August 31st, 2006
Office 2.0 conference news
I received an e-mail from Ismael Ghalimi of IT|Redux who is organizing the Office 2.0 Conference and things are heating up. There are now more than 50 speakers/facilitators and over 150 115 attendees signed up to engage in panel discussions and in workshops at this inaugural event. If you’re thinking about attending, you might want to get your plans made. Due to the rapid response to the event (which will be capped at around 250 attendees to keep the format workable and productive), the early bird discount will only be available through September 1. By my reckoning, that’s tomorrow. If you register before the end of the day tomorrow you save $200 ($395 versus the full price of $595).
The event will be held on October 11 and 12 at the amazing St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco - truly a five-star venue and the list of participants is very extensive and impressive. So is the proposed agenda and outcomes:
Proposed Agenda Items
- Collective Definition of the Office 2.0 Concept (inspired by Rules for Office 2.0)
- Case for Office 2.0 (inspired by Rationale for Office 2.0)
- Best-of-Breed Office 2.0 Setup (inspired by Office 2.0 Setup)
- Office 2.0 in 2010 (based on Enthiosys’ Remember the Future? methodology)
- Technologies for Office 2.0 (AJAX, microformats, etc.)
- APIs for Office 2.0 (data backup, single sign-on, billing, etc.)
- Office 2.0 and the ODF Standard
- Making Office 2.0 Applications Enterprise Ready
- Office 2.0 Bug Review (inspired by Office 2.0 Bug Tracker)
- Managing Online Documents in an Office 2.0 World
- Infrastructure for Office 2.0 in the Enterprise
- Enterprise 2.0 = Office 2.0 + SOA
- Office 2.0, HR, and PR
- Office 2.0 Use Cases for Sales and Marketing Teams
- Evangelizing Office 2.0
- Business Models for Office 2.0
- Funding Strategies for Office 2.0 Start-ups
- Office 2.0 Vendor Demonstrations
- Office 2.0 Workshop for building your own Office 2.0 setup and migrating legacy data
- Computing & Networking Equipment for Office 2.0
- Blitz Office 2.0 Demonstrations
- Enterprise 2.0 Mashup Demonstrations
Expected Outcome
- Office 2.0 Manifesto (Collective eBook)
- Office 2.0 Best-of-Breed Awards
- Office 2.0 Use Cases
- Office 2.0 Online Mashups
- Technical Recommendations for Office 2.0
Disclaimer: I will be attending as a presenter on behalf of Foldera (my employer) who is a sponsor of the event. C|Net is the media sponsor of the event and there will be a contingent of C|Net and ZDnet folks in attendance to cover the proceedings.
Update: Corrected number of registered attendees
Marc Orchant has been building, testing, and sometimes breaking hardware and software for 25 years. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
