For Immediate Release:
Annual Conference Helps Attendees Evaluate Latest Business Solutions to Manage and Leverage Web and Enterprise Content
San Francisco, CA – April 14, 2009 – The sixth annual Gilbane San Francisco Conference (http://gilbanesf.com/) announced today that its lineup of keynote speakers will address the critical theme of helping organizations assess new tools and technologies to manage web content both internally behind the firewall and externally to customers and partners. The upcoming Gilbane San Francisco event, produced by the Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, takes place June 2-4, 2009 at The Westin Market Hotel in San Francisco. The opening keynote addresses will be delivered by Kumar Vora, Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise, of Adobe who will discuss new technologies for secure engagement within and beyond the enterprise; and Tricia Bush, Group Product Manager of SharePoint for Microsoft Corporation who will focus on the next generation of web platform strategies. Rounding out the keynote program is an all industry-analyst panel discussion featuring experts from Forrester, IDC, WelchmanPierpoint and Gilbane Group.
Gilbane San Francisco 2009 brings together industry thought leaders from technology, enterprise IT, analyst, and consulting firms who provide attendees with the latest successful content management and enterprise social software strategies, technologies and techniques. In addition to visionary keynotes, the event features in-depth pre-conference workshops and a main conference providing coverage of web content management, enterprise and site search; content globalization; semantic technologies; publishing; XML; and enterprise social media tools and platforms from Twitter to business blogs, project wikis and other collaboration tools and platforms.
Keynote Sessions
Engaging Beyond the Enterprise
To successfully engage beyond the enterprise, companies need the right technologies to more effectively communicate with customers, constituents, partners, and employees in key business processes. The most critical business applications have to manage content that either crosses firewall boundaries, or needs to work simultaneously with enterprise content or data. Adobe’s Kumar Vora, Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise, will discuss how organizations can deliver rich and engaging applications that streamline and quicken data exchange, and accelerate decision-making.
The Web Platform of the Future
Managing content outside the four walls is as important as that within. There’s a large opportunity to leverage an investment in process and technologies into the .com environment, but it’s often difficult to bridge the chasm that exists among content owners, marketing, interactive agencies, and IT. Microsoft’s Tricia Bush, Group Product Manager of SharePoint, will address how these worlds converge when a company outlines its web platform strategy around one of three pillars: Reach, Revenue, or Retention.
Keynote Industry Analyst Panel
An integral part of the keynote program, this panel represents an opportunity for conference attendees to hear differing opinions on enterprise and social media content strategies from a variety of expert sources. Panelists include Jeremiah Owyang, Senior Analyst, Social Computing, Forrester; Hadley Reynolds, Research Director, Search & Digital Marketplace Technologies, IDC; Larry Hawes, Lead Analyst, Collaboration and Enterprise Social Software, Gilbane Group; and Lisa Welchman, Founding Partner, WelchmanPierpoint.
“In today’s business environment, every organization has one thing in common: the need to synchronize content across multiple business applications and multiple communities,” says Frank Gilbane, CEO of the Gilbane Group and moderator of the keynote sessions. “This year’s keynotes share the timely theme of how to move enterprise and web content – including product, marketing, regulatory, and transactional information – both behind the corporate firewall and out to customer- and partner-facing applications, including social media environments. Our speakers reflect the diversity of ideas and technology solutions to meet this challenge.”
To view additional information on the keynotes as well as the entire conference program, visit:
http://gilbanesf.com/conference_program.html
Gold sponsors at Gilbane San Francisco include Atex, CoreMedia, SDL Tridion, EveryZing and Sitecore. These industry leaders will be joined by many other solution provider exhibitors and sponsors of the conference.
Media sponsors of the Gilbane San Francisco event include Business Wire, CMS Critic, CMSWire, eContent, FierceMarkets, KMWorld and MultiLingual Magazine. Among the Association sponsors are CM Pros, KM Institute, The Information Architecture Institute, The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), and OASIS.
IT and business professionals interested in attending the conference may register at: http://gilbanesf.com/registration_information.html
Technology solution providers interested in exhibit or sponsor opportunities should visit: http://gilbanesf.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html
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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 60 educational conferences in North America and Europe. Information about our widely-read newsletter, consulting & advisory services, reports, white papers, case studies and analyst blogs is available at http://gilbane.com.
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