The 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference
Focuses on the "Attention
Economy"
Sebastopol, CA -- Today's technical challenges are no longer about
generating digital data--we have more than enough already--but rather,
finding innovative ways to visualize, filter, remix, and access it.
The 2006 edition of ETech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference, will grapple with these issues by highlighting the
cutting-edge techniques and technologies highly prolific geeks employ
and invent to make sense of the immense amount of data now pouring
into everyday life. Registration has just opened for ETech, which will
take place March 6-9 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego,
California.
ETech's focus on the "Attention Economy"--a new order of tools and
services to help us sort through the flood of digital data--is gaining
traction throughout all levels of the computing industry. Conference
program chair Rael Dornfest and his committee received a record number
of speaking proposals, one indication of just how critical the issue
of attenuation of data is to the alpha geek community. The preliminary
schedule includes plenary presentations, on-stage conversations,
sessions, and tutorials with:
-Eric Von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management
-Linda Stone, former Microsoft VP
-Jon Udell, InfoWorld
-Bruce Sterling, author
-Caterina Fake, Yahoo!/Flickr
-Jeffrey Veen, Adaptive Path
-Dick Hardt, Sxip
-Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users
-Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media
-Richard Kilmer, InfoEther
-Alex Russell, JotSpot
-Michael Jefferson, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program
-Danah Boyd, University of California, Berkeley
-Mark Pilgrim, IBM
-Jason Schultz, Electronic Frontier Foundation
-Eric Bonabeau, Icosystem
-Amy Jo Kim, game designer
-Nick Ludlum, Promise.tv
-Charles Armstrong, Trampoline Systems
Dornfest and the conference team are planning a number of mind-opening
activities during the event. Back by popular demand is the Maker Fest,
an amazing, hands-on, science fair style demonstration of DIY projects
by and for geeks. In addition, the eBay Developers Challenge has just
been announced; winners of the contest will participate at ETech.
Several sponsors have already lined up to take part at ETech,
including: IBM, MSN Search, Nokia, eBay Developers Program, Sxip,
Taskport, Macromedia, Nokia, Mapquest, and Zimbra.
We're inundated with technologies for creating, aggregating, and
distributing data--the next important breakthroughs will be the tools
that serve as the gatekeepers of our attention. As Jon Udell puts it,
"Devices are on or off. Channels are open or closed. The vast middle
ground between those two states remains largely unexplored." That
middle ground is where we're unleashing the collective intelligence of
ETech 2006.
ETech participants include technologists, CTOs, chief scientists,
researchers, programmers, hackers, business developers, entrepreneurs,
and other interested parties. Last year's ETech hosted a
standing-room-only crowd, and it's anticipated that the 2006 edition
will also reach capacity. Media passes will be available on a limited
basis only.
The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference features a range of
technologies that are growing just below the horizon of commercial
viability, placing a spotlight on the projects, people, and business
models likely to become very important to the future of internet
computing. From peer-to-peer networks, person-to-person mobile
messaging, web services, and weblogs to big screen digital media,
small screen mobile gaming, hardware hacking, and content remixing,
ETech pries open the transformative new technologies destined to show
up in the products and services we're all taking for granted in the
not-too-distant future.
O'Reilly conferences include: the O'Reilly Emerging Telephony
Conference (ETel); OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention; the
O'Reilly European Open Source Convention (EuroOSCON); the MySQL Users
Conference, co-presented with MySQL AB; Where 2.0 Conference; and Web
2.0 (co-hosted by Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle, and co-produced with
MediaLive International). O'Reilly conferences bring together
forward-thinking business and technology leaders shaping ideas and
influencing industries around the globe. For over 25 years, O'Reilly
has facilitated the adoption of new and important technologies by the
enterprise, putting emerging technologies on the map.
Additional Information:
For complete details on ETech sessions, speakers, and activities,
visit: http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech
For eBay Developers Challenge
details, visit: http://ebay.promotionexpert.com/devchallenge2006/splash.html
For news articles, blogs, announcements, and photos (available for use
with attribution) from ETech 2005, see: http://www.oreillynet.com/et2005/
To hear ETech 2005 plenary presentations, visit IT Conversations at:
http://www.itconversations.com/series/etech2005.html
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Other upcoming O'Reilly conferences (http://conferences.oreilly.com):
-O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference, January 24-26, 2006 in
Burlingame, California
-MySQL Users Conference, April 24-27 in Santa Clara, California
-Where 2.0, June 2006 date to be announced in the San Francisco Bay
Area
-O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 24-28 in Portland, Oregon
-O'Reilly European Open Source Convention, early fall 2006
-Web 2.0, fall 2006 in the San Francisco Bay Area
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