Incisive Media, the UK-based organiser of the Online Information 2009 conference, has announced that the event will feature three opening keynote sessions. The keynote sessions will be dedicated to each of the conference tracks taking place from December 1 – 3, 2009, at Olympia, Conference Centre London. Each track will be keynoted by expert speakers.
‘Information + Conversation = Collaboration + Innovation’ is the common theme of the 2009 event and the three diverse tracks with dedicated keynotes will seek to deliver vital and thought provoking sessions. The opening keynote will be delivered by Dame Wendy Hall and Prof. Nigel Shadbolt, both part of the Semantic Web movement. The second day will be keynoted by Blaise Cronin, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. On the last day social media expert Charlene Li, Co-author of Groundswell – Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies, will explore how organisations need to transform themselves to harness the ever changing social web. All of these opening keynote sessions will seek to give an insight into the three strong conference programme tracks set to showcase innovation and signpost emerging trends for 2010.
Online Information’s closing keynote panel will take a look at how cloud computing is driving the evolution of the web. Moderated by Stephen Arnold, President of Arnold Information Technologies, the panellists include - Charlie Hull, Lemur Consulting, UK; and Nicolas Maquaire, President and CEO, EntropySoft, France.
According to the organisers, the conference regularly attracts over 800 delegates from across 40 countries. The conference format is made flexible so that delegates can tailor their own personal experience of the event. The topics from the three different tracks can be individually mixed and matched, there are in-depth pre-conference workshops and a dedicated conference social network to facilitate meetings with industry peers from across the globe. Delegates also receive automatic free entry to the Online Information and IMS 2009 exhibitions which run alongside the conference.
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