ANN: Final Call for Speakers: X-Pubs 2007-Europe's Largest XML conference, DEADLINE FEB 28!

[mark.poston at mekon.com]

Hi,

This is a final call for speakers for X-Pubs 2007. This year's
conference is shaping up to be even larger and more successful than the
extremely well received X-Pubs 2006. Speakers receive free entry to the
two-day conference, and will be speaking on the same bill as global
thought leaders from the Rockley Group and IBM.  

Speakers already booked for 2007:
* Scott Abel - http://www.thecontentwrangler.com/
* Emma C Hamer - http://www.hamer-associates.ca
* Steve Manning, Co-Author of "Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified
Content Strategy" - http://www.rockley.com 
and many more...

2007 theme:
   "How did they do it?"

Submission Deadline:
   Notification of intent - ASAP
   Speaker bios/summary (~200 words each) - Feb 28, Full presentation -
May 15

Venue: 
   Royal Berkshire Conference Centre, Reading, England (see
http://www.x-pubs.com, "Location" for more)

Submission guidelines:

This conference will take a look at real customer stories, about
currently rolled out XML solutions, which are starting to evolve their
usage over time. X-Pubs 2006 showed us that the world is ready to start
going beyond explanation of new XML technologies and benefits, and start
discussing how to run a successful XML implementation, and drill into
the detail that leads an implementation to delivering those benefits and
their return on investment.  

In light of this, X-Pubs 2007 presentation proposals must be:
   *  Be focussed on either the technical or business aspects of an
*actual* implementation 
   *  Customer examples / case studies should be presented by, or
jointly with, the end-solution client themselves, not just by the vendor

We also welcome: 
   *  Educational, conceptual or "thought-leading" oriented
presentations, i.e., not a commercial sales pitch 
   *  We still strongly encourage that conceptual or thought-leading
presentations be delivered as much as possible in the context of, and
with specific references to, a specific project involving XML (DITA, of
course, and SGML if it's really an interesting one).  Actual clients
need not be co-presenting in this instance.

Contact: http://www.x-pubs.com / info at x-pubs.com 
+44(0)208 722 8400 / From North America 011 44 208 722 8400

Regards

Mark Poston