Office 2.0 Conference 2008 Program Announced

Event to feature over 50 speakers, including "Getting Things Done" author David Allen, and case studies from end user organizations GE, Sun Microsystems, Wachovia.

Returning as one of the largest experiments in mobile productivity and real-time collaboration, the Office 2.0 Conference 2008 program will focus on large, enterprise organizations adopting Office 2.0 technologies. The third annual conference will feature over 50 speakers, including representatives from GE, Sun Microsystems, Wachovia as well as David Allen, productivity guru and author of Getting Things Done. The Office 2.0 Conference 2008 will be held in San Francisco on September 3–5, 2008, at the St. Regis Hotel. To register for the show, please visit http://office20.com/.

·   The Office 2.0 Unconference will take place at the St. Regis Hotel on September 3. Attendees of the Office 2.0 Conference can participate for free, without any additional registration. Anyone else can join the Unconference for $50 by registering on the www.regonline.com/unoffice20 website.

·   David Coleman's Collaboratory Experiment will be hosted at the Unconference. The experiment will create teams of people that will play through a (facilitated) scenario to better understand not only the collaborative tools they are using, but to see how the tools support the social dynamics of the team.

·   Case study presentations from GE, Sun Microsystems, Wachovia, and Amazon.com. ·   Panel presentations on topics including Getting Things Done; Online Community: Who Should Own It; Going 100% SaaS; and Platform as a Service will be featured at the event. For a complete list of conference sessions, please visit http://www.office20.com/docs/DOC-1091.

·   The Zoho Party will take place in Vitrine, on the fourth floor of the St. Regis Hotel, on Thursday, September 4, from 6pm to 9pm. All attendees are invited.

To ensure anyone can participate in the Office 2.0 Conference 2008, both a Twitter feed (twitter.com/o208) and an RSS feed (feeds.feedburner.com/o208) are available. Likewise, the conference will rely on Veodia for instant video recording and the immediate availability of all sessions, online or through mobile devices such as the iPhone and the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC. The DVD-quality videos will be directly recorded from within Clearspace and accessible to a global audience free of charge at http://office20.com. Additionally, attendees are empowered to contribute to the sessions by using Veodia to submit their own videos, further engaging in the unique dynamic of Office 2.0.

The conference network will once again be deployed by Covad and Swisscom. This year, the companies will provide a scalable, enterprise-grade Wi-Fi network with a symmetric 30Mbps connection to the Internet and over 40 Wi-Fi access points deployed throughout the St. Regis Hotel. As in previous years, the goal is to support the 45 Demo Pods featuring solutions from conference sponsors as well as the 600 international attendees using the HP 2133 Mini-Note PC subnotebooks — this year’s mobile device giveaway — to interact during the event.

The Office 2.0 Conference is sponsored by Etelos, Jive Software, David Allen & Co., Fenwick & West, Google, Intalio, Intuit, Liferay, Polycom, Swisscom, Veodia, 3tera, Appirio, CentralDesktop, EchoSign, Egnyte, Empressr, Intacct, Officescape, RightScale, Salesforce.com, SlideRocket, Yuuguu, Zoho, Extentech, FreshBooks, MindMeister, Smartsheet, Dynamism, IPEVO, Moderro Technologies, bub.blicio.us, Social Media Today, and TECHMarket Communications. Additional sponsorship opportunities are still available. For more information, please visit http://office20.com/.

An Office 2.0 Conference 2008 pass is $1,495 per attendee. For more information on the Office 2.0 Conference 2008, please visit http://office20.com/.