“The conference was excruciatingly well organized and yet relaxed and fun…”

K.G. Schneider, FreeRange Librarian


November is a long way off, so please take this agenda for what it is - a draft. Which is to say, that things can and will probably change in the interim.

In the meantime, check out our Defrag Session Wiki.

Monday, November 3rd, 2008
7:30 to 5:00
Registration Open
8:30 to 8:45
Opening Remarks: Defrag 2008 - Eric Norlin
8:45 to 9:30
Opening Keynote: Strategic Intuition and Defrag: Professor William Duggan, Columbia Business School and author of Strategic Intuition
9:30 to 10:00
Keynote 2: [Saugatuck Research]
10:00 to 10:15
Morning Break
10:15 to 12:15
Open Space: Exploring Defrag Topics - What should we be covering? What are we missing?
12:15 to 1:00
Lunch with Defrag Sponsors
1:00 to 2:00
Networking with Defrag Sponsors
2:00 to 2:30
Sponsor Challenge: BEA Systems
Breakout 1
Breakout 2
 
2:00 to 2:45

Users Connecting the Dots- Making the Unstructured Structured (Paul Miller)

The Democratization of Data: Kevin Merritt, blist
 
2:45 to 3:00
Social Search in the Corporate Environment: Rich Hoeg, Honeywell
Knowledge Networking and "Ambient Intimacy": Perry Mizota
 
3:00 to 3:30
Afternoon Break and Networking with Sponors
3:30 to 4:00
Is Collaboration Changing How We Consume (or Interact with) Analysis? Sam Lawrence, Jive Software
Can Identity Become a Filter for Information Overload?
 
4:00 to 4:30
Can Crowd-sourcing Accelerate Decision Making? Are those Decisions Any Good?

What is "Next Level Discovery?" A discussion led by Steve Larsen

 
4:30 to 5:00
Keynote 3: "Around the Horn" with Paul Kedrosky
 
5:00 to 5:30
Flow: The Still Point Of The Turning World? Stowe Boyd
Bringing "Social" to the Enterprise
 
5:30 to 7:30
Evening Reception and Networking with Sponors
7:30 to ?
Birds of a Feather dinners around Defrag Topics

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
8:00 to 11:00
Registration Open
8:30 to 8:45
Day 2 Begins: Eric Norlin
8:45 to 9:15
Keynote 4: TBA
9:15 to 10:00
Keynote 4: TBA
10:00 to 10:30
Morning Break
10:30 to 11:15

Keynote 6: Harnessing the Implicit Value of the Social Graph-Charlene Li, Forrester Research

11:15 to 11:45
Sponsor Challenge
11:45 to 1:00
Lunch (with Sponsors)
Breakout 1
Breakout 2
 
1:00 to 1:45
Dis-aggregating the Web
Finding Serendipitous Information Though Context
 
1:45 to 2:30
Being like the Internet: Lane Becker, Get Satisfaction
Observing the Invisible Through Aggregating Information Tomography - Marty Betz, FirstRain
 
2:30 to 3:15
Getting Past "Social" to Users
Visualizing the Relationship in Data
 
3:15 to 3:30
Afternoon Break
3:00 to 4:15
Social Networking Analytics
Under Sousveillance: Personal Informatics & Techniques of the Self - Brian Oberkirch
 
4:15 to 4:45
Keynote 7: Innovation in the Implicit Web Space - Early Enterpreneur Stories  
4:45 to 5:00
Closing Comments