IT Strategy Letter, June 23, 2004

The IT Strategy Letter
Doug Kaye, RDS Strategies LLC
June 23, 2004 (Subscribe)

We're past the summer solstice, the days are long, school is out, and there are conferences nearly every week. I'll be hitting some of the very best of them -- best for IT professionals that is -- and bringing them to you via IT Conversations. Here are three conferences of note: two new ones, and another whose archives I've just posted:

Supernova 2004 (starting tomorrow!)
O'Reilly Open Source Convention (next month)
Open Source Business Conference (from March)

Tomorrow and Friday: Live Audio from Supernova 2004

This is shaping up to be one of the hottest events of the year. If you're not able to be at Supernova 2004 in Santa Clara tomorrow, you can catch many of the sessions live on IT Conversations.

Hear the following presentations live from Supernova 2004.
Click here to listen. Requires Windows Media Player.

Here's our broadcast schedule. Times are Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-0700).

Thursday, June 24
8:30am	Introduction	Kevin Werbach
9:00am	Perspective	Tom Malone (MIT Business School)
9:30am	Perspective	Ray Ozzie (Groove Networks)
9:45am	Panel: The Network is People	Esther Dyson, Mena Trott, Christopher Allen, Ray Ozzie
11:00am	Panel: Syndication Nation	Moderator Paul Boutin; Scott Rosenberg, Dave Sifry, Tim Bray
12:00pm	Perspective	Alan Ganek, VP, Autonomic Computing, IBM

Friday, June 25
8:45am	Introduction	Kevin Werbach
8:45am	Perspective	Jonathan Schwartz (Sun Microsystems)
9:15am	Panel: Exploding the Enterprise	Moderator: Phil Windley; John Hagel III, Halsey Minor, Gordon Eubanks, Darren Lee
11:45am	Panel: Disruptive Wireless	Michael Gallagher, Rob Poor, Vanu Bose, Tren Griffin
1:00pm	The Gillmor Gang	Special live broadcast from the conference.
2:00pm	Perspective	Doc Searls, Senior Editor, Linux Journal
2:30pm	Panel: Is Government the Problem or the Solution?	Moderator Peter Harter; Chris Marsden, Rick White, Scott Blake Harris, Laura Ipsen
4:00pm	Panel: Broadband Life: Bringing it All Together	Moderator Keith Teare; Shawn Hardin, Rob Reid, Joanna Gallanter
5:00pm	Roundtable: Closing the Back-Channel Loop	Liz Lawley, Loic Le Meur, Doc Searls, Dan Gillmor, Judith Meskill

Next month's top event is O'Reilly's Open Source Convention. I'll bring you the keynotes via IT Conversations, but you may want to get yourself to Portland for the meat of the conference, the technical tracks:

Linux - NEW!
Perl Conference 8
PHP Conference 4
Emerging Topics
Python 12 Conference
Apache
XML
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Java
Ruby
Security - NEW!
Products & Services

I was able to get the recordings from the Open Source Business Conference held in San Francisco in March. I've uploaded the audio and transcripts will follow shortly. Among the sessions are some terrific presentations by:

Clayton Christensen
Tim O'Reilly
Lawrence Lessig
Raymond Lane
David Ritter
Jason Matusow
r0ml Lefkowitz
Mark Bregman
William Swope
Samual Greenblatt
Chris Stone
Scott Handy
Dave Parry

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