Microsoft announced on Friday that the Microsoft BI Conference, originally scheduled to be held in October this year, has now moved to October 2010 and will in future be held every two years.

Microsoft will instead be driving more BI content at other technical conferences held in the year (such as TechEd, SQLPass etc):

“We heard from our customers and partners that due to global economic constraints to travel budgets worldwide, we should make the BI Conference a biannual event. The next BI Conference that was scheduled for October 2009 will be moved to October 2010 in Seattle, WA, and all further BI Conferences will be held every second year on an ongoing basis.

However, that doesn’t mean that we won’t be talking about BI this year. In 2009, Microsoft Business Intelligence will be a focus at TechEd (May 2009, Los Angeles), World Wide Partner Conference (July 13-16, New Orleans) as well as a core component of both the SharePoint Conference (October 2009, Las Vegas, NV) and SQL Server PASS (November 2009, Seattle, WA) in the fall. Recordings of the BI content will be available after these events.”