As the New Year approaches it’s time to look ahead at 2010. For me the first 3 months seem pretty busy. In January I will be travelling to Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark, phew! And if that wasn’t enough I will be off to Seattle in February for the annual MVP Summit. I am looking forward to this as it’s a great opportunity to see what’s in development at Microsoft and spend time with peers and MS product groups.

In recent years Microsoft TechEd EMEA was based in Europe, In 2010 for the first time TechEd gets its own Middle East event and I am honoured to be one of speakers who will be in Dubai 1st -3rd March. I also just noticed that Active Directory guru John Craddock will be joining me. For more details on TechEd ME visit the website at http://www.teched.ae/ that will be fun. On the subject of TechEd the US event will be held in New Orleans June 7th -10th with some pre conference seminars available before. At the moment there is a $300 discount if you book before December 31st so hurry. Details can be found at http://northamerica.msteched.com/default.aspx

Also in March Microsoft Sweden will be once again holding Techdays 2010. I am delighted to be involved once again as a speaker and will be delivering a couple of security sessions this time on protecting businesses from the inside man as well as a session on Cloud security. Techdays is on March 23rd & 24th. Details can be obtained here http://www.microsoft.com/sverige/techdays/

Finally I hope that Santa was good to you. This year as many of you may already know I have taken up archery and as such received a nice new shiny bow with all the bits :0) I hope he was good to you!