Riyadh SharePoint User Group will be organizing their next User Group event to be held on February 18, 2009 at the Microsoft Innovation Center, Alyamama University, Riyadh. The event will provide deep knowledge about SharePoint 2010, Administration, Development and Upgrade while providing live demos. This event will also give you quick “how to do” with SharePoint Lists and using Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010.

Why should you attend the event?

• If you are eager to learn and get ready for SharePoint 2010
• You want to win Windows 7 Ultimate
• You want to have chance to Win XBOX 360
• A Chance to Win 400 GB USB Hard Drive Include SharePoint 2007 and 2010 All Software Virtual PC and HyperV Images
• Cool Give Ways including Books, USBs, Reading Material etc.
• Chance to ask questions and get answers to your problems.
• Get SharePoint 2010 All Software Hyper V Image. (Bring your USB Disk with around 15 GB Size)

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On January 23rd, SharePoint Saturday will be held for the first time online in EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) region. It will be a complete online Sharepoint Conference, covering different topics in different timezones. SharePoint Saturday EMEA is a loosely knit group of SharePoint evangelists from around the world. Some of the featured MVPs are

• Ágnes Molnár (Hungary)
• Claudio Brotto (Italy)
• Jan Tielens (Belgium)
• Marwan Tarek (Egypt)
• Mostafa Elzoghbi (USA)
• Muhanad Omar (Jordan)
• Nicolas Georgeault (France)
• Steve Smith (United Kingdom)
• Zlatan Dzinic (South Africa)

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GDC’09 has been concluded few weeks back in Riyadh where it has been attended by over 3,200 technical professionals. Some attendees came from different regions of Saudi Arabia and from neighboring Gulf countries. GDC’09 has been sponsored by top technical solution and service providers like SSS IT, Link.NET, Nesma, Sure Technologies, New Horizons, Zidny, ExecuTrain. It was also been sponsored by Nas Air (regional airline) and Jarir Bookstore (largest retailer in Saudi). A full team of researchers from one of the top universities in Saudi (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals) have attended the event to showcase one of the most famous solutions on Windows Mobile.

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RSUG

http://www.sharepointgroups.org/rsug/default.aspx

RSUG is the primary SharePoint user group in Saudi Arabia. It consists of a set of great technical consultants from different well known partners in the industry.

• International Associations: ISPA, INETA, CULMINIS
• Community lead: Jerry Yasir

VirManSec

http://www.virmansec.com/

IT Professional community that consists of strong potential IT Pros and technical experts who are working for top Microsoft partners in the areas of virtualization, security and system management (Windows Server technologies).

• International Associations: CULMINIS
• Community Lead: Asem Hourani (https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=A7574DBE-B82B-48C4-A51D-3E52B5B521C7)

DevLifeStyle

http://www.devlifestyle.net/

Devlifestyle community is the second oldest community in Saudi that is lead by a number of great technical experts in the areas of .NET development, SQL Server BI, and BizTalk technologies.

• International Associations: INETA , CULMINIS
• Community Lead: Mohamad Halabi

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Gulf Developer Conference was the biggest developer event that took place in Saudi Arabia. This was a 3-days conference that attracted more than 2,400 attendees from Saudi Arabia and near-by Gulf countries. The conference was held at Al-Yamamah University, on the same premise of the new Microsoft Innovation Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Now we are looking forward for TechEd Middle East. Do register between Tuesday, December 01, 2009 to Sunday, December 27, 2009 to avail Super Early Bird Offer which entitles you to a $230 discount off the regular price. Here are some pictures from the Gulf Developers Conference.

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