SES is fast approaching -- August 18-22 in San Jose, CA. We'll have quite a few people from Microsoft there, both speaking and at our booth. Please stop by - we'd love to meet you.

Monday, August 18

• 9:45am-11:00am: Universal & Blended Search -- Todd Schwartz, Group Product Manager, Live Search
• 11:15am-12:30pm: Semantic Search: How Will It Change Our Lives? -- Scott Prevost, General Manager and Director of Product, Powerset
• 2:45pm-4:00pm: Everything but Google: Alternative Search Advertising Options -- Mary Berk, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft

Tuesday, August 19

• 9:00am-10:00am: Morning Keynote -- Satya Nadella, SVP, Search, Portal & Advertising Platform Group, Microsoft
• 11:00am-12:15pm: Shopping Search Tactics -- Paul Dillon, Director, Director Commercial Search, Live Search

Wednesday, August 20

• 2:45pm-4:00pm: Keywords & Content: Search Marketing Foundations -- Jorie Waterman, Lead Program Manager, adCenter Keyword Research Platform
• 1:00pm-2:15pm: Searcher Behavior Research Update -- Pavan Lee, Research Manager, Microsoft

Thursday, August 21

• 10:15am-11:15am: Effective Contextual Search Management -- Dennis Buchheim, Sr. Director - Product Management, APS Networks, Microsoft
• 2:45pm-3:45pm: Site Clinic  -- Jeremiah Andrick, Program Manager, Webmaster Center, Live Search
• 2:45pm-3:45pm: Organic Listings Forum -- Nathan Buggia, Program Manager Lead, Webmaster Center, Live Search
• 2:45pm-3:45pm: In House SEO: Lessons learned & Victories Won -- Derrick Wheeler, Senior SEO Architect, Microsoft

We are also hosting Diagnose SEO Issues Using Live Search Webmaster Tools, a sponsored session, on Tuesday from 2:45pm-3:45pm. Speakers are:

• Nathan Buggia, Program Manager Lead, Webmaster Tools, Microsoft
• Andy Woods, Development Lead, Webmaster Tools, Microsoft
• Ani Babaian, Senior Product Manager, Webmaster Tools, Microsoft