Wilshire Conferences is pleased to announce the second annual

November 3-6, 2003 Hilton Philadelphia/Cherry Hill

CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposal Deadline is June 2, 2003

  
Presentation proposals are now being accepted for the second annual Enterprise Data Forum, to be conducted by Wilshire Conferences on November 3-6, 2003 at the Hilton Philadephia, located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.   

The conference will examine the major issues and trends impacting data management, integration, and analytics, towards achieving the Business objectives of "faster, better and cheaper". The event will be structured into a number of themed tracks, including:

        Data Integration & Interoperability

        XML Data & Schema Management 

        Real Time Data Infrastructures

        Data Mining, Analytics & BI

        Service Oriented Architectures

        Unstructured Data

        Data Profiling and Quality Assessment

        Data and Process Modeling

        Integrating Data and Objects

        Enterprise Meta Data

        Business Semantics

        Privacy and Security

        Data Valuation and Measurement

        New Technologies and Tools

Submission Requirements
Please complete the web-based submission form

Submission Requirements Include:

• Presentation Title, Executive summary (max 200 words) and 5-6 bullet points describing the presentation.  
• Indicate the type of presentation proposed: 
  - Conference Session (60 minutes, incl Q&A.  Regular lecture format)  
  - Conference Session (90 minutes, incl Q&A.  In-depth and advanced subjects. Lecture format)  
  - Panel Speaker (15 minute talk + Q&A.  Panels will comprise 3-4 speakers chosen by the program chair)
  - Special Interest & User Groups (60 minutes.  Early morning.  Describe the format you are proposing)
  - Tutorial (6 hours class time)  
  - Workshop (3 hours class time)  
• Indicate the level of experience required by the audience, and any pre-requisite knowledge the audience needs.
• Speaker Information, including speaker biography, portrait photo and audiovisual requirements
• Complete contact information of proposed speaker, Include PR contact if applicable.
• Acknowledgement that you accept the Speaker Presentation Requirements and Conditions (see below).

Critical Dates

Presentation Guidelines
How to Improve the Chances of Your Proposal Being Accepted

1.      Presentations from corporate practitioners that reflect real-world experience and hands-on implementation will receive priority consideration.

2.      Presentations that focus on NEW and ADVANCED concepts, techniques, technologies and methods also receive preferred consideration.

3.   Talks that deal with specific topics and/or problems are preferred to high-level or general overviews, especially in the conference program.  For example, we do not need another talk on why real-time analytics is going to be necessary in the next 5 years.  Much better would be a talk drawing on project-based experience, describing how you built a real-time analytical solution to address a specific set of business challenges, and describing the successes and failures of the implementation, and what lessons you learned from the project. 

4.      A number of panels will be constituted in order to give exposure and analysis of a wider variety of speakers and approaches.  Your overall chances of acceptance are greater if you are willing to participate in a panel.

5.      Vendors are welcome to submit proposals for conference sessions, panels, SIGs and User Groups.  In selecting proposals from vendors, we prefer Technical personnel (CTOs, R&D engineers) to avoid commercialism.  Sales pitches and product discussions will not be accepted.

VERY IMPORTANT!
Speaker Presentation Conditions, Requirements & Benefits

 1.  All speakers must agree to provide their presentation to Wilshire Conferences in an unprotected PowerPoint file, no later than September 30, 2003. Unfortunately, speakers who are delinquent in meeting this deadline risk being replaced on the program. The original, unprotected Powerpoint file is necessary to allow us to prepare the conference materials, including indexed CD and web documentation. Supplying us with PDFs and other copy-protected formats are not usable for these purposes, so if you are not willing to provide the original Powerpoint file then please do not submit yourself as a speaker. 

2.      By submitting a proposal, the speaker agrees to the standard copyright and reproduction terms of this event.  These terms provide that copyright in original presentation material remains with the speaker, however Wilshire Conferences is granted the right to record, reproduce and distribute each presentation in all forms of printed and electronic conference materials, including, but not limited to, the conference CD-ROM, printed attendee notes, the conference web site, and audio and/or video recordings (digital and/or analog), without royalties or fees payable to speaker.  Any exceptions to acceptance of the above by the speaker must be noted in his/her initial submission.  If you fail to notify us of such exceptions then you will be deemed to accept these terms.

3.      All sessions will be rated by the audience for commercial content.  Any speaker who is judged by the audience to have made an inappropriate sales pitch for his/her own company, book, product or service during a conference session risks having their presentation interrupted and/or halted, and will not be invited to participate at future conferences.

4.      All accepted speakers receive complimentary attendance to the entire conference.

5.    All conference, panel and SIG speakers are responsible for their own travel and living expenses.  Workshop and tutorial speaker will receive a modest fee and a fixed expense allowance, depending on their city of origin.
Further details can be obtained by contacting Tony Shaw at tony@wilshireconferences.com

6.      VERY IMPORTANT: By submitting a proposal, the speaker agrees that he/she has permission from their employer to make the presentation under the terms outlined in this Call for Papers. This includes budgetary allocation for the payment of travel expenses, and the authority to travel to the conference location under your company's current travel policies.  You must indicate if you do not have either of these approvals as yet.  You will not be ruled ineligible to participate if you don't currently have the authority, but it will have to be established before your participation as a speaker is confirmed.  Likewise, if your company has particular travel restrictions in place, such as disallowing travel under the US government's terrorist alert system, then you must inform us of those policies so we can manage the possible risk of program disruptions.

All questions regarding the Call for Papers may be sent to Tony Shaw of Wilshire Conferences at tony@wilshireconferences.com. 

Thank you!

Wilshire Conferences  
www.wilshireconferences.com