster recover, Office Web Application (WAC) server, and Workflow Manager. You will also learn about high availability and disaster recovery from a SQL perspective, when we learn about SQL Always-On synchronization of databases. Patrick Curran Director, SharePoint Architect Planet Technologies Features that Improve SharePoint’s User Adoption Level: 100 Track: End-User This session will show you how to use out of the box features in SharePoint 2010 / 2013 and SharePoint Online to make the transition into SharePoint easier for end users. Patrick Curran Director, SharePoint Architect Planet Technologies