CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
Presentation proposals are now being accepted for the Enterprise Information Management Conference scheduled for September 21-23, 2010 at the Hilton Toronto in Toronto, Canada.
Presentations are invited across the entire range of data management fields of interest. As a guide, key educational themes and topics for 2010 are listed below.
- Enterprise Information Management
- Enterprise Semantics
- Metadata Management
- Data Stewardship and Data Governance
- Enterprise data modeling best practices
- Semantic data integration
- Business Intelligence architectures
- MDM
- Corporate Business Strategy and EIM Strategy alignment
- Information driven Organization (Process, Organizational Structures and Technology)
- Changing role of the information management professionals
- Politics/people issues in data integration and data governance
- Data quality
- Data and information asset valuation
- Metrics, KPI's and Scorecarding concepts and best practices
- Enterprise Content Management
- Information Requirements Analysis and Documentation
- Modeling
- SOA
- Cloud computing architectures
- Collaboration tools for EIM
- New enterprise information management technologies
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NOTE: We suggest composing your proposal in plain text (WordPad or Notepad instead of Word)
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| June 4, 2010 |
Deadline for presentation proposals to be submitted |
| June 14, 2010 |
Target date for notifying speakers as to whether their proposal has been accepted or not. |
| August 16, 2010 |
Deadline for final speaker Presentations to be received by Wilshire Conferences (in PowerPoint file format). |
- Presentations may be proposed in the following categories:
- Conference Sessions (50 minutes duration)
- Special Interest Group (SIG) or User Group Sessions (a facilitated discussion of 50 minutes duration)
- Tutorials (3 hours - see terms below)
- Please take note of all the requirements and follow the guidelines carefully. We anticipate a great deal of competition for speaking opportunities at this conference. Therefore, incomplete or poorly constructed proposals tend to be quickly eliminated from consideration. If you are unsure of your proposal, you may email us with questions so we can guide you before you make an official submission. PLEASE NOTE: We cannot tell you if your proposal will be accepted or not. This would not be fair to the hundreds of other potential speakers who have also submitted proposals.
- Presentations from corporate practitioners that reflect real-world experience and hands-on implementation will receive priority consideration.
- Vendor organizations may submit proposals for any presentation category, but please understand that vendor presentations are viewed very cautiously in light of past experience with sales pitches and commercialism. Therefore, very few speaking slots are ultimately offered to vendor organizations. (Vendors interested in promoting their products may purchase exhibit space, product presentation times, or other sponsorships. Please contact Maya Stosskopf, Director of Programs.)
- Commercial/sales presentations and/or demonstrations during conference sessions are not appropriate (Please note point # 3 in Presentation Conditions below).
- Special Interest Groups are conducted in the early mornings and evenings. The typical format is a facilitated session, comprising a 5-10 minute overview talk by the speaker, followed by audience discussion. SIGs can be for any level of audience experience.
- A short-list of back-up speakers will be prepared from the original presentation submissions. Back-up speakers will be used to fill any last-minute speaker cancellations. If you are selected as a back-up, you have the option of registering for the conference at a reduced registration fee, and if eventually called upon to speak then you will receive a refund of your registration fee.
- For further guidelines, see "How to Improve the Chances of Your Proposal Being Selected"
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- All speakers must agree to provide their presentation to Wilshire Conferences in a standard electronic form (PowerPoint is required), no later than August 16, 2010. This is necessary to prepare the event CD and documentation. Presentations will be distributed via a secure .PDF or a hard copy onsite. Speakers who are delinquent in meeting this deadline risk being replaced on the program.
- By submitting a proposal, the speaker agrees to the standard copyright and reproduction terms of this event. These terms provide that copyright in original presentation material remains with the speaker, however Wilshire Conferences is granted the right to record, reproduce and distribute each presentation in all forms of printed and electronic conference materials, including, but not limited to, the conference CD-ROM, printed attendee notes, the conference website, and audio and/or video recordings (digital and/or analog), without royalties or fees payable to speaker. Sorry, there are no exceptions to these requirements.
- All sessions will be rated by the audience for commercial content. Any speaker who is judged by the audience to have made an inappropriate sales pitch for his/her own company, book, product or service during a conference session risks having their presentation interrupted and/or halted, and will not be invited to participate at future conferences.
- By submitting a proposal, speaker agrees that he/she has permission from his/her company to make the presentation under the terms outlined in this Call for Papers. If you do not have approval at the time you make the proposal, you must indicate this clearly.
- All accepted speakers receive complimentary attendance to the entire conference.
- All Conference Session, Panel and SIG speakers are responsible for their own travel and living expenses.
- NOTE: Tutorial speakers receive a fee ($500 USD for tutorial speakers, plus a $250 bonus for submitting your presentation on time) plus an expense reimbursement in accordance with the standard conference policies. An expense budget will be established and confirmed with the speaker prior to final acceptance.Click here for Keynote, Tutorial, and Workshop speaker travel and living expense policy.
- All questions regarding the Call for Papers may be sent to us at: speaker@wilshireconferences.com.
Thank you!
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There is no "formula" to being accepted, and there is no way to guarantee that your proposal will be selected by the conference committee. However, there are a few ways that you can improve your chances and avoid being eliminated in the early part of the evaluation process.
- Compose your submission in Plain Text (we recommend Notepad or WordPad instead of Word)
- Write clearly, succinctly, and use a spell-check. You'd be amazed how many proposals we receive where it's really difficult to understand the subject matter of the presentation.
- Offer more "Advanced" subject matter, especially if you're an expert in your field. Develop a presentation that stretches the audience to reach further (i.e. help bring them up to your level). Too often we receive very basic speaking proposals from people who have much more to offer. We want more advanced, sophisticated subject matter!
- Give us something exciting with which to evaluate you. eg. "voted 'most amusing' speaker at the DB2 conference", or "I have just completed a major project dealing with these issues and I'm excited to share the difficult lessons with my peers."
- Be specific about what you'll be presenting, and why it will be useful to the audience. i.e. "I'll show you exactly how we reduced the time to create the models by 25%, and reduced the cost of re-work by another 50% because of the improved quality the deliverables." That's much better than "Discussion of efficiencies, quality improvement and cost reductions."
- If you're from a vendor company, you have a better chance of being selected if you propose talking about the "leading edge" of the technology area in which you operate, rather than the basics.
- If you're from a PR firm, speaker placement agency, or internal marketing department, make sure your speaker is willing and available to participate before you make the submission.
- Be willing to speak on a panel. It's not as much podium time, but the panels are very well attended. And given the competition for speaking slots then you will definitely increase your chances of being accepted.
- Accept all the speaker terms. If there's anything you're not sure about, contact us to discuss it.
- You may email the committee chairpersons at speaker@wilshireconferences.com to ask questions. We're happy to help.
- Finally, PLEASE use the web-based form to make your final submission. That way your proposal will go directly "into the database", where we can track it, distribute it to the committee and ensure proper follow-up. Proposals which are sent by direct email or fax have to be tracked separately and eventually get re-keyed into the database by someone on the committee, so there's always a chance of your proposal being misplaced in the meantime.
- Don't propose "obvious" topics. The attendees of EIM are a reasonably sophisticated audience, and they already understand "Why Data Management is Important" and "Why Quality Matters" (for which we receive over a dozen proposals every year). Though we need some presentations that cover fundamentals, they have to be about new subject areas, and must be pitched at a level that's useful to an audience of data management professionals.
- Don't ever propose a talk that discusses how your products "meet the needs of data management" -- you'll never be accepted.
- If you're from a vendor company, don’t talk about your products, unless we specifically ask you to do so. Just don't do it. If you're deemed to have made an "unacceptably commercial presentation" then you won’t be invited back to speak.
- Don't take the shotgun approach (ie. making a dozen different proposals and hoping that one gets accepted). Much better to contact us beforehand, get some advice as to what we're looking for, and refine the list down to the 2-3 good topics that are most likely to get you selected.
- Don't assume that extensive audiovisual or technical requests can be easily provided at no cost to you. For example, a high-speed Internet connection can cost as much as $2500 a day in some venues, so don't assume we will be able (or willing) to provide the connection for you. If you need a more elaborate or expensive AV set-up then contact us to discuss it first.
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Presentation Proposal Submission Form
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