What Comes Next

I’m going to be speaking at a couple of related events in March. The Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference on the 28th and 29th in Philadelphia has an interesting array of topics, centered around open source, lightweight architectures and Web 2.0, all with an enterprise twist. On the first day, I’m giving a talk called Startup 2.0: Harnessing Emerging Technologies in the New Startup World:

Whether building a new company from scratch, or keeping a big company competitive, emerging technologies have changed the rules. Open source software, web services, mashups, AJAX, Ruby, Rails, and RSS… only a few of a seemingly endless list of technologies that have redefined what is possible for small teams. This talk will focus on startup experiences, lessons learned about technology choices and tradeoffs, and on building, funding and running a technology startup in the new environment.

The Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise folks are also putting on a pre-conference breakfast for CxO’s and executives on the 15th. I’ll be the keynote speaker for that event, talking about Tiger Team Innovation:

Startup companies use small teams beginning with a blank slate and the latest emerging technologies to build incredible value overnight. This talk will focus on using the same techniques, with a few twists, to deliver measurable value to the enterprise in new ways.

The main conference is open to everyone and seems to be quite reasonably priced compared to most such events; registration is here. I believe the breakfast is by invitation, so if you’d like to attend leave a comment or send me email and I’ll ask the organizers to include you.