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Physical Event Industry Hit by Volcanic Ash: Will the Virtual Event Market Emerge?

admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 12:05:00 +0000

As millions of passengers have been stranded by a huge ash cloud spread from an Icelandic volcano toward Europe since Wednesday, April 14, conference cancellations take a heavy toll on the professional event industry. Volcanic ash presents a particular challenge not only to airline passengers, but also to the conference and trade show organizers affected by the plume.

While passengers are stranded at major airports including Frankfurt, London, and Rome, one can’t help but wonder if this natural disaster would spur interest in the virtual event platforms. Unlike their physical counterparts, the virtual events are immune against terror acts, flu pandemics and natural disasters, even one of those disasters could be enough to put to a screeching halt the entire convention industry.

In the estimates made by “Virtual Conference & Trade Show Market Forecast 2010-2015“, a report recently released by Market Research Media, the worldwide virtual conference and trade show market is predicted to reach $18.6 Billion over the period 2010 – 2015.This flourishing market provides a number of growing opportunities for conference and tradeshow organizers, corporate event coordinators and content providers. The worldwide virtual conference market is forecasted to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 56% between the period of 2010 and 2015.

Actually the virtual event technology is already at work to ease up the volcanic ash crisis - EU transport ministers are to hold emergency talks by video conference.

Virtual Event Platform Vendors

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:40:32 +0000

A recently released report of Market Research Media “Virtual Conference & Trade Show Market Forecast 2010-2015” forecasts explosive growth in this new and exciting technology segment. The worldwide virtual conference market is forecasted to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 56% between the period of 2010 and 2015. In the estimates made by the report the worldwide virtual conference and trade show market is predicted to reach $18.6 Billion over the period 2010 – 2015.This flourishing market provides a number of growing opportunities for conference and tradeshow organizers, corporate event coordinators and content providers.

Although there is no clear definition of this quickly evolving and dynamic sector, overlapping with web conferencing, we have decided to publish a list of virtual event platform vendors (courtesy of Market Research Media). All vendors in our list share one common feature - they are providers of full suite solutions for virtual event.

Imaste is a Spanish company, European provider of virtual events, 3D online environments and online trade-shows, that connect, inform and engage visitors and exhibitors.

InXpo is the provider of privately branded virtual events and virtual business environments that connect, engage and educate audiences. InXpo’s full suite of applications includes Virtual Trade Shows, Virtual Career Fairs, and Virtual Events & Conferences, and Virtual Communities as well as Audio and Video Webcasts. InXpo has delivered more than 1,000 successful virtual events and experiences for global customers and publishers including AAA, Cisco, Forbes.com, HIMSS, GE Healthcare, PennWell, SAP, TechTarget and Ziff Davis Enterprises. The company is headquartered in Chicago.

ON24 provides a full range of innovative solutions for applications such as demand generation, corporate communications and training and continuing education. More than 700 organizations in publishing, technology, life sciences, government, and financial services rely on ON24, including IBM, Cisco, United Business Media, Credit Suisse, GE Healthcare, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola and the National Science Foundation. ON24 is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in New York, London and Singapore.

Unisfair provides virtual events and environments that deliver highly measurable results for the world’s innovative enterprises. The company’s industry-leading platform has enabled companies like Ariba, IBM, Intuit, KPMG and Novartis to implement a virtual engagement strategy across the customer lifecycle. With its latest release, Unisfair provides an always-on environment, containing any number of virtual venues and events, where companies and their customers can connect, communicate, network and engage 365 days a year. Unisfair’s virtual environment is particularly easy-to-use and offers a highly interactive experience through speaking sessions, exhibition floors and networking areas. The platform produces highly qualified leads and enhances demand generation, community building and customer advocacy. Backed by Sequoia Capital and Norwest Venture Partners, Unisfair is headquartered in Silicon Valley and has led the virtual events space since 2000.

Ubivent, based in Mannheim, Germany, a European virtual event provider has been recently selected by SAP to power SAP’s first virtual events. Ubivent has received funding from EXIST, “a program of the European Union and the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology” designed to support innovation.

6Connex, based in Campbell, CA, is the provider of virtual experience technology marketing solutions. 6Connex’s Virtual Experience Platform enables businesses and individuals to connect and engage virtually anytime and anywhere using a dimensional environment-like architecture for B2B or B2C social networking whether it’s as a tradeshow, event or conference, and beyond. 6Connex has developed award-winning, results-oriented virtual technology marketing solutions for industry leaders such as Cisco, HP, DuPont, and Procter and Gamble.

Comdex Launched as a Virtual Event

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:13:12 +0000

UBM, the leading global provider of business media and marketing services, is relaunching COMDEX as a virtual event which will take place November 16-17, 2010. At its peak COMDEX was the world’s most famous tradeshow, attracting more than 200,000 visitors and 2,300 IT industry exhibitors from around the world to Las Vegas before the show closed its doors in 2003. UBM acquired the COMDEX brand as part of its acquisition of MediaLive International Inc in 2006.

The virtual COMDEX event is being launched by UBM’s Everything Channel business, a leader in technology sales channel media and services. Everything Channel is going back to the original 1979 concept of an event designed exclusively for the technology sales channel called “Computer Dealer Exhibition”.

There was also announcement about InXpo, the largest virtual event technology provider, and e-media innovator, UBM Studios, a division of global media giant, UBM, combining forces to transform the web with next-generation virtual business solutions that help organizations extend the reach of established trade shows, reduce costs, and increase employee productivity.

The rapidly emerging virtual events and environments industry is a rare bright spot in the economy and is expected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 56 percent according to Market Research Media report. The use of this technology has expanded far beyond popular business webinars and social media to include virtual trade shows, events, digital libraries, product launches, annual meetings, career fairs, sales meetings, training & learning centers, focus group centers and more. The use of virtual business and event technology not only reduces event and travel costs, but also is a proven means to improve employee productivity by reducing travel and providing a more educational and engaging online experience.

About InXpo Inc.
InXpo is the leading provider of privately branded virtual events and virtual business environments that connect, engage and educate audiences. InXpo’s full suite of solutions includes Virtual Trade Shows, Virtual Career Fairs, and Virtual Events & Conferences, as well as Audio and Video Webcasts. These virtual solutions dramatically reduce travel time and related costs, in addition to making the world a greener place to live. By using our privately branded virtual events, InXpo enables organizations to cost-effectively communicate with their worldwide communities for lead generation, peer-to-peer networking, training, internal and external communications, as well as generate new online revenue opportunities. InXpo has delivered more than 1,000 successful virtual events and experiences for global customers and publishers including AAA, Cisco, Forbes.com, HIMSS, GE Healthcare, PennWell, SAP, TechTarget and Ziff Davis Enterprises. The company is headquartered in Chicago.

About UBM Studios
UBM Studios, a division of UBM, is a creative and strategic marketing agency which specializes in building next-generation virtual media business solutions. Through virtual environments such as virtual events, hybrid events, tradeshows, community sites, career fairs, sales meetings, training, seminars, digital libraries, knowledge centers and focus groups, UBM Studios enables customers to reach new markets, engage and educate customers as well as generate new leads and revenue.

Virtual Conference - An Upsurge of Interest

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:35:44 +0000

Google Trends shows an upsurge of interest to virtual conference phenomenon. Virtual conference, an obscure term back in 2006, has become a hot topic in 2009 and 2010.

According to Market Research Media Ltd, a leading market research firm, the virtual conference market is poised for explosive growth, to reach $18.6 Billion over the next six years at CAGR 56%.

International Supercomputing Conference ISC’10, May 31 – June 3, 2010, Hamburg

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:47:32 +0000

ISC’10, International Supercomputing Conference, will take place on May 31 – June 3, 2010 in Hamburg, Germany. With about 2,000 attendees and more than 140 exhibitors from over 45 countries expected to attend, ISC’10 is sure to be one of the world’s biggest and best high performance computing events.

According to a market report “Worldwide Defense High Performance Computing (HPC) Market Forecast 2010-2015” recently released by Market Research Media, the global defense high performance computing market is projected to increase from $2.6 billion in 2010 to $3.3 billion in 2015. The estimate for worldwide cumulative market 2010 – 2015 is $18 billion, for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.7% in the 6-year period.

Conference Topics
The four-day conference will highlight numerous cutting-edge presentations broken up into various sessions focusing on innovations and applications of supercomputing.

The areas of emphasis amongst others will be:

High Performance Computational Life Sciences – The Challenge for HPC Systems
Evolving New HPC Markets: China, Middle East and Russia
Fault Tolerance for Manycore Systems
HPC: Future Technology Building Blocks
High Performance Computing & Networking
Storage/Flash Technology in HPC
Focusing Linpack: The TOP500 Yardstick
Innovative Applications (Cryptography, Gaming, Aerospace, Finance, Defense)
Presentation of the 35th TOP500 List of the World’s Fastest Supercomputers
Panel on Exascale Computing

Scientific, BoF, Hot Seat and Poster Sessions, Award Ceremonies, Exhibitor Forums and numerous networking opportunities and social events will complete the 2010 conference program.

DermaVir Nanomedicine: The Next Generation DNA Vaccine

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:34:20 +0000

Dr. Julianna Lisziewicz, Chief Executive Officer of the Genetic Immunity, will be presenting “DermaVir Nanomedicine: The Next Generation DNA Vaccine” at Phacilitate’s 8th annual European Vaccine Forum, to be held from June 22-24, 2009 Barcelona, Spain.

“I look forward to discussing the latest developments on our nanomedicine and dendritic cell targeting delivery system with conference attendees and to learn more about the progress of other companies active in the fields of immune therapy and vaccines. This event, just like the Bio International Convention in Atlanta, will give us many opportunities to look for partnerships and, or to reach for greater exposure of our immunotherapeutics technology,” commented Julianna Lisziewicz, CEO of the Company.

8th annual European Vaccine Forum will take place in Barcelona in June 2009. Phacilitate’s 8th annual European Vaccine Forum will run in parallel this year to a new conference — the Active Immunotherapeutics Forum. Dr. Lisziewicz will be attending both conferences.

About Genetic Immunity
Genetic Immunity is a US/Hungarian biopharmaceutical company establishing leadership in Nanomedicines for immune amplification. Nanomedicine, an offshoot of nanotechnology, refers to highly specific medical intervention at the molecular scale for treating disease or repairing damaged tissues. By leveraging its proprietary immune amplification platform technology, the Company aims to address new markets for infectious diseases, cancer and allergies through the discovery, development and commercialization of topically administered nanomedicines. These indications represent a significant unmet medical need and the potential for alternative treatment approaches.

More information:
Vaccine Market
Global Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Market Forecast 2010-2015
The Active Immunotherapeutics Forum, June 22-24 2009, Barcelona

Cloud Computing Conference of the Year, June 25 - 2009, Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:39:17 +0000

Structure 09, organized by leading technology journalist and GigaOm founder Om Malik, has become the must-attend cloud computing conference of the year.

“Cloud Computing is growing at any incredible pace, and we at GigaOM believe it is a long-term opportunity on a vast scale,” says GigaOM Network Founder Om Malik. “The industry needs to embrace the technology shift that is happening and make plans to take advantage of its potential. We have designed the Structure 09 conference as the forum to get those plans in place and for customers to act fast as the future unfolds.”

Cloud Computing Market is growing at any incredible pace, and the industry needs to embrace the technology shift that is happening and make plans to take advantage of its potential. U.S. Federal Cloud Computing Market Forecast 2010 - 2015 provides an agency-by-agency forecast of the U.S. Federal Cloud Computing Market. The report predicts 40% growth in federal cloud computing for the next six years.

The conference will take place at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco on June 25, 2009.

The conference will be keynoted by pioneers in the world of “infrastructure on demand”:

Leaders from IBM and HP will give “Mini-Notes” that look at how their corporate might will influence the cloud computing industry’s evolution.
Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai, will reveal how Akamai continues to innovate in an industry it helped birth a decade ago.
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, will share his insights on what drove Salesforce.com to become the first SaaS (Software as a Service) company to pass the billion-dollar revenue mark.
Michael Stonebraker, a pioneer of database (RDBMS) systems.
Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com.
Greg Papadopoulos, CTO of Sun Microsystems.
Jonathan Heiliger, VP of Technical Operations at Facebook.

The speakers and audience will comprise experts from the critical topics in cloud computing: SaaS/PaaS, virtualization, next-generation data storage, cloud computing, broadband and operational issues rising from the adoption of cloud computing. The conference will cover the following topics:

The Myth of the One-Size-Fits-All Cloud - As enterprises begin to evaluate cloud computing, some are asking if the current model of commodity servers and virtualization meets their needs. Is there money to be made creating specialized clouds for industries that require highly specific computing tasks, from video trans-coding to fiscal transactions and medical records?
From Databases to Dataspaces - Web-scale computing is creating a physically distributed infrastructure, which has led to the emergence of distributed data storage and processing layers like Hadoop, HyperTable and Couchdb.
Better Broadband: Enabling the Cloud Era - We’re building huge Cloud Computing cities, but are we neglecting the already clogged broadband highways between them? As internal data center networking speeds start to exceed 40 Gbps, the pipes that connect those clouds to the outside world and each other will hit their limits. This panel examines what stress fractures we may see initially, what technology can do about it, and who will ultimately pay for it.
Private Enterprise Clouds: As A First Step Towards Cloud Computing - Enterprises aren’t yet able or ready to migrate their applications to public clouds. Public cloud infrastructure can’t run existing enterprise applications without requiring a rewrite. Yet the lure of usage-based resourcing is strong. The solution? Build your own cloud with your existing infrastructure investment as a first step. This panel will contrast vendor visions about how internal systems can work in unison with external cloud platforms.
On The Shoulders of Giants - Innovation occurs when you push at the edge of reasonable practice. When your job is to manage some of the worlds largest infrastructures, with demands that test the limit of technology and budgets, innovation is your only option. Keepers of six of the largest collections of boxes, bits and bandwidth on the planet will share their successes with current technology and their desires for and opinions on the future.
Building The Perfect Host for Web Applications - When a hosting platform is built from boxes and bandwidth, it is built with a vision of usage in mind. When a startup codes the next big hit application, it has preconceived notions about what load challenges it’s platform will cope with. With cloud computing, do things change drastically? This panel brings together three of the most innovative infrastructure hosting companies and three rising web application startups to outline what each wants from the other and what new opportunities can be generated from the missing elements.

U.S. Federal IT Market Trends - Webinar

admin — Mon, 25 May 2009 06:19:29 +0000

Market Research Media announces webinar “Trends in the Federal IT Market“. The webinar is designed for IT senior management targeting the Federal IT Market.

Market Research Media will host three webinar sessions on Tuesday, May 26th at 10:00 a.m., 12 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. The seminars will take approximately 45 minutes with an additional 15 minutes allocated for questions. Webinar topics:

Indesec: Business Opportunities in Indian Homeland Security

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:11:25 +0000

Indesec Expo 2009, 11 – 13 October 2009, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi

India’s only integrated homeland security and defence systems event – provides the opportunity for Indian and international companies to promote their solutions to Indian government officials from both the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Defence, paramilitary forces, senior members of the armed forces, security agency, individual state police and coast guard. Indesec’s three key areas of focus are homeland and border security, network centric operations, also known as Network Centric Warfare (NCW) or Network Enabled Capability (NEC) and maritime security.

Unmanned Air Systems 09

admin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:58:23 +0000

18th-19th May 2009 | Hilton Euston Hotel, London

Book today for the only event you’ll attend that covers complete unmanned air systems requirements. Get the details on sensors, payloads and critical UAS equipment. Take a look at just some of the key learning points from the conference:

Access the Latest Unmanned Air System Plans and Requirements of the U.K., U.S.A., France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Canada
Examine Key Unmanned Air System Programmes – MQ-9 Reaper, RQ-4 Global Hawk, Eurohawk, Watchkeeper, RQ-7 Shadow 200, ADS95 Ranger, Predator
Receive updates on State-of-the-Art Sensor Payloads – Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Hear Briefings on New Technical Developments – Micro Air Vehicles
Who will you meet at the 2009 Unmanned Air Systems Programmes and Requirements Conference?

You’ll have access to unrivalled networking opportunities. You’ll join over 100 UAS strategists and military project leaders and buyers. Delegates from more than 15 countries are already planning their attendance, including the U.S.A., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Canada and Singapore. These will include Senior Military Officers and Government Officials, including Heads of Plans, Programmes and Requirements, UAS Operators, Pilots and Squadron Commanders, Chiefs of Staff and Integrated Project Teams. Leading Government Research Organisations, such as DSTL, TNO and FOI will also be in attendance.

The UAS Industry will be fully represented, with Business Development, Sales and Marketing Directors, Heads of Strategy, Product Managers, Engineers, Systems Analysts, Researchers and Scientists.

This mix of senior professionals will allow face-to-face contact and opportunities for new business relationships.