Timothy Ferro gave a presentation on SharePoint 2010 event receivers. He began with an overview of his background in SharePoint development. The presentation covered the main types and events of event receivers in SharePoint 2010, with a focus on list item events. Ferro demonstrated how to set up a SharePoint 2010 event receiver solution and provided examples of using event receivers to update fields, validate data, check permissions, send alerts and emails, and create sites, lists, folders and items.