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 Featured Speakers
Murray Vince, General Manager, OEM Embedded, Field & Server Partners, MicrosoftJohn Coyne, Partner Technology Manager, MicrosoftCaleb Jenkins, Principal Mentor, Proaction Mentors
Bob Gowdy, Microsoft Enterprise Strategy Executive, MicrosoftChris Koenig, Developer Evangelist, MicrosoftChris Miller, SQL Server Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft
Colin Page, Premier Field Engineer, MicrosoftDavid Parker, Senior Technical Accout Manager, MicrosoftForrest Dermid, Senior BI Technology Specialist, Microsoft
Jason Cornellier, Senior Consultant, MicrosoftJeff Brand, Developer Evangelist, MicrosoftJohn Weston, DPE IT PRO Evangelist, Microsoft
Keith Nicholson, Application Development Consultant, MicrosoftLisa Palmer, Enterprise Account Executive, MicrosoftPhilip Buelow, Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft
Rod Fournier, Senior Premier Field Engineer, MicrosoftSara Summers, User Experience Evangelist, MicrosoftDavid Walker, Senior Application Development Manager (ADM), Microsoft
Chris Patterson, Software Architect, Microsoft MVP, RelayHealthCorey Roth, Microsoft MVP - SharePoint, Enterprise Consultant, StonebridgeJason Ragsdale, Sr. Engineer, Yahoo!
Jay Smith, PMO Architect and Evangelist, Microsoft MVP, Tyson Foods, Inc.Shawn Weisfeld, Microsoft MVP - C#, INETASteve Andrews, Developer Evangelist, ALM MVP and INETA speaker, DevExpress
Tom DuPont, Vice President, CodeSmith Tools, LLCGlenn Jones, Assistant Professor, Tulsa Community CollegeJeff Bramwell, Lead Developer, Farm Credit Services of America
Juanita Woods, Project Management Consultant and Trainer, Pro3 SolutionsKristin Ferrier, President, OKC SQL Developers GroupMatt Peters, Domain Application Lead, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group
Randy Walker, INETA Membership Mentor, Microsoft MVP, Owner, Harvest I.T.Rich Dudley, Technical Evangelist, ComponentOneRob Sullivan, Vice President, OKC SQL Developers Group
Ryan Hoegg, ConsultantSeth Juarez, Technical Evangelist, DevExpressTommy Falgout, Sr. Software Developer, Yahoo!
Jo Lea Anderson, Project/Program Manager, Scrum Master, Dollar Thrifty Automotive GroupLuke Crouch, Software Engineer, SourceForge.netMark Rackley, Solutions Architect, Juniper Strategy, LLC
Paul Holser, Principal Consultant, Improving EnterprisesTim Elrod, Founder, Ri0tnet SecurityBob Swanston, IT Project/Program Manager, Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group
Buddy Lindsey, Jr., Waterfield TechnologiesCarlos Moreno, Designer, Web Developer, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Oklahoma Performance MagazineChris Conley, CEO, C Solutions, Inc.
David Yancey, Manager Consultant, Sogeti, USADennis Bottjer, Solutions Architect / Consultant, Bank of AmericaEric Price, IT Professional, Your Local Tech Online, LLC
Faiz Farazi, Microsoft SQL Server Support Engineer, Tyson Foods, Inc.Gae Hill, Adjunct Professor, Tulsa Community CollegeGeoffrey Simpson, Co-Founder and Chief Software Architect, Moxie Software
Jennifer Marriott, Owner, Author, Marpo MultimediaJon Parker, Systems Engineer, Walmart, Inc.JP Jones, Creative Director, Designer, Author, Teacher, Owner of Paige1Publishing, Co-Owner of Collipsis Web Solutions, LLC.
Kari Mirabal, Career Advisor/IT Recruiting Services, CSI OklahomaMatt Galloway, Chief Technologist & Founder, Architactile LLCNarendra Shrivastava, PMP, Vice President, IIS Inc
Russ Wagner, Director - Enterprise Architecture, Farm Credit Services of AmericaSaif Khan, Freelance Designer / Consultant, Founder of OKGamers.comSarah Daigle Scott, @TechTeacherGirl, Sass Interactive

 Bio
Lisa Palmer, Enterprise Account Executive, Microsoft

Lisa Palmer, Enterprise Account Executive, Microsoft

Education: MBA - Southern Nazarene UniversityBT Engineering - Colorado School of Mines / Rogers State UniversityPositions:The State Chamber of Oklahoma Board of DirectorsTulsa Area United Way Division ChairRogers State University Technology Advisory CouncilTulsa Community College IT Advisory Council / IT Instructor / Curriculum DevelopmentSouthern Nazarene University Professor Ethics / Organizational Behavior
Lisa Palmer joined Microsoft in January 2006 as an Enterprise Account Executive. In this capacity, she has the opportunity to impact the technology strategy of Tulsa and Oklahoma City corporate clients including: Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Bank of Oklahoma, ONEOK, Express Professional Services, Samson Investment Company, Tronox, and Saint John Medical Center.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Lisa spent 12 years in the energy and communications arenas with her most recent period as Director, Client Infrastructure at ConocoPhillips. Throughout her tenure, she has led teams in: IT, Sales Engineering, Project Management, Process and Productivity Elevation, and Customer Relations. The consistent thread throughout her career has been a passion for positively impacting customer bottom line performance and improving employee / constituent quality of life!
Away from work, Lisa enjoys spending time with her husband, Gary, and their 4 children: Madison, 15, Dakota, 14, Seth, 13, and Braden, 8. Their family enjoys sports, music, and outdoor activities. In those precious leftover moments, Lisa relishes her opportunities to feed her passion for education through teaching and providing technical guidance and hands-on support for the children and teachers at Saint Catherine School.

 Sessions

Microsoft Small Business Offerings with Social Media: Low Cost Solution for Business Growth!

Are you an entrepreneur or have a small/midsize business? Come and let me demonstrate some of the incredible free tools that Microsoft offers and how to couple them with social media to drive revenue! Leveraging free Microsoft offerings, businesses merely need an internet connection to become fully functional. Large portions, if not all, of your core business can be managed online. Using cloud computing in this manner eliminates the IT infrastructure challenges that most small businesses are ill-prepared to address. Further, these offerings are now even more exciting as Microsoft Web Applications (i.e. online Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote) are available.

Why do you care about social media?

* Facebook - 124M Unique Visitors / +202% Y/Y Growth

* YouTube - 84M Unique Visitors / +34% Y/Y Growth

* Twitter - 26M Unique Visitors / +660% Y/Y Growth

* LinkedIn - 15M Unique Visitors / +85% Y/Y Growth

* Number 1 activity on the web: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8

* This is amazing when compared with 304M Population of the United States!

How can you access all of these online customers?

Microsoft Office Live Small Business

* Free hosted websites for small businesses (500 MB storage - I have a site with 55+ pages that is only using 5MB!)

* Imagine a start-up business paying only $14.99/year for a fully functional and very easy to update website!

* I have personally created websites for small businesses in less than 5 hours. They are literally online within 1 day!

* 100 Free email addresses with a custom domain name

* Free online document storage and sharing - collaborate online w/customers/partners/employees!

* Free Contact Manager - manage sales opportunities, contact information, and track customer interactions

* Free Technical Support

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DevExpress engineers feature-complete Presentation Components, Reporting Systems, IDE Productivity Tools and Business Application Frameworks for Visual Studio .NET. Our technologies help you build your best, see complex software with greater clarity, increase your productivity and create stunning applications for Windows and Web in the shortest possible time.


ConocoPhillips is an international, integrated energy company with operations in more than 0 countries. As the third-largest integrated energy company in the United States and fourth largest refiner in the world, ConocoPhillips' goal is to deliver energy in a safe, environmentally and socially responsible manner. More than 0,000 ConocoPhillips employees work worldwide to consistently deliver top performance and value to maintain the company's global market position. Employees' individual talents and strengths combine to create a diverse and energized work force within ConocoPhillips. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, ConocoPhillips stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol `quotCOP.`quot


ComponentOne is a privately held company headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. As a leading component vendor in the Microsoft Visual Studio Industry Partner program, ComponentOne provides a wide range of Visual Studio components, IDE tools, and Web Parts for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Windows SharePoint Services. For more information, visit www.componentone.com.


Addison Solutions is a leader in information technology consulting and software development. We deliver custom technology solutions which add bottom-line value to the business operations of our clients in the areas of: Microsoft Office SharePoint (MOSS) Development and Deployment, Custom Solutions Development using the Microsoft .NET Platform, Livelink (Open Text ECM Suite) Development and Deployment and GPS, Mapping and Location-based Services. Case Studies and more can be reviewed at www.addisonsolutions.com


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Red Gate Software makes ingeniously simple tools for over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals working with SQL Server, .NET, and Exchange. The company's product line includes tools for comparing, synchronizing, backing up and recovering SQL Server databases understanding and fixing .NET code problems and email archiving for Exchange. www.red-gate.com


Telerik is a leading vendor of development, automated testing, and team productivity tools, as well as UI components and content management solutions for Microsoft .NET. Created with passion, Telerik products help software development teams every day to be more productive and to deliver reliable applications on time and under budget. Telerik was founded in 2002 by a few friends with a simple idea - to `quotdeliver more than expected`quot. Nowadays, a market leader with a team of more than 220 professionals spread around the globe in 5 offices, Telerik is still true to its motto - building outstanding products and serving customers with fanatical dedication.


Apress is a technical publisher devoted to meeting the needs of IT professionals, software developers, and programmers, with more than 700 books in print and a continually expanding portfolio of publications. Apress provides high-quality, no-fluff content in print and electronic formats that help serious technology professionals build a comprehensive pathway to career success.The Apress editorial and production team work hand-in-hand with all authors to ensure that their unique voices come through in each book. We are committed to supporting the ever-growing programming community by taking risks on publishing books in niche and nascent technologies.We are very happy to have Apress sponsor the conference! Please visit Apress.com for to purchase their great titles.


CodeSmith is a software development tool to help you get your job done faster. Technically speaking it is a template driven source code generator that automates the creation of common application source code for any language (C, Java, VB, PHP, ASP.NET, SQL, etc.).CodeSmith includes many useful templates as well as entire sets of templates for generating proven architectures (.netTiers, CSLA, NHibernate, PLINQO, Wilson's ORMapper, APOSA, and more). You can easily modify any templates or write your own to generate your code exactly the way you want it.CodeSmith can help you produce higher-quality, more consistent code in less time. Read More


Complete Spreadsheet, Reporting, Analysis and Business Intelligence Tools for .NET. Founded in 180, GrapeCity is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, a Premier Visual Studio Industry Partner, an international award-winning software firm, and the world?s largest provider of developer components and tools that includes the DataDynamics ActiveReports and FarPoint Spread product lines. Our products are deep in functionality, unleash real business value, and are driven by an unwavering commitment to the highest quality standards. We are a strong organization with over two decades of consistent growth. We have more than 850 employees and tens of thousands of global customers.


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O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 178, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying `quotfaint signals`quot from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme- making, and evangelism. For more information, go to http://oreilly.com


Founded by industry experts in 2001, Syncfusion, Inc. provides the broadest range of enterprise-class software components and tools for the Microsoft .NET platform.With Syncfusion, developers can move beyond simply coding applications to delivering real business innovation ? the elegant user interfaces, business intelligence dashboards, and sophisticated reporting that today's business users need, in the formats they demand. Our award-winning .NET components and controls are designed to meet your evolving development needs, whether you're working in Windows Forms, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, or Silverlight.At Syncfusion, we uncompromisingly strive for excellence in order to offer the very best value to our customers - from small ISVs, to global IT consultancies and Fortune 100 companies.


Wrox Press is driven by the Programmer to Programmer(TM) philosophy. Wrox books are written by programmers for programmers, and the Wrox brand means authoritative solutions to real-world programming problems. Wrox's unique author-editorial process delivers the best and most useful information you need in the timeliest manner. `quotProgrammer to Programmer`quot is not just our slogan it's the way we write our books.


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