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| Keynote Lineup Announced for ISPCON Fall 2006 The Golden Group announced details of the keynote speeches for ISPCON Fall 2006, "The Internet Industry Event, " being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center from November 7 – 9, 2006. Unlike other industry events that offer cookie-cutter keynote presentations, ISPCON has developed a well-earned reputation for featuring unique, provocative and lively conversations between the most successful CEOs, journalists and investment professionals demonstrating thought leadership and successful business strategies. The telco/cableco duopoly continues to see the Net as gravy on their basic services (and are more motivated to get into each other's business than do anything new with the Internet). Meanwhile, communities, competitors and customers are creating their own bypass while treating the Net as a "fifth utility" alongside water, waste treatment, roads and electric services. To make matters even more interesting, giants like Google and Microsoft are building massive computing clouds to support a shift toward on-demand services. In a perfect world, each provider would have similar customers that could be served via established best practices and standards that follow a common path, create economies of scale and eliminate barriers to success in a somewhat turnkey and systemic fashion. However, in the read world, that's just not so. Increasingly, the industry has spawned a million strategies for delivering different services to different markets in different ways. As a result, growing and building a powerful, sound business is still a bit of an art form with few common themes that apply to many and even fewer who can articulate some of the "how" behind their "wow". Rather than focus on impractical and unrealistic examples, this carefully chosen cross-section of the Internet Industry includes providers from varied backgrounds, markets and strategies who will come with their "guards down, " an open mind and an open spreadsheet ... and most importantly, a willingness to help peers by shedding light on strategy, financials, customers, challenges, solutions and secrets of success. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Exhibition News :: home page |