The AIIM International Conference Program Helps IT Professionals Turn Content and Information Into a Powerful Business Tool

Questex Media Group's AIIM International Exposition & Conference ( www.aiimexpo.com ), the largest, most comprehensive content and information management event in North America, today announced its 2008 conference program. Packed with high-profile keynote presentations and more than 120 sessions, the conference program, presented by industry leaders and innovators, provides new ideas, inspiration and the knowledge any organization needs to turn data overload into valuable and accessible information. The AIIM International Exposition & Conference, which is co-located with the ON DEMAND Exposition & Conference, will take place at the Boston Convention & Exposition Center, March 3-6, 2008.

"There's no doubt that enterprises today are experiencing an unprecedented explosion of data and information. This year's AIIM Exposition and Conference helps organizations better organize, access, distribute, share and analyze information to streamline business processes and improve business performance," said Tom Bliss, Group Conference Director - AIIM International Exposition & Conference, Questex Media Group.

"The volume of information and content being created has been growing exponentially for several years, with no end in sight, far exceeding our ability to consume it. For most businesses and organizations, the gap continues to widen," said John Mancini, President, AIIM - The ECM Association. "The AIIM conference program delivers practical advice for solving business content challenges."

Keynote Presentations

David Pogue, best-selling author and New York Times personal technology columnist, will present the opening keynote on Tuesday, March 4 at 8:30 a.m. Entitled "The Power of Simplicity," Pogue will discuss why "software rage" has become an epidemic and how the problem is the software design itself -- the interface. Program and website design grow more important every day, and getting it right is extremely difficult. Pogue will also look forward to the interface design of the future as we move into an era of both much bigger and much smaller screens.

On Tuesday, March 4 at 9:30 a.m., AIIM's Mancini will present the State of the Industry keynote entitled "Corporate Knowledge: Share It, Secure It." In his presentation, Mancini will discuss the intersection between collaboration and security concerns within organizations. As core document, content and records technologies move to the mainstream, there are many new collaborative tools to empower employees to create, publish, and disseminate information as well as increasing compliance and legal demands to put more information "under control."

The keynote panel "Reflections on Super Tuesday: What's at Stake & What's to Come" will take place on Wednesday, March 5 at 8:00 a.m. The panelists include Patrick J. Buchanan, political analyst, former advisor to three U.S. Presidents, and two-time Republican Presidential candidate and Howard Fineman, Newsweek Senior Washington correspondent and NBC News political analyst; the panel will be moderated by Carlos Watson, a former CNN News political commentator. The goal of this panel is to provide a true insider's view of Washington's latest political developments and help attendees understand the impact they will have on industry and the country.

On Thursday, March 6 at 9:00 a.m., Tony Byrne, Founder of CMS Watch, will moderate a CIO panel entitled "The Future of Information Management: The CIO's Perspective." Panel members will discuss what "information management" will look like three to five years from now. They will frame out some of the scenarios that are likely to unfold as the discipline of information management evolves and the technologies that support it mature, as well as how to prepare for the changes ahead.

For additional details on the keynote presentations, go to: http://aiimexpo.com/aiimexpo2007/v42/index.cvn?id=10197

Conference Sessions

With 18 tracks and more than 120 sessions, the conference program will give attendees the tools they need to learn how to assess, select and deploy technologies that will help end users make better, faster business decisions, improve business processes and performance, and maximize the return on an organization's information assets. Tracks and themes covered include:

--  ECM fundamentals
--  Business process management
--  Security
--  Risk and compliance
--  Document management
--  Data capture and imaging
--  Records management
--  Web content management and portals
--  Collaboration and social software
--  Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0
--  Web services
--  Information infrastructure and architecture
--  Business intelligence
--  Next-generation search tools and applications
--  Information classification, taxonomies and metadata management
--  Email management
--  Litigation and discovery, payments and billing
--  Product selection and implementation

For additional details on the conference tracks and sessions, go to: http://aiimexpo.com/aiimexpo2007/v42/index.cvn?id=10168#

Pre-Conference Workshops