Tech Events in July

July 3-7, 2006
ECOOP 06
Nantes,
France

The ECOOP 06 conference covers areas related to object technology. ECOOP offers input on a wide spectrum of object-orientation issues through papers and presentations. Topics include areas such as AOP, modularity, adaptability, and frameworks. ECOOP 06 offers a number of workshops which serve as a forum for exchanging emerging research and practice ideas.

Website: http://www.emn.fr/x-info/ecoop2006/index.html

July 6-7, 2006
The CIO Dashboard
Hotel Radisson Casa Grande
Monterrey
Mexico

Information technology is integral to managing business risk and maximizing value from IT. The CIO Dashboard is an easy-to-understand performance measurement tool that reports IT results in terms of critical success factors (CSFs) and key performance indicators (KPIs). This half-day workshop uses case studies and examples of successful dashboards to highlight the benefits of implementing a comprehensive CIO Dashboard.

Website: http://ciodashboard.cutter.com.mx/ciodashengl.html

July 10-11, 2006
SES Latino '06
InterContinental Hotel
Miami
Florida
USA

This event covers search engine marketing and optimization issues for the Hispanic and Latin America markets encompassing over 25 countries. The event provides innovative approaches and right tactics for dealing with these markets.

Website: http://www.jupiterevents.com/sew/latino06

July 10-11, 2006
Strategy to Reality - ’Securing the Converged Enterprise’
Texas State University
Austin
Texas
USA

This 2-day executive IT forum explores effective security strategies for multi-vendor integration and covers the latest solutions for regulatory compliance, crypto, firewalls, HIPPA, SB 1386, vulnerabilities and exploits.

Website: http://www.ip3inc.com

July 10-13, 2006
OMG: Real-time and Embedded Systems Workshop
Hilton Arlington and Towers
Washington, DC
USA

The Object Management Group (OMG) provides a widely-used set of standards for real-time and embedded systems. OMG hosts this workshop as a forum for standards users, researchers and implementers to share their experiences. Presentations and discussions at the workshop will also help shape future of OMG standards.

Website: http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/realtime2006/index.htm

July 11-12, 2006
Minimalism: Creating Manuals People Can Use
Oracle Corporation
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
USA

JoAnn Hackos is renowned in the area of manual development and this event helps writers understand how to get maximum return on a single-sourcing investment by reducing the quantity of documentation by focusing on the needs of the users, eliminating unnecessary verbiage, and aligning documentation strategy with a company’s market position.

Website: http://www.comtech-serv.com/workshops/index.shtml

July 10-11, 2006
Women in Games 2006 Conference
University of Teesside
Middleborough Tess Valley
UK

The conference invites women and men to create a meaningful dialogue between the sexes on the issue of games.

Website: http://www.womeningames.com

July 11-13, 2006
The Develop Conference and Expo
Hilton Brighton Metropole
Brighton
UK

The conference is brings together creative and talented individuals from every sector of games development and many parts of the world - from development directors to grass roots developers. The event is also open to aspiring developers on approved courses throughout the UK and Europe who are about to embark on careers within the industry. The event offers a full two-day program of 42 sessions split across six tracks; workshops, and walk-in seminars.

Website: http://www.developconference.com

July 12, 2006
PMI Silicon Valley Tools and Techniques Forum
SDForum Offices, 111 W. Saint John, Suite 200
San Jose,
California
USA

Prism Methodology offers a delivery engine that is in alignment with your internal corporate culture and will save millions of dollars on projects. The Delivery Process Engine (DPE) enables speedy delivery of project artifacts, individual deliverables, enhanced productivity, process excellence and corporation-wide scheduling expertise.

Website: http://www.sdforum.org/SDForum/Templates/CalendarEvent.aspx?CID=1930&mo=5&yr=2006

July 17-18, 2006
Strategy to Reality -’Securing the Converged Enterprise’
Pace University
New York
USA

This 2-day executive IT forum explores effective security strategies for multi-vendor integration and covers the latest solutions for regulatory compliance, crypto, firewalls, HIPPA, SB 1386, vulnerabilities and exploits.

Website: http://www.ip3inc.com

July 17-18, 2006
Mobilizing the Enterprise Summit
Back Bay Events Center
Boston
Massachusetts
USA

Yankee Group's first annual Mobilizing the Enterprise Summit explores the impact of mobility on Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Business Applications, Network Services and Wireless Infrastructure. The event offers insight into the mobile framework being developed to cost-effectively deliver mobile enterprise solutions.

Website: http://www.yankeegroup.com/public/events/conferences/dsjul06/main.jsp?code=nltradealert32708

July 18, 2006
Business Intelligence SIG: Pricing & Yield Management at Yahoo!
Cubberly Community Center, Room H-1
4000 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto
California
USA

Pricing and Yield Management is a discipline that has been adapted to the management of Yahoo!'s advertising. The event will compare and contrast traditional Yield Management to Yahoo!'s situation and will give an overview of how Yahoo! leverages data to make informed decisions about pricing and managing advertising inventory.

Website: http://www.sdforum.org/SDForum/Templates/CalendarEvent.aspx?CID=1956

July 18-19, 2006
IT Security Summit 06
Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre
Sydney
NSW
Australia

The event provides an insight into future challenges and opportunities with sessions covering strategy, implementation and best practices in topics such as wireless security, identity theft, security architectures, spam, security management, and network security.

Website: http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/sec2a.jsp

July 20-21, 2006
Strategy to Reality -’Securing the Converged Enterprise’
Capitol College
Laurel/Baltimore
Maryland

This 2-day executive IT forum explores effective security strategies for multi-vendor integration and covers the latest solutions for regulatory compliance, crypto, firewalls, HIPPA, SB 1386, vulnerabilities and exploits.

Website: http://www.ip3inc.com

July 23-28, 2006
Agile Conference 06
Minneapolis Hyatt
Minneapolis
Minnesota
USA

The event covers agile techniques and provides input on how to run meetings, design user interfaces effectively, and test, design, set up and manage projects. The event provides input into Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, FDD, Crystal, Adaptive, and a range of methodologies.

Website: http://agile2006.org

July 23rd-28th 2006
XML Summer School 2006
Wadham College-University of Oxford
Oxford
England

XML Summer School 06 is relevant for everyone using, designing or implementing XML-based and related technology solutions. The event offers world renowned speakers who can apply this new technology to real world applications. Also offers a ‘hands on’ introduction appropriate for newcomers.

Website: http://www.xmlsummerschool.com/index.htm

July 26-28, 2006
Open Publish 2006
Avillion Hotel
Sydney
Australia

Open Publish considers open IT standards in an environment where interfaces for web infrastructure grow more common and management and production faces escalating complexity. The event focuses on topics that help attendees to understand and leverage returns from commonly available technology.

Website: http://www.openpublish.com.au

July 25-27, 2006
AlwaysOn Innovation Summit @ Stanford
Arrillaga Center
Palo Alto
California

The event honors the ‘AO100 Top Private Company Innovators’ with 50 of its top CEOs pitching their business plans to a panel of industry insiders. The top three companies will be given the opportunity to present to the audience on the main stage at the end of the event.

Website: http://www.alwayson-network.com/events/index.php?t_ref=AOHP1

July 26-28, 2006
International eParticipation and Local Democracy Symposium
Hotel Inter-Continental
Budapest
Hungary

Senior government officials from central and local government, NGOs from around the world and leading e-Government experts come together to discuss the evolving relationship between e-Participation, social inclusion and e-Government and to establish a new conceptual framework for citizen-centric government.

Website: http://www.eparticipationsymposium.com

July 24-28, 2006
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention
Oregon Convention Center
Portland
Oregon
USA

The O'Reilly Open Source Convention offers coders, entrepreneurs, and business people working open source software a forum to share ideas and find solutions. OSCON 2006 feature projects, technologies, and covers the skills required to write and deploy modern applications.

Website: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006

July 31-August 4, 2006
Security '06-15th USENIX Security Symposium
The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
Vancouver
CANADA

The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in the security of computer systems and networks.

Website: http://www.usenix.org/events/sec06