Information
Today Announces Slate of May 2004 Conferences
December 19, 2003, Medford, NJ—Information
Today, Inc. (ITI) has announced that it is organizing
three conferences and one exhibition to run concurrently
in May 2004 at the Hilton New York. The three conferences,
to be held May 11-12, 2004, are WebSearch
University, Streaming
Media East, and Enterprise
Search Summit ’04. The exhibition will
be an integral part of the Streaming Media East conference.
The company has also announced that its InfoToday Conference
& Exhibition (formerly the National Online Meeting),
which has been held in May for the past 24 years, will
skip 2004 and be relaunched as a major national and
international event in 2005. “Exhibitors at InfoToday
2003 told us that we needed to reinvent the May meeting
in order to bring in the new breed of information buyers,”
said Tom Hogan, Sr., CEO of Information Today, Inc.
“We simply needed more time to do that, and we
are very optimistic that the extra year will enable
us to accomplish that mission. We have already received
a flood of ideas and suggestions that we are currently
exploring. It’s very exciting—a new beginning
after all these years.”
For the first time, the popular WebSearch
University will be held in New York, May
11-12, 2004, with pre-conference workshops scheduled
for Monday, May 10th. WebSearch University provides
an intensive learning opportunity where competitive
intelligence specialists, market researchers, financial
analysts, and librarians can get “beyond Google,”
update their search skills, and learn new tactics and
strategies. The faculty includes search gurus Gary Price,
Greg Notess, Mary Ellen Bates, Ran Hock, and other experts
who keep up with the details of constantly changing
search engine algorithms and enhancements, and who know
the nuances of when to look where for what kinds of
information. The program also features tutorials from
a small number of vendor/sponsors and a tabletop display
area.
Streaming
Media East returns to New York in 2004
on May 11-12, with workshops on Monday, May 10th. Streaming
Media East 2004 is poised to build on the buzz and enthusiasm
that was apparent at last fall’s California event.
As the economy rebounds, the use of streaming technology
in business, education, and government organizations
is becoming mainstream. Streaming Media East 2004 is
where technology and business professionals will gather
to explore business applications and implementation
strategies that maximize the potential of streaming
technologies, as well as to discuss the future of the
industry itself. The 2-day event features an exhibit
hall and a multi-track conference in addition to other
ancillary industry events.
Enterprise
Search Summit ’04 is being organized
for the first time as a 2-day conference (May 11-12,
2004) for IT managers, information & knowledge architects,
content managers, and Web publishers and developers.
It will address internal search and findability (and
related topics such as taxonomies, categorization, and
classification), which is a thorny issue for many organizations
dealing with the management and integration of structured
and unstructured content from a myriad of sources. Enterprise
Search Summit will be an intensive, tightly focused
event offering practical, in-depth, how-to information
about selecting and implementing enterprise search software
and functionality. The program will include tutorials
from a limited number of vendor/sponsors and a tabletop
display area.
For more information on exhibiting/sponsoring or attending,
please contact Information Today, Inc. at (800) 300-9868
[outside the U.S. call (609) 654-6266], e-mail custserv@infotoday.com,
or visit us on the Web at www.infotoday.com.
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