Foldera to Sponsor and Speak on the Future of Office Productivity at Office 2.0 Conference
Three Foldera Executives to Address Technology Trends and Issues in San Francisco Oct. 11-12, 2006
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Foldera (TM), Inc. (OTCBB:FDRA), will have a major presence at the first Office 2.0 Conference, demonstrating the emergence of collaborative, Web-enabled, office productivity applications. Foldera is a sponsor of the event and three members of its executive management team will participate as speakers and moderators in panel discussions. The event will be held at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, CA, on October 11 and 12, 2006.
Oliver Starr, Foldera’s Chief Mobility Officer, will moderate a panel discussion Wednesday afternoon on the topic “Making Office 2.0 Mobile and Real-Time.” VP of Marketing Marc Orchant will moderate a panel discussion on Thursday afternoon discussing APIs and Feeds for Office 2.0 which will focus on the role these connective technologies play in enabling the web-based office. CTO Jnan Dash will participate in a Technical Panel discussion Thursday afternoon on the key technology challenges this new market faces.
“This conference is an ideal forum for Foldera to contribute to the emerging Office 2.0 marketplace,” Orchant said. “Increasingly, businesses are moving their interactions between employees, partners, and customers to the internet. As this trend evolves, tools like Foldera that allow organizations to organize and share critical information securely on the web will become increasingly vital. This conference focuses on important issues at the heart of this migration and we are pleased to have such a visible and engaged role in the event.”
The Office 2.0 Conference has been designed to collectively explore the foundations for Office 2.0. More than 70 industry leaders will speak at the event, including Bob Sutor, Vice President, Standards and Open Source Software for IBM, Rajan Seth, Product Manager for Google Enterprise Products, Don Campbell, Office Evangelist for Microsoft, Dan Farber, VP at C|Net, Michael Arrington of TechCrunch, and Om Malik of GigaOmniMedia. Over 250 entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and technology consumers will attend the event.
Office 2.0 will incorporate a number of technology demonstrations, panel discussions, and break-out sessions about the development and adoption of Office 2.0 technologies. In addition to the topics Foldera executives will be leading, discussions include a day in the life of an Office 2.0 worker, making Office 2.0 applications enterprise ready, tools for enterprise mashups, and funding strategies for Office 2.0 start-ups.
Keynotes will be delivered by Esther Dyson and Andrew McAfee, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School. Dyson is editor at large at CNET Networks, where she writes the blog Release 0.9. She has written/edited Release 1.0 and led Edventure's PC Forum conference since 1983. McAfee, a faculty member of the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School since 1998, conducts research to investigate how managers can most effectively select, implement, and use Information Technology (IT) to achieve business goals.
“There has been a huge buzz surrounding Office 2.0 applications over the past year, but no event that specifically caters to the needs of this community,” said Ismael Ghalimi, founder and organizer of the Office 2.0 Conference and CEO of Intalio. “The Office 2.0 Conference is an excellent opportunity for the early majority of technology consumers and industry visionaries to discuss and explore the growing adoption of Office 2.0 applications in the workplace, and how they are revolutionizing the way we see and use technology in our working lives.”
The conference is also sponsored by 30 Boxes, ActiveGrid, Atlassian, BEA, Blogtronix, Caspio, CNET.com, Coghead, CollectiveX, ConnectBeam, Dabble DB, EchoSign, Fenwick & West, Guidewire Group, IBD Network, Intacct, Intalio, Itensil, Joyent, Lewis PR, LiveKiosk, Lohika, Netvibes, Pageflakes, SiteKreator, Socialtext, Stormhoek, SugarCRM, System One, TECHMarket, ThinkFree, YouSendIt, and Zoho.
About Foldera(TM), Inc.
Foldera(TM) is the free, secure, and easy-to-use service that instantly organizes workflow. Foldera combines web-based email, instant messaging, a document manager, a task manager, a calendar, a contact manager, and sharable folders into a unified productivity suite, available with a single login from any web browser. Foldera also has the unique ability to instantly sort and file your sent and incoming email, instant message dialogs, documents, tasks, and events into folders, on a project-by-project basis, chronologically and in real time.
Business owners wanting to experience the power of Foldera Activity Folders in their business should register for a beta account at http://www.foldera.com.
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