Society: Non-Society Events
The following events are listed in chronological order with the earliest events first. This list is by no means exhaustive, but is intended to provide readers with information they may find helpful. It is updated each month.
DFSS 2009 NEW!
SALT 2009 NEW!
Writers UA 2009 NEW!
ASEE 2009 NEW!
IEEE Green Technology Conference
Women in Project Management Conference NEW!
LISA Berkley Globalization Conference NEW!
Intelligent Content 2009
| Conference: | Intelligent Content 2009 |
| Dates: | 29-30 January 2009 |
| Location: | Palm Springs, CA USA |
| Website: | http://www.intelligentcontent2009.com/index.html |
Intelligent content is not limited to one purpose, technology or output. It's structurally rich and semantically aware and is therefore automatically discoverable, reusable, reconfigurable and adaptable. And intelligent content isn't just a future, it's possible now.
It's how we deliver personalized content, enable dynamic multichannel delivery, content analytics, document exchanges, reuse, data integration, and more.
Intelligent Content 2009 provides insights into how you can make your content intelligent through structure, tagging, interoperability standards, hybrid content strategies, personalization, and communication models.With intelligent content you can do more with less and ensure that you can deliver the right content, at the right time, to the right customer in a way that uniquely meets your customer's needs.
DFSS 2009
| Conference: | WCBF 4th Annual Design for Six Sigma |
| Dates: | 10-11 February 2009 |
| Location: | Monte Lago Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
| Website: | http://www.wcbf.com/quality/5090/ |
As more and more organizations have embraced Lean Six Sigma, they have come to realize that there are huge cost savings to be made during the design and development phases of new products and services. Knowing when to use the right tools throughout every stage of the product and service lifecycle is critical if a competitive advantage is to be achieved.
SALT 2009
| Conference: | New Learning Technologies Conference |
| Dates: | 18-20 February 2009 |
| Location: | Orlando, Florida, USA |
| Website: | http://www.salt.org/salt.asp?ss=l |
Founded in 1972, membership in the Society for Applied Learning Technology® is oriented to professionals whose work requires knowledge and communication in the field of instructional technology. It is a professional society, designed for individual membership participation with classes of membership keyed to the interest and experience of the individual. The Society provides a means to enhance the knowledge and job performance of an individual by participating in Society sponsored meetings, and through receiving Society sponsored publications. It enables one to achieve knowledge for work in the field of applied learning technology by association with other professionals in conferences sponsored by the Society.
RFID Research Forum
| Conference: | UCLA-WINMEC RFID Research Program |
| Dates: | 24 February 2009 |
| Location: | UCLA campus, Los Angeles, CA USA |
| Website: | http://www.winmec.ucla.edu/rfid/ResearchForum/2009/registration.asp |
UCLA-WINMEC RFID Research Program is organizing a special forum to invite the RFID research community to present their research with the intent of submitting to the Proceedings of the IEEE. This forum will bring together academics, researchers, industry technologists/practitioners and business/I.T. personnel who are working on research and innovative ideas today that will impact the field of RFID tomorrow. Advanced topics that will further the technology (hardware/middleware/software) and its applications will be presented at this forum. Detailed list of topics is as below.
Potential presenters at this forum will need to apply by sending in a title of their talk, their bio and an abstract to the following email address RFIDForum@winmec.ucla.edu.
This forum is to support the Proceedings of the IEEE (http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/proceedings/index.html) whereby authors of select abstracts presented at this forum will be recommended to submit their complete papers for a special issue of Proceedings of the IEEE on RFID. The title of the special issue will be called "RFID - A Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century."
Writers UA 2009
| Conference: | Writers UA: Training and Information for User Assistance Professionals |
| Dates: | 29 March - 1 April 2009 |
| Location: | Seattle, Washington , USA |
| Proposal Due: | 27 February 2009 |
| Website: | http://www.writersua.com/ohc/ |
The conference goal is to continue to provide an event with the most comprehensive and timely information specifically designed for user assistance professionals. The event covers all aspects of information and training as a means of support for software users and toward a better user experience.
The conference is entering its 17th year and will offer 70 topics from over 40 speakers. The conference sessions are supplemented by an exhibition, certificate programs, hands-on computer tutorials, and a showcase of innovative projects.
The 2008 attendee roster represented 41 of the United States, 5 provinces of Canada, and 14 other countries. Attendance has totaled over 8,500 people in the past 16 years!
The opening session of the conference features Scott McCloud, creator of the Google Chrome Comic.
The conference topics cover a broad range of key tools, processes, technologies, and techniques.
- DITA, XML, Structured Authoring
- User-centered Design & Usability
- eLearning Tools and Techniques
- Hands-on Computer Tutorials
- Web 2.0 and Interactive UA
- Adobe, Microsoft, Google
- Case Studies
ASEE 2009
| Conference: | 2009 Northeast American Society of Engineering Education Conference |
| Dates: | 3-4 April 2009 |
| Location: | University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA |
| Proposal Due: | 27 February 2009 |
| Notification: | 6 March 2009 |
| Final Paper and Registration: | 20 March 2009 |
| Website: | http://asee2009.org/call-for-papers.aspx |
Engineering in the New Global Economy
In the coming years, our world will continue to face economical, environmental and energy related problems. How is Engineering and Engineering Technology Education responding to the needs of our society and the world? This will be the theme for an exhilarating and thought provoking weekend of professional workshops, presentations, and discussions at the University of Bridgeport.
The Spring 2009 Conference for the ASEE Northeast Section is soliciting manuscripts and posters which address the various challenges and paradigms in this technological world through research and instructional programs in Engineering and Engineering Technology education. There are three conference tracks:
1. Regular/faculty papers
2. Student papers
3. Student posters
IEEE Green Technology Conference
| Conference: | IEEE 2009 Green Technology Conference |
| Dates: | 16-17 April 2009 |
| Location: | Lubbock, TX USA |
| Proposal Due: | 31 December 2008 |
| Website: | http://www.ieeegreentech.org/ |
There has never been a better time for IEEE professionals to weigh in on environmentally acceptable alternatives and improvements to our traditional energy economy. Wind farms are springing up almost overnight in West Texas. The state of Texas is investing $5B in grid infrastructure to connect areas with surplus generation to areas of unmet demand. Texas Tech has been identified as a leading provider of training for a workforce to service this growing industry at all levels. At the first IEEE Green Technology Conference we will examine alternative energy sources and energy-reduction technologies and their potential for helping the world meet its growing demand for energy, while reducing carbon emissions.
Conference organizers are seeking technical papers on current and emerging technologies in environmentally friendly energy sources, and on ways to better manage our energy resources.
Topics of interest include the following:
- technical and policy challenges of renewable energy sources
- alternative vehicle power sources
- home automation and energy management
- commercial energy management strategies
- energy usage reduction
- integration of green energy sources into the existing power grid
- social and economic implications of renewable and reduced carbon emission energy sources
CMS-DITA Conference
| Conference: | 11th Annual Content Management Strategies/DITA North America Conference |
| Dates: | 27-29 April 2009 |
| Location: | St. Petersburg, FL USA |
| Proposal Due: | 1 December 2008 |
| Website: | http://www.cm-strategies.com/callforspeakers.htm |
The CIDM and Dr. JoAnn Hackos ask you to consider bringing your best practices to the upcoming Content Management Strategies/DITA North America conference.
We invite you to share your experience building a content management solution in your organization, collaborating with content producers throughout your organization (training, support, engineering, documentation), delivering content in new media, using wikis and blogs to communicate with internal and external customers, and managing change. Management and technical topics are both welcome in the program.
For the DITA NA conference, we welcome discussions of selecting a DITA solution, implementing DITA in your organizations, as well as technical topics about DITA processing, specialization, and so on.
RFID 2009
| Conference: | RFID 2009 |
| Dates: | 27-28 April 2009 |
| Location: | Orlando, FL USA |
| Proposal Due: | 1 December 2008 |
| Website: | http://www.ieee-rfid.org/2009/index.html |
The 2009 International IEEE Conference on RFID addresses key topics and issues related to RF-based identification and communication systems, and will feature keynotes, presentations on technology advances and panel discussions on pressing topics. IEEE RFID 2009 is the third annual conference that brings together researchers and practitioners from both academia and industry to share research results and knowledge in the areas of RFID technologies, their supporting large-scale distributed information systems and their applications.
Once again co-located with the RFID Journal LIVE! 2009 tradeshow and conference, attendees and presenters alike benefit. Authors are invited to submit full 8-page papers in the IEEE conference format presenting new research related to the theory and practice of RF-based identification and communication systems. All submissions must describe original work not previously published or currently under review for publication in another conference or journal. Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Antennas & Propagation: Antenna theory and designs, channel measurements and modeling
- Circuits, Devices & Sensors: Low-power circuit designs, integrated sensors, energy harvesting, non-silicon-based structures
- Communication Protocols: Coding, modulation and medium access schemes
- Security & Privacy: Cryptographic protocols and privacy-enhancing techniques
- System Tools: Tools for the design, deployment and evaluation of RFID systems
- RF-based Localization: Novel system approaches, technologies and algorithms
- RFID System Architecture: "RFID middleware", large-scale discovery services
- Policy & Regulatory Issues: Spectral management, privacy issues, co-existence of RFID systems, social implications of RFID technology
- Deployment Issues & Concerns: EMC compatibility, tag recycling, issues in patient safety
- Applications: Reports on the introduction and operational experience of RFID applications
Women in Project Management Conference
| Conference: | 2nd Annual Women in Project Management Conference |
| Dates/Locations: | 29-30 April 2009: Los Angeles, California, USA 10-11 June 2009: Columbus, Ohio, USA 15-16 September 2009: Washington, DC, USA 7-8 October 2009: Atlanta, Georgia, USA 11-12 November 2009: Dallas, Texas, USA |
| Website: | https://www.projectmanagementresourcegroup.com/2nd_Annual_Women_in_PM.php |
Where women gather to seek the best of themselves and every woman experiences herself as the leader she was meant to be!
Day 1 & 2 Time: 8:30am-5:00pm (8-8:30 registration/breakfast)
(Breakfast, lunch, snack, and all materials included)
Be sure to attend the FREE Networking Social Event for all attendees from 5:30pm – 8:00 pm following Day One (Hors D'oeuvres will be served – Cash Bar)
IMETI 2009
| Conference: | 2nd International Multi-Conference on Engineering and Technological Innovation |
| Dates: | 10-13 July 2009 |
| Location: | Orlando, FL USA |
| Proposal Due: | 24 October 2008 |
| Notification: | 17 Dec. '08/Jan. 2009 |
| Final Paper: | 4 February 2009 |
| Website: | http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/IMETI |
Engineering activities are based on the development of new Knowledge (scientia), new 'made things' (techné) and/or new ways of working and doing (praxis). Scientia, Techné and praxis are three important dimensions of a comprehensive conception of Engineering as a whole. Engineering, as Scientia, is mostly developed in academia; as techné is practiced in industry generating technological innovations; and as praxis is carried out in technical and non-technical organizations, supporting managerial activities and technical procedures, via methodical and methodological design and implementation. This is why Engineering provides one of the most solid academic and professional substrata for bridging among Universities, industries and governments.
Publications and conferences related to Engineering are usually oriented to one of its three dimensions. While this is an adequate thing to do when disciplinary focus is sought, it does not represent Engineering as a whole and it misses the very important synergic relationships among the three kinds of engineering activities mentioned above. This is why a group of scholars, professionals and consultants, in the field of engineering, considered the possibility of initiating a publishing process and organizing a conference where presentations will not be reduced to one of the Engineering's dimensions, but to foster the participation of academics, practitioners and managers in the three dimensions of Engineering, in the same conference, or in the same publication, so they can synergistically interact with each other. A consequence of this purpose is the organization of IMETI 2009, and the publication of multiple-author books series, where submissions will be accepted for the presentation of:
- New knowledge (Engineering as Scientia)
- New products and services, i.e. technological innovations (Engineering as techné)
- New technical and managerial methods and methodologies (Engineering as praxis)
- New meta-engineering (Engineering of Engineering activities) knowledge, innovations and methodologies
More details regarding the notion of Engineering and reasoning supporting the definition given above can be found in the article "The Essence of Engineering and Meta-Engineering: A Work in Progress" (Callaos, 2008), which is available at www.iiis.org/Nagib-Callaos/Engineering-and-Meta-Engineering.
There will also be corresponding e-conferences during the 15 days before and after the conference, where each session to be included in the conference program will have a corresponding electronic pre-conference and post-conference virtual session for 15 days. In the electronic pre-conference sessions, authors will have access to the papers to be presented at their session and to an associated electronic forum, so they can be better prepared for their face-to-face conference session. Similarly, electronic post-conference sessions will complement and support a follow-up of the respective conference sessions, via an electronic forum and the possibility of evaluating papers presented at the associated session. These evaluations will also support the selection process for the papers to be published in the JSCI journal.
LISA Berkley Globalization Conference
| Conference: | Berkeley Globalization Conference (LISA @ Berkeley) |
| Dates: | 3-5 August 2009 |
| Location: | Berkley, California, USA |
| Proposal Due: | 16 March 2009 |
| Notification: | early April 2009 |
| Contact: | Patricia Egan, at |
| Website: | www.lisa.org |
This two-day conference (with an additional day of workshops) will focus on globalization—the business decisions and processes required to do business internationally. This conference aims to bring together researchers examining the phenomenon of globalization and so will consider three primary themes:
The social impact of globalization. How does globalization affect the attitudes and expectations of local communities with regard to goods and services? Does globalization result in leveling of regional difference or does it increase awareness of and response to those differences? Does globalization necessarily involve a center-periphery model, or do recent changes allow for the periphery to challenge the dominance of the center? How can ethnographic study influence globalization in a positive way?
Language and globalization. Language and culture are both a limiting factor in globalization and the enabler for globalization. How do organizations deal with issues of translation and cultural adaptation (localization) when entering new markets? How can demand for language best be met in a cost-effective manner that allows organizations to speak to individuals in their own languages?
Technology. Modern globalization efforts are characterized by a reliance on technical solutions to reduce costs and expand scope. How do technology and technological change impact globalization? What technologies are the most effective in meeting demand? What disruptive technologies are on the horizon?
These themes are to be interpreted broadly and submissions, including multidisciplinary ones, that engage with globalization in a constructive manner are encouraged.