Lighthouse Seminars announced the opening of the 5th annual Gilbane Boston conference at the Westin Copley hotel. The main conference opens Wednesday, December 3rd with keynotes from Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Yahoo! Research, and Michael Edson, Director, Web and New Media Strategy, Office of the CIO, Smithsonian Institution. Technology demonstrations from over 50 exhibitors take place along side the main conference on Wednesday and Thursday. Pre-conference Workshops take place today starting at 1:00pm. Registration is available on-site at the Westin Copley Hotel.
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Re-posted from the Globalization blog
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Gilbane Conference sponsor OASIS is hosting an informal “learn more” session about the new Content Management Interoperability Services, CMIS, at Gilbane Boston, tomorrow, Wednesday, December 3, at the Westin Copley hotel. The CMIS gathering is at 1:00 pm in the St. George room. Meet some of the developers of the standard. https://gilbane.com/gilbane-boston-2008-where-content-management-meets-social-media/
Whether you can make it to Gilbane Boston this week at the Westin Copley or not, if you have a question for our analyst keynote panel (IDC, Gilbane, Forrester, 451, Burton), let me know, either here, via email, or via twitter (this looks like a perfect use for twitter).
BTW, this panel and all the conference keynotes on Wednesday are available at no charge.
We’re looking forward to a great conference, and especially excited for the globalization track. Although our state-side audience is gearing up for turkey dinners, there’s still time get a great education at Gilbane Boston next week!
Register here for the full conference or for free – yes, I said free – access to the Technology Showcase, keynotes, and sponsor reception.
Gilbane Boston Content Globalization Track
Special Keynote 2: Foundations for Global Content Value Chain Strategies
Moderator: Mary Laplante, Vice President, Consulting, Gilbane Group
Speakers:
David Lee, Manager eBusiness, 3M Company
Nicholas McMahon, VP & General Manager, Jonckers
Leonor Ciarlone, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
GCM-1: Optimizing the Global Content Value Chain: Focus on Product Content
Moderator: Leonor Ciarlone, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Speakers:
Fred Hollowood, Director Language R&D, Shared Engineering Services, Symantec Corporation
Natasja H.M. Paulsen, Partner, Ordina Consulting
Sophie Hurst, Senior Product Marketing Manager, SDL
GCM-2: Optimizing the Global Content Value Chain: Focus on Brand Content
Moderator: Karl Kadie, Senior Analyst, Gilbane Group
Speakers:
Gary Muddyman, Managing Director and CEO, Conversis
Anne Casson, Principal Consultant, Content Management Practice, Molecular
GCM-3: Designing Culturally Customized Web Sites: The Next Localization Frontier
Moderator: Ulrich Henes, President, Localization Institute
Speaker:
Nitish Singh, Assistant Professor of International Business at Boeing Institute of Int. Business, St. Louis University
We’ll be covering a chunk of the search landscape at the Gilbane Conference next week. While there are nominally over 100 search solutions that target some aspect of enterprise search, there will be plenty to learn from the dozen or so case studies and tool options described. Commentary and examples include: Attivio, Coveo, Exalead, Google Search Appliance (GSA), IntelliSearch, Lexalytics, Lucene, Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, Thunderstone and references to others. Our speakers will cue us into the current state of the search as it is being implemented. Several exhibitors are also on site to demonstrate their capabilities and they represent some of the best. Check out the program lineup below and try to make it to Boston to hear those with hands-on experience.
EST-1: Plug-and Play: Enterprise Experiences with Search Appliances
- So you want to implement an enterprise search solution? Speaker: Angela A. Foster, FedEx Services, FedEx.com Development, and Dennis Shirokov, Marketing Manager, FedEx Digital Access Marketing.
- The Make or Buy Decision at the U.S. General Services Admin. Speaker: Thomas Schaefer, Systems Analyst and Consultant, U.S. General Services Administration
- Process and Architecture for Implementing GSA at MITRE. Robert Joachim, Info Systems Engr, Lead, The MITRE Corporation.
EST-2: Search in the Enterprise When SharePoint is in the Mix
- Enterprise Report Management: Bringing High Value Content into the Flow of Business Action. Speaker: Ajay Kapur, VP of Product Development, Apps Associates
- Content Supply? Meet Knowledge Demand: Coveo SharePoint integration. Speaker: Marc Solomon, Knowledge Planner, PRTM.
- In Search of the Perfect Search: Google Search on the Intranet. Speaker: June Nugent, Director of Corporate Knowledge Resources, NetScout Systems,
EST-3: Open Source Search Applied in the Enterprise
- Context for Open Source Implementations. Speaker: Leslie Owen, Analyst, Forrester Research
- Intelligent Integration: Combining Search and BI Capabilities for Unified Information Access. Speaker: Sid Probstien, CTO, Attivio
EST-4: Search Systems: Care and Feeding for Optimal Results
- Getting Off to a Strong Start with Your Search Taxonomy. Speaker: Heather Hedden, Principal Hedden Information Management
- Getting the Puzzle Pieces to Fit; Finding the Right Search Solution(s) Patricia Eagan, Sr. Mgr, Web Communications, The Jackson Laboratory.
- How Organizations Need to Think About Search. Speaker: Rob Wiesenberg, President & Founder, Contegra Systems
EST-5: Text Analytics/Semantic Search: Parsing the Language
- Overview and Differentiators: Text Analytics, Text Mining and Semantic Technologies. Jeff Catlin, CEO, Lexalytics
- Reality and Hype in the Text Retrieval Market. Curt Monash, President, Monash Research.
- Two Linguistic Approaches to Search: Natural Language Processing and Concept Extraction. Speaker: Win Carus, President and Founder, Information Extraction Systems
Exhibitors with a Search Focus:
Across Systems, a provider of corporate translation management systems and an independent linguistic supply chain technology, is exhibiting at the 5th annual Gilbane Boston Conference. Across will demonstrate its recently released Language Portal Solution, as well as an integrated solution for website localization. The enterprise-level Language Portal enables implementation of corporate intranet Web portals for all language-related issues for large-scale organizations and multinational corporations in a single environment. In addition, Across has cooperated on an integration of the Across Language Server with the Straker ShadoCMS v8.5 Web content management system, which will also be demonstrated. The CMS integration provides an automated process for Website localization that includes content creation, translation management, publishing and handling of dynamic multilingual Web content. Across offers an independent technology without translation and localization services. Enterprise customers and language service providers interested in meeting with Across to discuss translation management needs are invited to make an appointment through the form on the company’s website.
In tough economic times it is tempting to over-emphasize cost savings. A better approach is to consider cost savings if necessary, but to develop a strategy to grow your revenues first if you can. This may mean some re-deploying rather than cutting. One important path to growth is to ensure your products are available and appealing to a broader, international market. Below is a sample of what we are covering in our track on managing global content next week at Gilbane Boston to help you learn how, or how to do it better.
GCM-1: Optimizing the Global Content Value Chain: Focus on Product Content
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2:00pm, Westin Copley, Boston
Product content includes technical documentation as well as the content that lives with a product or service in many formats and contexts, including pre-sales, post-sales, aftermarket, training, and service. The global economy adds languages as yet another output to the traditional multichannel formula, increasing content volume due to the nuances of dialect and culture. This session discusses how to design GCVCs that integrate content and localization/translation technologies to support single-sourcing, simultaneous product shipment programs, and alignment with product lifecycle management or product data management systems. Speakers share current best practices and provide insight into what’s coming in the next wave of people, processes and technologies for multilingual product content.
Moderator: Leonor Ciarlone, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Speakers:
- Fred Hollowood, Director Language R&D, Shared Engineering Services, Symantec Corporation
- Natasja H.M. Paulsen, Partner, Ordina Consulting
- Sophie Hurst, Senior Product Marketing Manager, SDL
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