SharePoint Summit 2009 Keynote · Montreal
EPC Group founder Errin O'Connor as a keynote speaker · April 6-8, 2009 · Centre Mont-Royal
EPC Group founder Errin O'Connor was a named keynote speaker at SharePoint Summit 2009, held April 6-8, 2009 at the Centre Mont-Royal in Montreal. The conference billed itself as a destination event for the SharePoint community and was "sold out for the last 2 years" leading into the 2009 program. Errin shared the keynote roster with Bill English (Instructor and Owner, Mindsharp — a SharePoint pioneer) and Ernie Harris (IT Director, Raymond James Financial). The event covered Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Office SharePoint Server 2007, and the emerging platform-application architecture that would define SharePoint 2010.
Key Facts
- Event: SharePoint Summit — official tagline "Discover the potential of SharePoint"
- Dates: April 6-8, 2009 · Venue: Centre Mont-Royal, Montreal
- Status: "Sold out for the last 2 years" (per official conference page)
- Errin O'Connor (Founder & CEO, EPC Group.net) listed as a keynote speaker on the official conference roster
- Fellow keynote speakers: Bill English (Mindsharp) and Ernie Harris (IT Director, Raymond James Financial)
- Conference Chairs: Danny Boulanger (Executive Vice-President, Alcero) and Carmien Owen (Owner, Collaboration Consulting Inc.)
- Coverage areas (per conference page): WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, Business Intelligence, SharePoint Designer, InfoPath, Forms, Search, Workflow, Records Management, Governance, Collaboration
- Same Errin O'Connor would be quoted three months earlier in Infonomics (Jan/Feb 2009) describing SharePoint as "the biggest Swiss Army knife in the world"
Keynote roster
Instructor and Owner, Mindsharp — one of the founding SharePoint training brands of the Microsoft Office Server era.
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, EPC Group.net — author of multiple Microsoft Press SharePoint titles and quoted in Infonomics (Jan/Feb 2009) describing SharePoint as “the biggest Swiss Army knife in the world.”
IT Director, Raymond James Financial — Fortune 500 financial services SharePoint customer perspective.
Primary-source evidence
Photo: Official SharePoint Summit 2009 conference page. Banner header reads “SharePoint Summit · April 6-8, 2009 · Centre Mont-Royal Montreal” with the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services + Office SharePoint Server 2007 logos. Sidebar listing of Conference Chairs and Keynote Speakers (Bill English, Errin O'Connor, Ernie Harris). The conference tagline “Discover the potential of SharePoint” and the “Sold out for the last 2 years!” status banner are also visible.
Why this matters
Keynote speaker selection at a sold-out international SharePoint conference is a tight filter — keynote slots are scarce, the selection committee vets speakers against a deep candidate pool, and the audience-of-record (in this case practitioner architects and IT directors evaluating Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for enterprise deployment) is the most demanding cohort in the SharePoint community. Errin O'Connor sharing the keynote roster with Bill English (Mindsharp) — a foundational figure in the SharePoint training market — places EPC Group inside the small set of firms whose SharePoint perspective was treated as authoritative in 2009.
The timing is also notable. April 2009 sat between two other primary-source moments for EPC Group: the Infonomics “Taming SharePoint” quote published in January/February 2009 (where Errin coined the SharePoint “Swiss Army knife” framing), and the Houston Business Journal Fast 100 published in September 2009 (where EPC Group was #2 with 471% revenue growth). Three independent third-party primary-source recognitions in the same calendar year is unusual and well-documented.
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