Busy on the conference circuit - again

Courtesy of Upcoming.org, here is a quick subset of the events I am going to attend or speak at in the next 60 days. I will increasingly make bulk announcements regarding events (except for the Search SIG which is about to hold its first event in a while on Sept 12th), otherwise I would spend even more time blogging about these things than I already do (just check my tag cloud on the right hand-side of my blog, it is telling).

• I have been invited to participate to the Bloggers Corner of SAP TechEd, the SAP developers conference taking place in Las Vegas during the week of Sept 12th. That week is pretty crazy so I will unfortunately be spending just the first couple of days over there. I am however pretty excited to chat with SAP executives about Enterprise 2.0 and its implications on the SAP core business (and I don’t expect a “WTF would I care” ?). Thanks to Jeff Nolan for inviting me to join the Blogger Corps that covered Sapphire last May.
• Straight back from Las Vegas, I will hang out on the 13th and 14th at the Future of Web Apps Summit in San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. Ryan Carson has been kind enough to reach out and invite me to attend this conference that I heard a lot of good things about. There is a great roster of speakers, and I look forward to the session and related lobbyconing – as usual. Oh, and it is amazingly good value ($295 for 2 days).
• It would be too simple not to overlay yet another event, so I will be moderating an HBS Tech panel on Blogs, Wikis & Social Media - Are 'Naked Conversations' a Business Communication Revolution? The event will take place on Sept 14th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, starting at 6pm. Speakers will be a few utterly unknown bloggers like SAP’s Jeff Nolan, Microsoft PodTech’s Robert Scoble, and a couple of others. As I am now used to, I plan to moderate this session un-panel style, so we’ll have a conversation “at large” with the audience. Thanks to Eric Moyer for inviting me.
• If you are interested in what happened to (2 year) old Web 2.0 companies once they have “graduated”, check out the Momemtum and Growth Conference that the IBD Network is putting together. The notion is to have CEOs from companies that have presented at an Under the Radar event in the past to come back and talk about growing, scaling, being successful or failing (?). That event is on Sept 27th and 28th at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
• My friend Ismael Ghalimi is organizing the inaugural edition of the Office 2.0 Conference, which will take place on Oct 11th and 12th in San Francisco. Ismael is the CEO of Open Source BPMS company Intalio (Disclaimer: an 5–year old angel investment of mine) and the editor of the very popular IT Redux blog. The goal of the conference is to explore the landscape of the next generation of office applications that will reside somewhere in the cloud, all relying on your personal shelf space – which will also be in the cloud. A very interesting topic, especially after the annoucement of the forthcoming Google Office suite, and a great list of speakers. Note that you have two more days to get the earlybird price of $395. On Sept 1st, it goes up to $595.
• The Enterprise Software Investment Forum 2006 will take place on Oct 25 and 26th in San Jose, brings together Enterprise Software Investors, VCs, Strategists, and Entrepreneurs to discuss the evolution of the software market and its impact on venture capital and private equity investment strategies (and vice versa). It will be my first appearance at that conference that should also lead to interesting discussions.
• And there will be “the” Web 2.0 Conference – a registered service mark of O’Reilly, CMP Media and whoever alledgedly and reportedly claimed it . Update: Tim O'Reilly just blogged about the fact that CMP had agreed to restrain their attack dogs limit their enforcement efforts. Good thing when you recall the Web 2.0/[email protected] brouhaha.
  That edition should be over the top, considering all that has happened over the past six to twelve months.

Phew. And I am sure I have forgotten a few. Feel free to point them to me (but he, not too many please) and as usual, happy to meet at any of these events - just email me at jeff [dot] clavier [at] gmail [dot] com.