SEP 23-24, 2008
San Jose, CA
San Jose McEnery Convention Center
search • discover • inform • deliver • connect
SOLVING YOUR FINDABILITY DILEMMA

Conference Program Overview



Monday, September 22 - Pre-Conference Workshops

9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.W1: Leader's Framework for Decision Making
W2: Enterprise Search Technology Intensive
W3: Building an Enterprise of the Future
W4: Developing a Multichannel Content Management Strategy
W5: Strategies for Innovative Intranets
W6: Information Architecture 3.0
W7: Auto-Categorization
W8: Building a Taxonomy From the Ground Up
W9: Integrating Taxonomy Development Into an Enterprise Context
W10: Virtual World Safari: Showcasing Practical Solutions
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.W11: Enterprise Search 101
W12: Open Networks for Co-Generating Knowledge
W13: Increased Innovation Flows Through Collaborative Innovation Architecture
W14: Improving the Design of Search
W15: Enterprise Social Software Tools
W16: Measuring Taxonomy Success
W17: Personal Knowledge Management & Productivity
W18: Taxonomy and Metadata Standards Governance
W19: Best Practices in Intranet Management
W20: SharePoint & KM
7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.WELCOME & EVENING EVENT: Learning from Mistakes!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008


8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.WELCOME & OPENING KEYNOTE - Tag, You're It: Social Tagging Strategies for the Enterprise
9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.Making a Business Case for Search
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.Search and the Effective IT Strategy
11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.Meaning-Based Computing
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.A101: The Nuts and Bolts of Selecting a Search Engine

B101: Global Context, Personal Context and the Death of the Portal
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.Luncheon Keynote in Exhibit Hall 2

Luncheon Keynote in Exhibit Hall 2
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.A102: PatentCafe Serves Up Powerful Patent Search

B102: Small IT Staff? Big Robust Information Access Solution
2:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.A103: Email Search: Rescue for the Drowning?

B103: Microsoft Search Server 2008: An In-Depth Tutorial
3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.A104: Overcoming the Challenges of Implementing an Enterprise Search Engine

B104: Electronic Discovery Implications of Enterprise Search
3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.A105: Designing Usable Search

B105: A Compliance and E-Discovery Rulebook
4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.A106(a): Enterprise Search Clinic: Teragram

A106(b): Enterprise Search Clinic: Google
5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.Welcome Reception

Welcome Reception



Wednesday, September 24, 2008


9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.KEYNOTE - The Future of Search

KEYNOTE - The Future of Search
10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.A201: Natural Language Processing: Can NLP Really Deliver?

B201: Mastering Multilingual Search
11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.A202: Taxonomy and Resource Location: Finding the Who and the What

B202: SEO for Web 2.0
12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.A203: Automatic Facets: Faceted Navigation and Entity Extraction

B203: Inside the Black Box of the Search Index
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.Lunch Break Sponsored by Onesta

Lunch Break Sponsored by Onesta
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.A204: Upgrading Your Search Solution

B204: Managing the Enterprise Search Support Team
2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.A205: An Integrated Continuum of Search Technologies

B205: Centralized Taxonomy Management for Enterprise Information Systems
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall Sponsored by Autonomy

Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall Sponsored by Autonomy
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.A206: Enterprise Search Clinic: Openwater Networks

B206: Enterprise Search Clinic: Krugle
3:30 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.A207: Business Intelligence and Search

B207: Search and the Virtual Machine
4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.CLOSING KEYNOTE - Finding Meaning: What We've Learned