WASHINGTON, DC -- The Gilbane Group, Lighthouse Seminars and CMS Watch today announced two keynote sessions that offer attendees direct access to independent industry analysts as well as C-level executives on how to best manage content throughout the enterprise. The event takes place at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. June 5-6, 2007 and is rapidly becoming the regions most sought after content management conference due to the strength of its speakers. It is the industry’s most comprehensive forum for bringing together government, association, and industry executives to share content management best practices.
To view the entire conference program, visit: http://gilbanedc.com/conference_grid.html.
On Tuesday, June 5th from 8:15am-9:30am the keynote session, “Analysts Debate the Future of Content Technologies” will take place. 2007 has proven to be an invigorating year for content technologies. Microsoft transformed SharePoint into an ECM platform. IBM and Yahoo! released free search as an alternative to the Google Appliance. Web CMS vendors are falling over themselves to introduce new, Ajax-based, Web 2.0-powered platforms. What does it all mean? What should managers be on the lookout for in 2008 and beyond? This session will be moderated by Tony Byrne, Founder of CMS Watch and will include Frank Gilbane, CEO of the Gilbane Group, Ann Rockley, President, The Rockley Group, Theresa Regli, Principal, CMS Watch, Erik Hartman, Consultant, Hartman Communicatie BV Benelux Steering Committee Member CM Professionals, and Priscilla Emery, President, e-Nterprise Advisors.
On Wednesday, June 6th from 8:30am-10:00am the keynote session, “CIOs Grapple with Content” will take place. In most enterprises, digital content doubles every three years. At the same time, customers and constituents want access to more of it, in the format they want, at the time they need it, organized carefully around their needs. Meanwhile, enterprises are accountable more than ever for the information they produce, publish, keep, and destroy. What's a CIO to do? This panel of CIOs will discuss how they have dealt with the explosion of demands in their enterprises. This session will be moderated by Alan Pelz-Sharpe, Principal at CMS Watch and will include Heidi W. Byerly, CAE, IOM - Chief Information Officer, Society for Human Resource Management and Alan Mlinarchik - Chief Information Officer, KCI Holdings.
“Rather than having one individual pontificate on a specific technology, we believe that our keynote panels offer a 360 degree view on how to address today’s challenging requirement for managing content,” said Tony Byrne, Conference Chair. “In putting together our keynotes as well as the regular conference sessions it is our intent to provide attendees with actionable, best practice information so they can deploy technologies suited for their specific environments.”
In addition to the Wednesday keynote session there will also be a closing town hall session “What are the Key Take-Aways?” that will be led by Rand Ruggieri, Program Manager, Office of the CIO, Commerce Department and Atle Skjekkeland, Vice President, AIIM.
To view the full conference visit: http://gilbanedc.com/session_descriptions.html
To register, visit: http://gilbanedc.com/registration.html
To exhibit, contact: Marc Goldstein at 781.821.6652, or mgoldstein@lighthouseseminars.com
About CMS Watch
CMS Watch is an independent source of analysis and advice on content management and enterprise search. In addition to the freely-available articles on its website, CMS Watch publishes vendor-neutral technology reports that provide independent analysis and practical advice regarding web content management, records management, and enterprise search, and portal solutions. These reports help sort out the complex landscape of potential solutions so that project teams can minimize the time and effort to identify and evaluate technologies suited to their particular requirements. For more information, visit www.cmswatch.com.
About Gilbane Group, Inc.
Gilbane Group Inc. is an analyst and consulting firm that has been writing and consulting about the strategic use of information technologies since 1987. We have helped organizations of all sizes from a wide variety of industries and governments. We work with the entire community of stakeholders including investors, enterprise buyers of IT, technology suppliers, and other consultant and analyst firms. We have organized over 50 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Information about our widely-read newsletter, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.
About Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars' events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. These include content management of all types, digital asset management, document management, web content management, enterprise portals, enterprise search, web and multi-channel publishing, electronic forms, authoring, content and information integration, information architecture, and e-catalogs. http://www.lighthouseseminars.com
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