Ah yes, this is indeed a wonderful era for learning and networking. There are conferences and webinars coming out our ears, hotspots a-plenty and if you're lucky, sponsored drinks at the bar.
Our weekly events list is designed to help you plan ahead. And if we've missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to our industry events calendar.
Featured Event:
- Henry Stewart Digital Asset Management (DAM) Conference -- New York
(DAM practitioners unite May 20th and 21st in New York City)
May Events
May 12 (Philadelphia): SecureWorld Expo 2010 Philadelphia
SecureWorld Expo brings together the security leaders, experts, senior executives, and policy makers who are shaping the very face of security.
May 12-13 (Washington, DC): Semphonic Th!nk Tank
Semphonic brings its acclaimed advanced training to Washington DC for the first time. Started at the 2009 X Change, Semphonic's in-depth training goes well beyond vendor training, getting to a level of detail that you'll use to create more value for your organization.
May 15 (Washington, DC): SharePoint Saturday DC
SharePoint Saturday DC is a FREE, community driven SharePoint event that will be an educational, informative & lively day filled with sessions from respected SharePoint professionals & MVPs, covering a wide variety of SharePoint-oriented topics.
May 16-19 (Miami): Interact2010 - The Legal and Compliance Technology Forum
A peer-driven forum providing practical strategies tested in the marketplace.
May 17-19 (Washington, DC): America's Small Business Summit
The 2010 Summit will bring together business owners and association executives from across the country for an exceptional mix of networking, learning, and opportunities to take action.
May 17-19 (London): Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Summit
The 5th Annual Information Retention and E-Disclosure Management Summit is Europe’s premier event in this field, designed to help you steer your organisation successfully through lawsuits and regulatory inquiries.
May 18 (Webinar): Kentico Webinar: CMS Today – Are you considering SharePoint for your web site?
In this webinar, we will review the new SharePoint web content management capabilities and see if SharePoint fits your organization’s strategic website objectives at this time.
May 18 (San Francisco): Google I/O Bootcamp
This year, we're piloting a new event before the conference called I/O BootCamp. Part sessions and part hacking, BootCamp focuses on 101-level content and provides an overview of our major developer platforms.
May 18-20 (San Francisco): Gilbane Conference San Francisco 2010
For the Web and Enterprise Content Management audience. Our conference is organized into 4 tracks so whether you are in marketing, IT, a business unit, or an internal function, you will be able to plan a customized agenda to get the information you need for success.
May 19 (London): ESPN STAR Sports Case Study & The Benefits of Multi-Channel Content Management
The focus will be on Multi Channel Content Management. We will be leading with a case study from ESPN STAR Sports and looking at the different benefits realised by managing multiple channels (print, mobile and web) in a single solution.
May 19-20 (Hong Kong): Mobile Social Networking ASIA
he event that will bring all experts in the field of Mobile Social Networking in one venue that will uncover and discover the trends in the region and the international scene.
May 19-20 (San Francisco): Google I/O
Google I/O features 80 sessions, more than 3,000 developers, and over 100 demonstrations from developers showcasing their technologies. Talk shop with engineers building the next generation of web, mobile, and enterprise applications.
May 19-21 (Reston, VA): GEOINT - Tech Days
Tech Days is an annual technology exhibit event produced in cooperation with USGIF and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). The event is composed of a full day of classified NGA technology demonstrations and a full day of unclassified technology demonstrations showcasing USGIF Member and government partner technologies.
May 20-21 (New York City): Henry Stewart - DAM NY 2010
With an exciting new lineup of speakers and topics, DAM NY 2010 is the place for everyone involved in the business of managing large amounts of digital media.
May 24-26 (New York City): TechCrunch Disrupt
TechCrunch Disrupt is a three-day, single-track conference and startup competition to immerse you in the debate about what’s changing in media and technology right now, what’s causing it and what we need to do about it to survive and thrive in real time.
May 24-25 (Dallas/Fort Worth): ISIS Open House and User Conference
ISIS Papyrus invites you to its annual business technology conference, where ISIS experts will show the latest and most advanced features of the Papyrus Platform for Business Communications and Process
May 25 (London): Managing Change in BPO
Microsoft and PNMsoft (Microsoft Partner of the year 2009 finalist) introduce the next generation of technologies to assist Systems Integrators and Project Management Offices, with easy to use power technology to aid CHANGE - A solutions framework set up to gauge the success of the project.
May 25-26 (Boston): 6th Annual Text Analytics Summit
The Text Analytics Summit focuses on the key issues that involved the implementation of text analytics.
May 25-27 (Barcelona): White Bull 2010 - The Exits
On May 25-27, 2010, we’ll meet in Barcelona for our inaugural Summit, celebrating the European Innovation Ecosystem and focusing on the Exit - that stage of the game when a company is ready to move to the next level of success.
May 26 (Online): Implementing Open Government: Technology and Policy
WelchmanPierpoint and Percussion Software will share ideas and best practices on how to best interact with citizens online while ensuring that the policy and standards that make Open Government a success are properly established.
May 26-28 (Las Vegas): Forrester's IT Forum
At this Event, Forrester will help each of the roles it serves lead the shift from IT to BT in pragmatic, no-nonsense terms.
May 27-28 (Amsterdam): Advanced Intranet and Portals Forum 2010
Advanced Intranet and Portals Forum 2010 is made up of practical case studies, networking sessions and interactive discussions, carefully designed to help you understand and meet your real Intranet and Portals needs.
May 30 (Wiesbade, Germany): Joomla and Beyond 2010
The Joomla and Beyond conference creates a new environment for open source communities and ecosystems. We go beyond classical conferences in which a small group of people selects presentations out of suggestions of well known speakers. We bring un-conference styles to a new level of collaboration and community involvement.
May 31 - June 2 (San Francisco): ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter Conference (EECI2010)
If you are enthusiastic and passionate about ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter, then EECI2010 US is the conference for you. With internationally renowned speakers and a packed social schedule, EECI2010 is bringing the best of the community to San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center.
June Events
June 2-3 (Online): IBF 24
The must-attend event is a 24 hour online broadcast for anyone involved in intranets or workplace technology.
June 6-8 (Austin): 4th Annual Shared Service Exchange
The Shared Services Exchange will be the elite event for shared services executives looking to develop new strategy, solve challenges and source partners in order to create efficiency and drive more value out of shared services centers.
June 7-9 (Washington, DC): eDisocvery Readiness for Government
A Three-Day Training Conference exploring best practices for proactive electronic records management, information assurance and litigation readiness.
June 7-10 (Baltimore): RailsConf Baltimore 2010
Happening June 7-10, 2010 at the Baltimore Convention Center, RailsConf is *the* official event for the Ruby on Rails community. If you're passionate about Rails and what it helps you achieve—or are curious about how Rails can help you create web frameworks better and faster—RailsConf is the place to be.
June 7-10 (New Orleans): Tech Ed 2010
You'll return to your office with knowledge and expertise that only four days at Tech·Ed can offer. You can learn about today's cutting edge trends, helping make life easier for you (and everyone else) at work. But the most important benefit just might be the networking: you can build personal connections with Microsoft experts and peers that will last far beyond Tech·Ed.
June 7-10 (Copenhagen): Persuasive 2010
The Copenhagen conference will feature new insights, research and practice into how the development and use of technology may change and influence our behavior, thoughts, feelings and society at large.
June 7-14 (New York) Internet Week
Internet Week invites all interested companies and organizations to participate. Like the Web itself, Internet Week is open: anyone can attend events, and anyone can throw events citywide. No organization is too big or too small to be included. Open access for all!
June 8-9 (Chicago): ESC Chicago 2010
If you are an engineer involved in designing and developing embedded systems, you must attend ESC Chicago 2010. The conference is your chance to learn about design techniques and best practices from the leading experts in the industry.
June 15-17 (Chicago): BriForum 2010
This is your exclusive opportunity to get the most independent, advanced, technical information and expert strategies from top-notch industry analysts, bloggers and best-selling authors dedicated to desktop virtualization technology.
June 21-25 (San Francisco): Semantic Technology Conference 2010
The mission of this event is to raise awareness and explain the usage of semantic technologies in business and consumer settings.
June 22-23 (Salzberg, Austria): IKS Early-adopters Workshop
This event launches the IKS Early-adopters programme. It will held on 22-23 June 2010 in Salzburg, Austria. The goal is to bring together the first group of CMS vendors who will evaluate the IKS Stack by integrating IKS components of their choice into their CMS technology platform
June 22-23 (Atlanta): The Business of WordPress
The Business Of WordPress Conference is focused on providing generally non-technical business people with a roadmap for how they can leverage WordPress to establish or advance their business’ presence on the web.
June 22-24 (Santa Clara): O'Reilly Velocity 2010
Velocity, the O'Reilly Web Performance and Operations Conference, demonstrates how to automate performance and ops best practices to make sites fast by default. Now in its third year, Velocity brings together the leaders taking web performance and operations into the future.
June 23-15 (Copenhagen): Umbraco Codegarden 2010
Come join the annual umbraco developer conference in Wonderful Copenhagen on June 24rd - 25th 2010. Two days for insights, eye-openers, great conversations and friendly people - plus a free pre-conference on the 23rd.
June 23-24 (San Francisco): Structure 2010 San Francisco
Whether you’re in a corporation looking to learn about infrastructure best practices or an entrepreneur looking for your next venture, Structure 2010 is a must-attend event that can provide you with the best ideas, contacts and thinkers.
June 23-25 (Berlin): eZ Conference & eZ Awards
The annual eZ Conference and Awards is the largest Open Source Content Management event in Europe. Meet up in Berlin on June 24th and 25th to attend this Web Content Management & Digital Media Conference. The regular Partner meeting is held on the 23rd.
June 24-25 (Berlin): eZ Conference & Awards 2010
eZ Conference 2010 has a wide but focused appeal. eZ's commitment to free and Open Source software means that its ecosystem includes some of the brightest, well-informed professionals worldwide.
June 27-July 1.(Las Vegas): Cisco Live 2010
Cisco Live has a well deserved reputation as one the industry’s best educational values. With hundreds of sessions spanning four educational programs — Networkers, Developer Networker, Service Provider, IT Management, you can build a custom curriculum that can make you a more valuable asset to your workplace and advance your career goals.
June 28-29 (San Francisco): Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference
This conference brings together respected industry authors and thought-leaders of the Web design revolution.
June 28-29 (New York): Luxury Interactive 2010
For the fourth year, Luxury Interactive brings together innovators in luxury marketing, offering solutions for the most pressing issues facing the industry.
June 29 (San Francisco): Social Developer Summit
The first Social Developer Summit will bring together social application developers to discuss the challenges, solutions, and best practices for building applications in the rapidly expanding social web economy.
June 29-30 (London): 2nd Annual Cloud Computing Forum
The 2nd Annual Cloud Computing World Forum is the perfect event for professionals to learn and discuss the development, application, integration and future of cloud computing and saas.
June 29-30 (London): Green Enterprise World Forum
The Green Enterprise World Forum is the perfect event for professionals to learn and discuss the future development and integration of green computing and IT strategies.
June 29-July 2 (Orlando): Science 2.0 and Expansion of Science: S2ES
The purpose of the Organizing Committee of the International Symposium on Science 2.0 and Expansion of Science (S2ES 2010) is to bring together researchers and designers from the three perspectives of the proposed New Science in order to 1) share their reflections regarding each of these three perspectives, 2) analyze what is common among them, and 3) identify the ways they complement each other.
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