Gilbane San Francisco 2008: April 2008 Archives

... and radio! Mary Laplante and I will be on the MyTechnologyLawyer.com radio show this Thursday, discussing the upcoming Gilbane San Francisco conference. We'll be on the air live for an hour starting at 4:00 Eastern, and will be discussing a wide range of topics about the conference, with some focus on the sessions I am coordinating. The host, Scott Draughon, is a great guy and really does an excellent job interviewing his guests on a wide variety of topics. Mary and I have done the show before (this time last year as well) and it was a pleasure. Be sure to tune in!

Udi Manber, Vice President of Engineering for Search, Google to Kick-Off Annual Gilbane San Francisco Content Management Conference

SAN FRANCISCO--April 22, 2008. The Gilbane Group and Lighthouse Seminars, today announced that Udi Manber, a Google Vice President of Engineering, will kick-off the annual Gilbane San Francisco conference on June 18th at 8:30am with a discussion on Google's search quality and continued innovation. Now in its fourth year, the conference has rapidly gained a reputation as a forum for bringing together vendor-neutral industry experts that share and debate the latest information technology experiences, research, trends and insights. The conference takes place June 18-20 at the Westin Market Hotel in San Francisco (http://gilbanesf.com).

"Google's success in search is widely thought of as being a result of their use of link activity and PageRank to supplement keyword search. In fact, link behavior is just one of many signals that help provide users with the most relevant results," said Gilbane Group CEO Frank Gilbane, "Udi Manber is the engineering vice president in charge of this ongoing, and necessarily secret effort. What Udi is able to share about improving search will be interesting to all, but especially valuable to knowledge workers whose need for quality search is critical".

Gilbane San Francisco has gained a reputation for helping attendees move beyond the mainstream content technologies they are familiar with, to enhanced “2.0” versions, which can open up new business opportunities, keep customers engaged, and improve internal communication and collaboration. The 2008 event will have its usual collection of information and content technology experts, including practitioners, technologists, business strategists, consultants, and the leading analysts from a variety of market and technology research firms.

Topics to be covered in-depth at Gilbane San Francisco include: Web Content Management (WCM); Enterprise Search, Text Analytics, Semantic Technologies; Collaboration, Enterprise Wikis & Blogs; "Enterprise 2.0" Technologies & Social Media; Content Globalization & Localization; XML Content Strategies; Enterprise Content Management (ECM); Enterprise Rights Management (ERM); and Publishing Technology & Best Practices.

Details on the Google keynote session as well as other keynotes and conference breakout sessions can be found at http://gilbanesf.com/conference-grid.html. In addition to the conference portion of the event, there is a technology demonstration area hall where vendors showcase their latest solutions giving attendees the opportunity to talk one-on-one with the industry’s technology innovators.

Media sponsors of the Gilbane San Francisco event include Business Wire, CMSWatch, CMSWire, eContent, KMWorld and MultiLingual Magazine. The event’s Platinum sponsor is FatWire, and the event’s Gold sponsors include CrownPeak, Lionbridge, RedDot, SDL Tridion, and Sitecore. A full list of sponsors and exhibitors to date are listed at: http://gilbanesf.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html

To register visit: http://gilbanesf.com/registration_information.html

To exhibit or sponsor visit: http://gilbanesf.com/exhibit.html

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, consulting & advisory services, 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://lighthouseseminars.com

Contacts:
Welz & Weisel Communications
Evan Weisel, 703-218-3555
Cell: 703-628-5754
evan@w2comm.com
or
Lighthouse Seminars
Jeffrey V. Arcuri, 508-759-8180
jeff@lighthouseseminars.com