Annual Conference Helps Attendees Evaluate the Latest Solutions to Reach and Engage Customers and Foster Collaboration with Customers and Partners
Boston, MA – September 27, 2011 – The eighth annual Gilbane Conference Boston (http://gilbaneboston.com/) to take place November 29 – December 1, 2011, at The Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, MA today announced that EndPlay™ will be the Diamond sponsor of the upcoming conference and Alfresco, CIGNEX and Liferay are this year’s Platinum sponsors. Atex, CrownPeak, OpenText, Percussion, SDL, Sitecore and Telerik are all Gold sponsors. For more information about these companies go to (http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html)
Gilbane Boston also announed today the Opening Keynote presenters and a new rapid-fire format. Keynote presentations, moderated by Frank Gilbane – President, Outsell’s Gilbane Services & Conference Chair will be limited to 10-15 minutes with 5 minutes for Q&A. The new format is designed to inspire, provoke, and provide perspective on the big issues, trends, and shifting foundation of technologies, digital strategies, and channels for communication and engagement. Panelists include Christos M. Cotsakos, Ph.D. – Founding Chairman, CEO & President, EndPlay, Inc.; Christer Johnson – Partner, North American BAO Advanced Analytics Leader, IBM Global Business Services; Georgiana Cohen – Manager, Web Content and Strategy, Tufts University and Co-founder, Meet Content; and Maureen Chew – Chief Applications Officer, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
“In today’s business environment, every organization has one thing in common: the need to engage with multiple customer and partner communities,” said Frank Gilbane, conference chair and moderator of the keynote session. “This year’s keynote and new format share the timely theme of connecting with global customers and colleagues with marketing, product and enterprise content using web and social technologies.”
In addition, the event features six in-depth pre-conference workshops, a main conference program providing in-depth coverage of trends and technologies organized in four tracks: Customers & Engagement, Colleagues & Collaboration, Content Technology, and Cross-Media Publishing, a Technology Showcase made up of the leading vendors offering the latest tools and solutions and many networking opportunities.
For information on keynotes and entire conference program, visit:http://gilbaneboston.com/conference_program.html
IT, marketing, other and business professionals interested in attending the conference may register at: http://gilbaneboston.com/registration_information.html
Technology solution providers interested in exhibit or sponsor opportunities should visit: http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html
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About Outsell’s Gilbane Services
Outsell’s Gilbane Services provides analyst & consulting services focused on content technologies. Whether it involves web content management, digital marketing, multilingual content, enterprise search, enterprise social media, publishing, XML, or related technologies, we can help you make vendor-neutral well-informed decisions. 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 70 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 https://gilbane.com, http://www.outsellinc.com/gilbane
About Lighthouse Seminars
Lighthouse Seminars’ events cover information technologies and “content technologies” in particular. This includes content management of all types, digital asset management, enterprise content management, web content management, enterprise search, web and cross-media publishing.
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