P-Camp '09 returns. Attendance is free,

Repost from October and December:

When: Saturday, March 14th, 2009
What: Second annual Unconference for technical product managers with food, fun, talks, panels, informal discussions, t-shirts and surprises.
Where: Yahoo! Building C, 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale
Register here

MDM Summit early bird rate & FREE workshop

Repost:

MDM Summit Spring 2009 will feature strategic thinkers in the Data Mgt business, showcase an exhibit hall with innovative vendors and be host to 1000 MDM users. They are now offering $100 off the early bird rates AND one FREE workshop (valued at $249) during January.

To take advPost Optionsantage of this offer. please use Code: MLK

Upcoming Tech Events

Sun xVM Virtualization Roadshow
Jan 27-Feb 25, 2009, various US cities
http://www.xvmgetmoving.com/register.php

2009 SCADA and Process Control Summit
February 2 - 3, 2009, Disney Dolphin, Lake Buena Vista, FL
http://www.sans.org/scada09_summit

JBoss Virtual Experience on-line Conference
February 11, 2009, 8:30 am - 6:00 pm EST
http://www-2.virtualevents365.com/jboss_experience/agenda.php

Black Hat DC 2009
February 16-19, Hyatt, Arlington, VA
http://blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-09/bh-dc-09-main.html

RubyRX Conference

Feb. 19-21, 2009, Reston, NC

SCALE 7x 2009
February 20-22, Westin LAX Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.socallinuxexpo.org

OpenSolaris Storage Summit 2009 - free
February 23, Grand Hyatt, San Francisco, CA
http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolaris/OpenSolaris+Storage+Summit+200902

USENIX/ACM FAST '09
7th Conference on File and Storage Technologies
February 24–27, Grand Hyatt, San Francisco, CA
http://usenix.org/events/fast09/

Gartner Mobile & Wireless Summit 2009
February 23-25 , 2009, Chicago, IL.
http://gartner.com/us/wireless

Next-Gen Broaband Strategies
Feb 24, 2009, Cable Center, Denver, Colorado
http://www.lightreading.com/live/event_information.asp?event_id=29032

eComm 2009
March 3-5, SF Airport Hyatt, San Mateo, CA
http://ecommconf.com/

DrupalCons 2009
March 4–7, 2009, Washington, DC
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/

TheServerSide Java Symposium
March 8-20, 2009, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
http://javasymposium.techtarget.com

SD West 2009
March 9-13, Santa Clara, CA
http://www.sdexpo.com/

O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
March 9-12, 2009, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA
http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech?CMP=EMC-conf_et09_int&ATT=EM5-NL

ManageFusion 09

March 10-12, MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas

http://www.managefusion.com/agenda.aspx

VEE 2009 Conference on Virtual Execution Environments
March 11-13, Crowne Plaza, Washington, DC
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/VEE09/Home.html

Unconference for technical product managers
March 14th, 2009,Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA
Register here

Orlando Scrum Gathering 2009
March 16-18, Gaylord Resort, Orlando, FL
http://www.scrumgathering.org

CommunityOne East 2009 plus Training Day
March 18-19, 2009, Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York, NY
http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/east/sessions.jsp

Forrester's IT Infrastructure & Operations Forum
March 18-19, 2009, San Diego, Ca
http://www.forrester.com/events/eventdetail?eventID=2372

ApacheCon Europe 2009
March 23-27, Amsterdam, Nederlands
http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009

EclipseCon 2009
March 23-26, Santa Clara, CA
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/home

Open Source Business Conference (OSBC)

March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA
http://www.infoworld.com/event/osbc/

SC eConference and Expo: PCI Compliance
March 24, 2009 - on your PC
http://www.scmagazineus.com/March2009--eConference/section/823/

MDM Spring Summit 2009
March 29-31, San Francisco, CA
http://www.mdm-summit.com/

TechTarget Advanced Virtualization roadshow

March-December 2009, various cities

http://go.techtarget.com/r/5861576/5098473

International Virtualization and Cloud Computing Conferences
March 30-April 1, 2009, Roosevelt Hotel, New York City
http://www.virtualizationconference.com/
http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/

ESC Silicon Valley 2009 / Embedded Systems
Mar 30 - Apr 3, San Jose, CA
http://esc-sv09.techinsightsevents.com/

USENIX HotPar '09 Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism
March 30–31, Claremont Resort, Berkeley, CA
http://usenix.org/events/hotpar09/

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco
Co-presented by O'Reilly Media and TechWeb
March 31-April 3, 2009, San Francisco, CA

STPCon Spring
March 31-April 2, 2009, San Mateo, CA

Linux Collaboration Summit 2009
April 8-10, San Francisco, CA
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit

Black Hat Europe 2009

April 14-17, Moevenpick City Center, Amsterdam, NL

http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-europe-09/bh-eu-09-main.html

MySQL Conference & Expo
April 20-23, 2009, Santa Clara, CA

RSAConference 2009
April 20-24, San Francisco, Ca
http://www.rsaconference.com/2009/US/Home.aspx

USENIX/ACM LEET '09 & NSDI '09
6th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Co-located w/ 2nd Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats
April 21–24, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA
http://usenix.org/events/nsdi09/

IDC Virtualization Forum
April 23, 2009, 4 Seasons Hotel, San Francisco
http://www.idc.com/virtualization-west09

SOA Summit 2009
May 4-5, Scottsdale, AZ
http://www.soasummit2009.com/

RailsConf 2009
May 4-7, 2009, Las Vegas, NV

STAREAST - Software Testing, Analysis & Review
May 4-8, 2009, Rosen Hotel, Orlando, FL
http://www.sqe.com/go?SE09home

EMC World 2009
May 18, Orlando, FL
http://www.emcworld.com/

Interop Las Vegas 2009

May 19-21, Las Vegas, NV
http://www.interop.com/lasvegas/

Semantic Technology Conference
June 14th-18th, 2009, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, Ca

HP Tech Forum 2009
June 15-18, Las Vegas, NV
http://www.hptechnologyforum.com/

Velocity Conference 2009
June 22-24, 2009, San Jose, CA
conferences.oreillynet.com

SharePoint TechCon Boston
June 22-24, 2009, Cambridge, Mass.

Gartner IT Security Summit 2009
Jun 28 - Jul 1, Washington, DC
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=749433

Cisco Live/Networkers 2009
Jun 28-Jul 2, San Francisco, CA
http://www.cisco-live.com/

OSCON 2009
July 20-24, 2009, San Jose, CA
http:en.oreilly.com/oscon2009

OpenSource World [formerly LinuxWorld]
August 10-13, 2009, San Francisco, CA
http://www.opensourceworld.com/

VMworld 2009
Aug 31–Sept 3, San Francisco, CA

SecureComm 2009
Sept 14-18, Athens, Greece
http://www.securecomm.org/index.shtml

European Semantic Technology Conference
Sept 30-Oct 2, 2009, Vienna, Austria
http://www.estc2009.com/

Oracle OpenWorld 2009
Oct 11-15, San Francisco, CA
http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2008/

SD West $500 discount until Feb 6th

The folks at Dr. Dobbs and the SD West conference have proclaimed the first week in February "Developer Appreciation Week". Share the love by passing the SD West upgrade offer to your friends and colleagues ...

This offer will save you $500 off the regular pricing and is only available until Friday, February 6:

• Register for All Access at the cost of a VIP Pass.  The All Access Pass includes full access to both the SD West and Mobile Connect conferences.

• Register for a VIP Pass at the cost of a Conference Pass.  The VIP Pass includes full access to SD West.

Simply register with the priority code 9WUP to take advantage of this deal.  Expo Passes are also available! Online registration is available at: www.sdexpo.com

Coming: VMware Virtualization Forums - 12/3 & 12/11

Repost: VMware Virtualization Forums are where to learn about virtualization technology and how it can help your organization address key business objectives such as Server consolidation and Business continuity.

These free, one-day events offer educational tracks, live demos and networking opportunities. Its a bit like getting the highlights of VMWare World for free. Here's the DECEMBER schedule:
San Diego 12.03
Boston 12.11

Register here.

Significant Savings For EclipseCon 2009

The "Very Early" registration price for EclipseCon 2009 is only $1,195 - that's 40% off of the on-site registration price!

Members, committers and alumni also qualify for a further 15% discount on registration. "Very Early" pricing only lasts until December 31. Go to http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/ for info.

Upcoming Tech Events

SpringOne Americas
December 1-4, 2008, Hollywood, Fl
http://americas.springone.com

VMware Virtualization Forums
Dec 3, San Diego, Ca / Dec 11. Boston, Mass.
http://info.vmware.com/content/VirtualizationForum_Home

CMG'08, for the Computer Measurement Group
Dec 7-12 , Paris Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
http://www.cmg.org/conference/

SC World Congress 2008
Enterprise Data Security Conference & Expo
December 9-10, Javits Center, New York City
http://sc.haymarketcomm.net/r/?ZXU=753803&ZXD=31724559

Data Center Dynamics 2008
Dec 11, New Delhi, India
http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/

FudCon Boston 2009
Jan 9-11, MIT, Boston, Mass.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon/FUDConF11

SharePoint Technology Conference
January 27-29, Airport Hyatt, Burlingame, CA
http://sptechcon.com/register.html

Sun xVM Virtualization Roadshow
Jan 27-Feb 25, 2009, various US cities
http://www.xvmgetmoving.com/register.php

2009 SCADA and Process Control Summit
February 2 - 3, 2009, Disney Dolphin, Lake Buena Vista, FL
http://www.sans.org/scada09_summit

JBoss Virtual Experience on-line Conference
February 11, 2009, 8:30 am - 6:00 pm EST
http://www-2.virtualevents365.com/jboss_experience/agenda.php

Black Hat DC 2009
February 16-19, Hyatt, Arlington, VA
http://blackhat.com/html/bh-dc-09/bh-dc-09-main.html

RubyRX Conference

Feb. 19-21, 2009, Reston, NC

OpenSolaris Storage Summit 2009 - free
February 23, Grand Hyatt, San Francisco, CA
http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenSolaris/OpenSolaris+Storage+Summit+200902

USENIX/ACM FAST '09
7th Conference on File and Storage Technologies
February 24–27, Grand Hyatt, San Francisco, CA
http://usenix.org/events/fast09/

Gartner Mobile & Wireless Summit 2009
February 23-25 , 2009, Chicago, IL.
http://gartner.com/us/wireless

Next-Gen Broaband Strategies
Feb 24, 2009, Cable Center, Denver, Colorado
http://www.lightreading.com/live/event_information.asp?event_id=29032

eComm 2009
March 3-5, SF Airport Hyatt, San Mateo, CA
http://ecommconf.com/

DrupalCons 2009
March 4 – 7, 2009, Washington, DC
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/

SD West 2009
March 9-13, Santa Clara, CA
http://www.sdexpo.com/

O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
March 9-12, 2009, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA
http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech?CMP=EMC-conf_et09_int&ATT=EM5-NL

ManageFusion 09

March 10-12, MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas

http://www.managefusion.com/agenda.aspx

VEE 2009 Conference on Virtual Execution Environments
March 11-13, Crowne Plaza, Washington, DC
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/VEE09/Home.html

Unconference for technical product managers
March 14th, 2009,Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA
Register here

Orlando Scrum Gathering 2009
March 16-18, Gaylord Resort, Orlando, FL
http://www.scrumgathering.org

Forrester's IT Infrastructure & Operations Forum
March 18-19, 2009, San Diego, Ca
http://www.forrester.com/events/eventdetail?eventID=2372

ApacheCon Europe 2009
March 23-27, Amsterdam, Nederlands
http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009

EclipseCon 2009
March 23-26, Santa Clara, CA
http://www.eclipsecon.org/2009/home

MDM Spring Summit 2009
March 29-31, San Francisco, CA

International Virtualization and Cloud Computing Conferences
March 30-April 1, 2009, Roosevelt Hotel, New York City
http://www.virtualizationconference.com/
http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/

ESC Silicon Valley 2009 / Embedded Systems
Mar 30 - Apr 3, San Jose, CA
http://esc-sv09.techinsightsevents.com/

USENIX HotPar '09 Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism
March 30–31, Claremont Resort, Berkeley, CA
http://usenix.org/events/hotpar09/

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco
Co-presented by O'Reilly Media and TechWeb
March 31-April 3, 2009, San Francisco, CA

Linux Collaboration Summit 2009
April 8-10, San Francisco, CA
http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit

MySQL Conference & Expo
April 20-23, 2009, Santa Clara, CA

RSAConference 2009
April 20-24, San Francisco, Ca
http://www.rsaconference.com/2009/US/Home.aspx

USENIX/ACM LEET '09 & NSDI '09
6th Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Co-located w/ 2nd Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats
April 21–24, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA
http://usenix.org/events/nsdi09/

SOA Summit 2009
May 4-5, Scottsdale, AZ
http://www.soasummit2009.com/

RailsConf 2009
May 4-7, 2009, Las Vegas, NV

STAREAST - Software Testing, Analysis & Review
May 4-8, 2009, Rosen Hotel, Orlando, FL
http://www.sqe.com/go?SE09home

Semantic Technology Conference
June 14th-18th, 2009, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, Ca

Velocity Conference 2009
June 22-24, 2009, San Jose, CA
conferences.oreillynet.com

OSCON 2009
July 20-24, 2009, San Jose, CA

OpenSource World [was LinuxWorld]
August 10-13, 2009, San Francisco, CA

VMworld 2009
Aug 31-Sept 3, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA

SecureComm 2009
Sept 14-18, Athens, Greece
http://www.securecomm.org/index.shtml

European Semantic Technology Conference
Sept 30-Oct 2, 2009, Vienna, Austria
http://www.estc2009.com/

QCon, Mashup Camp, Cloud Computing in SF, Silicon Valley

QCon will be in San Francisco all this week.

Tutorials: Nov. 17 - 18, 2008
Conference: Nov. 19 - 21, 2008

This is the second annual San Francisco enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects and agile project managers. This event has roots with other Euro development conferences and brings a host of great speakers from the EU. There are great opportunities for learning in the Java, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Agile, and architecture communities. https://secure.trifork.com/sf2008/registration/

Mashup Camp provides a free, unstructured, unconference environment to discuss developments in Web 2.0 technologies and will be held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Nov 17-19. This is a place where developers decide which application program interfaces (APIs) and development tools to use when building the next generation of Web applications. http://www.mashupcamp.com/

And 3 overlapped conferences from SysCon Media are being held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose Nov. 19 - 21: These are the West Coast versions of SOA World, the Cloud Computing Expo, and the 4th Internaltional Virtualization Conference. You can still get a $100 early-bird discount through 11/18. http://www.virtualizationconference.com/

SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference

The USB Implementers Forum puttng on the SuperSpeed USB Developers Conference. This is an opportunity to hear from the creators of SuperSpeed USB and learn on how to incorporate it into future product roadmaps.

The conference will be held at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, California on November 17-18, 2008. The conference will provide detailed information about the release of the SuperSpeed USB (USB 3.0) specification.
More info is here: http://www.usb.org/developers/events/ssusb_devcon/

ITRoadmap, free on Nov 17th in SF

The IT "event that moves as fast as the technology..." comes to SF after prior Conference and Expos in Atlanta, Boston, Seattle, etc. Qualified IT persons can attend free, thanks to sponsors like Cisco and Verizon. There will be 10 tracks, including Virtualization, Mobility, SaaS, and Cloud Computing, put together by Network World.


Go to this link for more info: http://www.networkworld.com/events/2008/
Go to this link to Register: http://www.networkworld.com/events/conf-expo.html

Upcoming Tech Events

Dreamforce '08 SaaS Conference
November 2-5, San Francisco
http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF08/

Storage Decisions 2008
November 4 - 6, 2008 · San Francisco, CA

Web 2.0 Summit 2008
November 5-7, San Francisco, California
http://en.oreilly.com/web2008/public/content/home

System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference 2008
November 5-6, Radisson Hotel, Newport Beach, California
http://www.SoCconference.com

OpenOffice.org Conference - OOoCon 2008
November 5th-7th, Beijing, China
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2008

Usenix LISA 2008
November 9–14, San Diego, CA
http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa08/

Agile Development Practices 2008
Nov. 10 - 13, 2008, Orlando, FL
http://www.sqe.com/AgileDevPractices/

ISPcon Fall 2008
November 11-13, San Jose, CA
http://www.ispcon.com/future/f08_schedule.php

IT Roadmap - SF / Free
November 17, 2008, San Francisco, CA
http://www.networkworld.com/events/conf-expo.html

Mashup Camp Silicon Valley 2008 - Free Registration
November 17-19, Mountain View, CA.
http://www.mashupcamp.com/

QCon-SF 2008
Nov. 17-21, Westin Hotel, San Francisco, CA
http://qconsf.com/sanfrancisco-2008

Cloud Computing Conference & SOA World Conference
November 19-21, 2008, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA.
http://cloudcomputingexpo.com/
http://www.virtualizationconference.com/
http://soaworld2008.com/

SANS 9th Annual Security Conference
November 19 - 21, 2008, Washington, DC
https://www.sans.org/secitconf08/

SpringOne Americas
December 1-4, 2008, Hollywood, Fl
http://americas.springone.com

VMware Virtualization Forums
Dec 3, San Diego, Ca / Dec 11. Boston, Mass.
http://info.vmware.com/content/VirtualizationForum_Home

CMG'08, for the Computer Measurement Group
Dec 7-12 , Paris Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
http://www.cmg.org/conference/

Data Center Dynamics 2008
Dec 11, New Delhi, India
http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/

Gartner Mobile & Wireless Summit 2009
February 23-25 , 2009, Chicago, IL.
http://gartner.com/us/wireless

DrupalCons 2009
March 4 – 7, 2009, Washington, DC
http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco
Co-presented by O'Reilly Media and TechWeb
March 31-April 3, 2009, San Francisco, CA

Orlando Scrum Gathering 2009
March 16-18, Gaylord Palms, Orlando, FL
http://www.scrumgathering.org

Forrester's IT Infrastructure & Operations Forum
March 18-19, 2009, San Diego, Ca
http://www.forrester.com/events/eventdetail?eventID=2372

MySQL Conference & Expo
April 20-23, 2009, Santa Clara, CA

RailsConf 2009
May 4-7, 2009, Las Vegas, NV

Velocity Conference 2009
June 22-24, 2009, San Jose, CA
conferences.oreillynet.com

OSCON 2009
July 20-24, 2009, San Jose, CA

SpringOne set for December

The Spring Experience conference is now SpringOne Americas.

SpringOne Americas will be held December 1-4, 2008 at the Westin Diplomat in Hollywood, Florida. The agenda is posted and conference registration is now open. Be sure to register by September 29th to save $300.

http://americas.springone.com