Schedule: Strategy & Business Models sessions

This in-depth workshop provides an exploration of the next generation of techniques for creating compelling and highly competitive web applications. Designed especially for the web architect and product manager, this session closely examines the latest trends, best practices, and emerging techniques for leveraging Web 2.0 concepts in web applications to achieve high levels of growth. Read more.

Have you ever wondered how to impress an inscrutable Venture Capitalist, convince a doubting journalist or perfect the guaranteed door opener for a partner? Then this workshop is for you. Read more.

The business risks for Web 2.0 are fundamentally changing since 2004. New privacy laws, new technological capabilities, and new user demands have created the "perfect storm" for a Web 2.0 litigation explosion, where the business risks in Europe may even be bigger than those of the U.S. Companies deploying Web 2.0 models will need to judiciously transfer their business risk now...and quickly. Read more.

This panel aims to highlight the range of work being done by creators and content aggregators in the Creative Commons community and inform the audience how they can integrate these freely available tools into their own creations, collaborations, and businesses. Read more.

A large amount of Web 2.0 business plans depend to some extent or another on "Freeconomics." However, we believe this has severe limitations once companies are past initial startup stage, as the costs rapidly outstrip the resources. A rethink is required. Read more.

Social network advertising is easy, but it doesn't pay very well. Social apps will make money from the online ad business, but they won't change it. Read more.

In this presentation, BT Managing Director JP Rangaswami will discuss how traditional telecom capabilities should no longer be considered stand-alone applications but as features in enterprise and Web 2.0 applications. The incorporation of telecom capabilities into these applications will change the way we communicate in the workplace today. Read more.

Location based Services have entered the mainstream. Personal Navigation Devices in cars are ubiquitous and personal navigation on the phone is already a big business. Nokia alone is going to have over a hundred million GPS enabled devices across the whole product range in the market by 2010, challenges like battery live and slow positioning technology have been solved to a satisfying extent. Read more.

For too long, power distribution has been a top down, subscribe-only model, but the electricity grids of tomorrow will be read/write, just like the Web. It’s a commonplace to talk about how IT should be delivered as a utility, but what about delivering a utility the same way the Web works? Read more.

Users 2.0 are demanding magic experience when creating content, making connections, or just messaging. To them semantic markup sounds weird, but "automagic suggestions for spicing up content" does not. Focusing on content creation the talk will give an overview of existing tools that can be used by media and publishing platforms, give suggestions on how to implement them and share experiences. Read more.