Management Developers Conference

Call For Presentations

Management Developers Conference (MDC) 2008 Call for Presentations

Nov 17-20, 2008
Santa Clara Marriott
Santa Clara, California

http://mandevcon.com

Management Developers Conference (MDC) educates, trains and informs software developers about the exciting and evolving technologies for developing and deploying enterprise management solutions. MDC is one-stop shopping for all your standards-based enterprise management needs. MDC provides university days for attendees new to standards-based technologies.

MDC encourages participation by individuals and organizations with standards, research or practical experience for standards-based management, including government and commercial users, universities, research laboratories, and early adopters.

As a Management Developers Conference presenter, you'll benefit from the prestige and visibility associated with participating in this years highly anticipated conference program. Management Developers Conference is now accepting abstracts for the November 2008 conference program. Individuals interested in presenting need to submit their abstract by Tuesday, July 1, 2008 for consideration.

Specific areas of interest for MDC 2008 include standards, research and practical experience for standards-based management for the following:

     * Management Initiatives (CDM, DASH, SMASH, SMI and Virtualization)
     * Developer tools and infrastructure
     * Developer API

     * Client Application Development
     * Provider Development
     * Emerging Technologies

* Real-world solutions & experiences

How to submit an abstract:

Send submissions electronically to presentations@mandevcon.com. Include submission title, author name(s), target audience (Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced), organization, address, telephone number, fax number, e-mail address, length of presentation (see below) and a brief description of how your contribution relates to the theme of this conference. Also designate a primary contact person, phone number, and e-mail address. Submissions are due July 1, 2008. We will notify authors by email on July 10, 2008.

Presentations:

Each presentation will be allowed 50 minutes or 1 hour, 50 minutes, which includes 5 to 10 minutes for Q&A. Once a person is accepted as a presenter, he or she must provide a copy of their presentation slides using our designated Open Office or PowerPoint template.

Panel Discussions:

Panel sessions are a less structured environment and allow conference attendees to interact with the panelists. Panel discussions are 1 hour, 50 minutes. Panelists are not required to submit a presentation, but each panelist is encouraged to deliver a short 2-5 minute introduction.

Contact:

Nuala Ferdinand
Conference Manager
T: (978) 947-3620
E: nuala.ferdinand@mandevcon.com

Program Committee:

Troy Biegger, WSI
Winston Bumpus, VMWare
Mark Carlson, Sun
Jerry Chin, Hewlett Packard
Jim Davis, WSI
Nuala Ferdinand, Management Developers Conference
Valerie Kane, AMD
Martin Kirk, The Open Group
Fred Maciel, Hitachi
Norm Paxton, Novell

Roger Reich, Olocity
Karl Schopmeyer, Inova
Perry Vincent, Intel

Calendar:

Apr 15, 2008 Call For presentations Opens
Jul 01, 2008 Call For presentations Closes
Jul 09, 2008 Selection Process Completed
Jul 10, 2008 Speakers are Notified
Jul 18, 2008 Schedule posted on website
Nov 01, 2008 Presentations due
Nov 17, 2008 Conference starts

The 2008 Management Developers Conference would like to thank the following sponsors for their support.

Diamond Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Organization Sponsors

Sponsorships at the Management Developers Conference are designed to provide a number of sponsorship opportunities that will promote companies participation and involvement in standards based management technologies. Please contact sales for more information about sponsorship opportunities for the 2008 Management Developers Conference.