The Intrazone, episode 24: “Microsoft Events 2019 – Register Today!”

Microsoft

Feb 05, 2019

This episode turns up the volume on two heartbeats of the SharePoint community – the Ignite and SharePoint Conference (SPC) events. There is so much content and value at these events, we thought it would be helpful to hear from the event owners on why it’s worth your time and investment. Special guests include Jeff Medford, Director of Product Marketing for Microsoft 365 (Ignite), and Bill Baer, SharePoint Senior Product Marketing Manager (SPC). Chris and I chat with Jeff and Bill to get their inside-events scoop – to bring to light work behind the scenes, planning, purpose, audience goals, engagement highlights – and SWAG.

This is THE EVENTS episode. Go to one, two, four, seven of them – so many to choose from; have a listen and hope to see you at one (or many) in-person throughout 2019!

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Left to right, top to bottom: Jeff Medford– director (Microsoft 365/Microsoft) [guest], Bill Baer – senior product manager (SharePoint/Microsoft) [guest], Chris McNulty – senior product manager (SharePoint/Microsoft) [co-host], and Mark Kashman – senior product manager (SharePoint/Microsoft) [co-host].

Two bonus Intrazone giveaways – enter for your chance to win [UPDATE: winners have been announced]

GIVEAWAY #1: SharePoint spaces drone

WINNER = Petr Stepka (his winning guess tweet is within the link for his name)

Chris McNulty and Bill Baer have been to few/many/tons of events throughout their career – and they’ve immortalized this fact with office walls full of conference badges (see image below). Now guess how many they have been to combined. Tweet us your guess (a number) to @SharePoint and use the hashtag #BillChrisBadges. If you guess right – you could win a SharePoint spaces drone. Closest guess wins. And in the event of a tie – we may give more than one drone away, and/or use an unbiased AI to help select among the tie group. Turns out you do need them stinkin’ badges! 😊

Guess how many conference badges are hanging in Bill Baer and Chris McNulty's office (the combined number).

GIVEAWAY #2: FREE, full conference pass to SharePoint Conference 2019 (SPC19)

WINNER = Mike Hatheway (his winning submission tweet is within the link for his name)

Tweet us a picture of you with ALL your conference badges (and/or SWAG) displayed in the most creative way you can imagine – showcasing all the events that you've been to, even if it's just one or many, whatever that number is, just do it in a creative way. Send it to us via Twitter @SharePoint so that we can see the image and use the hashtag #SPC19PassGiveaway. We’ll choose the most creative one from all submissions AND announce the winner this Friday (Feb.8) at 5pm PT. Good luck.

Mark Kashman showing all his conference badges from over the years. Send us your creative display of your conference badges or SWAG to enter the SPC19 full conference pass giveaway.

And now, look for a few discount codes listed below among the list of links; next to the corresponding event that we have discount offers we can pass along to you …

Link to people, articles and resources mentioned in this episode

The Intrazone Audience Survey
SharePoint Conference 2019 Discount Registration Codes ($50 off registration fee); pick the speaker that you're most excited to see, use that code when you register to save yourself money and give them kudos to let them know you’re interested in what they're doing at #SPC19.
"The Story of SPC" – a history blog by Bill Baer
Microsoft Ignite | The Tour (various cities worldwide throughout 2019)
SharePoint Conference North America, May 21-23, 2019, Las Vegas, NV; use one of these speaker codes to get $50 off your registration fee; pick the speaker that you're most excited to see, use that code when you register to save yourself money and give them kudos to let them know you’re interested in what they're doing at #SPC19.
SPS Events, Twitter @SPS_Events (various cities worldwide throughout 2019)
SharePoint FestWashington, D.C. April 29 - May 3, 2019, Twitter @SharePointFest
SPTechCon, Austin, TX, February 10-13, 2019
North American Collaboration Summit, Branson, MO, March 14-15, 2019
AIIM Conference, San Diego, CA, March 26-28, 2019 – reg code “MICROSOFT” gets you $100 off.
European Collaboration Summit, Wiesbaden, Germany, May 27-29, 2019
Microsoft Business Applications Summit, Atlanta, GA, June 10-11, 2019
ESPC, European SharePoint Conference, Office 365 & Azure Conference - December 2-5, 2019, Prague, Czech Republic
Microsoft Build 2019, Seattle, WA
Microsoft Demos
Microsoft Tech Community; Microsoft Tech Community – events
SharePoint Twitter @SharePoint
Mark Kashman Twitter @mkashman
Chris McNulty Twitter @cmcnulty2000
Jeff Medford, Twitter @medford
Bill Baer Twitter @williambaer

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