TechVenue.com Events Forecast & News - Week of October 14th-21st, 2005
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Hello and welcome to TechVenue.com's (mostly weekly) Events Blogcast Forecast.
Friday, October 14th-21st, 2005
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EUROPE:
Event Of The Week (EOW):
ORGANIZATION NAME: MIT Institute Cambridge
EVENT NAME: Innovations in Telecommunications
EVENT START DATE: 10/17/2005 2:00:00 PM
EVENT END DATE: 10/18/2005 4:00:00 PM
EVENT LOCATION: Moller Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
EVENT REGION: Intl - W. Europe
EVENT THEME: Business Focused
EVENT DESCRIPTION: The pressure for the telecommunications industry to innovate
has never been greater. This seminar will bring together researchers and
industry experts to review developments and roadmap the future of the
telecommunications industry.
EVENT PURPOSE: Telecommunications business leaders, IT specialists, consultants,
polciy makers, government and senior academic researchers.
EVENT SPEAKERS: William Webb, Ofcom; John Nevins, BT Group Chief Technology
Office; Phil O'Donovan, Cambridge Silicon Radio; Barbara van Schewick, Technical
University Berlin; Lorenzo Valeri, RAND Institute; Russell Cyr, CEO, BitWave;
Mikael Sandberg, BoStream
EVENT COST: £300
EVENT RELATED WEBSITE: http://www.cambridge-mit.org/cgi-bin/default.pl?SID=5&SSID=293&CALEVID=173
EVENT CONTACT NAME: Jackie Ouchikh
EVENT CONTACT PHONE: 01223 448765
CONTACT EMAIL: t.ouchikh@cmi.cam.ac.uk
MUST ONE RSVP?: Yes!
INVITATION ONLY?: No
PROPER ATTIRE: Business Casual
REFRESHMENTS: Full Dinner
BUSINESS CARDS: YES - Bring Business Cards
EVENT NOTES: The structure of the telecommunications industry has changed
fundamentally over the past 10 years. Telecommunications Operators have
significantly reduced their commitment to fundamental research, and have been
developing strategies based on exploiting new ideas through spinouts and joint
ventures. The established telecommunications equipment and system providers have
been challenged by competition arriving from data networking and IT.
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NEW YORK:
News Of The Week (NOW):
"Troubles in the technology sector pushed Wall Street's major indexes to their
lowest levels since mid-May this week, with Apple Computer Inc. and a downgrade
of Intel Corp. leading the market down. Investors' worries about consumer
spending intensified after Apple reported lower-than-expected third-quarter
revenue. The market got more troubling news with Prudential's downgrade of
Intel, which said the company could face disappointing revenues and margins for
as long as the next year." ...and with the Video iPod coming to market? What's
it gonna take for people to get confident again? Rudolph lighting the way?
Event Of The Week (EOW):
ORGANIZATION NAME: Windows IT Pro/SQL Server Magazine
EVENT NAME: SQL Server 2005: Built for the Enterprise. Are You Prepared?
EVENT START DATE: 10/20/2005 8:00:00 AM
EVENT END DATE: 10/20/2005 12:30:00 PM
EVENT LOCATION: New York, NY
Microsoft NY-NJ-CT District Office
1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10104
Phone: 212-245-2100
EVENT REGION: US - Southwest
EVENT DESCRIPTION: In this free, half-day event you’ll learn how the top new
features of SQL Server 2005 will help you create and manage large-scale,
mission-critical, enterprise database applications—making your job easier.
EVENT SPEAKERS: Joe Yong, Chief Architect, Scalability Experts
EVENT COST: $0
EVENT RELATED WEBSITE: http://TechVenue.com/SQLRoadShow2005.htm
EVENT CONTACT NAME: subs@windowsitpro.com
EVENT CONTACT PHONE: 800.793.5697
CONTACT EMAIL: subs@windowsitpro.com
MUST ONE RSVP?: No
INVITATION ONLY?: No
EVENT NOTES: Learn how the top new features of SQL Server 2005 will help you create and manage large-scale, mission-critical, enterprise database applications. Find out how to leverage SQL Server 2005’s new capabilities to best support your business initiatives. Register today!
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BOSTON:
News Of The Week (NOW):
Analysts See Positives With IT Companies
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN
The Associated Press
Thursday, October 13, 2005; 2:10 PM
BOSTON -- With earnings-reporting season in full swing, analysts are seeing some
positive signs for information technology companies.
In its latest quarterly check on the sentiment of U.S. and European corporate
tech buyers, Prudential Equity Group LLC determined that IT spending in 2005
apparently will be stronger than it was last year..." - let's hope that means
spending on people's SALARIES as well!
Event Of The Week (EOW):
Wednesday, October 19 2005 5:30pm - 8:30pm
MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge will host a "Lab Fab" roundtable with three MIT
professors at the cutting edge of tissue engineering, material science/photonics
and molecular architecture.
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CHICAGO:
News Of The Week (NOW):
Chicago City Council Tax Increment Financing Agreement Approval Paves Way for
University Technology Park At IIT
CHICAGO, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- A Tax Increment Financing Redevelopment
Agreement approved by the Chicago City Council paves the way for the opening of
University Technology Park At IIT (UTP), on the campus of Illinois Institute of
Technology (IIT). The park, made possible by $6 million in state grants and $75
million in public and private funding, including a $25 million commitment from
IIT, marks the largest commercial investment in Chicago's South Side since the
completion of new Comiskey Park/US Cellular Field in 1991. UTP will generate
approximately 2,500 jobs at all levels of technical, professional and support
expertise over the next decade.
The University Technology Park Incubator will open this month with one-third of
the space already leased to start-up companies All Cell Technology and Solar
Phocus Technology.
"University Technology Park At IIT is an exciting opportunity to encourage
businesses and academia to share their intellectual as well as scientific
resources and facilities," said Lew Collens, President of IIT. "UTP will be an
important element in the continuing redevelopment of the South Side and the
growth of the region's technology economy."
Event Of The Week (EOW):
ORGANIZATION NAME: Kuczmarski & Associates & Chicago Sun-Times
EVENT NAME: Chicago Innovation Awards
EVENT START DATE: 10/18/2005 5:30:00 PM
EVENT END DATE: 10/18/2005 9:00:00 PM
EVENT LOCATION: The Goodman Theatre,170 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60601
EVENT COST: $0
EVENT RELATED WEBSITE: http://www.chicagoinnovationawards.com
EVENT CONTACT NAME: Lynn Crandall
EVENT CONTACT PHONE: 312-988-1553
CONTACT EMAIL: lcrandall@kuczmarski.com
EVENT REGION: US - Midwest
EVENT THEME: Business Focused
EVENT DESCRIPTION: The event will honor 10 Chicago-area companies for this past
year’s most innovative new products and services.
EVENT PURPOSE: Leaders in business, academic and government communities
EVENT SPEAKERS: There will be a video greeting from Microsoft founder and CEO
Bill Gates. Casey Cowell, founder of U.S. Robotics and one of the world’s
leading technology innovators, will deliver the keynote address.
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SILICON VALLEY:
News Of The Week (NOW):
Silicon Valley grows up: Tech industry matures, stabilizes
By Michelle Kessler, USA TODAY
SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley has long been the kind of place where offices
have slides, khakis are formalwear and the hottest companies in town spell their
names in big, multicolored letters..."
This article was published in a dozen different publications this week.
It has several opinions posited in it that try to explain why things are
looking "up" - well, you can try to explain things like:
"Consolidating. Tech companies spent $207 billion on tech mergers and
acquisitions last year, up from just $65 billion in 2002, says researcher The
451 Group." ... "When a market is young, there are enough new customers for
everybody. Once growth slows, "Companies acquire other companies to get their
customer base," Krause says.
Event Of The Week (EOW):
Saturday, October 22 2005 8:30am - 4:30pm
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): IEEE Consultants'
Network Business 2005 Seminar (CBS-2005)
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SPECIAL EVENT:
ORGANIZATION NAME: Windows IT Pro/SQL Server Magazine
EVENT NAME: SQL Server 2005: Built for the Enterprise. Are You Prepared?
http://TechVenue.com/SQLRoadShow2005.htm
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GENERAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS:
A fairly new project "Imagine Ancient Rome" presents some 50 multimedia projects
showing Rome's greatest monuments as they used to be.
"These monuments were meant to be visited, but now they are just a bunch of
random ruins," said Bernard Frischer, a University of Virginia professor who
worked on two of the projects. "What you want to do is put it all back
together."
Well, for modern times, Penny Edecker of http://CityRealm.com in Chicago is doing even
better - visual "Superman" style fly and walk-thru's of a cities every detail,
including hotel rates and other detailed information. This all available
on DVD and Online - Her email is: onepenny@CityRealm.com
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CAREER NEWS:
Bureau of Labor Statistics - Employment Situation Summary
http://www.bls.gov
Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-35,000) in September, and
the unemployment rate rose to 5.1 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The measures of employment and
unemployment reported in this news release reflect both the impact of Hurri-
cane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast in late August, and ongoing labor
market trends. Over the 12 months ending in August, payroll employment grew
by an average of 194,000 a month and the unemployment rate trended downward.
Employment Rant:
Regarding this data and the Silicon Valley news of the week...
This "Big Fish" eating "Little Fish" jazz doesn't mean there is growth - only
attrition... which then can lead to malnutrition in the larger companies - you
know the kind, when you walk thru the floors of executive buildings and scores
of cubicles are bare the the bone.
Buying smaller companies doesn't buy you R&D, marketing, IT improvements or
better sales figures - investing in people does that for a company or region.
So, a word to the older set of Boomers out there who are biding their time 'till
retirement by looking savvy and buying up competitors while they make middle
managers do the job of three people - get out of the way and retire - or better
yet, take the time to mentor someone under you to take over the bloated fish
of a company you're over feeding!
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Humorous News:
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is moving towards requiring owners of potentially
dangerous animals, such as crocodiles and pythons, to have microchips implanted
in their pets in case the animals get loose, officials said on Thursday.
The move follows a recent wave of incidents around the nation in which animals
such as pythons, crocodiles and giant salamanders have been found wandering
loose, frequently on the streets of densely populated cities.
In one notorious case, a man lost track of his pet python after he took the
animal "for a walk" in a park and the snake fled when the man fell asleep on a
bench. He was quoted by one TV station as saying he was surprised the snake
disappeared because it wasn't that kind of snake.
The Environment Ministry is drawing up a law that would require tiny cylindrical
microchips -- 1 centimetre (0.4 inch) long and 2 millimetres (0.08 inch) in
diameter -- implanted under the skin of some 650 animal species, a ministry
official said.
Each microchip would carry information making it possible to trace the owner if
the animal goes missing.
Hmmm...I could think of a few people that scientists might add to that
650 animal species list... ;-)
Have a great weekend and a better week ahead!
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