Collaborative Technologies Conference Sessions, Tutorials to Focus on Next-Generation Communication Tools and Implementation.

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COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE SESSIONS, TUTORIALS TO FOCUS ON NEXT-GENERATION COMMUNICATION TOOLS AND IMPLEMENTATION

Conference to Help IT and Business Leaders Examine Advantages and Potential Pitfalls of Communication Solutions for Workgroup Environments

The 2005 Collaborative Technologies Conference (CTC), produced by MediaLive International, Inc., today announced its full conference program containing in-depth tutorials, sessions, and the successful CIO Bootcamp series. The 2005 CTC conference program offers three tracks to help IT and business leaders develop and implement a collaboration strategy that covers infrastructure and applications for technologies such as instant messaging, conferencing, team workspaces, wikis, VoIP and communication dashboards. CTC 2005 is the first and only conference and demonstration pavilion dedicated to the breadth of collaboration technologies, helping attendees understand how to best leverage the technical, productive and social aspects of IT and workgroup environments. The 2005 Collaborative Technologies Conference (http://www.ctcevents.com) will take place June 19-24, 2005 at PIER SIXTY, Chelsea Piers, New York.

"With the collaboration market set to explode, we know how important it is to bring together key decision makers and influencers to discuss, define and clarify what's next for the industry," said James Smith, Collaborative Technologies Conference General Manager. "CTC 2005 will highlight the spectrum of collaboration tools available to attendees and how those options can benefit their bottom line."

The 2005 CIO Bootcamp program will also be held during CTC, taking place on June 23 and 24. CIO Bootcamp is an intensive two-day program to help aspiring CIOs, CTOs, and senior IT executives understand the issues involved in landing and excelling in the role of the CIO. This program will give attendees instruction, guidance and counsel on developing and fine-tuning the skills necessary to become a successful CIO. CIO Bootcamp will be led by Thornton May, CIO Bootcamp chairperson, along with the "CIO Posse" to present real-world scenarios and share experiences with participants who will learn skills critical to their jobs from highly respected experts.

Complete information about tutorials, sessions, and CIO Bootcamp is as follows:

CTC 2005 Tutorials

--The 7 Pillars of IT-Enabled Team Productivity

--Effective Virtual Teams

--Architecting Your Network for Real-Time Collaboration

CTC 2005 Sessions

--Collaboration is IT's Last Chance to Matter

--Architecting Your Network for Real-Time Collaboration

--Effective Virtual Teams

--Supporting Instant Messaging for Safe & Effective Use

--Blogs and Wikis: Emergent Collaboration in the Enterprise

--Effective Meetings in a Virtual World

--Real-Time Means Always On: New Standards for Network Performance

--Real-Time Communications Dashboards

--Business Processes: Time for a Change

--Access Alert: Protecting your Intellectual Property

--Presence: The Battle for the Desktop

--The Virtual Workplace

--Conferencing Applications: Are They Becoming Commodities?

--Convergence: The Key to Collaboration

--Collaboration with an Open Source Project: CivicSpace

--The Standards Debate, And Why it Matters to You

--Collaborative Team Workspaces: The New Locus for Team Work

--Creating a Collaboration Strategy

--Integration and Interoperability: Priority Number One

--Social Networking Apps: Real Value for the Organization?

--Patterns of High-Performance Collaboration (or How to Collaborate Without Really Trying)

--The Evolution of Video Conferencing - Integration Everywhere

--Securing Your Collaboration Efforts from Malware Threats

--Who Needs IT? Simple Lightweight Applications You Can Use

--Evaluating Collaboration Pricing Models

--Compliance

--The Business Value of VOIP

--Extending Collaborative Applications to the Mobile Worker

--Open Source Collaboration Solutions

--Redefining IT

--Online Communities for Collaborative Knowledge Sharing, Learning, and Organizational Change

--Content Management Software Goes Collaborative

CTC 2005 CIO Bootcamp

--Thornton May, Futurist and Dean of the IT Leadership Academy in Jacksonville, Florida

--Edward May

--Joe Szmadzinski

--Dennis Reiman, AVP MIS and DSS professor, Florida Community College

--Rob Rennie, VP Technology & CIO, FCCJ Technology

--Terry Conner

--Bruce Barnes, President and CEO, Bold Vision, LLC 

For more information on the CTC conference program, visit: http://www.ctcevents.com/ataglance/?s=full_program.

More information on CIO Bootcamp is available at: http://www.ctcevents.com/conference/?s=cio_bootcamp.

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 at PIER SIXTY, Chelsea Piers, New York City.

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(R), the Collaboration Technologies Conference, Mobile Business Expo, GTEC(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 headquartered in San Francisco, with offices throughout the world. For more information about MediaLive International, visit www.medialiveinternational.com.