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GoingGreen East
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- Published on Wednesday, 03 March 2010 13:46
- Written by L E Shannon
8th-10th, 2010, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston, MA. GoingGreen East is where cutting-edge greentech CEOs meet top investors and the movers and shakers from the biggest industries on earth. This executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on the most promising emerging green technologies and new entrepreneurial opportunities. At GoingGreen East, the GoingGreen Top 50 Private Companies will be honored. Up to 50 greentech CEOs will also pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in the "CEO Showcases."
Cleantech remains in transition, with 2010 bringing an uncertain political climate and relentlessly emerging technologies as disruptive as ever. From next-generation solar to new wind energy innovations to a diverse array of energy storage technologies to smart grid and smart cities, GoingGreen East will bring the most interesting CEOs, the most interesting companies, the most promising technologies—and no fluff. No other event delivers a lineup of cleantech superstars with as much depth and diversity as GoingGreen East.
Some of the topics are:
The Green Energy of Tomorrow
The Green City
Green Consumer Products
Alternative Fuels - Landfill Waste, Animal Fat, Plant Fiber
Water Entrepreneurs
Mega-Projects - Watering & Cooling the World
The Next Generation Automobile
What are the Most Lucrative, Transformative Green Technologies?
Some of the speakers are:
Miles Baker, CEO, Modular Wind Energies, Inc
Joe Dews, Managing Director & Head of Cleantech Banking, ThinkEquity LLC
Mark Fischetti, Board of Editors, Scientific American
John Soininen, VP Development, Eolian Renewable Energy LLC
Elise Zoli, Partner, Goodwin Procter
Fifty top CEOs will have the opportunity to present their market strategies and business partnering objectives on the main stage at GoingGreen East. Qualifying companies are either public or privately held and ideally come from one of the following industry sectors:
- Solar Energy
- Biofuel & Agriculture
- Clean Energy (not solar or biofuel)
- Energy Storage Systems
- Energy Management, Smart Grid & Energy Efficiency
- Water Technology & Water Management
- Green Materials, Green Buildings, Green Nano/Micro-Tech
- Green Automobiles & Transportation
- Clean Manufacturing & Clean Products
- Resource Recovery & Waste Management
For more information, visit http://alwayson.goingon.com/ecom/productview.
GoingGreen East
March 8-10, 2010
Four Seasons—Boston
200 Boylston St.
Boston, MA 02116
617-338-4400
Digital Strategies Conference
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 March 2010 08:09
- Written by L E Shannon
Digital Strategies Conference is being held on March 10, 2010 at the Fairmont Royal York
Hotel in Toronto, Canada. This event focuses on what you need to know to effectively market your products and services in the Digital Age.
Whether one is a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, online marketing is key to today’s business success. Savvy marketers and business owners understand how to use the latest e-business tools and make smart investment decisions with limited marketing dollars.
Event speakers include:
Louise Clements, Head of Sales, Facebook in Canada 
Scott Fox, Entrepreneur, Online Marketing and E-Commerce Success Coach and Author of eRiches 2.0
Bob Garfield, Author, The Chaos Scenario, Co-Host, NPR's On The Media, Columnist, Advertising Age
Aimee Higgins, VP, Strategy & Planning, Pandora (USA)
Presentations and Panels include:
"Top Digital Media & Marketing Trends You Need To Know"
Leading analysts and industry leaders kick-off the day’s discussions with an overview of the latest research that reflects and illustrates the current state of digital advertising and marketing as well as the directions in which the industry is heading.
"Be Found Online - The Latest In Search Engine Optimization and Marketing (SEO/SEM) Strategies"
This hands-on panel discusses best practices and gives tangible advice for 
how to use different online tools for keyword research, and how to use search engines to quantify competition and maximize the ROI of one’s marketing investment.
"Show Don’t Tell - How to Maximize your Marketing ROI using Online Video Platforms/Tools"
The focus is on identifying how to best utilize online video from the content owner's as well as marketer's perspective.
For further information, visit www.digitalstrategiesconference.com.
Digital Strategies Conference
March 10, 2010
The Fairmont Royal York
100 Front Street W
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
416.368.2511
"ICT-theology" at CeBIT 2010
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 March 2010 07:11
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ermany, from March 2 - 6, 2010 at the Exhibition Grounds Hannover, the largest exhibition facility in the world. The mix of exhibits, conferences, keynote addresses, corporate events and business lounges makes it the primary annual meeting point for ICT (Information and communication technologies) buyers, sellers, developers and users from around the globe. The show features all the latest IT and telecommunications products, services and solutions, and highlights the themes "Business IT," "ICT Infrastructure" and "Future ICT." The keynote topic is "Connected Worlds," and "Open Source" is a main theme.
Speakers include:
Diane M. Bryant, Intel Corporation
Stewart Butterfield, Flickr.com
Stephen Felice, Dell Inc.
Jan Geldmacher, Vodafone
Adolfo Hernandez, Alcatel Lucent
Jon Iwata, IBM Corporation
Natalya Kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab
Mark Kingdon, Linden Lab
Russ Shaw, Skype
B. Kevin Turner, Microsoft Corporation
Dr. Werner Vogels, amazon.com
This year’s conference tracks are:
Business IT
- Open Source Solutions
- Professional Output /Office Solutions
- Service Oriented Architecture
- Customer Relationship Management
- AutoID/RFID
- Web Based Solutions
- Enterprise Mobility
- Webciety Forum
- Telematics & Navigation
- Transport & Logistics
- Live Demonstrations of Telematics
TeleHealth
- eHealth
- Telemedicine
- Healthcare Management
- Living 2020
- Basic, Applied and Corporate Research
- Start-ups & Spin-offs
- ICT Solutions for the Public Sector
- IT Solutions for Municipal Public Utility Undertakings, Municipal Establishments and Service Providers
- Geoinformation Systems
- Citizens Meet the Public Authorities
- Financial Solutions
- Software for Banking & Financial Services
- Card Technology for Banking & Finance
- Equipment & Systems
- Anti Spam & Anti Virus Solutions
- Biometrics
- Security & Availability in Data Centers
- Video Surveillance
- Mobile Security
- Fixed Line & Network Solutions, Infrastructure
- Unified Communication
- Carriers & Providers
- Network Components
- Network Computing Software & Services
- Consumer Electronics
- Mobile & Personal Storage
- Display Technologies
- Kiosk Systems & Technologies
- Digital Signage
Running concurrently with CeBIT are the third annual CeBIT Global Conferences, held in the Convention Center. These are discussion forums for innovations and prognoses from representatives of the ICT industry, telecommunications and new media. This year's theme is "The Challenges of a Changing World – ICT for Better Lives and Better Business."
The conference features a five-day series of keynotes, roundtables and talks with top speakers and panelists sharing their visions and future agendas. This year's conferences include "@music: About Pirates, Artists and Consumers," a think tank in which experts debate the future of the music industry in the Internet age.
Topics and speakers include:
"The Biggest Thing Since the Domestication of Animals" – Stewart Butterfield, co-founder, Flickr.com
"Cloud Computing for the End User" – Dr. Zvi Schreiber, founder and CEO, Ghost Inc.
"Next Generation Digital Music; Delivering a Unified Music Experience Through Connected Consumer Electronics" – Martin Blomkvist, director, Head of Global Content Acquisition & Partner Management, Sony Ericsson
The world's premier Linux certification organization and one of the world’s leading open source companies, the Linux Professional Institute (LPI), and its affiliate, LPI Central Europe, will host a program of activities that include sessions with longtime LPI supporters such as Ingo Wichmann, Peer Heinlein, Anselm Lingnau, Ralph Dehner and Michael Gisbers. LPI Central Europe will also host exam labs, which include exams in LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 (101, 102, 201, 202) - in German and English; LPIC-3 (301, 302, 303) - in English; and the Univention Certified Professional exam (LPI 198) - in German.
For more information about the CeBIT conferences, visit www.cebit.de.
CeBIT 2010 / CeBIT Global Conferences
March 2-6, 2010
Exhibition Grounds Hannover
Messegelände
Hannover 30521 Germany
Take a Page from the NY Times Travel Show
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- Published on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 05:00
- Written by Laura Blum
Watching your wallet but still lusting to wander in 2010? If you're in Manhattan February 26 – 28, 2010, swing by The New York Times Travel Show at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.
Presented by American Express, the show brandishes some 500 destinations, resorts, hotels, cruises and tours to fanaticize over while spelunking the cavernous hall of pavilions and regional exhibits.
Giveaways are ubiquitous for those who fill forms, and less patient sorts can learn about snagging outlandish travel deals by attending Saturday and Sunday's seminars. Top industry names brighten the lineup, including gurus Arthur and Pauline Frommer; 1,000 Places to See Before You Die author Patricia Schultz; and The New York Times' own Stuart Emmrich.
Television personality and travel scribe Julia Dimon will take her audience "Beyond the Tourist Zone" to fair trade coffee farms in Nicaragua and slimy critters in the Venezuelan jungle, among other highlights from her 80-country exploits. And a session with PBS Travelscope host Joseph Rosendo reveals why Thailand, India and Guatamala are good 2010 getaways.
Also sharing tales from the road is a panel of travel writers that includes Susan Orlean and David Farley. Aspiring travel writers can catch a seminar with gonomad.com's Max Hartshorne and Kent St. John, and anyone with a hankering for Cuba, family bargains or gay-friendly destinations will find seminars to match. Many of the forums are followed by author book signings at Borders Books.
Besides travel tips, big Travel Show draws are the cultural fanfare and exotic cuisine. This year, Javits's six performance stages show off a repertoire of dancers and musicians, from the Dominican Republic's Clarinetes Mágicos to South Africa's soccer-inspired Diski Dance honoring the 2010 World Cup.
Family attractions abound. Kids can get up-close and personal with live penguins and sloths at "Wild Things: Live!," while stressed parents take in the ancient Eastern art of circular breathing.
For Javits globetrotters who work up an appetite, they can sample menus from the Mexican revolution and spicy Indian poori, or enjoy cruise fare without turning green as Norwegian Cruise Line Chef Eric Cousin ladles out tastes from the sea.
And given December's reported 23% spike in cruise spending by American Express card holders, there may be cause for celebration.
This year's Travel Show unfolds amid signs of recovery in several other sectors of the travel industry as well. Taken together with pent-up travel interest and irresistible bargains, consumers are starting to look for places to vacation in 2010.
Thankfully, the Javits Center is large enough to accommodate the weekend's anticipated crowds.
In any case, there's no talk of bumping anyone.
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
644 West 34th Street
New York, NY
http://www.nyttravelshow.com/
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