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Call for Participation: Presentations
Call closed midnight 28 January 2008 GMT. Notifications due 22 February 2008.
Where will the web’s leading technologists be in May 2008? They’re heading to Dublin, Ireland, for XTech 2008, Europe’s essential conference on web technology and development.
If you’re one of these pioneers, implementers and thinkers, XTech wants to hear from you. The call for participation is now open for presentation proposals.
Our theme this year is “The Web on the Move”. We’re not just talking about the iPhone, but about the emerging portability of data, applications and identity on the internet. We want to explore the benefits, issues, practicalities and fun of a web built on open standards, open source and commodity technology.
Given below are suggested topic areas, but don’t feel limited to these these. XTech presentations should inspire, educate and sometimes confront. Your audience will be people like you, responsible for steering the technological direction of their organization and the web as a whole.
XTech will be held from the 6-9th of May 2008, in Dublin, Ireland. The call for participation closes January 26th, 2008, and notifications will be sent by February 23rd.
- A call for tutorial proposals is also open, accepting proposals for half- or full-day tutorial sessions
Suggested topics
- Social platforms
- Design patterns for social software
- Social network interoperability
- Internet application platforms (Facebook F8, OpenSocial, etc.)
- Identity management
- OpenID
- Practical security
- OAuth
- Ajax
- jQuery, YUI, other toolkits
- Offline applications
- Comet
- Professional Javascript
- Flex
- The web of data
- Collective intelligence
- Semantic technologies
- Search
- Markup and meaning
- Freebase, Twine, Google Base
- The place of XML on the web
- Data and databases
- Client-side databases
- REST-oriented databases (e.g. CouchDB)
- XML and RDF
- Messaging architectures
- XQuery
- Operations and programming
- Web application frameworks
- Virtualization and appliances
- Application scaling
- Multicore and concurrency oriented programming
- Mobile devices
- Commodity mobiles
- Android, iPhone
- Hardware hacking and personal prototyping
- Geolocation
- Getting the mobile mindset
Further information on proposal submission
All selected speakers will receive a free registration for the conference. Please note that this only applies to one speaker per presentation. A discounted rate will be available for additional speakers.
Presentations will be 40 minutes in duration, including 5 minutes for questions and answers. They are to be accompanied by a short paper (1,000+ words) to be submitted a month before the conference, which will be published as part of the conference proceedings.
Proposal abstracts will be peer-reviewed blind by a panel of 60+ reviewers, each proposal being reviewed by about 5 reviewers. The decision of the programme chair is final.
Proposals submitted by PR companies or focusing on a specific vendor’s product will not be considered for XTech 2008. However, sponsorship and partner opportunities are available for vendors. For more details see XTech sponsorship.