You can view the keynote of Bill Gates during SharePoint Conference 2008 here.

As provided on Microsoft site:

Live Webcast: Bill Gates Keynote at SharePoint Conference

March 3, 2008

During this keynote presentation, Bill Gates will discuss the industry trends and how Microsoft and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is uniquely positioned to not only address the issues facing organizations today but also serves as the platform that links users to structured and unstructured content.

Heather Solomon had a very informative talk on styling and branding SharePoint. Her two sessions were:

SharePoint Tools for Style: How to Start Branding SharePoint
6ABC, 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
You have a site design and your trusty copy of SharePoint Designer, but now what? In this session, we cover SharePoint branding concepts and benefits and show step by step how to create a custom master page using Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer.

SharePoint Tools for Style: Advanced Techniques for Branding SharePoint
6ABC, 1:00 – 2:15 PM
SharePoint branding can be flexible, fun, and frustrating all at once. During this session, we do a deep dive into the details of branding and look at how to handle CSS, multiple designs, navigation styling and manipulating content placeholders. We also address branding other SharePoint elements such as application screens, My Sites, and Blogs.

She’s inviting you to drop by their booth—SharePoint Experts. I am yet to say hello to her.

Her post is here.

Andrew Connell had a wonderful talk during the session around content and web publishing. He has posted his decks here:

ECMS301: Using MOSS 2007 to Create Content-Centric Internet Facing Publishing Sites using Web Content Management
ECMS302: Structured Approach to Building MOSS 2007 Publishing Sites

Since he is already done with his presentations he is inviting you guys for the SharePoint by Day, SharePint by Night at Kells on Wednesday night March 6. This sounds good.

National SharePoint Experts would be in Nashville to speak at the world’s business-oriented conference on SharePoint and Microsoft Office System called The SharePoint Information Worker Conference 2008 from February 4-5, 2008. The conference is designed for business web and application professionals who needs to stay on leading edge technologies on MOSS 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services business applications.

More of the conference news found here.

The registration for the SharePoint Conference 2008 is now open. Early birds, the first 1000 people to register, would have a 25% discount.

According to site, SharePoint Conference 2008 promise to give the following things:

The conference will feature over 100 SharePoint technical sessions presented by Microsoft and Industry product experts.

There is an upcoming Microsoft SharePoint Conference to be held in 2008. It is scheduled on March 2-6 in Seattle, Washington.

We’ll give you updates as more detail pop up. The Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2008 website is found here.