Inland Empire .NET User group will be hosting a launch event for visual studio 2008 and sql server 2008 on March 11. I am one of the presenter for "C# 3.0 New Features". Everybody is invited to our launch event, don't forget Microsoft will give away 5 licences for sql server 2008 and visual studio 2008. For more information : http://www.iedotnetug.org
There is also a conference "SecureIT" from March 4 to March 6. The agenda is pretty heavy, i will be attending to the 3 day seminar, if you will come, let me know :)