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DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080506T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080506T090000
DTSTAMP:20080306T003938
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/497
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-06-09:00--497
SUMMARY:Introduction to Web 2.0
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Eric van der Vlist (Dyomedea). This introductio
 n walks you step by step through a simple yet complete Web 2.0 "mashup" 
 application.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080506T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080506T090000
DTSTAMP:20080404T080732
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/500
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-06-09:00--500
SUMMARY:XSLT 2.0: More Power, Less Hassle
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Doug Tidwell (IBM). More than six years in the 
 making, XSLT 2.0 became a W3C recommendation in February 2007. In this s
 ession, we'll cover the changes of the language, including the simpler s
 yntax for grouping and the powerful schema and data validation features.
  Compared to Version 1.0, XSLT 2.0 makes the hard things easy and the di
 fficult things possible.  XSLT 2.0 is a powerful addition to anyone's to
 olbox.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080506T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080506T090000
DTSTAMP:20080313T033130
LOCATION:Swift 1 & 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/491
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-06-09:00--491
SUMMARY:Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Simon Willison (-). The jQuery JavaScript libra
 ry is one of the most popular toolkits for quickly adding robust scripte
 d enhancements to both web pages and applications. This tutorial will pr
 ovide comprehensive coverage of the jQuery library, and show how jQuery 
 can be used to apply JavaScript in an unobtrusive way that enhances usab
 ility while keeping applications accessible to users that lack JavaScrip
 t support.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080506T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080506T140000
DTSTAMP:20080306T233027
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/487
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-06-14:00--487
SUMMARY:Building CouchDB Applications
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jan Lehnardt (Freisatz). In this workshop you w
 ill learn the foundations of writing distributed, highly available and f
 ault tolerant applications on top of CouchDB, the new RESTful database.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080506T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080506T140000
DTSTAMP:20080306T141027
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/541
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-06-14:00--541
SUMMARY:Testing XSLT
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tony Graham (Menteith Consulting Ltd). This han
 ds-on training is for people familiar with XSLT - either XSLT 1.0 or XSL
 T 2.0 - who want to improve the reliability and accuracy of their styles
 heets.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080506T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080506T140000
DTSTAMP:20080306T132053
LOCATION:Swift 1 & 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/540
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-06-14:00--540
SUMMARY:XForms 1.1
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Steven Pemberton (CWI/W3C). XForms is a new tec
 hnology being widely adopted by industry: even though it was designed fo
 r forms, as the name suggests, it is capable of, and is being used for, 
 much more. This tutorial introduces XForms, with an emphasis on the impr
 ovements in the new version 1.1.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T090000
DTSTAMP:20080404T080624
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1 & 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/648
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-09:00--648
SUMMARY:Why "open" matters — from innovation to commoditisation
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Simon Wardley (Independent). This session looks
  at some of the main themes behind Web 2.0, commoditisation, innovation,
  portability and enterprise 2.0. It proposes that a common pattern exist
 s behind them all, and that the "open" meme is a significant driving for
 ce behind these changes.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T094500
DTSTAMP:20080307T003226
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1 & 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/649
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-09:45--649
SUMMARY:Opening keynote
DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Recordon (Six Apart). Details to follow
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T110000
DTSTAMP:20080310T213455
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/542
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-11:00--542
SUMMARY:JavaScript: The Good Parts
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Douglas Crockford (Yahoo!). In JavaScript there
  is a beautiful, highly expressive language that is buried under a steam
 ing pile of good intentions and blunders. My intention here is to expose
  the goodness in JavaScript, an outstanding dynamic programming language
 . Within the language is an elegant subset that is vastly superior to th
 e language as a whole, being more reliable, readable, and maintainable.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T110000
DTSTAMP:20080310T211200
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/597
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-11:00--597
SUMMARY:Using socially authored content to provide new routes through ex
 isting content archives
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Rob Lee (Rattle Research). By looking at how we
  can use sites like Wikipedia, Freebase and DBpedia as authoritative sou
 rces of content and meta-data and utilising services such as del.icio.us
  to provide a measure of popularity and currency (_what_ is being discus
 sed at _this_ point in time) we can generate additional meta-data that c
 an be used to provide new routes through existing content archives.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T110000
DTSTAMP:20080310T212312
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/642
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-11:00--642
SUMMARY:XML@10: A Decade of XML
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Liam Quin (W3C). XML was published as a W3C Rec
 ommendation in February, 1998, a little over ten years ago.  It was a hu
 ge success. What made it do so well, and what can we learn from ithis?  
 What were some of the milestones of XML history?  And how are things loo
 king for the future?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T114500
DTSTAMP:20080404T094846
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/593
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-11:45--593
SUMMARY:Browsers on the move: The year in review, the year ahead
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael(tm) Smith (W3C). In the year since XTec
 h 2007, changes of interest to Web developers have been made to Firefox,
  Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer and the engines that power them — 
 added/improved support for standards (and non-standards), new versions f
 or mobile devices, and more. This session takes a look back at what the 
 changes have been — as well as taking a look ahead to see what may be on
  the way next.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T114500
DTSTAMP:20080311T112337
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/576
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-11:45--576
SUMMARY:Using Trackback to Support Citation Notification Services
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Brian Matthews (STFC). We motivate and propose 
 using extensions to the well-known Trackback protocol to support the not
 ification of citation information between repositories of research outpu
 ts, particularly academic publications and scientific data.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T114500
DTSTAMP:20080310T211915
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/498
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-11:45--498
SUMMARY:XQuery Update: An Update
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jim Melton (Oracle Corp.). The XQuery Update Fa
 cility is an eagerly awaited W3C standard for updating XML data.  This i
 mportant addition to the XPath/XQuery/XSLT suite of XML processing langu
 ages, in preparation for almost three years, has almost reached final Re
 commendation status.  An example-driven close examination of the languag
 e, this talk also looks into likely further enhancements.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T140000
DTSTAMP:20080315T005611
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/478
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-14:00--478
SUMMARY:Optimizing Ajax Applications
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bob Buffone (Nexaweb Technologies, Inc.). Best 
 Practices Deployed to Performance-tune Large Ajax Applications
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T140000
DTSTAMP:20080311T081959
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/521
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-14:00--521
SUMMARY:Here Be Dragons: Knowing Where the World Ends
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Leigh Dodds (Ingenta). This presentation will l
 ook at the process of publishing open data and review issues surrounding
  stability of both data and vocabularies, as well providing some recomme
 ndations for how to publish open data.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T140000
DTSTAMP:20080314T224914
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/493
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-14:00--493
SUMMARY:Will XML Schema 1.1 solve the problem?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Kay (Saxonica Limited). XML Schema is i
 n an odd position: everyone is using it, but no-one really likes it. It'
 s clearly fit for purpose, or people wouldn't be using it; but it attrac
 ts complaints both because of its immense complexity and because there a
 re basic features that it doesn't provide. Version 1.1 in on the way: th
 is talk surveys the new features and tries to assess whether they will s
 olve the problem.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T144500
DTSTAMP:20080317T162901
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/633
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-14:45--633
SUMMARY:Agnostic AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and Data
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Clinton Smullen (University of Tennessee), Step
 hanie Smullen (University of Tennessee). An experimental study of the re
 lative performances of a traditional HTML application and a set of compa
 rable AJAX applications that use several different update data methodolo
 gies: partial HTML, XML, JSON, and CSV (comma separated values).  A wide
  range of response sizes are included.  Advantages and disadvantages of 
 each are discussed, as are applicability in special cases such as mobile
  clients.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T144500
DTSTAMP:20080311T094839
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/561
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-14:45--561
SUMMARY:Linked Data Deployment
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Daniel Lewis (OpenLink Software). The wider dev
 eloper community is increasing its understanding of the "Web of Data," a
 s users demand the right to own their data. Unanswered questions include
  how to fit this data into other structures and how to link across them.
  We will discuss what Linked Data is; what it tries to fix; hurdles in d
 eveloping a Linked Data system; and how Linked Data fits with the Data S
 pace philosophy.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T144500
DTSTAMP:20080310T221140
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/530
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-14:45--530
SUMMARY:Versioning XML with XML Schema
DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Orchard (BEA Systems). Web services and X
 ML extensibility and Versioning This talk will go into the details of wh
 at can and can't be done to enable extensibility and versioning of XML S
 chemas, documents and Web services.  A detailed analysis of the versioni
 ng mechanisms in Schema, and the pros and cons of different versioning t
 echniques is provided.  XML Schema 1.1's vast improvements in versioning
  will be described.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T160000
DTSTAMP:20080417T195125
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/546
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-16:00--546
SUMMARY:Going full circle: Giving Web Applications and Widgets access to
  device and user data
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Arve Bersvendsen (Opera Software ASA). Web Appl
 ications (and widgets) have historically had little or no access to the 
 device and the user's data, making it a safe, but boring haven. This is 
 about to change. This presentation will focus on securely allowing acces
 s to the device and its data through natively integrated components and 
 native JavaScript plugins.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T160000
DTSTAMP:20080411T103835
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/605
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-16:00--605
SUMMARY:XForms, REST, XQuery...and skimming
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mark Birbeck (webBackplane, W3C Invited Expert)
 . Applications built on 'skimming' principles are very loosely-coupled, 
 and can run on just about any server-side architecture.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T164500
DTSTAMP:20080411T075305
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/598
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-16:45--598
SUMMARY:Validator.nu — Validation 2.0
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Henri Sivonen (Henri Sivonen). Validator.nu is 
 an (X)HTML5 validator and a RELAX NG and Schematron-based validator for 
 generic XML. The architecture of the software, its RESTful XML/JSON Web 
 service API and its reusable HTML5 parsing library are presented.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T164500
DTSTAMP:20080311T080025
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/525
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-16:45--525
SUMMARY:Open Mashups : User generated applications for the masses
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Fabrice Desré (Orange Labs). Open Mashups is a 
 complete tool suite empowering non-programmers to create their own appli
 cations by assembling existing functionnal components. Unlike existing s
 olutions, the system is fully expandable and configurable: it uses code 
 generators to target various platforms and devices (like mobile phones, 
 web pages or desktop widgets) and provides a pluggable components model.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080507T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080507T164500
DTSTAMP:20080416T193834
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/655
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-07-16:45--655
SUMMARY:Building the Real-Time Web
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Blaine Cook (romeda.org). Real-time interaction
  is becoming a necessity on the ever-more dynamic Web. Jabber is a power
 ful established protocol, already used by over 10 million people worldwi
 de, and ideally suited to web application development. Whether you're an
  API developer or writing client apps, this workshop offers real experie
 nce and practical advice.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T083000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T080000
DTSTAMP:20080331T104841
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/652
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-08:00--652
SUMMARY:The Pure XML Enterprise Mashup
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Hideki Hiura (JustSystems Inc.). It's been a wh
 ile since Web2.0 and Mashups were introduced as an alternative method fo
 r creating simple applications. This session walks you through how such 
 an approach can be applied to real enterprise applications in contexts t
 hat require something more than quick composition of information from va
 rious sources.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T090000
DTSTAMP:20080326T123317
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/570
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-09:00--570
SUMMARY:OpenSocial, a standard programming model for the Social Web
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Chewy Trewhella (Google). OpenSocial is an Open
  Standard defining a set of common APIs that work on many different soci
 al websites, including MySpace, Plaxo, Hi5, Ning, orkut, Salesforce.com 
 and LinkedIn, among others. This allows developers to learn one API, the
 n write a social application for any of those sites, reaching over 200M+
  users in dozens of countries: Learn once, write anywhere.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T090000
DTSTAMP:20080310T211639
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/569
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-09:00--569
SUMMARY:CSS Advanced Layout is not only for big grids
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bert Bos (W3C). The CSS Advanced Layout module 
 promises to provide Web designers with traditional layout grids, but it 
 can also be used to layout smaller things, such as forms or mathematical
  formulas.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T090000
DTSTAMP:20080311T163119
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/577
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-09:00--577
SUMMARY:Rebuilding guardian.co.uk
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stephen Dunn (Guardian News and Media), Matthew
   Wall (Guardian News and Media). We will show how guardian.co.uk  has b
 een rebuilt on a new platform involving a new information and technical 
 architecture, and a move to a greater use of web technologies to simplif
 y the platform.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T094500
DTSTAMP:20080315T012838
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/492
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-09:45--492
SUMMARY:Creating portable social networks with microformats
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jeremy Keith (Clearleft). Why does every new so
 cial networking site make you re-enter all your details and rebuild your
  friends list? Your contact and relationship details are already publish
 ed elsewhere. If this data is published in hCard and XFN, it is readable
  by machines as well as people. Learn how a little sprinkling of microfo
 rmats can create an ecosystem that makes portable social networks a real
 ity.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T094500
DTSTAMP:20080315T085516
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/640
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-09:45--640
SUMMARY:Bare-naked Flash: Dispelling myths and building bridges
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Aral Balkan (Yeah, Let's Do It!). When did Flas
 h grow up? From annoying ads and animations to RIAs, the Flash Platform 
 has come a long way. Join Aral for an honest, entertaining, and inspriri
 ng overview of the Flash Platform. Experience RIAs with Flex, desktop ap
 plications with AIR, and mobile applications with Flash Lite. Review the
  state of accessibility, open source, mashups, video, and 3D on the Flas
 h Platform.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T094500
DTSTAMP:20080425T124546
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/536
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-09:45--536
SUMMARY:Here's one I prepared earlier: the BBC's Tech Refresh project
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Brendan Quinn (BBC), Ben Smith (BBC). During 20
 08, the BBC is undertaking a "Tech Refresh" project, replacing the platf
 orm underneath bbc.co.uk with a data-driven, RESTful service oriented, p
 latform independent architecture. This session will describe what we've 
 done so far, what we're aiming to do and how it will allow the BBC to su
 pport social networking, opening up our data, OpenID, and more.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T110000
DTSTAMP:20080317T174310
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/645
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-11:00--645
SUMMARY:Advanced OAuth Wrangling
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Flickr (Yahoo)). OAuth i
 s poised to be one of most important new standards in 2008 for anyone bu
 ilding with identity, social platforms, or APIs. Come find out why we de
 signed OAuth the way we did, why it works, when it doesn't, and how to w
 rangle OAuth to fit your requirements.  We'll cover considerations when 
 designing an OAuth secured API including security implications, mobile u
 ser experience, and pitfalls.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T110000
DTSTAMP:20080319T184516
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/599
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-11:00--599
SUMMARY:AMEE - The world's energy meter
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gavin Starks (d::gen network). Launched during 
 the 2007 XTech keynote, AMEE has had an amazing year.  Aggregating more 
 than half a million users through clients such as the UK Government and 
 Google, we'll outline our next hopes and steps for the project. AMEE has
  also demonstrated a potential model for the anonymous aggregation of pe
 rsonal data, bridging brand-equity and privacy issues.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T114500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T110000
DTSTAMP:20080311T133500
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/524
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-11:00--524
SUMMARY:The Programmes Ontology
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tom Scott (BBC Audio and Music Interactive), Yv
 es Raimond (Queen Mary, University of London), Patrick Sinclair (BBC Aud
 io and Music Interactive), Nicholas Humfrey (BBC Audio and Music Interac
 tive). BBC Programmes is a new project which aims to ensure that every p
 rogramme brand, series and episode broadcast by the BBC has a permanent,
  findable web presence. We have developed the Programmes Ontology to exp
 ose this data following the Linked Data approach, enabling the interchan
 ge of programme information on the Semantic Web.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T114500
DTSTAMP:20080317T172008
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/646
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-11:45--646
SUMMARY:Fire Eagle - A Where Are They Now? Location Broker Platform
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Evan Henshaw-Plath (tbd). Fire Eagle is a new s
 ervice designed to make it safe and easy to build and use location-aware
  applications and services. It's a place for users to store information 
 about their current location that trusted apps and sites can update or a
 ccess. The talk covers how Fire Eagle works and how to use it to build a
  fire eagle client application oauth and RESTful web services to share u
 ser locations.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T114500
DTSTAMP:20080315T173834
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/534
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-11:45--534
SUMMARY:Ni Hao, Monde: Connecting communities across cultural and lingui
 stic boundaries
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Simon Batistoni (Flickr). Even as we build dens
 er and denser communities online, they're still often disjointed and com
 partmentalised by language and locality. This session, led by Flickr's l
 ead internationalisation engineer, will explore practical solutions and 
 "pie in the sky" ideas on ways in which we can break down some of those 
 barriers and create truly global places where people can share and commu
 nicate.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T114500
DTSTAMP:20080311T093156
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/585
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-11:45--585
SUMMARY:With or Without UIDs
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Alf Eaton (Nature). This presentation will exam
 ine tools that bridge the divide between objects without identifiers, ob
 jects with varying amounts of metadata, and precisely identified objects
  that can be connected to information networks. It will also look at too
 ls that allow web-based information resources to communicate with deskto
 p applications.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T140000
DTSTAMP:20080310T215125
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/486
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-14:00--486
SUMMARY:Next Generation Data Storage with CouchDB
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jan Lehnardt (Freisatz). CouchDB is a new kid o
 n the database block and it plays by its own rules. It is a document ori
 ented database with a REST API and it uses JSON to store data. This talk
  explains CouchDB and does not shy away from the technical details that 
 make CouchDB so interesting.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T140000
DTSTAMP:20080310T214911
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/618
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-14:00--618
SUMMARY:Setting up a Healthy Messaging Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Marc de Graauw (Marc de Graauw IT). An overview
  of a national messaging architecture in Dutch healthcare. We'll take a 
 look at how geography influences software design, at the complexities of
  real multilayered infrastructures, at security and reliability aspects,
  and the differences between publishing and messaging, and those between
  SOA and REST.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T144500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T140000
DTSTAMP:20080404T095135
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/528
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-14:00--528
SUMMARY:SemWebbing the London Gazette
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jeni Tennison (The Stationery Office), John She
 ridan (The Office of Public Sector Information). What does it take to ad
 d semantics to your website? The London Gazette, the UK government's Off
 icial Journal, holds a huge amount of information — statutory notices ab
 out decisions and changes at a local and national level. The government 
 wants to expose this information using RDFa so that it becomes easy to r
 e-use. But it takes more than just creating an ontology and changing a f
 ew lines of code.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T144500
DTSTAMP:20080416T194310
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/631
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-14:45--631
SUMMARY:Data portability for whom? Some psychology behind the tech
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gavin Bell (Nature). We are prone to solve tech
 nical problems addressing the needs of conference attending alpha geeks.
  Yet, widespread adoption is quite different to a private beta.  What do
 es this mean? How do we mitigate the desire for rapid progress with the 
 needs of the rest of us? These hot new technologies require some psychol
 ogical insight to make them meaningful. You know the technology, come an
 d grok humans
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T144500
DTSTAMP:20080319T203927
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/592
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-14:45--592
SUMMARY:Talking Social Networks
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ralph Meijer (Mediamatic Lab). Social Networks 
 are all about communication. How can we start a conversation with and be
 tween Social Networking services? Using Jabber/XMPP technologies besides
  HTTP, we can enable two-way communication between third-party clients a
 nd services (XMPP as an API), and have services exchange (events on) soc
 ial objects and people. In near real-time, with built-in authorization a
 nd authentication.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T153000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T144500
DTSTAMP:20080315T155928
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/583
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-14:45--583
SUMMARY:Searching, publishing and remixing a Web of Semantic Data
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Richard Cyganiak (DERI Galway). Believe it or n
 ot, there are over 50 millions of semantically structured documents out 
 there (in RDF.. the uppercase Semantic Web!). In this presentation i wil
 l show how to create applications that automatically locate them and pro
 cess them to fulfill several use cases. Finally, i will highlight how to
  efficiently publish one's existing data and the extraordinary advantage
 s that this brings.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T160000
DTSTAMP:20080325T063751
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/473
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-16:00--473
SUMMARY:'User-Centric Identity' based Service Invocation
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Praveen Alavilli (AOL). So far we have been tal
 king about mashing up with user centric identity and the missing connect
 ing dots for 'deputization' and permission management. Now it's time to 
 talk about how a new emerging open and community driven standard called 
 "OAuth" helps in bridging these gaps. And of course more open issues tha
 t yet remain to be solved.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T160000
DTSTAMP:20080311T132702
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/545
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-16:00--545
SUMMARY:Why you should have a Website
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Steven Pemberton (CWI/W3C). Why Web 2.0 is harm
 ing the Web, and how we can fix it.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T164500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T160000
DTSTAMP:20080312T132324
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/494
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-16:00--494
SUMMARY:Google Data APIs on the move: innovation vs. Standards Complianc
 e
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Frank Mantek (Google). 3 years after the Google
  Data APIs were first released, and a good year after Atom Publication w
 as finalised, there are lessons to be learned. When you spearhead on a w
 orking draft, you are bound to take turns that with hindsight seem less 
 than ideal, or could be solved differently now that the standard your wo
 rk was based on is actually finalised.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T164500
DTSTAMP:20080416T194056
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/568
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-16:45--568
SUMMARY:Future of client-side cross-site requests!
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Anne van Kesteren (Opera Software ASA). In this
  session the Access Control specification and its relationship to XMLHtt
 pRequest will be explained and how these will impact the Web.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T164500
DTSTAMP:20080315T002118
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/510
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-16:45--510
SUMMARY:The attention economy is only just around the corner
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ian Forrester (BBC). The attention economy was 
 talked about at the end of 06 to death. Through all the hype, a couple o
 f guys from down-under started to make sense of attention and proposed A
 PML (Attention Profiling Markup Language).Unfortunately little is known 
 about APML and there is a lot of mis-information on APML. As one of the 
 working group members I will run through what it is, its purpose and why
  its important
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T173000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T164500
DTSTAMP:20080310T212025
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/550
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-16:45--550
SUMMARY:'That's not what you said yesterday!' - evolving your Web API
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Ian Davis (Talis). This talk will give an overv
 iew of designing, implementing and evolving  a RESTful API.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T181500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T174500
DTSTAMP:20080409T142620
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1 & 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/653
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-17:45--653
SUMMARY:Silverlight 2.0 - Why .NET in a browser is a Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Silverlight 2.0 is what every .NET Developer has ever dreame
 d of. Being able to develop, using C# or VB.NET, Rich Internet Applicati
 on as you would create Desktop Applications. I'll demonstrate, during th
 is session, that Visual Studio 2008 along with Blend are a winning combi
 nation for creating RIA in a very efficient & robust way.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080508T203000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080508T190000
DTSTAMP:20080411T081059
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/654
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-08-19:00--654
SUMMARY:20:20 Lightning Talks
DESCRIPTION:A fast and fun session of talks of 20 slides, each presented
  for 20 seconds.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080509T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080509T090000
DTSTAMP:20080318T114028
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/477
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-09-09:00--477
SUMMARY:Building a Semantic Web Search Engine: Challenges and Solutions
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Aidan Hogan (DERI Galway). overview of the arch
 itecture of SWSE, a Semantic Web Search Engine that scales to billions o
 f RDF statements, and discuss in detail the necessary adaptations to tra
 ditional search engine components, in particular indexing, query process
 ing, and ranking.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080509T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080509T090000
DTSTAMP:20080311T201906
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/565
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-09-09:00--565
SUMMARY:Data Portability with SIOC and FOAF
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Uldis Bojārs (DERI Galway), John Breslin (DERI,
  National University of Ireland, Galway), Alexandre Passant (LaLIC insti
 tute (at Université Paris Sorbonne) and Electricité de France R&D). Data
  portability has become an important requirement on the Social Web. We d
 emonstrate how data and social network portability can be achieved by bu
 ilding upon existing Semantic Web developments such as SIOC and FOAF. SI
 OC provides a common format for expressing user-generated content and to
 ols for import/export of this information. FOAF provides a way to link u
 sers' social networks.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080509T094500
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080509T090000
DTSTAMP:20080319T184829
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/484
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-09-09:00--484
SUMMARY:Online Reputation Management:  Putting Your Best [Cyber] Foot Fo
 rward
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mary Ann  Malloy (The MITRE Corporation). Have 
 you checked your online identity lately?  Did what you find surprise you
 ? Are you pleased with the impression it might make on others?  What can
  you do about it?  This talk covers methods grounded in public domain re
 sources to help you proactively establish and maintain your online reput
 ation.  Topics will include best practices and related issues, such as p
 rivacy vs. free speech online.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080509T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080509T094500
DTSTAMP:20080314T144630
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/549
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-09-09:45--549
SUMMARY:Design Strategies for a Distributed Web
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gareth Rushgrove (Gareth Rushgrove). We might b
 e standardising around a handful of web development frameworks but we're
  still re-inventing the wheel when it comes to the things we build. A vi
 brant ecosystem of commercial grade API providers, such as Amazon with t
 heir S3 and EC2 services, could change all that. But what needs to happe
 n to make this web services dream a reality? And where are the potential
  pitfalls for successful apps?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080509T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080509T094500
DTSTAMP:20080311T143426
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/527
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-09-09:45--527
SUMMARY:Representing, indexing and mining scientific data using XML and 
 RDF: Golem and CrystalEye
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Andrew Walkingshaw (University of Cambridge). W
 e introduce our work on building tools to mine scientific literature. Us
 ing our Golem language/toolkit, we have inferred an ontology for, and ex
 tracted RDF metadata from, the tens of thousands of crystallographic dat
 asets obtained automatically from journals as part of our CrystalEye rep
 ository. We then show some of the ways in which this enhances our abilit
 y to search and mine scientific data.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080509T103000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080509T094500
DTSTAMP:20080502T142046
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 3
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/656
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-09-09:45--656
SUMMARY:Optimizing RIA Development Time with Silverlight 2.0
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Vincent Vergonjeanne (Microsoft Corporation). I
  will demonstrate how Silverlight 2.0, using Blend 2.5 & Visual Studio 2
 008, can optimize your time of development and will prove it by developi
 ng, with you, a video game during the time of the session.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=Eire:20080509T123000
DTSTART;TZID=Eire:20080509T110000
DTSTAMP:20080411T082023
LOCATION:Goldsmiths 1 & 2
URL:http://2008.xtech.org/public/schedule/detail/647
UID:http://2008.xtech.org/--s2008-05-09-11:00--647
SUMMARY:Orangutans, Oxen and Ogham stones. Mulling the movable Web
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Sean McGrath (Propylon). Sean leads us on a Cel
 tic-tinted safari of the Web featuring mythical creatures, tenuous analo
 gies and curious interconnections. The mission: to boldly split all nece
 ssary infinitives and go where no Web has gone before.
END:VEVENT
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