Author: Frank Gilbane (Page 47 of 75)

We are still working on the program for this year’s Boston conference, December 1-3, and Sarah has left us for graduate school. Fortunately, we have a great new Marketing Coordinator, Scott Templeman, who will be communicating with all of you who have submitted proposals. You can reach Scott at 617-497-9443 ext 156 or at scott@gilbane.com with any questions about the status of your proposals, but official confirmations are still a week or two away.

We’ve extended the deadline till end-of-day Friday the 19th.

http://gilbaneboston.com/

https://gilbane.com/speaker_guidelines.html

Gilbane San Francisco is next week, and soon after we’ll be switching our energies to our annual Boston conference. The 2009 dates are December 1-3, and we are returning to the Westin Copley hotel for our 6th year. The first important date is the call for papers deadline, which is June 15th. Instructions for submitting speaking proposals can be found at: https://gilbane.com/speaker_guidelines.html.

The track structure this year will be similar to what we are doing in San Francisco. We are still fiddling with the exact names and descriptions, but currently the tracks are:

• Web & Business Engagement
• Managing Collaboration with Colleagues and Customers
• Integrating, Searching & Publishing Enterprise Content
• Content Infrastructure Strategies

We’ll be continuing our focus on enterprise use of social software and how it integrates into various business applications. We’ll also be adding more coverage of mobile content strategies and technologies. The mobile channel is no longer just for pure consumer applications, but has a critical role to play in mainstream business applications, for collaborating and content delivery, and much more. "Smartphone" platforms are rapidly becoming at least as important as desktops, notebooks and netbooks. Some specific technology areas at the Boston conference will be:

• Web Content Management
• Enterprise Social Software
• Enterprise Mobile Content
• Authoring & Publishing
• Content Globalization
• XML & XBRL
• Enterprise & Site Search
• Semantic Technologies
• Enterprise Content Management

The preliminary Gilbane Boston 2009 site is live at http://gilbaneboston.com/. If you have questions about speaking proposals email us at speaking@gilbane.com.

UPDATE: We have just created a Twitter account for the conference: http://twitter.com/gilbaneboston, and we’ll use #gilbaneboston for the hashtag. We are going to use our main twitter account for Boston at  http://twitter.com/gilbane . 

There are only 4 more weeks until our annual San Francisco conference. If you haven’t already made plans to attend, you should check it out. We have more content than we have ever had in San Francisco, so whatever kind of enterprise web or content application project or responsibility you have, you’ll find learning and networking opportunities.

Our marketing group has been posting updates on our announcements blog and on Twitter. But for those of you who only read this stream, here is a quick update:

• The early discount rates have been extended to May 8th.
• Gilbane conference room rate of $220 at the San Francisco Westin includes complimentary daily guest room internet use, valued at $14.95 per day.
• There are 46 conference sessions, workshops or product labs, 90 expert speakers, 36 sponsors/exhibitors.
• Keynotes from Microsoft & Adobe on the future of web platforms and customer engagement
• Keynote analyst panel with Forrester, IDC, Gilbane, and WelchmanPierpoint.
• We’ll be using #gilbanesf as the hash tag.

See you there.

A quick way to get a feel for the topics in this year’s conference program. Compliments of Wordle