invite to IT Pro ‘fireside chats’ with Microsoft execs

We recently started running a series of Live Meeting sessions where senior Microsoft executives talk about the areas they are working on and where you get the opportunity to pose questions to them. You can pre-submit your questions when you register or ask them live during the chat. The chats are specifically designed with the user group leader and members in mind, together with other technical community experts. Each is an hour in length, repeated at different times of day so you don’t need to attend at 3:00am just because you don't happen to live in Redmond.

Upcoming events include Microsoft executives from Windows,  Office, Developer Tools, Exchange/OCS, Microsoft Research, Microsoft IT and more. In addition, we'd love to hear from you with suggestions as to who you would to hear from.

If you would like to register for any fire side chat, please go to https://ug.gitca.org/sites/FireSideChats and click on the register link. You can also find the up to date list of Fire Side Chats at the site, as well as a link to a survey so you can give us feedback.

Here are the Fire Side Chats we have scheduled for the remainder of 2009: – these dates are NZ dates, 6PM Seattle time is probably the best time for us in NZ as that makes it currently 3PM NZ time instead of the other time of 5AM!

Dec 2nd
Cloud side chat: Microsoft Online Services and the evolving world of software + services

Dec 4th
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 - Solution Accelerator

Dec 9th
SharePoint 2010 for Developers

Dec 11th
What’s new in Office 2010 and Implications for IT Pro’s

Dec 16th
What’s new in Office 2010 for Developers

Dec 18th
SharePoint 2010 for IT Professionals

Jan 13th
Microsoft IT: Chief Architect and CTO

You can find more details on each of these (and register) at  https://ug.gitca.org/sites/FireSideChats