With San Francisco’s conference behind us (another post on that in a bit) we are focused on our newest event coming up in Washington DC, June 13-15. Our DC conference is similar to our other conferences but focused on government application of content technology. Another difference is that we are working with our colleagues over at CMS Watch, whose founder Tony Byrne is chairing the conference. Tony, in turn, has enlisted the help of a program advisory committee made up of government IT and consulting experts. The preliminary conference program is available and registration is open (and yes, there is a government rate).
Author: Frank Gilbane (Page 66 of 74)
Here is a quick update on next week’s event:
New Sponsors & Exhibitors
Adobe has joined us as a Gold sponsor – their Enterprise Solutions and Developer Group in particular. See announcements on some of the new products and features to be shown from our 50+ exhibitors.
New Debates
In addition to our popular analyst session, two analysts will face-off on 7 topics they disagree on in Content Technologies: A Town Hall Debate. And of course, don’t forget CMS Idol.
Keynote Survey
The early results from our survey on questions to ask the keynote panel show the topics attendees are most interested in are, in order:
- (78%) What are the top 3 technologies that must be considered in any content management strategies in the next 12-24 months?
- (60%) Are there any breakthrough classification or metadata tagging technologies on the horizon that you should be watching for?
- (57%) How will content management lite offerings from Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM affect the content management market?
- (55%) How is widespread adoption of RSS/Atom going to affect content delivery? And what does this mean to enterprise content management or publishing strategies?
- (55%) What new publishing technologies should we expect to see in the next 12-18 months? Will they make it easier to incorporate better design elements to improve customer facing applications?
- (55%) Is there any real breakthrough search technology search on the horizon that you should consider for your intranet or extranet applications?
- (49%) How will Blog and Wiki tools be used in enterprise content applications? How are they being used today?
- (49%) Are there authoring tools on the horizon that are both user-friendly and capable of authoring for both electronic and print output?
UPDATE: You can see partial final results of the responses to all the questions here, and contribute to the survey here.
Content Globalization
Also, the top write-in question topic so far is on globalization and content management. This is a hot topic at the event – there are multiple sessions covering it, and many vendors showing related products and services – some of them have even put together a Content Globalization Pavilion.
We have over 100 expert speakers covering these and other topics. Conference program .
And don’t forget to look into the Content Management Professionals Association Spring Summit
We have posted the results of our survey to date on the questions we’ll be asking our keynote panel at our conference next week. We’ll comment later, but wanted to let everyone see what topics attendees are most interested in. Some of these questions will also be covered in our analyst panel.
You can still vote the list of questions we have put together, and suggest additional questions. Voting also gives you a chance for a free conference pass to one of our conferences. Of course you can also still join us (expo-only attendees can attend the keynote panels).
We hope to see you at our upcoming San Francisco conference. But whether you join us or not, you can contribute to the keynote discussion by including questions in a comment on this blog entry. Or you can visit the panelists blogs and make suggestions to them directly. Below is the session description with links to the panel member’s bios and blogs or websites.
UPDATE: You can also now vote a list of questions we have put together. Voting also gives you a chance for a free conference pass to this or a future conference.
The opening keynote panel is open to both tradeshow and conference attendees.
Keynote Panel: New Technologies That Will Influence Your Content Management Strategies
The pace of information technology development continues to increase as organizations develop experience in implementing content applications, and as software vendors vie to incorporate their customer’s feedback into product technologies ahead of the competition. As most enterprise applications become more content-oriented, content technology developments are coming from a broader base of suppliers and developers. In fact, most interesting new computing technologies will, or should, influence your short and long term content management strategies. Our opening panel of industry experts will look at both specific technologies and market trends. This will be a lively interactive panel with plenty of debate.
Moderator: Frank Gilbane, Conference Chair, Editor & Publisher, The Gilbane Report — Blog
Panelists:
Dan Farber, Vice President, CNET Networks, Editor in Chief, ZDNet — Between the Lines Blog
Bill Rosenblatt, Editor, DRM Watch
Charlene Li, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research — Charlene’s Blog
Gene Gable, Gene Gable Industries
Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch
Digital Rights Management (DRM) gets a lot of bad press about its use and misuse, much of it well-deserved. But there is a less controversial use of DRM technology for corporate applications. “Enterprise DRM” complements content management, firewalls, and other technologies in helping to ensure that sensitive information such as confidential documents, email, and application data do not fall into the wrong hands or get used in ways it shouldn’t. Much corporate content needs to be managed according to certain rules (having nothing to do with copyright) that are outside the scope of workflow processes, and organizations are paying attention.
Our upcoming Conference on Enterprise DRM at Gilbane San Francisco is the first event devoted exclusively to DRM for corporate applications. The conference, chaired by Bill Rosenblatt of DRM Watch, will be a unique opportunity to explore DRM technologies and how they apply to a wide variety of business environments and technology architectures; several vendors will be on hand to demo their solutions. The program will include several case studies of Enterprise DRM deployments in such applications as financial services, human resources, high-tech manufacturing, and distance learning. The program will also feature leading analysts, including Rosenblatt, Jarad Carleton of Frost & Sullivan, and Trent Henry of Burton Group who will present a framework for analyzing Enterprise DRM solutions.
Executives from Enterprise DRM vendors, including Adobe, Cloakware, EMC/Authentica, Essential Security Software, Fasoo.com, Intelligent Wave, Liquid Machines, SealedMedia, and WorkShare will offer insights into technology and the market. The conference will feature panel discussions on technology issues such as Enterprise DRM for mobile devices, secure inter-enterprise collaboration, and integration of Enterprise DRM with content management.
DRM Watch and Gilbane readers can get a special $100 discount off the eDRM conference price of $495 by registering online with discount code “drmwatch”.
CM Pros has announced the final program for their Spring Summit, which is co-located with our Spring conference in San Francisco this month. Attending both events will really get you up-to-date on what others are doing with content management technology these days. There is lots of great content including keynotes from Bill Trippe, Ann Rockley, and James Robertson. From the CM Pros site:
“As awareness of the value of the customer experience increases, so too does the recognition of content — and content management. With our theme of “Content Management and the Customer Experience” the Summit, which spans two half-days, will address the importance of effective content management in the customer experience context. View additional program detail, including presentation abstracts.”
Some of you may have seen the press release from us yesterday announcing our new consulting practice focused on the needs of commercial and corporate publishers. Of course this is not a new area for us – Bill Trippe especially, has long been very active in the publishing space – but rather a dramatic expansion of our activities in an area we know well. It is great to be working with Steve Paxhia again, who will be running this practice. It will also be great to be working more regularly with Gene Gable, Thad McIlroy, Bill Rosenblatt, and Dale Waldt. Here is a description of the practice. We’ve already launched the practice, but most of our team and our partners will also be at Gilbane San Francisco, where we have a lot of content relevant to publishers including (but not limited to!) the new Automated Publishing track.
Jon Udell has an elegant post today on how we can get trapped in the blinders of our language use. The point he makes is true in general, but he applies it specifically to publishers stuck in old business models, as well as to buzzword-happy information technologists. Read his post to understand the title. Wittgenstein would applaud.
