TUG 2009 Providence | Keynotes by Carmen Medina, Chris Nuzum and Stewart Mader

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Traction Software's fourth annual Traction User Group Meeting - TUG 2009 13-16 October 2009 in Providence RI - will feature an opening Keynote by Carmen Medina, closing Keynote by Stewart Mader and customer talks by Alcoa, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a top tier management consulting firm, and others. For live updates see What's being said about TUG 2009 on Twitter?. Tune in for Carmen Medina's 9:00AM EDT opening keynote followed by a Traction TeamPage Product Roadmap session and other highlights listed below. [ Update: See links below for TUG 2009 videos and slides ]

Wed Oct 14 2009 [ all times are US Eastern Daylight Time ]

9:00-10:30 AM: Carmen Medina - Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA - will deliver a thought provoking TUG 2009 opening keynote on Enterprise 2.0 and the Context of Work. Video | slides | transcript

10:45-12:20PM: Chris Nuzum - CTO and co-founder of Traction Software - will lead a Traction Software Roadmap session with product and partner announcements, introduction of Traction Software's new Google Web Toolkit (GWT) based Proteus user interface, and a roadmap for the year ahead.

1:30-4:30PM: Customer talks will include results of Enterprise 2.0 initiatives by Alcoa, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a top tier management consulting firm, and a well-known US manufacturer.

4:30-5:00PM: Masayuki Kojima of Applied Knowledge Co, Ltd (Yokohama, Japan) will discuss migration from Lotus Notes to TeamPage and use of software tools to capture web content and publish to TeamPage.

5:00-6:00PM: Author and Future Changes founder Stewart Mader will deliver a closing keynote Designing for Collaboration.

TUG 2009 will offer an afternoon of basic to power user Training preceding the Conference, and two days optional days of advanced training with SDL/SDK and Advanced Platform Topic tracks, including:

  • Attivio Advanced Search for Traction TeamPage - Daryl Gies, Attivio Manager of Professional Services slides
  • Introducing Proteus - Michael Angeles, Traction Software Director of User Experience
  • Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Proteus - Andy Keller, Traction Software Director of Engineering
  • Customizing Proteus - Michael Angeles, Traction Software Director of User Experience

TUG welcomes people who are using or interested in Traction TeamPage - including the free Traction TeamPage software - analysts and industry experts who are interested in learning about Enterprise 2.0 and the future of knowledge management.

See the Traction Software Slideshare page for public TUG 2009 slides. Become a TUG member for access to all TUG slides, talks, training and code examples where authors have limited their distribution to other TUG members.

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