2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference CFP

For Immediate Release
For more information, contact:
Suzanne Axtell (707) 827-7114 or suzanne@oreilly.com

Call for Participation Opens for the 2006
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference

Sebastopol, CA--ETech--the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference--has
just issued the call for participation for the 2006 edition of the annual
event. Technologists, CTOs, chief scientists, researchers, programmers,
hackers, business developers, entrepreneurs, and other interested parties
are invited to ETech to lead conference sessions and tutorials. Topics
will be loosely gathered around the cutting-edge techniques and
technologies highly prolific geeks employ and invent to help focus (and
filter) the immense amount of data now pouring into everyday life. The
2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference will happen March 6-9 at the
Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, California. Proposals are due no
later than September 19, 2005.

"Since we first conceived ETech five years ago, the stuff of which it is
made shows no sign of abating: bandwidth continues to broaden, cycles are
going spare, storage grows ever larger and cheaper, and content keeps
pouring from the fire hose," commented conference chair Rael Dornfest on
the motivation behind the 2006 conference concept. "No longer constrained
by any virtual limits, we're feeling the effects of this flood of digital
assets."

It's no longer about generating digital data--we have more than enough
already. The challenge is now: How do we visualize the data, filter it,
remix it, and access it in ways meaningful to us? The opportunity created
by the massive data web is one of social good, personal benefit, and
business advantage.  Some of the specific topics on the radar for the next
ETech are:

- Aggregation, Attention, and Attenuation

 What tools and techniques have alpha geeks and research labs produced and
 remix ecosystem encourages design for the people who will use it. In
 many subtle and not-so-subtle ways we're seeing user experience and design
 returning to software. How does one escape the standard
 database-view-as-application of the 90s? What developments in UI and HCI
 design promise to empower users rather than confuse and overwhelm them?

- You Can Take It With You

 With a global population always on the move, how do we marry the
 of end-to-end applications to the power of disconnected
 operation? What techniques let us successfully take disconnected web
 applications and then resynchronize when we are next connected?

- Data as Platform

 With Google joining the ranks of water, power, and gas as an assumed
 utility (at least in the popular mindset), are there more data sources and
 services in our midst that are all but assumed to be there? How can data
 visualization use our cognitive preattention to assimilate data quickly,
 rather than just paging through a database view? Will remixing always be a
 hack, or are there ways to offer stable commercial services around remixed
 applications?

- Business

 What will the new business models look like? Will we simply fall back into
 our old 90s habits? Or, perhaps worse, shy away from taking the risks
 needed for truly innovative ideas to have a chance?

- Radar Traces

 What's keeping the alpha geeks up at night, noodling, writing code, and
 pushing the edge? What are they building in their garage that will change
 the world, surprise and delight us, or simply shake us out of our
 assumptions?

The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference features a range of
technologies that are growing just below the horizon of commercial
viability, and place a spotlight on 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 important new
technologies destined show up in the products and services we're all
taking for granted in the not-too-distant future.

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facilitated the adoption of new and important technologies by the
enterprise, putting emerging technologies on the map.

Additional Information:

For complete details and to submit a proposal, visit:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech

To suggest speakers, topics, or technologies, drop us a line at:
etech_suggest@oreilly.com

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