Keynote speakers for the Australia SharePoint Conference,  March 20-21 at Melbourne’s Hilton on the Park, will tackle workplace automation and governance in the modern workplace.

The opening session of the event will be a dual presentation from Mike Fitzmaurice (VP of Product Technology for Nintex) and Chris Johnson (GM, Provoke Solutions) exploring the modern workplace and the capabilities of today's technology.

Chris Johnson, (ex Microsoft Redmond SharePoint Product Team) will look at the future for technical roles. What does it look like for IT pros and Developers?  How will you need to change now to meet the future? What do IT managers need to expect and plan for? How does it impact and your organization?
  
Mike Fitzmaurice (also ex Microsoft Redmond) looks at the Business Roles. What does the future Information worker look like? How do they work?  What are the business opportunities? How can we take advantage of technology? What kind of productivity improvements are we headed for and how does our Business Process Management get impacted? What businesses need to do now, to get ready for what is already here and what is to come?
  
Day Two of the Conference will begin with a comprehensive discussion of business and service governance, from SharePoint MVP Dan Holme (AvePoint Chief SharePoint Evangelist).

Informed by his experience with and lessons learned from enterprises around the world. Dan will identify the critical factors for successful governance, including vision, roles & responsibilities, accountability, measurability, process, and iteration. 

Dan aims to provide a framework with which to translate requirements to design, guidance for avoiding requirement gathering spin-cycles, and an understanding of the strategic, cultural and procedural components of a successful SharePoint implementation.

The FULL Agenda has now been published. See here.