Conference Presentations
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Michael is a well-regarded conference speaker, who gets top marks from audiences for his engaging and dynamic presentations. Some of Michael's conference presentations are noted below.
To contact Michael about speaking at your event, please get in touch.
Upcoming Presentations
March 2009
BrightStar Information Management Summit 2009 (Wellington, New Zealand)
Schedule of Past Presentations
September 2008
KMWorld & Intranets 2008 (San Jose, CA)
- SharePoint as a Collaboration Tool: An Independent Evaluation
August 2008
BrightStar 8th Annual Strategic Intranet Summit (Wellington, New Zealand)
- The Future of Collaborative Work
Xythos Software Webinar
- Is Green the new Black?
July 2008
Open Publish (Sydney, Australia)
- Pre-Conference Tutorial, SharePoint for Collaboration: An Independent Evaluation
- Keynote Presentation, "We're Catching Up"
NSW Knowledge Management Roundtable (Sydney, Australia)
- Working with People You Can't Be With
Melbourne KMLF, VIC Knowledge Management Roundtable and VPSCIN (Melbourne, Australia)
- Let's Have a Talk about Collaboration
April 2008
Intergen Twilight Seminar (Wellington, New Zealand)
- SharePoint for Collaboration
BrightStar's 6th Annual Information Summit (Wellington, New Zealand)
- The Key to Collaboration without Chaos
Victoria Information Technology Teachers Association (Melbourne, Australia)
- Supporting Virtual Teams through Technology Workshop
Intranet Leadership Forum (Australia)
- SharePoint Workshop in Sydney
- SharePoint Workshop in Canberra
March 2008
Christchurch SharePoint User Group (Christchurch, New Zealand)
- Evaluating SharePoint for Collaboration
2007
(August) BrightStar's Intranets and Portal Management Summit 2007, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Sever 2007 and Other Collaborative Tools - The Future of Intranets? (Auckland, New Zealand)
(June) CMP Media's Enterprise 2.0 Conference, LaunchPad 2007 (Boston MA)
(June) CMP Media's Enterprise 2.0 Conference, IT Manager 2.0: Pre-Conference Tutorial (Boston MA)
2006
(November) TUANZ Business Internet Conference, Keynote: Let's Get Together: Collaboration in Business, Web 2.0, and What it all means (Wellington, New Zealand)
2005
(June) MediaLive's Collaborative Technologies Conference, 7 Pillars Pre-Conference Tutorial and moderation of various panel discussions (New York NY)
Feedback on Michael's Conference Presentations
Audiences love Michael's presentations and workshops.
Here's what other people have said (and yes, these are direct quotes):
"Great Session. Michael was a good speaker and ran an informative session. What better way to start a conference on collaboration than to run a session where you are encouraged to work in small groups of complete strangers! I enjoyed it and learned a quite a bit. Thanks!""Excellent Session, Great interaction between all."
"Crystalizing!"
"Great open discussions. The collaboration whiteboard to the blog is a great idea."
"Very good facilitator, great environment for facilitating sharing and discovery of challenges/solutions of other companies around collaboration."
"Great Facilitator."
"Great Speaker, good at getting people to talk in groups."
"Good interactive style. Clean themes."
"Ability to write while listening impressive, especially legibly."
"Good presentation style, consistent & logical in his thoughts."
Contact Michael
To contact Michael about speaking at your event, please get in touch.
