Agenda

The agenda is subject to change and was last modified on: Friday, 20 August 2010 (11:17)

Wednesday, 01 Sep 2010 | Thursday, 02 Sep 2010 |

Wednesday, 01 September 2010

Times	Schedule


07:30 - 09:30	Delegate Registration Certified Partners for Learning Solutions Roundtable (By Invitation Only) (CPLS) Sharon Oosterberg \| Session Room 6 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate

10:00 - 12:00	Opening Keynote - The World of Infinite Possibilities - Africa 2010. (KY101) Mteto Nyati & Austen Mulinder \| Session Room 1 \| Level: 100 - Overview

12:00 - 13:00	Lunch

13:00 - 13:45 ^{Wed, 01 Sep 2010}	The African IT Market into 2015 (IP201) Kelvin Ho & Mark Walker IDC MEA \| Session Room 1 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Microsoft Partner Network - what's in it for you? (including partner capacity discussion) (GP201) Jenny Prospero & Phil Putzel \| Session Room 2 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Virtualised infrastructure impact on the bottom line (VMWare compete) (SP201) Riedwaan Bassadien \| Session Room 3 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Microsoft 101 - the inside story on the sales cycle (SM201) Fred Baumhardt \| Session Room 4 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Microsoft Product Roadmap including Windows Mobile (SV201) Desmond Nair & Colin Erasmus & Albie Bester & Mark Reynolds & Nkosi Kumalo \| Session Room 5 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Nashua Mobile Presentation (SS101) Tim Walter General Manager Marketing \| Session Room 6 \| Level: 100 - Overview Banking on the future: Financial Services Industry (VS201) James Minett \| Session Room 7 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Maturing as an ISV - improve your strategy (whiteboard session) (GD201) Clifford de Wit \| Session Room 8 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate

13:45 - 14:00	Transition Time

14:00 - 14:45 ^{Wed, 01 Sep 2010}	Wave 14 launch and OpenOffice/Google Apps compete (GG201) Danie Gordon & Michael O'Donovan \| Session Room 1 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Cloud : the latest battlezone. A battlecard for your business (GP202) Albie Bester & Mweb \| Session Room 2 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Sustainable IT is saving millions (SP202) Warren Johnson \| Session Room 3 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Marketing strategy and campaigns for the year ahead (SM202) Tlalane Tshabalala \| Session Room 4 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Dynamic Data Centres - private cloud provision (SV202) Keevan Chun & Riedwaan Bassadien \| Session Room 5 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Expanding your business into Africa (GD202) Rizwan Tufail & Louis Otieno & Pierre Nel \| Session Room 8 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate

14:00 - 16:00	Public Sector Cluster solutions: Justice, Security, Health & Education (VS202) Kabelo Makwane \| Session Room 7 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate

14:45 - 15:15	Refreshment Break

15:15 - 16:00 ^{Wed, 01 Sep 2010}	Creating a new practice and competency in your business (GP203) Albi Breen & Colin Erasmus \| Session Room 1 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Dynamics Strategies for FY11 (DY201) Mark Reynolds & Exordia (Inner Circle Winner) \| Session Room 2 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Deployment is nothing without adoption (SP203) Rory Headon-Weeks & K2 \| Session Room 3 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Introduction and Overview of the current hardware market in South Africa (SM203) Francois Rey & Tracy Bolton \| Session Room 4 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Securing your customer's infrastructure (SV203) Stephen Cakebread & Riedwaan Bassadien \| Session Room 5 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Cloud Computing: A roadmap for new hosting partners (Roundtable) (GD203) Albie Bester & Firstech & Mweb & Exordia \| Session Room 8 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate

16:00 - 16:15	Transition Time

16:15 - 17:00 ^{Wed, 01 Sep 2010}	Uncovering the Opportunity in Small to Medium Public Sector Accounts (GG202) Dan Mannion & Kerushan Govender \| Session Room 1 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Reaching out to the Mid Market in SMS&P (GP204) Mark Reynolds \| Session Room 2 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Migrating customers from client through platform to the cloud (SP204) Albie Bester & Nick Keene \| Session Room 3 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate OEM Marketing Campaigns in the year ahead (SM204) Shandu Davhana & Nina Pretorius & Tracy Bolton \| Session Room 4 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Azure and BPOS into Africa - why the Microsoft offering is different (SV204) Clifford de Wit \| Session Room 5 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Building up the stack - the platform approach (SV205) Desmond Nair & Riedwaan Bassadien & Frikkie Bosch \| Session Room 7 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Sustainable IT projects (GD204) Warren Johnson \| Session Room 8 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate

17:00 - 18:30	Leisure

18:30 - 23:00	Welcome Cocktail with Gijima

Thursday, 02 September 2010

Times	Schedule


09:30 - 11:00	The Changing Face of Business - how collaboration requirements and social computing are changing business (KY102) Arthur Goldstuck & Rory Headon-Weeks \| Session Room 1 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate

11:00 - 11:30	Refreshment Break

11:30 - 12:15 ^{Thu, 02 Sep 2010}	To Delight Customers & beyond - Key to Success (IP202) Leane Hannigan & Aki Kalliatakis \| Session Room 1 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Driving Business Together with Microsoft Application Platform (GP205) Desmond Nair & Frikkie Bosch \| Session Room 2 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Unified Communications - the next wave (SP205) Danie Gordon \| Session Room 3 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate So you thought Microsoft was getting tired? Everything cool about Microsoft (SV206) Colin Erasmus \| Session Room 4 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Software Asset Management: “Minding the Gap” by driving the maturity of SAM (SM205) Madelein Jacobs & Monique Ferreira \| Session Room 5 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Workgroup Session (SS102) Shaun Quin & Paul van Niekerk \| Session Room 6 \| Level: 100 - Overview Telcos & Hosting - will cloud host the next frontier? (VS203) Anthony Doherty \| Session Room 7 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Microsoft 101 for Africa - navigating relationships across the continent (GD205) Rizwan Tufail & Louis Otieno & Pierre Nel \| Session Room 8 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate

12:15 - 12:30	Transition Time

12:30 - 13:15 ^{Thu, 02 Sep 2010}	Doing business in Africa - a Microsoft perspective (GP207) Hennie Loubser & Regional GM Microsoft WECA IOI \| Session Room 1 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate The Next Generation Desktop (GP206) Colin Erasmus \| Session Room 2 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate CRM through the eyes of the customer (DY202) Sun International & Wynand Roos \| Session Room 3 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Accurate and Accessible Business Intelligence (SV207) Markus Hain \| Session Room 4 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate The SAM Subway to Success (SM206) Madelein Jacobs & Monique Ferreira \| Session Room 5 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate User experience 101 for Microsoft Partners (SM208) Kath Roderick \| Session Room 7 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Microsoft Partner Network (GD206) Jenny Prospero & Phil Putzel \| Session Room 8 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate

13:15 - 14:15	Lunch

14:15 - 15:00 ^{Thu, 02 Sep 2010}	Building and retaining skills for the future – challenges and opportunities for our businesses (IP203) Ranjit Rajan IDC MEA \| Session Room 1 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Moving through the world of Mobile (GP208) Nkosi Kumalo & John Press & Nashua Mobile \| Session Room 2 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate What makes a successful partnership? (Customer panel discussion) (SP205) Microsoft Customers & Fred Baumhardt \| Session Room 3 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Dynamics in a nutshell - products and opportunities (DY203) Vanessa Pringle \| Session Room 4 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate How to capture the small business market – big business solutions for small business customers (SM207) Mike Anderson SBDC & Wayne Pienaar SMB&D Lead \| Session Room 5 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate SA Outsourcing (SS103) Pedro Vuidez CEO \| Session Room 6 \| Level: 100 - Overview Consumer & Online Organisation – Always’ On! (SV208) Nazeer Suliman \| Session Room 7 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate Communications Sector Partnering Strategy Roundtable (GD 207) Anthony Doherty \| Session Room 8 \| Level: 200 - Intermediate

15:00 - 15:30	Refreshment Break

15:30 - 17:00	Closing Keynote: The Infinite Possibilities that Africa Holds (KY103) Kingsley Holgate & Hennie Loubser \| Session Room 1 \| Level: 100 - Overview

17:00 - 19:30	Leisure

19:30 - 00:00	Partner Awards Dinner

23:45 - 03:00	Workgroup After Party