TechVenue.com Events Forecast & News - Week of October 14th-21st, 2005 ___________________________________________________________________ Hello and welcome to TechVenue.com's (mostly weekly) Events Blogcast Forecast.Friday, October 14th-21st, 2005_____________________________________________________________________EUROPE:Event Of The Week (EOW):ORGANIZATION NAME: MIT Institute CambridgeEVENT NAME: Innovations in TelecommunicationsEVENT START DATE: 10/17/2005 2:00:00 PMEVENT END DATE: 10/18/2005 4:00:00 PMEVENT LOCATION: Moller Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UKEVENT REGION: Intl - W. EuropeEVENT THEME: Business FocusedEVENT DESCRIPTION: The pressure for the telecommunications industry to innovatehas never been greater. This seminar will bring together researchers andindustry experts to review developments and roadmap the future of thetelecommunications industry.EVENT PURPOSE: Telecommunications business leaders, IT specialists, consultants,polciy makers, government and senior academic researchers.EVENT SPEAKERS: William Webb, Ofcom; John Nevins, BT Group Chief TechnologyOffice; Phil O'Donovan, Cambridge Silicon Radio; Barbara van Schewick, TechnicalUniversity Berlin; Lorenzo Valeri, RAND Institute; Russell Cyr, CEO, BitWave;Mikael Sandberg, BoStreamEVENT COST: £300EVENT RELATED WEBSITE: http://www.cambridge-mit.org/cgi-bin/default.pl?SID=5&SSID=293&CALEVID=173EVENT CONTACT NAME: Jackie OuchikhEVENT CONTACT PHONE: 01223 448765CONTACT EMAIL: t.ouchikh@cmi.cam.ac.ukMUST ONE RSVP?: Yes!INVITATION ONLY?: NoPROPER ATTIRE: Business CasualREFRESHMENTS: Full DinnerBUSINESS CARDS: YES - Bring Business CardsEVENT NOTES: The structure of the telecommunications industry has changedfundamentally over the past 10 years. Telecommunications Operators havesignificantly reduced their commitment to fundamental research, and have beendeveloping strategies based on exploiting new ideas through spinouts and jointventures. The established telecommunications equipment and system providers havebeen challenged by competition arriving from data networking and IT. _____________________________________________________________________NEW YORK:News Of The Week (NOW):"Troubles in the technology sector pushed Wall Street's major indexes to theirlowest levels since mid-May this week, with Apple Computer Inc. and a downgradeof Intel Corp. leading the market down. Investors' worries about consumerspending intensified after Apple reported lower-than-expected third-quarterrevenue. The market got more troubling news with Prudential's downgrade ofIntel, which said the company could face disappointing revenues and margins foras long as the next year." ...and with the Video iPod coming to market? What'sit gonna take for people to get confident again? Rudolph lighting the way?Event Of The Week (EOW):ORGANIZATION NAME: Windows IT Pro/SQL Server MagazineEVENT NAME: SQL Server 2005: Built for the Enterprise. Are You Prepared?EVENT START DATE: 10/20/2005 8:00:00 AMEVENT END DATE: 10/20/2005 12:30:00 PMEVENT LOCATION: New York, NYMicrosoft NY-NJ-CT District Office1290 Avenue of the Americas, 6th FloorNew York, NY 10104Phone: 212-245-2100EVENT REGION: US - SouthwestEVENT DESCRIPTION: In this free, half-day event you’ll learn how the top newfeatures of SQL Server 2005 will help you create and manage large-scale,mission-critical, enterprise database applications—making your job easier.EVENT SPEAKERS: Joe Yong, Chief Architect, Scalability ExpertsEVENT COST: $0EVENT RELATED WEBSITE: http://TechVenue.com/SQLRoadShow2005.htmEVENT CONTACT NAME: subs@windowsitpro.comEVENT CONTACT PHONE: 800.793.5697CONTACT EMAIL: subs@windowsitpro.comMUST ONE RSVP?: NoINVITATION ONLY?: NoEVENT NOTES: Learn how the top new features of SQL Server 2005 will help you create and manage large-scale, mission-critical, enterprise database applications. Find out how to leverage SQL Server 2005’s new capabilities to best support your business initiatives. Register today!_____________________________________________________________________BOSTON:News Of The Week (NOW):Analysts See Positives With IT CompaniesBy BRIAN BERGSTEINThe Associated PressThursday, October 13, 2005; 2:10 PMBOSTON -- With earnings-reporting season in full swing, analysts are seeing somepositive signs for information technology companies.In its latest quarterly check on the sentiment of U.S. and European corporatetech buyers, Prudential Equity Group LLC determined that IT spending in 2005apparently will be stronger than it was last year..." - let's hope that meansspending on people's SALARIES as well!Event Of The Week (EOW):Wednesday, October 19 2005 5:30pm - 8:30pmMIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge will host a "Lab Fab" roundtable with three MITprofessors at the cutting edge of tissue engineering, material science/photonics and molecular architecture. _____________________________________________________________________CHICAGO:News Of The Week (NOW):Chicago City Council Tax Increment Financing Agreement Approval Paves Way forUniversity Technology Park At IITCHICAGO, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- A Tax Increment Financing RedevelopmentAgreement approved by the Chicago City Council paves the way for the opening ofUniversity Technology Park At IIT (UTP), on the campus of Illinois Institute ofTechnology (IIT). The park, made possible by $6 million in state grants and $75million in public and private funding, including a $25 million commitment fromIIT, marks the largest commercial investment in Chicago's South Side since thecompletion of new Comiskey Park/US Cellular Field in 1991. UTP will generateapproximately 2,500 jobs at all levels of technical, professional and supportexpertise over the next decade. The University Technology Park Incubator will open this month with one-third ofthe space already leased to start-up companies All Cell Technology and SolarPhocus Technology. "University Technology Park At IIT is an exciting opportunity to encouragebusinesses and academia to share their intellectual as well as scientificresources and facilities," said Lew Collens, President of IIT. "UTP will be animportant element in the continuing redevelopment of the South Side and thegrowth of the region's technology economy."Event Of The Week (EOW):ORGANIZATION NAME: Kuczmarski & Associates & Chicago Sun-TimesEVENT NAME: Chicago Innovation AwardsEVENT START DATE: 10/18/2005 5:30:00 PMEVENT END DATE: 10/18/2005 9:00:00 PMEVENT LOCATION: The Goodman Theatre,170 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60601EVENT COST: $0EVENT RELATED WEBSITE: http://www.chicagoinnovationawards.comEVENT CONTACT NAME: Lynn CrandallEVENT CONTACT PHONE: 312-988-1553CONTACT EMAIL: lcrandall@kuczmarski.comEVENT REGION: US - MidwestEVENT THEME: Business FocusedEVENT DESCRIPTION: The event will honor 10 Chicago-area companies for this pastyear’s most innovative new products and services.EVENT PURPOSE: Leaders in business, academic and government communitiesEVENT SPEAKERS: There will be a video greeting from Microsoft founder and CEOBill Gates. Casey Cowell, founder of U.S. Robotics and one of the world’sleading technology innovators, will deliver the keynote address._____________________________________________________________________SILICON VALLEY:News Of The Week (NOW):Silicon Valley grows up: Tech industry matures, stabilizesBy Michelle Kessler, USA TODAYSAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley has long been the kind of place where officeshave slides, khakis are formalwear and the hottest companies in town spell theirnames in big, multicolored letters..."This article was published in a dozen different publications this week.It has several opinions posited in it that try to explain why things arelooking "up" - well, you can try to explain things like:"Consolidating. Tech companies spent $207 billion on tech mergers andacquisitions last year, up from just $65 billion in 2002, says researcher The451 Group." ... "When a market is young, there are enough new customers foreverybody. Once growth slows, "Companies acquire other companies to get theircustomer base," Krause says.Event Of The Week (EOW):Saturday, October 22 2005 8:30am - 4:30pmInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): IEEE Consultants'Network Business 2005 Seminar (CBS-2005)_____________________________________________________________________SPECIAL EVENT:ORGANIZATION NAME: Windows IT Pro/SQL Server MagazineEVENT NAME: SQL Server 2005: Built for the Enterprise. Are You Prepared?http://TechVenue.com/SQLRoadShow2005.htm _____________________________________________________________________GENERAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS:A fairly new project "Imagine Ancient Rome" presents some 50 multimedia projectsshowing Rome's greatest monuments as they used to be."These monuments were meant to be visited, but now they are just a bunch ofrandom ruins," said Bernard Frischer, a University of Virginia professor whoworked on two of the projects. "What you want to do is put it all backtogether."Well, for modern times, Penny Edecker of http://CityRealm.com in Chicago is doing evenbetter - visual "Superman" style fly and walk-thru's of a cities every detail,including hotel rates and other detailed information. This all availableon DVD and Online - Her email is: onepenny@CityRealm.com _____________________________________________________________________CAREER NEWS:Bureau of Labor Statistics - Employment Situation Summaryhttp://www.bls.gov Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-35,000) in September, andthe unemployment rate rose to 5.1 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ofthe U.S. Department of Labor reported today. The measures of employment andunemployment reported in this news release reflect both the impact of Hurri-cane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast in late August, and ongoing labormarket trends. Over the 12 months ending in August, payroll employment grewby an average of 194,000 a month and the unemployment rate trended downward.Employment Rant:Regarding this data and the Silicon Valley news of the week...This "Big Fish" eating "Little Fish" jazz doesn't mean there is growth - onlyattrition... which then can lead to malnutrition in the larger companies - youknow the kind, when you walk thru the floors of executive buildings and scoresof cubicles are bare the the bone.Buying smaller companies doesn't buy you R&D, marketing, IT improvements orbetter sales figures - investing in people does that for a company or region. So, a word to the older set of Boomers out there who are biding their time 'tillretirement by looking savvy and buying up competitors while they make middlemanagers do the job of three people - get out of the way and retire - or betteryet, take the time to mentor someone under you to take over the bloated fishof a company you're over feeding!_____________________________________________________________________Humorous News:TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is moving towards requiring owners of potentiallydangerous animals, such as crocodiles and pythons, to have microchips implantedin their pets in case the animals get loose, officials said on Thursday. The move follows a recent wave of incidents around the nation in which animalssuch as pythons, crocodiles and giant salamanders have been found wanderingloose, frequently on the streets of densely populated cities.In one notorious case, a man lost track of his pet python after he took theanimal "for a walk" in a park and the snake fled when the man fell asleep on abench. He was quoted by one TV station as saying he was surprised the snakedisappeared because it wasn't that kind of snake.The Environment Ministry is drawing up a law that would require tiny cylindricalmicrochips -- 1 centimetre (0.4 inch) long and 2 millimetres (0.08 inch) indiameter -- implanted under the skin of some 650 animal species, a ministryofficial said.Each microchip would carry information making it possible to trace the owner ifthe animal goes missing.Hmmm...I could think of a few people that scientists might add to that650 animal species list... ;-)Have a great weekend and a better week ahead!_____________________________________________________________________Podcast MP3 Link:http://TechVenue.com/PODCASTS/TechVenue_10-14-2005.mp3

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