Online Information Show Floor Speaking Opportunities for Exhibiting Companies

Following the success of the Online Information 2007 show floor educational programmes we are once again looking for speakers who can share expertise and advice with exhibition visitors: information professionals, technology professionals and end users.
  
Speaking opportunities for exhibiting companies are available in each of the following educational programmes: 

  • BUSINESS INFORMATION IN FOCUS
  • STM INFORMATION IN FOCUS
  • FOCUS ON ACADEMIC/CORPORATE LIBRARIES
  • CONTENT IN CONTEXT
  • EPUBLISHING SOLUTIONS

For more information on the speaking opportunity available in each educational programme please scroll down the page to the relevant section.

To make your submission please use the submission form found at the bottom of this page, ensuring you complete all the fields and return to: laura.roth@incisivemedia.com

IMPORTANT INFORMATION  - Please read this section before making your submission:

1. All submissions must be received by August 1st 2008
2. The submissions are reviewed by the conference editorial team and members of the conference committee
3. All case study proposals will be reviewed throughout August and if you have been successful you will be notified by September 1st.
4. To be selected you will need to mark an 'X' in the box on page 2 of the submission form which states you will adhere to the marketing deadlines as laid out in the submission form.  Failure to send in the required information within the given timelines may result in withdrawal from the seminar programme.
5. Priority will be given to blue chip case studies where applicable. 

If you have any questions concerning your submission please contact  Laura Roth, Senior Conference Executive at the above email address or by telephone: +44 (0)207 316 9126


BUSINESS INFORMATION IN FOCUS

Examining financial, legal, market research and competitive intelligence issues in the context of buyers’ needs.

Topics will include:

  • Discovering competitive intelligence to drive your business forward
  • Key advice for seeking the most  effective  information sources for financial services
  • Benefiting from emerging markets and products
  • Challenges of sourcing business information from BRIC countries
  • Essential strategies for negotiating and partnering with vendors
  • Proving your value as an information professional in the current financial situation
  • Challenges of locating and managing business information
  • Capitalising on new gadgets for information such as ebooks and the new iphone
  • The role of business information in risk management
  • Overcoming the threat of the credit crunch to information professionals
  • Assessing collaborative technologies for delivering and assessing quality content
  • Legal business information - update from legal publishers 
Explore and compare:
  • Financial
  • Legal
  • Market research
  • Competitive intelligence resources

Visitor profile:

  • Information managers from corporate/workplace librarians including public and private sector e.g. banking, finance, legal, government
  • Librarians from corporate/workplace including public and private sector e.g. banking, finance, legal, government
  • Researchers
  • End users


Speaking opportunity:
To provide a 30 minute presentation (including 5 mins Q&A) on one of the above topics, examining key issues within the topic and providing practical advice.

 

STM INFORMATION IN FOCUS

Examining scientific, technical and medical information related issues.

Topics include challenges surrounding the sourcing of:

  • Sourcing STM information: Case studies
  • Sourcing STM information in China
  • Patent information
  • Medical information
  • Pharmaceutical information
  • Chemical information
  • Healthcare information
  • Engineering information
  • Emerging markets
Visitor profile:
  • Information managers from academic, government and corporate organisations including public and private sector
  • Academic librarians
  • Corporate/workplace librarians including government and other private & public sector
  • Knowledge Managers from public and private sectors
  • Researchers


Speaking opportunity:
To provide a 30 minute presentation (including 5 mins Q&A) on one of the above topics, examining key issues within the topic and providing practical advice.


FOCUS ON ACADEMIC & CORPORATE LIBRARIES

A half day programme that focuses on challenges facing academic & corporate libraries and librarians. 

Academic Libraries topics will include:

  • Social operating systems
  • Web 2.0 challenges in academic libraries
  • Latest development in Open Access
  • Improving information literacy
  • Do VLEs provided a new opportunity to increase library/academic co-operation
  • New developments in institutional repositories

Corporate Libraries topics will include:

  • Latest technologies for corporate libraries
  • Web 2.0 challenges in corporate libraries
  • Strategies for marketing the corporate library
  • Supporting remote users in corporate libraries
  • Empowering your users and understanding their needs
  • Case Study: Innovation in corporate libraries
  • New tools, training and service provision for the next generation workforce
  • Tackling issues with the 'information explosion' on the internet


Visitor profile:

  • Information professionals
  • Knowledge managers
  • Researchers
  • Corporate/workplace/academic librarians

S peaking opportunity:
To provide a 30 minute presentation (including 5 mins Q&A) on one of the above topics.


CONTENT IN CONTEXT

A half day programme that focuses on the challenges of content deployment.

Topics will include:

  • Latest trends in eBook deployment
  • Revenue models for eBooks
  • Practical aspects of implementing eBooks
  • eBook consumption patterns
  • Key developments in the eBook industry
  • Trends and challenges in content deployment
  • Innovation in content deployment
  • New models for content deployment
Visitor profile:
  • Information professionals
  • Knowledge managers
  • IT Managers
  • Intranet/portal/web managers
  • Content managers
  • Researchers
  • Corporate/workplace/academic librarians

Speaking opportunity:
To provide a 30 minute presentation (including 5 mins Q&A) on one of the above topics. 

 

EPUBLISHING SOLUTIONS

This one day, highly popular seminar programme looks at the latest trends and technologies for ePublishers.

Topics will include:

  • Open access on the web
  • The impact of social networks & opportunities for publishers
  • Creating & building a community using Web 2.0
  • Developing successful workflows: integrating digital into your existing environment
  • Developments in eBooks, where is it going?
  • Case studies illustrating how scholarly and professional publishers have adopted electronic publishing applications
  • How patterns of content consumption are changing
  • How technology enables changing patterns of consumption - and what's ahead
  • How are publishers innovating in the content products they offer - and what's ahead
  • Shared lessons learned between different publishing sectors (are there lessons to be learned for example from open access) 
Visitor profile:
  • Publishing manager
  • Business development manager
  • Marketing manager
  • Project manager
  • Content manager
  • Web developer
  • New media manager
  • Channel manager
  • Information architect
  • Syndication manager


Case study speaking opportunity:
To put forward a client (preferably blue chip corporate or public sector) to provide a 30 minute case study presentation (including 5 mins Q&A) on one of the above topics. The client must be the primary speaker.

MAKE YOUR SUBMISSION NOW

Lucy Mordini, Proquest
"The show has been fantastic for us - really, really good and we will be coming back next year. This is the key event of the whole year."

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