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    IBM WebSphere Portal Technical Conference

    IBM WebSphere Portal Technical Conference

    Date:

    October 6, 2008


    Location:

    Berlin, Germany


    Duration:

    3 days


    Fee:

    EUR 1750 


    Join us for the 2008 Germany WebSphere Portal Technical Conference - the largest annual event dedicated to WebSphere Portal business solutions and technical strategies

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    Announcing the new conference Business Impact Track for Business Leaders

    Keynote session

    Deliver Exceptional User Experiences and Continous Innovation with Enterprise Portals
    Larry Bowden, IBM Vice President, Portals and Mashups

    Portal technology continues to progress, accelerated by both industry-driven standards and the greater marketplace. IBM WebSphere® Portal software has stayed at the forefront of this continuing wave of innovation, combining the latest user-centric functionality with reliable security and manageability features to meet the needs of businesses. The software incorporates extensive Web 2.0 capabilities, allowing companies to fuel social interaction by delivering high-performing, intuitive applications through a rich Web interface and empowering business users to develop spur-of-the-moment mashup applications that meet specific challenges to enable quick innovation and insight. WebSphere Portal V6.1 provides an exceptional user experience, with intuitive and participatory composite business applications, and built in services that enable organizations to quickly implement new business designs that are engaging, flexible, and high performance. Understand how organizations are leveraging this powerful platform to bring cohesion to the IT infrastructure and drive business innovation, whatever the company’s size.

    General Information

    Interact with product experts and understand the innovations delivered with latest IBM WebSphere® Portal Version 6.X releases. Platform extensions and updates include enhanced Web 2.0 and standards support, improved performance and updated portal-based IBM accelerator solutions that are intuitive to use, helping organizations to easily create SOA based composite applications enabling faster deployment and user productivity through flexible infrastructures that accelerate interactions with information, business processes and people to be more effective.

    Receive technically advanced product detail and directions, hands-on expert training, certification, customer case studies, technical rountables, architect's panel discussion forums, and best practices from IBM product architects and developers, IBM Business Partners and peer customers.

    Tracks cover the following areas (subject to change):

    • WebSphere Portal Administration
    • WebSphere Portal Basics
    • What's New in WebSphere Portal
    • WebSphere Portal Development
    • Business Impact
    • Customer Case Studies and Industry Solutions
    • Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions
    • Technical Roundtable discussions
    • Portal Technical Zone
    • Meet the Developers Architect's Panel Discussion


    Our conference tracks are designed to provide you the detailed knowledge you need to effectively support your business objectives, including the following tracks and partial sessions listing:

    • What's New in WebSphere Portal. WebSphere Portal 6.1 Technical Overview and Strategy, What's New in Lotus Quickr, IBM Lotus Mashups: Overview, Improving the Online Experience: Building Next Generation Websites
    • WebSphere Portal Basics: WebSphere Portal JumpStart, Integrating Web Content, Documents and Personalization in your WebSphere Portal Deployment, WebSphere Portal Security Overview, Best Practices for a Successful WebSphere Portal Implementation
    • WebSphere Portal Development: IBM Software Development Tools Strategy for Portal Tools, Extending Portal Applications to Mobile Devices, Introducing WebSphere Portlet Factory 6.1, Secure and interactive browser-based widgets in IBM Lotus Mashups, What's New in Rational Application Developer 7.5
    • WebSphere Portal Administration: IBM WebSphere Portal 6.1 - Operational Architectures and Procedures, WebSphere Portal 6.1 New Site Management, Integrating WebSphere Process Server with Portal Applications, Benchmarking WebSphere Portal - Development & Best Practices, Lotus Web Content Management 6.1: Administration and Performance Best Practices
    • Customer Case Studies and Industry Solutions

    Conference Timeline At a Glance

    Monday, October 6, 2008

    09:00
    -   Event Opens - Keynote Session
    10:30
    -
    18:30
      Session Breakouts, Labs and Certifications
    15:00 - 18:00   Portal Technical Zone
    18:30
    -
    20:00
      Welcome Reception and Solutions Expo

    Tuesday, October 7, 2008
    09:00
    -
    18:00
      Session Breakouts, Labs, Certifications and Solutions Expo
    15:00- - 18:00   Portal Technical Zone
    18:00
    -
    19:00
      Birds-Of-Feather Sessions

    Wednesday, October 8, 2008
    09:00
    -
    10:15
      Meet the Developer's Architect's Pane
    10:30
    -
    18:00
      Session Breakouts, Labs and Certifications and Solutions Expo
    15:00 - 18:00   Portal Technical Zone
    18:00
    -   Event Close

    Who should attend:

    IT executives, business leaders, decision makers, technical implementers and business partners will all find specific content and hands-on experience matching their needs at this event.

    Why you should attend:

    Key benefits:

    Gain insight into key business issues and emerging technologies, including new Web 2.0 based solutions providing business and IT managers and executives successful approaches to deliver portal platforms and expansions supporting current and future growth.
    Get up to speed on the latest platform technologies, advantages, and technical strategy; interact directly with product, partner and peer customer experts.
    Learn about the latest products in the industry, showcased by our expert IBM and IBM Business Partner solution providers at the Solutions EXPO

    Select from a variety of technical sessions, focused round-table sessions, hands-on-labs, product certifications, Meet the developers architect's panel, and Birds-of-Feather sessions - all designed to provide the information you need to successfully deliver innovative solutions utilizing your Portal infrastructure.

    We are working on scheduling and will provide more information in the coming weeks!

    Why you need to attend