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eZ International Winter Conferences 2010 in Geneva : Community Day, Partner Day and Update Training for Business Partners

Geneva

eZ Systems gathers every January the eZ Ecosystem to quickly look back at the 12 passed months and look ahead into a new year.

On January 21st and 22nd, two events will take place in Geneva which is a very central and convenient location for a conference as well as a growing market place for eZ.

January 21st - eZ Community Day

This Community Day will be the occasion to get presented with the new community platform http://share.ez.no, how it works and how we can make it an hyperactive, attractive and fun tool for eZ Publish users. The in-depth changes about the way the eZ Community lives will be exposed, and you will in this regard meet the community members who decided to join the share.ez.no team.

On top, we will sit and talk on how you can get concretly involved. So come by and grab the opportunity to contribute to the eZ Community. We will also make us busy with discussions around the latest release of eZ Publish, share feedback on your usage and ideas for the future.

The agenda will be announced soon but that day (starting at 9.00am) will be split into 2 parts :

  • Organization and structure around eZ community (community program, community committee, events, activties and more)
  • Techincal updates and discussions about eZ products and technology

Price : FREE

Register and propose talks here

Agenda :

9:00 - 9:45

Coffee, welcome word / today's schedule
Community at eZ & the new community portal

9:45 - 10:15

"The share.ez.no team: how it works, how to contribute"

10:15 - 10:30

break

10:30 - 11:00

"Front-end performance"
by Damien POBEL - Technical Expert at Smile

11:00 - 11:30

eZ DMS- Extending eZ Publish into the Document space
By J-A Eberhard - CEO of Open Net Ltd

11:30 - 12:00

"eZ Systems product strategy"
by Roland Benedetti - VP Product Management eZ Systems

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:15

"eZ Engineering: agile organisation, methods and quality"
by Atila Mellilo - VP Engineering eZ Systems

14:15 - 14:40

"cjw Support Solution - FAQ, downloads, forums & ticket system in eZ Publish
cjw Graph - multiple graph integration (eZ Components Graph) in eZ Publish for statistics and more"
by Ekkehard Dörre - Owner of coolscreen.de - member of cjw Network

14:40 - 15:00

eZ Publish workflows: user-friendly delayed publishing
by Peter Keung - Managing Director at Mugo Web

15:00 - 15:30

"eZ Publish blog posts compilation :
Netvibes / iGoogle Widget, custom RSS, google maps and others tips"
by Gilles Guirand - Technical Director at Kaliop - gandbox.fr

15:30 - 15:45

break

15:45 - 16:15

"eZ Publish project best practices: are we doing it the right way?"
by Mirko Battisti - Web designer and developer - Argentea

16:15 - 17:00

"What's brewing in the eZ Systems extensions kitchen:
from collaboration systems and document management to cloud-enabled archiving
and ezfind as your preferred IR engine"
by Paul Borgermans - eZ Publish extensions domain leader at eZ Systems

17:00 and on

Barcamp and community happening: chill out and share.

Indicative agenda:

  • New admin GUI
  • Image Editor
  • eZ Publish projects best practices: discussion (Argentea)
  • Complex metadata
  • Creating Communities Online (VisionWT)

January 22nd - eZ International Partner Day (for Community Partners & Business Partners only)

Every year partners from all over the world meet up to get updates and insights about how eZ is planing the future. This day is very important to eZ to get partners' feedback and all discussions around the further strategy, roadmap and technology are very valuable.

eZ Partners will be able to meet eZ's CEO, Christoph Rau, for the first time. It is key for Partners to attend in order to get updated about the vision of the new management team as well as about the 2010 strategy.

As last year, Partners will be able to meet the Board of Directors of eZ during a Panel session at the end of the day.

Price : FREE

Register and propose talks here

Agenda : Strategy, Sales & Marketing from 9.00am to 5.00pm

9:00 - 9:30

Coffee and Registration

9:30 - 9:40

Introduction by Bertrand Maugain - VP Marketing

9:40 - 10:30

"Organization and Strategy Update"
by Christoph Rau - CEO

10:45 - 12:00

Technology:

  • "Engineering at eZ" by Atila Mellilo - VP Engineering
  • "Releases and Roadmap" by Roland Benedetti - VP Product Management
  • "How to demo eZ Publish?" by Bård Farstad - CTO

13:30 - 14:00

"Marketing Plan 2010 & Event Calendar"
by Bertrand Maugain

14:00 - 14:45

"Business Partnership - From Lead Generation to Sales : Program, Processes, Organization" by Kenneth Bæk, VP Sales, and Bertrand Maugain

15:00 - 15:30

"Why partnering with eZ?" by Lee Atchison, Pivotal (USA)

15:45 - 16:15

"eZ and the Media Vertical" by Rolf Rohwer, Media Vertical Manager

16:30 - 17:00

Board of Directors Panel Session

January 22nd - eZ Publish 4.2 Update Training for Business Partners

After the release of the new Business Partner Program, eZ provides Update Trainings on the latest releases of eZ Publish. In addition to regional training sessions, we want to give the possibility for our Business Partners' developers to get that course and be recertified.

Price : FREE for Business Partners

Register here

Duration : from 9.00 to 5.00pm

Registration and Contact

The Venue

Flights

In addition to the traditional airlines, see below some interesting direct flight to Geneva :

Hotels and Accomodation

We recommend you to take a look at the hotel list below and use the filter "Distance to the center" to find an hotel close to the venue

Sightseeing - Lunch Breaks

Both lunch breaks will be an opportunity to discover and feel the city of Geneva. This is up to the attendees to use this free time as they want. You can look at the listed restaurants located in the center

We also recommend you to explore :

  • the city lake front offering endless opportunities of relaxation throughout the year
  • the world tallest Jet d'eau spouting 140 meters into the air
  • Rousseau Island, romantic island named for the Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Weekend activities

As in 2007 and 2008, we would like to have some social time all together and this time, we will be back to the Alps. We will have a trip to Chamonix for 2 days until sunday noon so that all participants can catch their flight back home.

See all details here and please register before December 10th in the Event Registration Form.