European SharePoint Conference 2011 – Berlin – Evening 2

Last evening I went back to the hotel room – the first night of
the conference – and was on email and calls all night – no
surprises there! But on the second night I decided to finish work
at 7:30pm and join the conference festivities. This was a good
call!

There was a conference sit-down dinner – not that usual at a
conference – certainly not at a US conference – more a European
thing. Wonderful food. Superb wine. Great service. Very nice live
music – a 3 piece ensemble. At dinner I sat at a table where I knew
no one – and of course in a few minutes the connections were made.
I sat with some folks from AI – a new records management ISV for
SharePoint – with many of the folks who were originally in Meridio
(that was sold to Autonomy – and as you may know Autonomy was sold
to HP very recently). A very nice setting to relax and to get to
know new people. Lots of praise for the conference organizing team
on the week thus far.

At dinner there were two announcements:

•The 2012 European SharePoint conference will be the first week
of December (3 weeks after the world wide SharePoint conference)
and a vote was taken on 3 options – Paris, Barcelona or
Copenhagen.
•The 2012 European SharePoint Community Awards was announced –
with entries now open in 4 categories
◦Most innovative SharePoint cloud Solution
◦Best SharePoint Intranet Solution
◦Best SharePoint Public Website
◦Best SharePoint Social Strategy
Then of course to the bar! Only to be social of course! Lots
more fun. Lots of great discussions about all sorts of topics –
including but not limited to SharePoint! I left very late and the
party was still in full swing. Where do people get the energy!? A
new beer also – “Berlin Weiss mit grun” – I will let you look that
one up yourself

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