March 4-8, 2007- Boston, Massachusetts
USA
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Proposal
deadline: The Initial Call for Presentations is
CLOSED.
Interested speakers may still submit presentations with the possibility
of inclusion
into the "Late Breaking News" timeslots, or in the event that
another speaker must cancel.
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the following details... |
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| Critical dates | Presentation guidelines | Conditions, requirements, & benefits | Possible topic areas | How to improve your chances |
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Presentation proposals are now being accepted for the 19th Annual DAMA International Symposium + 11th Annual Wilshire Meta-Data Conference scheduled for March 4-8, 2007 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts.
This conference is increasingly recognized as the foremost data management educational conference in the world. Almost 1000 IT professionals over 20 countries attended the meeting in 2005. For reference, previous events can be reviewed at www.wilshireconferences.com.
Presentations are invited across the entire range of data management fields of interest. As a guide, key educational themes and topics for 2006 are listed below.
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Critical
Dates |
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September 8, 2006 |
Deadline for Presentation Proposals to be submitted |
| September 22, 2006 | Target date for notifying Speakers as to whether their proposal has been accepted or not. |
| January 22, 2007 | Deadline
for Final Speaker Presentations to be received by Wilshire Conferences
(in PowerPoint file format). |
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Presentation Guidelines
1. Presentations may be proposed in the following categories:
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Conference Sessions (1 hour duration)
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Evening Sessions: Night School & Special Interest Groups (1 hour duration)
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Workshops (3 hours - see terms below)
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Tutorials (6 hours - see terms below)
2. Please take note of all the requirements and follow the presentation guidelines carefully. There is a great deal of competition for speaking opportunities at this conference and based on historical trends, we will be able to accept fewer than one in every 6 presentation proposals. Therefore, incomplete or poorly constructed proposals tend to be quickly eliminated from consideration. If you are unsure of your proposal, you may email us with questions so we can guide you before you make an official submission. PLEASE NOTE: We cannot tell you if your proposal will be accepted or not. This would not be fair to the hundreds of other potential speakers who have also submitted proposals.
3. Presentations from corporate practitioners that reflect real-world experience and hands-on implementation will receive priority consideration.
4. Vendor organizations may submit proposals for any presentation category, but please understand that vendor presentations are viewed very cautiously, in light of past experience with sales pitches and commercialism. Therefore, very few speaking slots are ultimately offered to vendor organizations (vendors interested in promoting their products may purchase exhibit space, product presentation times, or other sponsorships. Please contact Rick Froton, Director of Sales, 603-305-0660.)
5. Commercial/sales presentations and/or demonstrations during conference sessions are not appropriate (Please note point # 3 in Presentation Conditions below).
6a) Night School sessions are one hour long and conducted on the first two evenings of the event. They are lecture format (similar to regular conference sessions) and typically cover the fundamental concepts of new subject areas and new ideas. They typically assume the audience has no prior experience in the subject matter being presented.
6b) Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are one hour long and conducted in the early mornings and evenings. The typical format is a facilitated session, comprising a 5-10 minute overview talk by the speaker, followed by audience discussion. SIGs can be for any level of audience experience.
7. A short-list of back-up speakers will be prepared from the original presentation submissions. Back-up speakers will be used to fill any last-minute speaker cancellations. If you are selected as a back-up, you have the option of registering for the conference at a reduced registration fee, and if eventually called upon to speak then you will receive a refund of your registration fee.
8. For further guidelines, see "How to Improve the Chances of Your Proposal Being Selected"
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VERY IMPORTANT!
Speaker Presentation
Conditions, Requirements & Benefits
1. All speakers must agree to provide their presentation to Wilshire Conferences in a standard electronic form (PowerPoint is required), no later than January 22, 2007. This is necessary to prepare the event CD and documentation. Speakers who are delinquent in meeting this deadline risk being replaced on the program.
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. Sorry, there are no exceptions to these requirements.
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. By submitting a proposal, speaker agrees that he/she has permission from his/her company to make the presentation under the terms outlined in this Call for Papers. If you do not have approval at the time you make the proposal, you must indicate this clearly.
5. All accepted speakers receive complimentary attendance to the entire conference.
6. All Conference Session, Panel, Night School and SIG speakers are responsible for their own travel and living expenses.
7. Workshop and Tutorial speakers receive a fee ($750 for half-day workshop speakers, $1500 for full-day tutorial speakers) plus an expense reimbursement in accordance with the standard conference policies (which may be viewed here - in a new browser window). An expense budget will be established and confirmed with the speaker prior to final acceptance.
8. Click here for Keynote, Tutorial, and Workshop speaker travel and living expense policy.
All questions regarding the Call for Papers may be sent to us at speaker@wilshireconferences.com.
Thank you!
| Tony Shaw Meta-Data Program Chairman Wilshire Conferences www.wilshireconferences.com |
Cathy Nolan VP Conference Services DAMA International www.dama.org |
| Conference
Sponsorship, Exhibit and Demonstration Opportunities |
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Possible Topic Areas
DAMA International Symposium
- Data Management Best Practices - Case Studies and Success Stories
- Interaction of Business and Data Management
- Data Requirements of Privacy and Legislative Compliance
- Measuring the Business and Financial Value of Data Assets
- The Politics of Data
- Future Trends and New Developments in Data Management
- Marketing and Selling DM
- Managing Business Complexity
- Global Data Management
- Modeling - Data, Process, Object, Logical and Physical
- Data Integration
- Data Strategy
- Project Management
- Use Cases and Requirements Analysis
- Agile Development
- Architectures - Enterprise, Data, Information and Federated
- Data Warehousing, Data Marts, Decision Support
- Business Rules and Business Rule Engines
- Information Quality, Stewardship and Governance
- Data Management's Role in ERP and Packages
- Customer Relationship Management
- Knowledge Management
- Implementing Data Administration Functions
- Applying the Zachman Framework
- Security
- Metrics
- Data Lexicon, Data Naming Standards
- Ethics
- Academic Research of Data and Information Resource Management
Wilshire Meta-Data Conference
- Technical and Management Issues in Meta Data
- Repository Implementation and Project Management
- Meta Data Best Practices
- Master Data Management and CDI
- Metadata ROI
- Metadata and e-discovery
- Managing metadata proliferation
- Use of metadata to integrate applications and services in an SOA environment
- Future trends in metadata management
- Requirements for metadata tools
- Metadata registries
- Business metadata Metadata architectures
- Meta Data Standards
- Active Meta Data
- Unstructured Data
- Integrating unstructured and structured data
- Business Semantics
- Ontologies
- Taxonomies
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Grid Services
- The Semantic Web
- Search Techniques and Technologies
- Data Management for E-Business
- Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
- Enterprise Information Integration (EII)
- XML for Data/Meta Data Management
- Working with XML Schemas, Namespaces, etc.
- Business Intelligence
- Real-time Analytics
- Business Performance Measurement (BPM) Analytics
- ITIL
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How to Improve the Chances of Your Proposal Being Accepted
There is no "formula" to being accepted, and there is no way to guarantee that your proposal will be selected by the conference committee. However, there are a few ways that you can improve your chances and avoid being eliminated in the early part of the evaluation process.
DO...
- Write clearly, succinctly, and use a spell-check. You'd be amazed how many proposals we receive where it's really difficult to understand the subject matter of the presentation.
- Offer more "Advanced" subject matter, especially if you're an expert in your field. Develop a presentation that stretches the audience to reach further (i.e. help bring them up to your level). Too often we receive very basic speaking proposals from people who have much more to offer. We want more advanced, sophisticated subject matter!
- Give us something exciting with which to evaluate you. eg. "voted 'most amusing' speaker at the DB2 conference", or "I have just completed a major project dealing with these issues and I'm excited to share the difficult lessons with my peers."
- Be specific about what you'll be presenting, and why it will be useful to the audience. i.e. "I'll show you exactly how we reduced the time to create the models by 25%, and reduced the cost of re-work by another 50% because of the improved quality the deliverables." That's much better than "Discussion of efficiencies, quality improvement and cost reductions."
- If you're from a vendor company, you have a better chance of being selected if you propose talking about the "leading edge" of the technology area in which you operate, rather than the basics.
- If you're from a PR firm, speaker placement agency, or internal marketing department, make sure your speaker is willing and available to participate before you make the submission.
- Be willing to speak on a panel. It's not as much podium time, but the panels are very well attended. And given the competition for speaking slots then you will definitely increase your chances of being accepted.
- Accept all the speaker terms. If there's anything you're not sure about, contact us to discuss it.
- You may email the committee chairpersons at speaker@wilshireconferences.com to ask questions. We're happy to help.
- Finally, PLEASE use the web-based form to make your final submission. That way your proposal will go directly "into the database", where we can track it, distribute it to the committee and ensure proper follow-up. Proposals which are sent by direct email or fax have to be tracked separately and eventually get re-keyed into the database by someone on the committee, so there's always a chance of your proposal being misplaced in the meantime.
DON'T...
- Don't propose "obvious" topics. The attendees of Meta-Data+DAMA are a reasonably sophisticated audience, and they already understand "Why Data Management is Important" and "Why Quality Matters" (for which we receive over a dozen proposals every year). Though we need some presentations that cover fundamentals, they have to be about new subject areas, and must be pitched at a level that's useful to an audience of data management professionals.
- Don't ever propose a talk that discusses how your products "meet the needs of data management" -- you'll never be accepted.
- Don't make the same proposal you've submitted for the past 3 years. Please offer something new. There's probably a good reason we didn't accept it the first 3 times.
- If you were accepted and presented at a previous year’s event, don’t submit the same proposal this year. We do not repeat the same conference sessions in subsequent years. If the proposal is similar, indicate the differences from the previous year.
- If you're from a vendor company, don't talk about your products, unless we specifically ask you to do so. Just don't do it. If you're deemed to have made an "unacceptably commercial presentation" then you won't be invited back to speak.
- Don't take the shotgun approach (ie. making a dozen different proposals and hoping that one gets accepted). Much better to contact us beforehand, get some advice as to what we're looking for, and refine the list down to the 2-3 good topics that are most likely to get you selected.
- Don't assume that extensive audiovisual or technical requests can be easily provided at no cost to you. For example, a high-speed Internet connection can cost as much as $2500 a day in some venues, so don't assume we will be able (or willing) to provide the connection for you. If you need a more elaborate or expensive AV set-up then contact us to discuss it first.