Upcoming Conferences From Our Sponsors
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Supernova starts this Monday. It’s June 16-18 in San Francisco, CA. TechCrunch readers automatically receive a $200 discount here.
Come join TechCrunch as we co-host the Mobile Connections forum with Kevin Werbach Monday at 5:15 pm at the Mission Bay Conference Center.
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Sun Microsystems is hosting an Open Source Business Intelligence Summit on June 26, 2008 in Menlo Park, CA.
They are creating a forum to learn about the challenges and benefits of implementing an Open Source strategy. It is also a chance to understand how to develop next generation applications based on Open Source technology and how Sun can help you take advantage of it for your commercial success.
The detailed agenda is here and key topics include:
- Open Source as an emerging paradigm
- Culture and community of Open Source and its buyers
- Open Source products and technologies from Sun
- Open Source impact on Database, Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse environments
Speakers include:
- Mark Madsen, award winning IT architect, analyst and consultant
- Ian Murdock, champion of Developer and Community Marketing
- Zack Urlocker, former VP at MySQL
Free admission to the conference is extended on an invitation basis here. To request to attend the conference, register here (and tell them TechCrunch sent you).
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OReilly’s Velocity Conference, June 23-24 in Burlingame, CA. Use “vel08tech” for a 15% registration discount. Email freeticket [at] techcrunch [dot com] if you’re interested in securing a free ticket. OReilly will select one name at random next Thursday, June 19 at 5 pm pst.
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