Collaborative Technologies Conference Announces Visionary Keynote Speaker Lineup; Industry Influencers to Discuss the Impact of Collaborative Technologies on the Future of Business.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- The 2005 Collaborative Technologies Conference (CTC CTC - Cornell Theory Center ), produced by MediaLive International, Inc., today announced its lineup of keynote speakers. Tom Malone Tom Malone may refer to:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . "CTC 2005 brings together a unique group of collaborative technology users and industry leaders as keynotes to offer the best possible vantage point on the dynamics shaping the collaboration market," said James Smith, Collaborative Technologies Conference General Manager. "With each speaker's unbiased views toward specific vendors, conference attendees will come away with critical information necessary to make decisions about their collaboration strategies and the tools necessary to implement them." On Monday, June 20, Tom Malone, author of the critically acclaimed book The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life, will discuss the convergence of technological and economic factors that are enabling a profound change in business organizations and how collaborative technologies will play a key role. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founder and director of the MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Coordination Science. He is also one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century." Also on Monday, June 20, Larry Cannell, IT Researcher at Ford Motor Company, will moderate a panel of speakers including Melanie Turek of Nemertes Research, Michael Sampson of Shared Spaces, and Clay Shirky of ITP/NYU. The group will question the role of IT in collaboration and explore IT vs. line of business organizations in driving a unified collaboration strategy across today's enterprise. James Surowiecki will speak on Tuesday, June 21. The author of The Wisdom of Crowds and a New Yorker columnist, Surowiecki will discuss a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant -- better at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future. Also on Tuesday, June 21, Anoop Gupta, Corporate Vice President, Real-Time Collaboration, Microsoft, and Gordon (Gord) Quinn, Vice President of Strategic Technology & Business Development, Nortel Networks, will debate an application- vs. telephony-oriented approach to collaboration efforts. CTC 2005 will provide an enterprise-level view of technology applications that will focus on managing communications between individuals and groups within any collaborative environment. Fueled by the ubiquity in IP communications, this event will focus on real time and asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. presence-aware collaboration tools and services such as instant messaging, voice and video communication, team collaboration environments, email, calendaring, wikis See wiki. , blogging and related standardization and compliance issues. CTC 2005 will highlight solutions and provide education that will enable IT and line of business (LoB) professionals to understand the spectrum of collaboration tools available to best leverage the technical, productive and social aspects of IT and workgroup environments. For more information on the Collaborative Technologies Conference tracks, visit: http://www.ctcevents.com/conference/. CTC 2005 Attendee Registration Information is now available at: http://www.ctcevents.com/registration/. CTC 2005 Press and Analyst Registration Information available at: http://www.ctcevents.com/media_analyst_center/. About the Collaborative Technologies Conference 2005 The Collaborative Technologies Conference helps forward-thinking IT and business professionals understand how technologies such as instant messaging, conferencing, shared workspaces, and VoIP can give their organizations a competitive advantage. The program addresses collaborative applications and the infrastructure required to support them, as well as the development of a cohesive strategy that fits your business needs, culture and goals. CTC 2005 will be held June 19-24, 2005 in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . About MediaLive International, Inc. MediaLive International connects companies to the markets they serve through media properties, software tools and marketing solutions that educate buying communities, deepen relationships between buyers and sellers, and fuel market growth. MediaLive International's media brands encompass the IT industry's largest and most well-respected exhibitions, including Interop(R), VoiceCon(R), Next Generation Networks(R), the Web 2.0(R) Conference, Seybold Seminars(R), COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). (R), the Collaboration Technologies Conference, Mobile Business Expo, GTEC GTEC Georgia Tech Emory Center GTEC Technology in Government Week (Canada) GTEC Governor's Technical Excellence Committee (SM), NetWorld(R) and respected publications including Business Communications Review(R) and The Seybold Reports(R). The Wingate Studios division delivers the industry's leading end-to-end event management software platform WingateWeb and professional services -- including strategic planning, technical integration, analytics and event programming -- that help companies produce their own live marketing programs. MediaLive International is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in San Francisco, with offices throughout the world. For more information about MediaLive International, visit www.medialiveinternational.com. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion