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.
Women in Project Management Conference
Computational Linguistics Workshop
UXCon NEW!
STC Summit NEW!
Women in Project Management Conference
| Conference: | 2nd Annual Women in Project Management Conference |
| Dates/Locations: | 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)
itSMF Fusion 2009
| Conference: | Fusion09 |
| Dates: | 20-23 September 2009 |
| Location: | Dallas, Texas USA |
| Website: | http://www.itsmfusion.com/ |
During itSMF USA Fusion 09, you'll experience informative presentations and incredible educational opportunities on the most important topics facing IT service management today. With 8 tracks of content and over 75 sessions, there's something for everyone from beginners to mature organizations.
As the only non-profit, unbiased convention in the industry, itSMF USA Fusion 09 will provide the answers and strategies necessary to spur your organization into uniting in support of your IT service management program.
Convention summary
- Pre-convention training: Saturday and Sunday (additional costs)
- Workshops: Sunday afternoon & 1 Tuesday morning
- Exhibits: Sunday evening through Tuesday evening
- Convention: Monday through Wednesday
- Post-convention training: Wednesday – Sunday (additional costs)
- Breakfast Club Discussion Groups: Monday, Tuesday, & Wednesday morning
EuroIA 2009
| Conference: | EuroIA Summit |
| Dates: | 24-26 September 2009 |
| Location: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Website: | http://www.euroia.org |
EuroIA invites your participation to this premier European event on Information Architecture.
Join us in Copenhagen, Denmark, September 25-26, 2009, for three incredible days of workshops, presentations, panels, and networking with information architects from across Europe and around the world.
This year we will explore the theme “Beyond Structure”. That’s because websites have moved to a new level. Any random page can be accessed from Google. Pages themselves may consist of information from many sources. And even the concept of a “page” is changing thanks to new backend technologies. In other words, we’ve moved beyond the traditional sitemap and into a new and exciting era of web development.
Computational Linguistics Workshop
| Conference: | Computational Linguistics - Applications Workshop (CLA'09) (part of IMCSIT conference) |
| Dates: | 12-14 October 2009 |
| Location: | Mragowo, Poland |
| Proposals Due: | 31 May 2009 |
| Website: | http://cla.imcsit.org/ |
The CLA Workshop is located within the framework of the IMCSIT conference to create a dialog between researchers and practitioners involved in Computational Linguistics and related areas of Information Technology.
IMSCIT is a multi-disciplinary conference gathering scientists form the different fields of IT & Computer Science together with representatives of industry and end-users. IMSCIT with its motto: "new ideas are born not inside peoples' heads but in the space between them", quickly became a unique place to share thoughts and ideas. This year's gathering is held in October 2009 in a beautiful town of Mragowo in the midst of Mazury Lake Country.
Workshop Goals
The Computational Linguistics - Applications Workshop was created in 2008 in response to the fast-paced progress in the area.
Traditionally, computational linguistics was limited to the scientists specialized in the processing of a natural language by computers. Scientific approaches and practical techniques come from linguistics, computer science, psychology, and mathematics. Nowadays, there is a number of practical applications available. These applications are sometimes developed by smart yet NLP-untrained developers who solve the problems using sophisticated heuristics.
Computational Linguistics needs to be applied to make the full use of the Internet. There is a definite need for software that can handle unstructured text to allow search for information on the web. According to the European Commission, Human Language Technologies are one of the key research areas for the upcoming years. The priority aim of the research in this area is to enable users to communicate with the computer in their native language.
CLA'09 Workshop is a place where the parties meet to exchange views and ideas with a benefit to all involved. The Workshop will focus on practical outcome of modeling human language use and the applications needed to improve human-machine interaction.
Paper Topics
This call is for papers that present research and developments on all aspects of Natural Language Processing used in real-life applications, such as (this list is not exhaustive):
- information retrieval
- extraction of linguistic knowledge from text corpora
- semantic ontologies in computer linguistics
- lexical resources
- machine translation and translation aids
- ambiguity resolution
- text classification
- corpus-based language modeling
- POS-tagging
- parsing issues
- proofing tools
- dialogue systems
- machine learning methods applied to language processing
- ontology and taxonomy evaluation
- opinion mining
- question answering
- sentiment analysis
- speech and audio processing
- text summarization
- use of NLP techniques in practical applications
Healthcare IT Forum
| Dates: | 21 October 2009 |
| Location: | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA |
| Website: | http://www.winmec.ucla.edu/healthcareforum/2009/ |
Spiraling costs of healthcare and drastic amount of paperwork and bureaucracy in medicine are making healthcare unavailable for a significant population of the United States. President Obama's administration is proposing legislation that will change the paradigm of healthcare in this country, potentially spurring innovations in directions such as digital technologies for reduced paperwork, remote and tele-medicine, fully electronic healthcare record systems, and, improved quality of care. Coupled to this political change is the administration's stimulus funding for the country's healthcare system, which includes billions in dollars of funding for modernization of the healthcare I.T. system. The next 10 years would bring a remarkable and fundamental shift in the way in which patients receive treatment from the American healthcare provider - both in and outside the hospital.
LavaCon 2009
| Conference: | LavaCon |
| Dates: | 25-27 October 2009 |
| Location: | New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| Website: | www.lavacon.org |
LavaCon is a conference for technical communication managers and project managers. The Call for Speakers is available soon!
METM 2009
| Conference: | Mediterranean Editors and Translators (MET) |
| Dates: | 30-31 October 2009 |
| Location: | European Institute of the Mediterranean, Barcelona, Spain |
| Proposals Due: | 23 March 2009 for presentations 26 April 2009 for posters |
| Website: | http://www.metmeetings.org/index.php?page=metm09_call |
Through panel discussions, presentations, plenary sessions and workshops, METM09 will promote knowledge-building and networking among editors, translators and other English language supporters in the Mediterranean area. The plenary lectures this year will deal with the translator's role as a writer and the history of knowledge transfer in the Mediterranean.
Have a look at the preliminary program on our website for accepted presentations and panel discussions on the dynamics of pricing editing jobs, the translation of historical texts, and defining roles in writing support services. Updates will be posted throughout the spring. Presentation categories will encompass research, promising practices and knowledge updates.
We are considering proposals that will add practical and theoretical range to the preliminary program regarding any aspect of our association's objectives. Please send your abstract by 30 March 2009 (details on abstract submission can be found on the website).
UCLA Smart Grid Round Table
| Conference: | UCLA WINSmartGrid Thought Leadership Round Table Forum |
| Dates: | 4 November 2009 |
| Location: | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA USA |
| Website: | http://winmec.ucla.edu/smartgrid/2009/ |
Join UCLA WINMEC for its third Leadership Round Table of the UCLA WINSmartGrid Connection, a partnership between universities, industry and government. On November 4, 2009, we are planning a thought leadership round table at UCLA on the state of the Electrical Grid in the United States and the direction the community is headed in the formation of the Future Smart Grid. We will be joined by several leaders from government, industry, and academia.
Background
While the current electric grid in the United States has an impressive 99.97% reliability, it is somewhat limited in its ability to handle renewable energy sources, to effectively manage demand response, to self-repair, or to sense/monitor its own problems.
Convergence of communications, sensors and information technology has resulted in phenomenal advances such as the iPhone, but such convergence has been slow to reach the utility industry. With rise in the US population and increase in demand for electricity, there is tremendous opportunity for the United States to lead on the path of a new genre of convergence between the existing electric grid and the next generation of Wireless, Information Technology, RFID and Integrated Sensors (WITRIS) technologies.
President Obama's stimulus package (called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, or ARRA) that contains approximately $4.4 billion for Smart Grid represents perhaps a starting point for investment to modernize the grid.
ACM CHIMIT 2009
| Conference: | ACM CHIMIT 2009 |
| Dates: | 7-8 November 2009 |
| Location: | Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| Website: | http://www.chimit09.org/ |
Information Technology (IT) is central to modern life. From our homes to our largest enterprises, we are surrounded by software and hardware components that support our work and personal lives: wireless access points, network routers, firewalls, virus scanners, databases, web servers, storage and backup systems, etc. These components exist to permit us to do other things, e.g., manage inventory, communicate with friends or customers, sell products through websites, yet all too often managing the underlying IT infrastructure takes time and resources away from the real work at hand.
IT systems have grown increasingly complex over the years, and the cost for keeping the infrastructure running is now a significant burden. We are at a turning point where further advances in technology and business efficiency and growth require fundamentally new approaches to IT system design, management, and services.
Web 2.0 Expo
| Conference: | Web 2.0 |
| Dates: | 16-19 November 2009 |
| Location: | Javits Center, New York, New York, USA |
| Proposals Due: | 26 May 2009 |
| Website: | http://www.web2expo.com/webexny2009/ |
The Power of Less
The Power of Less doesn't just mean making do with fewer staff and a smaller budget. It means that constraints drive creativity, whether in business models, design paradigms, or platforms. It means the power of the small screen, the thin client, the streamlined interface. It might mean the power of small teams, or even going solo. It's also the paradox of power: sometimes the best way to gain power is to give it away, which is why during these challenging times, we are learning that nothing builds brands like a nurtured community. It's also the power of data: of data-centric business models, and the power of data to inform our decisions and to focus us on what matters.
Speaking of what matters, we're also talking about the power of less bureaucracy, less spin and breaking down silos. We are the industry that's shown that transparency, participation, collaboration add up to increased efficiency. The power of less is the power of creative destruction. It's the power to change the world.
UXCon
| Conference: | UX Conference |
| Dates: | 3 December 2009 |
| Location: | Lugano, Switzerland |
| Proposals Due: | 15 October 2009 |
| Website: | http://www.uxcon.com/ |
UXconference is the new conference on the themes of the experience of use that comes to innovation.
The 2009 edition is marked by innovations that are emerging in the world of user experience design, particularly on issues of strategy, mobility, agility and playability.
The conference is, therefore, a point of meeting and discussion continued among the leading industry experts, entrepreneurs, businesses and professionals.
UXconference wants to represent the ability to turn innovation into opportunities, anticipating change and meeting the people who generate it. Wants to talk about innovation at 360 degrees, showing the new frontiers of design experience to use.
Audience
UXconference is aimed at entrepreneurs and managers from companies in software development and marketing, product designers and service, sociologists, psychologists, politicians who work in IT products and services. And anyone interested in the novelty of the experience of use.
The conference will lead to discussion between experts and institutions and be a good opportunity to generate inspiration, insights, and connections between the two.
Program
The conference will address four main issues on the strand dell'esprienza of Use:
- Strategy and Innovation
- Agile Design
- Mobility
- Gameplay (Playful)
STC Summit
| Conference: | STC Summit |
| Dates: | 2-5 May 2010 |
| Location: | Dallas, Texas, USA |
| Proposals Due: | 5 October 2009 |
| Website: | http://www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2010/ |
The Society for Technical Communication invites you to contribute your ideas, studies, experience and expertise at our Technical Communication Summit 2010, the 57th Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communication.
The Society advances the theory and practice of technical communication across all user abilities and all media. Consequently, the core content of the Summit's education program will be based on tracks that span the profession. Those tracks are detailed in this call for proposals. The work you are doing and have done is an important element in the education process, and we invite you to share it with Summit attendees.