Category: Conference

  • Heading to EnergyCamp and Interop

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    EnergyCamp and Interop and on in Las Vegas at the end of the month. Via James Governor, David Berlind very generously extended an invitation to me to come along to these conferences. EnergyCamp should be very interesting as it will be the first unconference around Green IT issues as far as I am aware. Interop…

  • Why blog?

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    I uploaded the presentation I gave at the IWTC conference last week to SlideShare.net. The talk is entitled “Why Blog?” – and is aimed at helping educate companies on the potential advantages of blogging to their business. I have embedded a copy below – http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=why-blog-1204319614662541-5 | View | Upload your own

  • Le Web3 2007 – a big hit!

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    After last year’s Le Web3 experience, my expectations for this year’s Le Web3 were very low! However, Loic, the conference’s organiser obviously took all of the criticisms of last year’s conference on board and delivered a fantastic conference this time out. The talks were great, the venue was perfect, the food was delicious, and the…

  • Off to Le Web3

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    I’m heading to the Le Web3 conference this week to deliver a talk on using technology (energy demand management) to reduce carbon footprints. This comes from our work in CIX on delivering a hyper energy-efficient data centre and my working with Synergy Module (an energy management startup). If you are going to the Le Web3…

  • Conferences can be fun!

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    I am back in Cork after the Eventoblog conference in Seville over the weekend. Now I am helping with last-minute preparations for the it@cork conference. It is on this coming Wednesday and it is going to be a real ‘wow!’ event. Apart from the incredible speakers that are lined up, the delegate list is like…

  • In Seville for EBE 07

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    I arrived in Seville early this morning for the Eventoblog España 07 (EBE) conference. My old friend Shel Israel is here with with his (much) better half Paula! Shel is presenting at the conference. I’m really looking forward to catching up with them socially as well as professionally. This next few days will also be…

  • Heading to Eventoblog España

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    I’m headed to Eventoblog España (EBE07) in Seville on November 23rd-25th. I’m really looking forward to it, though it will be a bit daunting as most of the program is in Spanish! This is the second year this event has been run. I spotted it last year when Matt Mullenweg mentioned that he was going…

  • Java Conference

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    I have just seen the line-up for IrishDev’s Java Conference and it is extremely impressive. The conference is on in Dublin on November 7th and has speakers from Apache, Sun, Iona, JBoss, Oracle, and Microsoft amongst others. Kudos to Fergal and the guys in IrishDev for organising what looks like will be a phenomenal day…