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Curriculum Sketch
FALL 2007 CURRICULUM SKETCH
The ISPCON Fall event will center on what's ahead and the transition to
new opportunities. Emerging trends, technologies and success stories of those
who are currently making or made a transition to new models, services and the
next phase of business growth in the industry will be top of mind. Some will be
a new spin on a bread-and-butter solution, some will find it hard to connect
today's model to tomorrow's. Either way, selected faculty will unearth a vast
array of ideas and challenge the thinking of every attendee to grasp the
Internet and web services of tomorrow's successful businesses.
The overwhelming majority of selected sessions will include the hottest
trends, technologies, strategies and case studies showing how the best and
brightest are most successful in their given expertise.
Speakers and panelists will have real-world experience, operating
knowledge and an open approach to sharing their process and results including
the who, how and why - a.k.a. "show me the P&L;" in every possible
instance.
Topic Suggestions
These topics are merely suggestions and a set of initial
tracks we're planning to cover to help provide some ideas to get you started
and funnel submissions into broad categories for consideration. Don't hesitate
to throw other ideas at us if you believe they're relevant to the audience.
We also expect to run micro-tracks in the areas of municipal broadband, IP video, sales and marketing, application services and WiMAX – so
feel free to submit in these areas as well under “other.”
MANAGED
SERVICES
- KSFs of Providing Managed Security Services
- Case Studies of Mid-market Managed IP Network Services
- Trends in Remote Access, Teleworker and Tech Support Services
MANAGED
HOSTING and DATACENTER SERVICES
- Controlling Datacenter Power and Cooling Costs
- Planning for Scale, Building for Business
- Financing for Growth in Uncertain Times
- Virtualization Trends and Technologies
- Clustering in the Petabyte Age: Can You Compete?
- Systemic Services: Automating for Scale, Provisioning for
Profit
- The Long Tail of Hosting: Making the Niche Matter
- Exploiting the Boom in Low-end Commodity Hosting from the
Big Boys
- Why Shared is Scared and Dediated is Dead
MESSAGING and COLLABORATION SERVICES
-
Pricing, Margins and Customer Adoption Trends in Messaging Solutions
- Securing Today's Enterprise
Messaging Platforms for Tomorrow's Threats
- Avoiding the Pitfalls of Delivering Reliable Collaboration
Services
- Realities of Unified Messaging: Do SIP and VoIP belong in
the Inbox? (and who's using it?)
- Putting a Shine to the MTA: Where Integration,
Applications and Advanced Services
Drive Value into Mail
- Realities of Presence and Mobility Solutions, What
Carriers Can't/Won't Provide
- The Truth of Practice of Managed Compliance Services
- Partnering with an ESP: Email Marketing Services and
Solutions that Sell, Integrate Well and Keep Customers Off Blacklists
- Considerations for Selecting Email Outsourcing and Private-label Messaging Services Vendors
BUSINESS/FINANCE/REGULATORY
ISSUES
- Justifying the Move to CLEC Status
- Top 10 Regulatory Concerns You Can't Ignore
- Maximizing Your Financial Options with Creative Financing,
New Leasing Options and Capex Management Solutions
IT SERVICES
- Selling to Businesses: Making Friends from IT Foes
- Point Solutions that Sell, Making Outsourcing Bite-sized
and Low-risk for the Customer
- Gateways to Gold:
Smart Boxes for Remote Monitoring and Proactive Solution Provisioning
- Moving from VAR to STAR: How Leading VARs are Setting the Pace in IT Services
- Don’t Get in the Way: Strategies for Integration at the
Edge to Open Paths to Profit
- Profit from Pain Points: Where Value
Peaks and Solutions Speak
- When Remote is Right and Onsite is Alright: Optimizing
the Needs, Opportunities and Expenses for You and Your Customers
- Expectation Management: Dealing with Downtime and Building
Customer Confidence
- The Portfolio Development and Marketing Process:
Services that Cross Sell, Integrate Well and Migrate Customers to Maximum
Adoption and ARPU
- Cutting free
of the Commodity: Leading High-value Services that You'd be Stupid to Pass Up
- Inside the Mind of the Customer: Addressing What Matters
Most with Purpose-built Point Solutions
- Secrets of the 10 Fastest Growing Providers
VOICE SERVICES
- Strategies and Trends in Managed Voice Services
- Open Source VoIP Gets Real
- Making VoIP Reliable and Profitable
APPLICATION SERVICES
- SaaS Strategies, Realities and Experiences from the Field
- Relative Reliability: Managing the Varied Demands of
Differing Applications to Meet Customer Needs
- Best Practices in Moving Traditional Applications to Multi-tenant
Solutions for SaaS Success
WEB SERVICES
- Bridging the API Security Gap: Connecting Disparate Apps
in a Distributed Environment
- What Web 2.0 Means to You
- How SOA, bITa and ITIL can Differentiate Your Services and
Bring Unique Value to the Table
CONTENT and DEVELOPMENT
- Leading with CMS and Blogging Systems to Drive Adoption
- Outsourcing Essentials for Offshore Development, Support
and BPO Services
- Rich Media Services Trends and Opportunities for
Developers, CDNs and You
NETWORK SERVICES
- Making GigE a RealitE
- Making Wireless Links for Business a Reliable and
Profitable Reality
- Developing a Scalable, Manageable Network Monitoring
Solution
WIRELESS SERVICES
- Applications and Services that Maximize Wiress ROI
(Surveillence, Public Service, Muni, MTU/MDU, VoIP, Distance Learning)
- Unwiring the Enterprise
with Secure and Reliable Managed Wireless Networks
- Using Ubiquitous WiFi to Your Advantage: Hotspots and Muni
Wifi Security Services
VERTICAL MARKETS
- Pricing and Provisioning Grid and Utility Services
- Zero Down: Making Storage and Backup Services Count
- Exploiting the Sweet Spots of SME Services
- Mission
Critical: When and Where Customers Will Pay Most for Reliability
- E-commerce Gets Easy: Moving Upstream with Advanced
Services and Integration
- Designing and
Building a Powerful Reseller/Channel/WOM/Referral Program
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