99.7% there for the ODC Services Track Sessions

I'm waiting on a few updated abstracts and possibly 1 or 2 more sessions and with that said the below list is a solid representation of what sessions will be part of the Services Track. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback regarding the sessions. Many of the speakers listed have blogs and I am going to be updating this post with their links over the next day or so.  

Session Title	Speaker	Abstract
Office Live Small Business 2.0	Rob Barker, Sr. Technical Evangelist, Microsoft	Come find out how to build and deliver your solutions to Small Businesses via Microsoft Office Live Small Business 2.0. Learn how Office Live Small Business uses a combination of software and services to provide a Web presence, business applications, and collaboration capabilities that until now, only large enterprises could take advantage of. In this session learn about the different features that you can take advantage of to build solutions on top of Office Live Small Business. These very solutions become more accessible to small businesses and more profitable to you!
Building Mashups with Office Live Small Business	Robert Green, Architect from MCW Technologies	Do you have, or are you building a web business application that is applicable to small businesses?  Learn how to extend your business application hosted on Office Live Small Business using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007, Silverlight and AJAX. These technologies enable the creation of a new type of  web application, known as a business mashup.
Integrating Line-of-Business Systems with the 2007 Microsoft Office System	Steve Fox, VSTO Program Manager, Microsoft	Office Business Applications (OBAs) use services such as Web services or WCF services to integrate line-of-business (LOB) systems such as SAP and PeopleSoft to either the Office system clients or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). This session focuses on how to create and integrate services with the Office client and MOSS thereby creating end-to-end OBAs that tie LOB business data directly into client or MOSS customizations.
Windows Live Services	Catherine Heller, Sr. Technical Evangelist, Microsoft	Overview of the Windows Live ID service and its usage with Office Live. Give a deep session about other services like Live search for images and virtual earth services. Investigating whether we can have more to show with regards to MOSS and Windows Live.
Building Web-Based Line-of-Business Applications on the Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM Platform	Ben Riga, Sr. Evangelism Manager, Microsoft	In this session, we explore how developing applications on the Microsoft Dynamics Live CRM platform can speed up delivery of applications in the cloud. We look at the basics of the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform and delve into how that extends into the cloud in hosted environments or on the Microsoft hosted Dynamics Live CRM. Finally we look at real-life customer scenarios of loosely coupled systems that extend Microsoft CRM or connect with Microsoft CRM over the cloud.
Integrating Amazon Web Services with Microsoft Office System	Jinesh Varia, Amazon Web Services Evangelist, Amazon	In this session, Jinesh Varia, Evangelist for Amazon web services, will talk about different Amazon Web Services that can be integrated with Microsoft Office System Solutions to ultimately enhance the end-user experience.   Also, Jinesh would love to answer any questions that you may have regarding Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and the newly launched Amazon Flexible Payment Service (Amazon FPS) and demonstrate some of the cool applications that have been built.
Building Enterprise Mashups with Exchange Web Services	David Sterling, Software Design Engineer, Microsoft	Come to this session to learn how you can build mashups using the data in Exchange.  We'll show you what you can do with Exchange Web Services, and some examples - with code - of some examples, like resource schedules, or an interactive organizational chart.  You will also learn how to move your old Exchange applications to the future of Exchange development - Exchange Web Services!
Programming Conferencing Solutions with the Live Meeting Service XML API	John Shriver-Blake, Program Manager, Microsoft	The Live Meeting Service XML APIs provide robust and versatile programmatic access to Live Meeting functionality. The APIs have been leveraged by Microsoft, partners, ISVs and customers to integrate Live Meeting scenarios into a diverse set of applications. In this webcast, you will be introduced to the API library and its capabilities. We will walk through several basic integration scenarios, including scheduling a meeting, launching an ad-hoc meeting, and gathering usage or billing data from the service, and we will discuss additions to the API for the new version of Live Meeting launching this month. We will also provide information on the Live Meeting API beta program currently under way.
Groove 2007: Options for Building Custom Solutions	Matt Shannon, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft	Groove 2007 enables teams to quickly and easily collaborate across geographic, network, and organizational boundaries. This session will explore options for building custom Groove 2007 solutions to support your collaboration needs. Groove & InfoPath Forms, Groove Web Services, and the Groove Server 2007 Data Bridge will be covered, along with examples of Microsoft and partner solutions available today. Session objectives are: 1. Understand why to build custom solutions for Groove 2007. 2. Understand the available technology options. 3. Become familiar with the breadth of solutions that have been built for Groove 2007.
Web Service and SOA in MOSS	Paul Swider from OnClick Solutions.	An enterprise SharePoint developer must know what types of functionality the SharePoint object model provides, in addition a the developer should know what services are exposed through the SharePoint Web Services. Join us for this session and learn how to build sophisticated composite applications on top of the SharePoint platform using SharePoint Web Services and custom web services that demonstrate using the Windows SharePoint Services object model in addition to the Portal Server object model. In addition we'll discuss how MOSS fits into the enterprise SOA model and identify Shared Service components that use SOA tenants. This session will cover the following key SharePoint Web Service development topics: o Document Workspace Web Service o User Profiles Web Service o Web Parts Web Service o Workflow web Service o Imaging Web Service o List Web Service o Meeting Workspace Web Service
Enabling SharePoint to be Geo-Aware	Darrin Bishop	Where is that? Making SharePoint Geo-Aware Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies brought portal and collaboration technologies to the masses. Online maps such as Virtual Earth have brought basic map services to the masses.  But how do you integrate your SharePoint content and applications with maps? SharePoint developers can now provide added visualization  to SharePoint content using  various mapping technologies. In this session we demonstrate some of the SharePoint mapping integration points available to developers allowing Information Workers to easily visualize geo information.
Software-plus-Services Blueprints	Michael Lehman, Sr. Technical Evangelist, Microsoft	The future of application development has moved beyond both the desktop and the web into a complex soup of technologies and opportunities. Microsoft has created a new series of concrete building blocks and frameworks called Microsoft Software-plus-Services Blueprints, open source on which you can build applications and infrastructure.  Michael Lehman, team lead for S+S Blueprints, will present an overview S+S Blueprints and demonstrate using S+S Blueprints in the building of applications using this new technology offering from Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism group.
Building a custom Web service to query the EPM datastore and render the data in Excel 2007	Christophe Fiessinger, Technical Product Manager for Microsoft Project	This session will teach you how to develop a custom Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Web service that queries the Microsoft Project Server database and displays the resulst in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 via an Add-in developed using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.
Implement Business Intelligence with Excel Services	Sonya McNeal from MindSharp	A broad Excel Services components and security model overview of Office SharePoint Server 2007 as a platform to build Business Intelligence solutions that integrates and leverages Office Excel 2007 client as a tool that is heavily used by businesses and customers

-- rob