Speaking Opportunities for Exhibiting Companies


Following the success of the Online Information 2009 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. The topics contained within these areas are just a guide to some of the current popular themes.

For more information on the speaking opportunities available in each educational programme, please scroll down to the relevant section. To make your submission please use the form found at the bottom of this page, ensuring that you complete all fields and return to laura.roth@incisivemedia.com

 

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

  • All submissions must be made by August 2nd 2010
  • The submissions are reviewed by members of the conference committee
  • All case study proposals will be reviewed throughout August and if you have been successful you will be notified by mid-September. To be selected you 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 the required information within the given timelines may result in withdrawal from the seminar programme.
  • If you have any questions concerning your submission please contact Laura Roth, Senior Conference Producer at the above email address or by telephone on +44 (0)207 004 7422

GLOBAL BUSINESS INFORMATION FORUM

  • Sourcing business information from BRIC countries: challenges and opportunities
  • Maximising competitive intelligence to gain competitive advantage
  • Using social media to enhance competitive intelligence
  • Social Media Innovation within business information
  • Finding a relevant social media application for business information
  • Legal business information: updates and future opportunities
  • The new government and its policies on sharing information and new technology
  • Responding to the new Bribery Act: challenges and opportunities
  • Contract negotiation strategies
  • Challenges of locating and managing business information
  • Impact of new content platforms for information such as the iPad
  • Benefits of real-time data in business information
  • Anticipating the future: new opportunities for obtaining business information
  • Integration of data in your workflow for competitive advantage
  • Risk management and business information

 

STM INFORMATION IN FOCUS

Challenges surrounding the sourcing of

  • Sourcing STM information: Case Studies
  • Emerging markets in STM Information
  • Sourcing STM Information in China
  • Patent Information
  • Medical Information
  • Pharmaceutical Information
  • Chemical Information
  • Healthcare Information
  • Engineering Information
  • Emerging Markets

 

EPUBLISHING SOLUTIONS and EBOOKS

  • Digital business models: intelligent innovation and customer engagement to impact your bottom line
  • Ebook distribution models and strategies
  • The future of Ebooks and the impact on the publishing industry
  • Lessons learned in migrating content from print to digital
  • The evolution of user-generated content and communities
  • Paid content vs freemium model debate: challenges and opportunities
  • New platforms for distributing content and generating revenue (eg iPad)
  • Syndicating content through multimedia and social media channels
  • Driving online profits through successful digital strategies
  • Digital display advertising: challenges and opportunities
  • Increasing revenues through intelligent mobile applications
  • Changing subscription models: new opportunities including Apple iBooks store

 

LIBRARY THEATRE

  • New platforms for distributing content
  • Developing library services for mobile devices
  • Case studies showing innovation in corporate libraries
  • Case studies showing innovation in academic libraries
  • Utilising social networks in libraries
  • Open Access publishing and institutional repositories
  • Tools and technologies for marketing libraries
  • New and future opportunities for library apps with the iPad
  • Being cost effective throughout your library to respond to budget cuts
  • Case studies for RFID implementation
  • Future opportunities in RFID
  • Engaging customers and staff when introducing RFID
  • RFID technology and systems

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

  • Open Source for content management: Benefits and challenges
  • Sharepoint as an information management tool: Challenges and opportunities
  • SaaS: Next generation content management?
  • Migrating and managing content in the Cloud
  • Website findability
  • Digital Asset Management
  • Effective content migration for your CMS
  • Web content management: the business case
  • Semantic technologies and linked data
  • Using social networks with content management to create a community
  • Integrating search and content management strategies
  • Company acquisitions and the affect on the content management market

Visitor Profile:  IT Management professionals; Marketing professionals; Web and Digital professionals; Fincnace professionals

ENTERPRISE SEARCH

  • Linked data - proving the business case
  • Government initiative with linked data and opportunities
  • Search and competitive intelligence
  • Taxonomies, folksonomies and search
  • Opportunities with open Source Search
  • Cloud computing and search: challenges and opportunities
  • Semantic web techniques and linked data
  • Impact of Sharepoint on Search
  • Real-time search tools for immediate results
  • Using search for competitive intelligence and business information
  • Challenges in searching multimedia content
  • Challenges for search and security
  • Case studies identifying successful enterprise search solutions and lessons learnt

Visitor Profile: IT Managers; Inforamtion professionals; Information Management professionals; Taxonomy professionals; Research Managers; Finance professionals

 

MARKETING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA

  • Effectively managing the online reputation of your brand
  • Social Media blunders: Key traps to avoid
  • Developing customer communities to add value
  • Collaboration, customers and community: Innovative case studies
  • Calculating the ROI of your social media strategy
  • Twitter - harnessing the full power of twitter to reap the benefits
  • Incorporating multimedia with existing marketing channels to enhance customer experience
  • Developing digital strategies to incorporate developments in social media channels
  • Social Media for political parties and government institutions
  • Innovation in social media: case studies
  • Devising a social media policy for your organisation
  • The "digital generation" and change in behaviours

MAKE YOUR SUBMISSION NOW

Click here to download submission form (word format)

To view the 2009 show floor seminar programme click here

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