There is a track on portals and collaboration at TechEd Europe this year which might be very interesting to attend.
Sessions:
- Creating Rich SharePoint Clients with Access 2003
- Deploying, Administering and Updating SharePoint Sites and Portals
- Developing Site Definitions and Templates for Windows SharePoint Services
- Developing with SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Outlook and Exchange: Advanced Integration
- Getting Back to Normal: SharePoint Backup and Disaster Recovery
- Live Communications Platform: Architecting, Deploying, and Building Custom Solutions
- Live Communications Server 2005: A Technical Overview
- Live Communications Server 2005: Deploying in the Enterprise
- Maximizing SAP with SharePoint and Other Microsoft Technologies
- Microsoft Office Communicator 2005: A Technical Overview
- MS IT: SharePoint Products and Technologies: Performance and Capacity Planning Best Practices and Lessons Learned
- Project Server 2003 and SharePoint Portal Server 2003: Integrating with Line-of-Business Solutions
- Project: Collaboration with the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution and Windows SharePoint Services
- SharePoint Portal Server 2003: Best Practices for an Implementation
- Vertical Industry and Role-Based Templates for SharePoint Products and Technologies
See the tech-ed site for more info and other tracks.