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The third London Tech Club Technology Summit will happen on 20th of February 2009 and will be hosted at RCOG. Save the date!
This full day summit will consist of 2 or 3 selected keynote speakers and 4 to 5 panels on different topics related to the single conference theme: What's next in technology - trends and business opportunities in the near future.
The panels we selected for this year are:
1. Cloud computing - Welcome to your browser – taking applications from your computer to the web
2. Internet businesses - How are businesses run on the web? What are some of the prominent "New Economy" models?
3. Clean tech - Clean Tech technological innovations. The green initiatives in your home and business
4. Tech in finance – Finance from a technology perspective. How does the credit crunch affects and was affected by financial services technology
5. Mobile - What are mobile companies are doing to change the future of mobile in emerging markets, wireless payments, devices, services and m-commerce
What do you think of those panels and our theme? Will you be interested to attend? Do you have a better idea (or speaker) that would fit in the theme? Let us know - submit your comments on this post!
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5 comments:
I suggest you invite JP Rangaswami from BT to speak on Cloud Computing.
"Internet business" sounds too broad and perhaps dot-com-era.
I am usually interested in mobile but don't see a great deal interesting out there at the moment. Maybe Android, but it is mostly "new" rather than really revolutionary. I think we could get a speaker from Google London though.
Clean tech - yeah, interesting, if quite hyped. By all means if we can get an interesting speaker.
Cloud computing - again hyped but I think this is legitimately getting to be a mainstream phenomenon, with Google docs MS Exchange online -- and most notably Amazon's S3 / EC2 / Clouddfront. I'd love to hear from someone at Amazon.
Tech in finance - yes, definitely an interesting topic, if we focus on personal / retail finance. I think there are a lot of startups trying to simplify, improve, rationalize access to savings and investment. Thinking of Mint, Covestor, Zecco, Prosper, UpDown, etc. This seems like a great area for a panel.
Looks good. Clean tech, make sure its shows good business sense as well as just being 'clean' tech.
On cloud computing, let's not forget SaaS. I think both have to be adressed. Someone from Rackspace would be great on cloud computing, on SaaS maybe people from Netsuite, Opsource, Jamcraker or the ethernal Salesforce
Jeremy
We had JP last year as a keynote on social networks. Would he be interesting twice in a row? Will people think that we cannot invite any other keynotes? :)
srowen
Thanks for the input!
Re finance: we were actually thinking more on the banking industry rather than personal finance - with all this credit crunch... :)
Jagdip
Yes, we will try to
Anonymous
Thanks for the ideas - will have a look at them. Might be difficult to get start-ups though if they are US based
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