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Calling Women Speakers for Web 2.0 Expo, Deadline November 19!

We are now planning the program for the fourth annual Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. O’Reilly Media, TechWeb, and the Web 2.0 Expo Advisory Board invite you to share your insights and experiences at the category-defining conference for the next-generation web. From ideas through implementation, we’re looking for war stories, success stories, case studies, innovations and lessons learned. From startups to enterprises to independents, if you’re helping define the future of the Web, we want to hear from you.

Proposal Details and Information

If you’re passionate about the power of the Web, come share your knowledge and insights with your peers at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco.

Our speakers reflect our audience, so we’re looking for independents, startups, enterprises, and everyone in between, in a wide variety of industries. We’re also looking for new thinking. Canned pitches aren’t a fit here; we want to hear your thoughts from your own experience, building on what’s worked (or not) in the real world. See advice on writing a proposal for Web 2.0 Expo. Web 2.0 Expo is a mixture of implementation and inspiration. We want attendees to know what they need to do in the next 6 months and what’s going to be happening in the market in 18 months. Case studies, war stories and technological deep-dives are encouraged. When describing your talk, please try to include answers to the following questions:

* What will attendees learn?
* What curtains have been lifted?
* How can attendees use this?

Session Formats

You may submit to speak in a 50-minute conference session or a three-hour workshop. The 50-minute conference sessions are held May 4-6 and can be a single speaker, joint presentation, or a panel. If you have more in-depth content, several three-hour workshops slots, scheduled for May 3 are also available.
Themes and Memes at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2010

Some of the concepts we’ll be exploring at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco include:

* Mobile Web—Finally the browser has gone mobile
* Open Web—How to share data freely…and why
* Scaling & Performance—Make sure you can handle your users and that you are fast enough to keep them
* Security, Security, Security—Because if users can’t trust you, you ain’t going to last
* Entertainment—Video, Games, Fun on the web
* Going Offline—Google Gears & RIA Platforms
* Facebook Apps—Can your business depend intrinsically upon others?
* The Social Graph—How open can it get?
* Web Operations, the “Web as Platform”
* Search and Vertical Search
* Machine vs. Human in Search, Mapping and Elsewhere
* The Browser as Business Model
* High Performance, High Scalability, High Availability
* Social Networks and Identity
* Internet Marketing and Measurability
* Simplicity and Incremental Complexity
* Tagging, Ranking, and User-generated Content

Call closes 11:59pm 11/19/2009 PST
Speakers will be notified if their proposal is accepted by late January.
Registration opens in January 2010.