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FOCAS 2008 includes 2 interactive Roundtables: * Medi
a and Public Engagement
* Media and Elections

The roundtables will explore the electoral and non-electoral elements of a democracy, particularly how the citizenry engages with representatives and with each other and, the role of media in enhancing social capital, civic engagement, and public well-being. This is an exceptionally acute topic in this presidential election year.

SIGGRAPH 2008 is evolving along with the computer graphics a
nd interactive techniques community. We're dissolving the borders between traditional SIGGRAPH programs to create a more fluid, interdisciplinary conference. And we're offering presenters more flexible options for sharing their work.

Join us in Los Angeles in August for the highest quality, most timely educational experiences the community has to offer, presented by the most powerful and most engaging leaders in computer graphics and interactive techniques.

The Bandwidth music | technology Conference discusses issues
of interest to the music and technology communities, with a particular focus on the evolving musical experience.

X Change is the premier conference for professionals in web
measurement and online analytics. X Change brings together leading experts and industry professionals in a world-class setting for two days of special conversation in a unique format. X Change is committed to delivering an experience different from and more valuable than any other Conference you've ever attended. This year, X Change is sponsored by Semphonic and Web Analytics Demystified.

AdMonsters provides a unique forum for peers in the field to
communicate, collaborate, socialize, network and identify best practices. We focus primarily on topics such as ad serving and related technologies, ad production, inventory, and yield management, advertising products, policies, procedures, and industry standards.

San Jose in the summer is the place to be. Not only is it th
e center of the famed Silicon Valley, home to the largest concentration of successful internet and high-tech companies in the world, it is also the location for this year's Search Engine Strategies summer event!

There's no debating it, while SES NY is the agency conference, SES SJ is the high-tech and internet company event of the year! If you missed last year's Search Engine Strategies Summer in San Jose, you must be in attendance this August 18-21.

Join your fellow marketers and SES Alumni to quickly learn how to maximize search engine marketing and optimization opportunities and stay informed of the latest search developments and solutions.

Are You Struggling to Link Your Consumer Insights to Busines
s Performance?
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Using consumer insights can help you increase business gain and improve consumer retention by 50%. Are you having difficulty with getting meaningful consumer insights, applying those insights effectively to your business strategy and successfully measuring the impacts of these insights in your business performance?
What can you expect at Consumer Insights 2008?

We will be building on last year's successful conference which had leading businesses across industries including:

* DIAGEO: Ensuring Authenticity Insights
* NUDIE: Transforming Research Into Well-Thought Business Strategies
* SONY: From Insight to Experience-Embedding Customer Intelligence in Core Business Processes
* BANKWEST - Integrating Research Data to Form Competitive Insights

This summer, hundreds of the world's leading bloggers, pod
casters, and tech-savvy enthusiasts will once again descend upon the city of Seattle, Washington. The eighth Gnomedex conference is generating buzz in the blogosphere, which underscores our reason to produce it. Indeed, we will once again become the crossroads between producers and observers, between users and developers.

Each August the club hosts a special training seminar intend
ed for the sales side of our audience. In this event, we ask top IT executives to tell our members exactly how they like to be approached, sold to, and treated in their relationships.

At this annual event, the nation's top IT executives will g
ather for three days to hear from, and honor, the 100 most innovative companies who have delivered value to the enterprise through IT. We'll look at how CIOs in every industry fostered, developed and implemented innovative ideas that challenged prevailing business models, shook up the competition and delivered ROI.

This highly interactive two-day workshop will help PR profes
sionals engineer their PR structure to incorporate measurement at every level of their practice, from pre-campaign to post campaign evaluation. PR measurement guru Mazen Nahawi will guide you through the essence of measurement in both online and offline arena and reveal a NEW perspective on measurement in areas such as journalistic integrity, reputation and relationship with stakeholders. Packed with highly relevant industry case studies, this workshop will leave you with practical tips on how you can turn PR into a value added practice in your company.

This 2-day interactive workshop aims to equip you with the k
nowledge to build a results-oriented marketing budget which will provide the best return at least risk. Find out how to pinpoint potential weaknesses in your campaigns and ways to solve them. Through various exercises and case studies, discover the different marketing measurement tools and how they can be applied to your business. Most importantly, learn how to track and evaluate the impact of your marketing programmes!

This highly interactive two-day workshop will help PR profes
sionals engineer their PR structure to incorporate measurement at every level of their practice, from pre-campaign to post campaign evaluation. PR measurement guru Mazen Nahawi will guide you through the essence of measurement in both online and offline arena and reveal a NEW perspective on measurement in areas such as journalistic integrity, reputation and relationship with stakeholders. Packed with highly relevant industry case studies, this workshop will leave you with practical tips on how you can turn PR into a value added practice in your company.

This 2-day interactive workshop aims to equip you with the k
nowledge to build a results-oriented marketing budget which will provide the best return at least risk. Find out how to pinpoint potential weaknesses in your campaigns and ways to solve them. Through various exercises and case studies, discover the different marketing measurement tools and how they can be applied to your business. Most importantly, learn how to track and evaluate the impact of your marketing programmes!

CONNECTIONS™ Europe: Strategies for Digital Living Markets e
xpands the scope and mission of the leading executive conference and showcase series dedicated to advanced digital lifestyle solutions for residential and mobile environments.

Penny Arcade, the popular on-line comic with a gaming theme
, will host this convention, which includes exhibits and demos for PC and console games as well as gaming tournaments, table-top gameplay, industry speakers, musical performances, and more.

The European developer community showed itself to be deeply
interested in Rails at RailsConf Europe 2007, and the co-presenters of that event, Ruby Central and O'Reilly Media, are coming back to do it again. RailsConf Europe 2008, happening 2-4 September 2008 in Berlin, will feature presentations, keynotes, and tutorials by experts from the full spectrum of Rails techniques and practices. Seasoned Rails practitioners and newcomers alike will find a program honed to their particular interests and needs.

SEM Canada is a search marketing conference series premierin
g in Calgary this September. Tailored to all levels of search marketing, the 16 sessions over 2 days offer a wealth of insight into the world of search marketing. Places are limited.

The premier Americas communications event - Comprising a hig
h-level conference program and separate networking exhibition, this is the best place to learn from your peers, to meet existing clients AND to build new contacts.

This year, we're reinventing ourselves again as TechCrunch5
0. We'll launch 50 companies over three days, September 8-10. We have a great new venue, the San Francisco Design Center Concourse, with 125,000 square feet of space for us to create even more energy and activities. We're really excited.

In addition to 50 great new products, we're assembling an amazing line up of speakers and a panel of expert advisors to spark lively discussion and debate during the conference.

There will be an action-packed DemoPit full of other early-stage start-up ideas, as well as working breakfasts and lunches with topics aimed at helping start-ups succeed.

In typical TechCrunch style, we'll save room for socializing too.

RFID World Conference education focuses on the entire range
of RFID solutions: EPC and Passive RFID\; Active-RFID, High Frequency\; UHF\; software and middleware\; advanced functionality in tags and readers\; integration services and more. The educational content at RFID World is designed for executives from a wide range of backgrounds and knowledge-base about RF technologies. You will advance your knowledge about RFID, whether you hold an engineering degree, IT position, business or senior executive level position.

The Gartner Customer Relationship Management Summit delivers
the leading-edge insights on how technology enables the marketing, sales, and customer service functions, adding value to the customer experience and delivering higher levels of customer satisfaction while increasing sales & saving money.

Digital ID World is your sourcefor the straight talk, har
d-won lessons, and practical insight derived from real-world deployments. Our focus is simple: putting enterprise IT professionals onstage to give you their unvarnished views on what it took to achieve success with their identity deployments. Digital ID World is the industry event for learning how to help manage your business with identity.

The world economic boom is creating wealth and prosperity on
an unprecedented scale. What will keep the good times rolling? Globalization is releasing the untapped ingenuity of innovators everywhere and disrupting corporations that take their eyes off the prize. Wall Street is creating dynamic investment opportunities for market players but also exposing them to uncharted liabilities. How best do CEOs and entrepreneurs maximize advantages, calculate risks and play the unbeatable hand that wins the pot? Beyond making wagers to build their companies, business leaders are raising their game to help find solutions that address social and environmental issues. With their insights, resources, skills and relationships, how can they make the most of their winnings and turn the world into a better place?

BROADNETS 2008 is an international conference focusing on br
oadband communications, networks, and systems and covers the entire gamut of next generation networks, communications systems, applications and services.

DEMO is *the* launchpad event for emerging technology produc
ts, where the best new ideas in technology get their start and rocket to national - and international - attention. Count on DEMO to introduce you to revolutionary innovations from all sectors of the technology landscape-consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, Web 2.0, infrastructure, etc. - It is your a complete view of not only where technology comes from, but exactly where it's going.

DEMO is a product conference showcasing innovations from companies old and new with working technologies for measurable market spaces. It's the un-tradeshow. Unlike other industry events, this conference provides attendees enough time to see every product on an even playing field with little marketing spin.

It's the event that launched technologies such as VMware, the Palm Pilot, Java 1.0, TiVo, IronPort Systems, WebEx, Half.com, salesforce.com, Ugobe's Pleo, Six Apart's Moveable Type, eJamming, and many more.

DEMO takes a global view of the tech industry and features technologies from around the world. The crux of the conference is the six-minute demonstration -- NOT a six-minute PowerPoint, discussion or promise. No vaporware allowed. All products must be shown live on stage and all features must be working.

It's not a mixer or a meetup. DEMO is about business acceleration. It's less about the who's who and more about the what's what. Companies attend DEMO for the business advantages that will push them into the next phase of company growth, acquiring customers and partners as well as funding.

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It's time the mobile industry learned how to play well with
others. For too long the rules governing the creation and distribution of mobile content have existed in a vacuum, separate from those governing other digital outlets. As content grows increasingly multiplatform, the barriers separating the mobile world from the rest of the digital universe must fall before true convergence can become a reality.

At MOBILE ENTERTAINMENT LIVE FALL 2008, attendees will explore this theme through a series of intimate, interactive conversations featuring the leaders of the mobile, entertainment and technology industries. Gone are the tired panels of the same talking heads angling to get in their PR sound bites. Replacing them will be one-on-one interviews, debates and discussions focusing on an exchange of ideas between the key influencers setting the stage for the future.

Join the largest and most comprehensive Enterprise Architect
ure conference for the public sector to discuss the evolution and impact of the FEA reference models, learn about best practices, and explore newly-enhanced tools to support EA initiatives across federal, state, and local government organizations.

In the fast-moving world of mobile products and wireless ser
vices, there's one clear leader in press events: MobileFocus. It brings together the top mobile and wireless companies with the press who cover them. you have the opportunity to join the industry's key players at Pepcom events that the press regard as the ideal places to see the latest in mobile and wireless innovation.

CTIA Wireless I.T. & Entertainment 2007, the largest wirele
ss data event in the industry, truly embodies the ever-changing, dynamic and innovative world of wireless data in Enterprise and in Entertainment.

The ONA Conference is the premier conference for those who w
ork in, or who have an interest in, online media and news. Each year the conference examines the most important issues and trends in online news, and offers the opportunity for conference attendees to hear from top experts in these important areas. The conference also provides a chance for attendees to share the best of their work with each other. It also provides important networking opportunities for those who work in this industry.

The IBC2008 conference will as always keep you fully informe
d about what is happening around the world, covering all aspects of multimedia content creation, management and delivery.