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These posts are about the Gilbane conferences. To see the actual programs see  https://gilbane.com/Conferences/. Information about our earlier Documation conferences see https://gilbane.com/entity/documation-conference/.

Web Content Management Executive Panel

November 19, 2008 / / 0 Comments

We have always had some kind of an executive panel where senior managers from content managementvendors are questioned on their views of what is happening technology and trend-wise. This is not so much a “face-off” as it is an interactive discussion aimed at providing the audience a chance to hear the different world views of competing suppliers. Understanding the visions behind the marketing, product development, and partnership activity of vendors is at least as important as comparing a feature list and watching demos. Of course, you’ll want to see the demos of these and all the other vendors at Gilbane Boston as well.

WCM-3: Web Content “Management State of the Industry”
Thursday December 4th 11:00am, Westin Copley, Boston
This distinguished panel of technology and market experts will discuss their perspectives on the three or four most important concerns of business managers and IT professionals in planning for and executing WCM initiatives over the next year. The panelists are chosen based on their depth of knowledge within WCM and their ability to identify, analyze, and articulate what the current key concerns are for WCM customers. This interactive discussion will help attendees to identify and address potential liabilities in their own WCM strategies as well as to understand what leading practitioners and technology suppliers envision in their own project/product roadmaps.

Moderator: Tony White, Lead Analyst, WCM, Gilbane Group
Speakers:
* Erik Aeyelts Averink, President, SDL Tridion
* John Girard, CEO, Clickability
* Ben Kiker, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Interwoven
* John Newton, CTO & Chairman, Alfresco
* Dmitri Tcherevik, CTO, Fatwire

 

In the Field: The Enterprise Search Market Offers CHOICES

November 13, 2008 / / 0 Comments

Heading into the Gilbane Boston conference next month we have case studies that feature quite an array of enterprise search applications. So many of the search solutions now being deployed are implemented with a small or part-time staff that it is difficult to find the one or two people who can attend a conference to tell their stories. We have surveyed blogs, articles and case studies published elsewhere to identify organizations and people who have hands-on-experience in the trenches deploying search engines in their enterprises. Our speakers are those who were pleased to be invited and they will be sharing their experiences on December 3rd and 4th.

From search appliances Thunderstone and Google Search Appliance, to platform search solutions based on Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, and standalone search products Coveo, Exalead, and ISYS, we will hear from those who have been involved in selecting, implementing and deploying these solutions for enterprise use. From a Forrester industry analyst and Attivio developer we’ll hear about open source options and how they are influencing enterprise search development. The search sessions will be rounded out as we explore the influences and mergers of text mining, text analytics with Monash Research and semantic technologies (Lexalytics and InfoExtract) as they relate to other enterprise search options. There will be something for everyone in the sessions and in the exhibit hall.

Personally, I am hoping to see many in the audience who also have search stories within their own enterprises. Those who know me will attest to my strong belief in communities of practice and sharing. It strengthens the marketplace place when people from different types of organizations share their experiences trying to solve similar problems with different products. Revealing competitive differentiators among the numerous search products is something that pushes technology envelopes and makes for a more robust marketplace. Encouraging dialogue about products and in-the-field experiences is a priority for all sessions at the Gilbane Conference and I’ll be there to prompt discussion for all five search sessions. I hope you’ll join me in Boston.

An international event in Boston

November 2, 2008 / / 0 Comments

We have always had pretty good international participation at our conferences, and with a month until Gilbane Boston, it is clear this year will be no different. so far we have attendees from 20 countries outside the U.S., which is pretty typical for us. But what is striking is the 15 17 18 international exhibitors that will be at the show, which is about 50% more than usual. Some of it is due to the growth of our coverage of multilingual content applications, but that only accounts for part of the increase. You can see most of the exhibitors at http://gilbaneboston.com/exhibitors_sponsors.html.
BTW, the “early-bird” discount is available through November 4th 7th at:
http://gilbaneboston.com/registration_information.html.

Multi-channel Publishing: Can anyone do it?

October 29, 2008 / / 0 Comments

By David Lipsey, Managing Director, Entertainment & Media, FTI

Can anyone deliver customized content to its customers – in print, on the Web in rich applications, in social networking or to wireless media? To make matters more challenging, what if your customers are two-to-five year olds? Well, Sesame Workshop recently had to address this test to keep its brand relevant to precocious preschoolers. In fact, this non-profit organization behind Sesame Street took the bold view that multi-channel publishing is the future of the Workshop, and recognized that online will become its primary channel of distribution down the line. At the upcoming Gilbane Boston Conference (link to information on session), I will moderate a panel of multi-channel publishing experts, including the VP charged with Sesame Workshop’s internet initiative. We will provide you with the latest in content delivery, opportunities to serve more users and more applications, and insights to show that yes, almost anyone can do it. Please join me, Joe Bachana from DPCI (an industry leader in his own right) and the ever-innovative O’Reilly Press for a didactic and enlightening discussion that will get you mulling over ideas for enhancing your brand experience for customers.

Who are the best speakers on content technology? (cont. from San Francisco)

October 16, 2008 /

We are honored to to be able to bring you the largest collection of leading practitioners, analysts, and technologists available this year at our San Francisco and Boston conferences. The powerful combination of content technology experts can only be found at Gilbane events. Our faculty at Gilbane Boston 2008, December 2-4th, includes:

Erik Aeyelts Averink, President, SDL Tridion
Nate Aune, President and Founder, Jazkarta
Joseph Bachana, President/Founder, DPCI
Nora Barnes, Professor & Director, Center for Marketing Research, University of MA, Dartmouth
Jay Batson, CEO, Acquia
Geoff Bock, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Noah Broadwater, VP, Information Services, Sesame Workshop
John Carione, Senior Product Marketing Manager for LiveCycle Security Solutions, Adobe
David Carter, Founder & CTO, Awareness Networks
Win Carus, President and Founder, Information Extraction Systems
Jeff Catlin, CEO, Lexalytics Client
Dr. Kyugon Cho, CEO, Fasoo.com
Leonor Ciarlone, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Reid Conrad, CEO, Near-Time
Jeff Cram, Managing Director, ISITE Design
Guy Creese, VP and Research Director, Collaboration and Content Strategies, Burton Group
Andrew Draheim, Principal, Kidd and Draheim Inc.
Patricia Eagan, Senior Manager, Web Communications, The Jackson Laboratory
Michael Edson, Director, Web and New Media Strategy, Smithsonian Institution, Office of the CIO
James Ellis, Web Director, Wisconsin Alumni Association
Ben Elowitz, CEO, Wetpaint
Angela Foster, IT Manager, FedEx.com Development, FedEx
Elizabeth Foughty, Intelligent Data Understanding Research Group, NASA Ames
Aaron R. Fulkerson, CEO and Founder, Mindtouch
Dan Galvez, Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Hedgehog Development
Brad Gandee, VP, Product Marketing and Management, GigaTrust
Chip Gettinger, VP, XML Solutions, SDL Tridion
Frank Gilbane, CEO, Gilbane Group
Paul Gillin, Author and Consultant, New Media Technologies
John Girard, CEO, Clickability
Seth Gottlieb, Principal, Content Here
Yogesh Gupta, President and CEO, FatWire
Heather Hedden, Information Taxonomist, Hedden Information Management
Ulrich Henes, President, Localization Institute
Fred Hollowood, Director Language R&D, Shared Engineering Services, Symantec Corporation
Sophie Hurst, Senior Product Marketing Manager, SDL
Rob Joachim, Info Systems Engineer Lead, MITRE Corp
Karl Kadie, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Ajay Kapur, VP, Product Development, Apps Associates
Ben Kiker, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, Interwoven
John Kreisa, Director of Product Marketing, Mark Logic Corporation
Mary Laplante, VP Consulting Services, Gilbane Group
David Lee, eBusiness Manager, 3M Company
David Lipsey, Managing Director, Global Practice, Media & Entertainment, FTI Consulting
Glen McInnis, Practice Lead for Enterprise Content Management Solutions, Nonlinear
Curt Monash, Monash Research
Lynda Moulton, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Gary Muddyman, Managing Director and CEO, Conversis
John Newton, CTO and Chairman, Alfresco
Leslie Owens, Analyst, Forrester Research
Natasja H.M. Paulsen, Partner, Ordina Consulting
Steve Paxhia, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Stephen Powers, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
Sid Probstein, CTO, Attivio
Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Research, Yahoo
Kathleen Reidy, Senior Analyst, The 451 Group
Bill Rosenblatt, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Shannon Ryan, Co-Founder, President, and CEO, Nonlinear
Andrew Savikas, GM Tools of Change, O’ Reilly Media
Thomas Schaefer, Systems Analyst and Consultant, U.S. General Services Administration
Eric Severson, CTO, Flatirons Solutions
Shawn Shell, Principal, Consejo
Dennis Shirokov, Marketing Manager, FedEx Digital Access Marketing, FedEx
Jerry Silver, Lead Product Manager, EMC/Documentum
Nitish Singh, Assistant Professor of International Business, Boeing Institute of Int. Business, St. Louis University
Marc Solomon, Knowledge Planner, PRTM
Aaron Strout, Vice President of Social Media, mZinga
Dmitri Tcherevik, CTO, Fatwire
Bill Trippe, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Brian Vandeventer, IT Manager, The Hartford
Melissa Webster, Program Vice President, Content & Digital Media Technologies, IDC
Michael Wechner, President, Wyona
Jeff Whatcott, Vice President of Marketing, Acquia
Tony White, Lead Analyst, Gilbane Group
Rob Wiesenberg, President and Founder, Contegra Systems
Aaron Williams, VP, Enterprise Services Community & Co-Innovation Engineering Americas, SAP AG
Nathan Williams, Interactive Director, New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corp

Conference program

The Future of Enterprise Search

October 6, 2008 / / 0 Comments

We’ve been especially focused on enterprise search this year. In addition to Lynda’s blog and our normal conference coverage, we have released two extensive reports, one authored by Lynda and one by Stephen Arnold, and Udi Manber VP Engineering, Search, Google, keynoted our San Francisco conference. We are continuing this focus at our upcoming Boston conference where Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Yahoo! Research, will provide the opening keynote.

Prabhakar’s talk is titled “The Future of Search”. The reason I added “enterprise” to the title of the post, is that Prabhakar’s talk will be of special interest to enterprises because of its emphasis on complex data in databases and marked-up content repositories. Prabhakar’s background includes stints CTO at Verity and IBM so enterprise (or, if you prefer “behind-the-firewall”, or “intranet”) search requirements are not new to him.

Here is the description from the conference site:

Web content continues to grow, change, diversify, and fragment. Meanwhile, users are performing increasingly sophisticated and open-ended tasks online, connecting broadly to content and services across the Web. The simple search result page of blue text links needs to evolve to address these complex tasks, and this evolution includes a more formal understanding of user’s intent, and a deeper model of how particular pieces of Web content can help. Structured databases power a significant fraction of Web pages, and microformats and other forms of markup have been proposed as mechanisms to expose this structure. But uptake of these mechanisms remains limited, as content owners await the killer application for this technology. That application is search. If search engines can make deep use of structured information about content, provided through open standards, then search engines and site owners can together bring consumers a far richer experience. We are entering a period of massive change to enable search engines to handle more complex content. Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research, will address the future of search: how search engines are becoming more sophisticated, what the breakthrough point will be for semantics on the Web and what this means for developers and publishers.

Join us on December 3rd at 8:30am at the Boston Westin Copley. Register.

Webinar: New Generation Knowledge Management

September 25, 2008 / / 0 Comments

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
11:00am PT / 2:00pm ET


Organizations are faced with critical knowledge management issues including knowledge capture, IP retention, search and discovery, and fostering innovation. The failure to properly address these issues results in companies wasting millions of dollars through inefficient information discovery and poor collaboration techniques. Today’s knowledge management systems must blend social media technologies with enterprise search, access, and discovery tools to give users a 360-degree view of their information assets. This blend is the foundation for new generation knowledge management.
Moderated by Andy Moore, Publisher of KMWorld Magazine, join Senior Analyst Leonor Ciarlone and Phil Green, CTO at Inmagic for a discussion on perspectives from Gilbane’s report on Collaboration and Social Media 2008, the power of Social Knowledge Networks, and an introduction to Inmagic® Presto.
Space is limited, register here!

Webinar: Structured Content for Leadership: Differentiate with Advanced Practices

September 19, 2008 / / 0 Comments

Thursday, October 2, 2:00 pm ET
Second in a series of webinars on developing a strategic roadmap for structured content
This online panel discussion with industry experts focuses on emerging applications that can truly differentiate an organization. Topics are based on the “Leadership” view of the ROI Blueprint developed by JustSystems with support from Gilbane. You might be surprised to hear how structured content is delivering value in unexpected ways in unexpected places within the enterprise.
Participants are:

  • Yas Etessam, VMware
  • Bill Trippe, Gilbane
  • Dale Waldt, aXtive Minds

This webinar is a companion to the first session on September 11, in which we examined applications in wide practice, and the third covering innovation on October 23. The series is sponsored by JustSystems.
Register for one or both of the October webinars. A recording of the first event is available if you want to get up to speed on the larger discussion of enterprise value of structured content.

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