Online Information & IMS 2009 Announce Educational Free Show Floor Seminar Programme

A comprehensive programme of over 110 free educational show floor seminars has been unveiled by the organisers of Online Information and IMS 2009. The programme offers show visitors the chance to hear from some of the leading lights in the industry. It is recommended that show attendees plan their visit in advance to ensure they secure a seat at their chosen sessions, as places at each presentation will allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The full programme is now live and ready to view on the event's website http://www.online-information.co.uk/online09/seminars_2009_new.html

(PRWEB) November 12, 2009 -- Seminars within the Online Information Exhibition arena are all encompassing. Many of the sessions address the unique challenges currently facing Information Professionals. In response to high demand several of the subject areas have been extended with an additional whole day of seminars. Both the STM Information in Focus and Libraries and Ebooks sessions will now run over two days and The Global Business Information Forum will be held on three full days of the event.

High profile speakers and thought provoking-sessions within each of the topic areas of the Show Floor Seminar Programme include: Epublishing - 'Next-Generation Custom Publishing' A Wiley Custom Select Case Study presented by Simon Atkinson, Managing Director, UK, Mark Logic UK Limited and 'Digital-First Publishing Solutions' will uncover new revenue opportunities with multi-channel, mobile delivery and will be fronted by Samir Kakar, CTO, Aptara

STM Information in Focus - Keynoted by Andrew Richardson, Managing Director Europe, Vice President Business Development, Wolters Kluwer Health Medical Research and a presentation on 'User-centric publishing' will look at how books, journals and data can be published seamlessly online for the benefit of users and librarians by Toby Green, Head of Publishing, OECD Publishing.

Information Masterclasses and Career Development Talks - an intriguing beginner's guide to Twitter in a local government by Stuart Harrison, Lichfield District Council and 'Be prepared' will cover using and developing your skills to facilitate moves into different roles and sectors, presented by Gwenda Sippings, Head of Information Services, Linklaters, UK

Libraries and Ebooks - Maxim van Gisbergen, Product Manager eBooks, Swets talking on 'What librarians have to say on eBook acquisition' and Matthew Cockerill, Managing Director, Biomed Central discusses the 'Latest developments in Open Access publishing'

Global Business Information Forum - a session entitled 'Emerging Business Models for the New Information Order' presented by Caspar de Bono, Managing Director, FT Business and B2B, Financial Times plus 'Business strategies for new realities' by Stephen Phillips, Vice President, Business Information Services, Morgan Stanley.

A strong line-up is also on the agenda for the IMS free show seminars: Content Management - includes a presentation on 'Web Content Management Technology Circa 2010', by Tony Byrne, Founder, CMS Watch. On Day 2 of the event the whole morning will be dedicated to open source with three intriguing sessions including: 'Moving a major cultural institution onto an Open Source Web CMS' presented by Richard Morgan, Web Technical Manager, Victoria & Albert Museum; An XML Panel Debate with panel members Michael Upshall, XML content licensing and information strategy consultant, Phil Caisley, XML publishing information systems specialist and Mike McNamara, Independent Consultant and Imogen Levy, Online Editor, Westminster Abbey who gives her take on 'How Westminster Abbey increased visits to their website by incorporating community features'.

Enterprise Search - where Peter Sejersen, Analyst, J.Boye talks on 'Going Google' lessons for the Enterprise.

Marketing through Social Media - following a highly successful introductory session in 2009, this theme is back by popular demand and will take place in a larger theatre to accommodate the anticipated increase in attendees. This theme is Keynoted by David Cushman, Director of Social Media, Brando Social with his controversial session ' Why "using" social media must fail - participating is the winning strategy'.

Event information
Consisting of an exhibition attracting over 9,000 visitors from 70 countries, a conference and a show floor seminar programme, Online Information and IMS provide an annual meeting place for the global information industry. For comprehensive event and industry information and free downloads of conference podcasts, guru interviews, case-studies and white papers please visit: www.online-exhibition.co.uk or twitter tag: #online09

Organisers - Incisive Media Events

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