Online Information Show Floor Speaking Opportunities for Exhibiting Companies

 

Following the success of the Online Information 2008 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: 

Online Information Seminars

• STM INFORMATION IN FOCUS
• LIBRARIES AND EBOOKS
• EPUBLISHING SOLUTIONS
• GLOBAL BUSINESS INFORMATION FORUM

IMS Seminars

• WEB & ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT
• ENTERPRISE SEARCH SOLUTIONS
• WEB 2.0
• MARKETING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

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 2009
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

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

 

STM INFORMATION IN FOCUS

Topics include Challenges surrounding the sourcing of

• STM information: Case Studies

• Emerging markets in STM Information

• 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

 

LIBRARIES AND EBOOKS

 Topics will include:

• Case studies showing innovation in corporate libraries

• Case studies showing innovation in academic libraries

• Bringing technology and books together

• Integrating ebooks into libraries

• New challenges and opportunities with the evolution of ebooks

• Web 2.0 challenges in corporate libraries

• Social Networks and their use for librarians

• Creating and managing Institutional repositories

• New tools and technologies for teaching

• New platforms for delivering content in a learning environment

• Latest development in Open Access

  Visitor profile:

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

 

EPUBLISHING SOLUTIONS

Topics will include:

• Social networks: Challenges and Opportunities for Publishers
• Building and sustaining a community using Web 2.0
• Integrating workflow tools into your business model
• Driving engagement with your readers
• Open Access on the web
• Shared lessons learned between different publishing sectors
• Opportunities and challenges with vertical search
• The value of the semantic web to publishers
• Distributing content using mobile technologies: New challenges to generate revenue
• Maximising your digital audience
• Case studies illustrating successful epublishing solutions

 

 Visitor profile:

• Publishing manager
• Business development manager
• Marketing manager
• Project manager
• Content manager
• Web developer
• New media manager
• Channel manager
• Information architect

• Syndication manager

GLOBAL BUSINESS INFORMATION FORUM

• Discovering competitive intelligence to drive your business forward
• 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
• Legal business information - update from legal publishers
• 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 iphone
• The role of business information in risk management
• Opportunities for information professionals in the credit crunch
• Assessing collaborative technologies for delivering and assessing quality content
• The use of Web 2.0 and social/professional networking tools for identifying experts and potential collaborators
• The benefits of Social Networking sites such as twitter and LinkedIn in the business arena
• Using Real-time data in business information
• Strategies for obtaining business information after the downturn - challenges and opportunities

WEB & ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT

 Topics will include:

• Website Findability

• Challenges and opportunities of Sharepoint as an information management tool

• Open Source Software for Content Management

• Latest Content Management tools and techniques

• Considerations when selecting and implementing a CM system

• The future of the intranet and other ways to keep employees engaged

• Case Studies on best practice in Content Management

• The rise of Web 2.0 and Community Involvement

• Integrating CM with Search, KM and DM

• Making the business case for ECM

• New applications of metadata

• Integrating search and content management strategies

• CMS vs ECM vs EDRMS vs Office 2.0

Visitor profile:

• IT Management Professionals
• Marketing Professionals
• Web and Digital Professionals
• Finance Professionals

ENTERPRISE SEARCH SOLUTIONS

Topics will include:

• Open Source Search

• Cloud Computing and its impact on Search

• Using taxonomies and metadata to drive successful search

• Semantic Search in the enterprise

• Developing an Enterprise Search Strategy

• Gaining easier access to information with new search solutions

• Case studies pinpointing successful enterprise search solutions

• Managing your organisations search processes

• Security issues in Enterprise Search

• Integrating search and content management strategies

• Metasearch

• Real-time Search

• Searching multimedia content: image, audio and video search

• Upgrading your enterprise search system

• Challenges and Opportunities in Vertical Search

• Impact of Sharepoint on Search

• Sentiment Mining

Visitor profile:

• IT Managers
• Information Professionals
• Information Management Professionals
• Taxonomy Professionals
• Research Managers
• Finance Professionals

 

MARKETING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

 

Topics will include:

 

• Using Social Media for your brand

• When Social Media can go wrong – pitfalls to avoid

• Building and Sustaining a community to generate revenue

• Twitter – how to successfully use it to add value to your company

• Twitter – a time waster or a value adder?

• Managing your online reputation on Twitter, Facebook, Google etc

• Incorporating Twitter into your marketing strategy

• Leveraging user-generated content in email marketing

• Online Reputation Management

• Effectively monitoring what is being said about your brand on blogs and social networks

• How companies are using social networks to interact with their customers

• Blended Search

• Social Media for Political parties and government institutions

• Case studies of successful uses of social media in marketing strategies

• Behavioural targeting – the privacy debate

• Viral Marketing

• Internal IT adoption of the value of social media to your company

Visitor profile:

 

• IT management
• Marketing professionals
• Web and digital professionals
• Finance professionals
  

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