A Guide for presenters

This page is intended to provide guidelines to Office DevCon presenters, to help them target their audience.

Target audience

Office DevCon is targeted at experienced Office developers and power users - not managers or beginners. The target audience are people who create or maintain business systems for a living, or who use Office System products at a very high level. Although mid-range developers do attend, we are roughly aiming at people just like yourself.

Session content guidelines

Sessions should preferably be 400 level, or higher. Sessions less than 300 level will not be approved.

As our presenters typically have direct access to Microsoft, and therefore have knowledge and experience that is not accessible by the general Office System community, it is this knowledge and experience that you will be imparting (within the constraints of NDA), so your sessions should show the audience how to solve business problems in new, advanced and/or innovative ways.

We want to show the audience how to do things they don't currently know how to do, or didn't know was possible. If you intend to show new features, then show the audience how to use those new features to solve shortcomings in previous versions, or how to solve a business problem.

Give the audience something practical they can take away and apply in their environments.

Notices

This is where I'll put any general non-critical for presenters.

There are no notices at present, but please check back here from time to time.

The venue

As you know, this year's event will be held at the University of Queensland (St. Lucia campus), which is in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

The event will be held over the weekend 31st October-1st November.

We'll have at our disposal, the Abel Smith Lecture Theatre, which is a huge audio-visual lecture theatre, capable of seating 300.

This building also has room in its foyer for sponsor stands, etc.

Next to that, is another building (GP North), in which we'll have 3 other breakout rooms, each capable of seating 60-80 people.

Equipment

The Abel Smith Lecture Theatre is a fully equipped lecture theatre, with audio-visual equipment installed.

The facilities available in the rooms in GP North are unknown at this time, but I will find out and update this page when I do. Please check back here from time to time.

As usual, you will need to provide your own laptop and software.

At this time, I don't know if we can cater to Macintosh.