and having mentioned SMB Summit, here's some info on the upcoming SMB Nation East conference (Mar 29-30th in the NYC area)
Many of you are already familiar with Harry Brelsford's SMB Nation events. These are now held several times a year, typically the West (main one) is held in Redmond in the Sep-Oct time frame, but as you figured out by now, he's added an East Coast version of the conference.
SMB Nation East Information(Click this link to register) is a two-day conference dedicated to topics of interest to SMB channel partners, Small Business Specialists, VARs\VAPs, resellers and consultants. The multi-disciplinary content is designed to insure a well-rounded weekend of learning for SMB partners. In the NY conference, learning areas include Microsoft Response Point, Business, Technical and Small Business Specialist Community. Over the 2 days there will be 12+ lecture opportunities.
Here's some session highlights:
How to SELL managed services! led by MATT MAKOWICZ (partner and author)
Success Secrets
Web 2.0 for SMBs
Microsoft Response Point Readiness
Telephony and Microsoft Response Point Deep Dive
Microsoft Response Point Hands-On Lab(s)
Virtualization solutions and business opportunities
Cougar, Home Server and Windows Essentials Business Server FIRST LOOK! led by a Microsoft Windows Server development team product manager.
Unified Communication Server led by STEPHEN DEMING (Microsoft TS2 team!)
Click the link above to go direct to registration, or click the link below to go to the conference home page to find out more (including complete descriptions of all the sessions):
http://www.smbnation.com/products_listpage.asp?Category=Events&Category2=SMB~Nation~East~(NYC~area)