Press Release
December 3, 2004
Registration Opens for the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
Sebastopol, CA--Registration has just opened for the next O'Reilly
Emerging Technology Conference, aka ETech, happening March 14-17, 2005
in San Diego, California. Because new applications, services, and devices are
simultaneously converging and morphing like never before, ETech 2005
explores the culture of "Remix." Hackers and other innovators have
embraced the do-it-yourself renaissance, tweaking here, integrating there,
and creating new tools for the rest of us to use. These unexpected
combinations--and the opportunities they present--are the driving force
behind ETech.
The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference doesn't just bring together
new technologies--it's also is a place for invaluable human interaction,
particularly for developers, IT decision-makers, lead users, engineers,
and researchers of every stripe. Just a few of the intriguing people and
projects coming to the conference include:
Law Professor Lawrence Lessig points the way to an open and remixable future
Google's Peter Norvig takes us to the outer edge of search technology
Arthur van Hoff, principal engineer at TiVo, turns television into an operating system on which to build applications and to which the next level of video content can be delivered
Writer and technologist Cory Doctorow sees the Internet as an ecosystem, parasites and all
Analyst Clay Shirky espouses the value of semi-structured data in rescuing semantics from the Semantic Web
Noted programmer Joel Spolsky infuses character and quality into online communities through software and design choices
Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield opens up, embracing web services and network effects as a startup strategy
Hardware hackers Tom Igoe and Raffi Krikorian build small, simple microcontroller-based network objects
Kathy Sierra brings the latest research in cognitive science, brain chemistry, and psychology to bear on creating passionate users
ETech program chair and O'Reilly CTO Rael Dornfest joins with founder and CEO Tim O'Reilly to detail what's currently blipping on the "O'Reilly Radar"
As in past years, ETech allows for maximum exposure to new ideas and
technologies through roll-up-your-sleeves tutorials, meaty and to-the-point
plenary presentations, real world focused breakout sessions, a relevant
exhibit hall, and thought-provoking events. Conference program chair Rael
Dornfest plans to add sessions up to the last minute, so that ETech
participants have the opportunity to investigate late-breaking issues.
As Dornfest puts it, "The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
celebrates the hands-on imperative of the hacker, champions an
architecture of participation on which to build the future, and shines a
light on the innovations coming from non-traditional sources in an effort
to get them on to everybody's radar. What you touch at ETech, you'll be
using in the products, applications, and services of tomorrow."
Additional Resources:
For information on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities at O'Reilly
conferences, contact Andrew Calvo at (707) 827-7176, or
andrewc@oreilly.com.
To become a media sponsor, contact Margi Levin at (707) 827-7184, or
margi@oreilly.com.
About O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly Media has been a chronicler and catalyst of cutting-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
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