[Web4lib] SURA/ViDe 2007 Digital Video Conference - registration open

Dan Kniesner kniesner at ohsu.edu
Mon Jan 22 15:20:20 EST 2007


Registration is now open for the 9th Annual SURA/ViDe Digital Video Conference http://www.vide.net/conferences/spr2007 

THE WHOLE SHEBANG:

Converged Communication Technologies in the Campus Information Ecosystem:  Are We There Yet?

March 26-29, 2007

Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

*ViDe is the recognized leader in digital video development and deployment in higher education.  The very successful SURA ViDe Digital Video conference is attended by vendors, IT, librarians and researchers doing cutting edge research or innovative strategies to deploy digital video, collaboration and communications technologies and multimedia in an educational or research setting.*

*SURA/ViDe's 2007 conference will bring together innovators in higher education, telemedicine and K12 to focus on converged collaboration, conferencing, voice and media on campus, in the networked, web and mobile environments, with an emphasis on both success stories and caveats in merging all the technologies into an integrated, seamless and ubiquitous information ecosystem.*

Keynote speaker Monday evening, March 26, is:
  
Larry Johnson, Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium, Austin, Texas, an international consortium of more than 200 universities, colleges, museums, research centers, and technology companies dedicated to using new technologies to inspire, energize, stimulate, and support learning and creative expression.

The ViDe 2007 Conference is soliciting presentations on cutting edge strategies for converging media: videoconferencing, streaming video, Voice over IP, collaboration technologies, and new media applications in  higher education, K12, medicine and research.  Presentations on any technologies, innovative practices or important issues with digital video and converging communication technologies are welcomed, but particularly in the following areas:

    ·    Converging Technologies: Real World Campus Experiences

    ·    Communications Technologies/Digital Video  in K12

    ·    Communications Technologies/Digital Video  in Higher Education

    ·    Communications Technologies/Digital Video in Medicine and Research

    ·    Voice over IP

    ·    Big Video

    ·    High Definition Video

    ·    Public Broadcasting

    ·    Video Access in the Age of Google

    ·    Video on Demand: Organization, Search and Retrieval, Delivery

Please submit a short abstract (one paragraph to one page) at the conference submission website: http://www.easychair.org/ViDe2007/  

Presentation dates are Tuesday, March 27 and Wednesday, March 28. Please indicate in your abstract whether or not you will be presenting on-site or remotely, via videoconferencing.

*Deadline for proposal submissions is Friday, February 2.*

A free pre-conference workshop is being offered Monday afternoon, March 26, on learning to set-up and manage the telecommunications for a multi-room conference.

An audio/video conferencing advanced topics workshop is being offered Thursday, March 29. Workshop fee is $150 during early registration, which ends March 9.

Dan Kniesner
Oregon Health & Science University
3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road
Portland Oregon 97239
kniesner at ohsu.edu 
503-494-3216
fax 503-494-3227
(ViDe 2007 planning committee)




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