Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementers Workshop. December 9-10, 2008. World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Geneva, Switzerland.

• Description: The Workshop topics include an internationally agreed list of authorities for common types of CAP alerts; disseminating, aggregating, and authenticating CAP alerts; making globally unique identifiers for CAP alerts; and, best practices for text in the CAP "description" and "instruction" elements. The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), an OASIS standard adopted as ITU Recommendation X.1303, is the foundation standard for all-media public warning. Designed as an all-hazards alert format, CAP is being implemented worldwide for earthquakes, public health, and many other emergencies, in addition to weather events.
• Conference web site
• Call for participation
• Hosted by OASIS and International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
• Email contact: Eliot Christian, WIS Senior Scientific Officer
• Cover Pages news story: "OASIS/ITU-T Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Receives Support from FEMA and WMO"
• OASIS Emergency Management TC: CAP, EDXL-DE, EDXL-RM, HAVE
• Previous conference: Joint ITU-T/ OASIS Workshop and Demonstration of Advances in ICT Standards for Public Warning; see also the proceedings

XML-in-Practice 2008. December 8-10, 2008. Marriott Crystal Gateway, Arlington, Virginia, USA.

• Description: This 24th Annual Conference on MarkUp and XML "is the world's longest-running conference devoted to XML and other open data and document technologies. It features three days full of informative and entertaining presentations and demonstrations: meet the experts, find out what's happening with XML, learn who's using XML, see new products, discuss the current standards, and find out the tips and tricks to implement XML-based solutions."
• XML 2008 Conference web site
• XML 2008 Call for Participation
• Conference Overview
• Conference Hotel
• Hosted by IDEAlliance (International Digital Enterprise Alliance) — formerly the Graphic Communications Association
• Email contact: Joy Donat (Program Manager). See the contact page.
• Previous conference: See XML 2007 Conference

73rd IETF F2F Meeting (Fall 2008). November 16-21, 2008. Minneapolis, MN, USA.

• Description: "IETF face-to-face meetings, held three times a year, are week-long 'gatherings of the tribes' whose primary goal is to reinvigorate the WGs to get their tasks done, and whose secondary goal is to promote a fair amount of mixing between the WGs and the areas. There is no exposition hall, few tutorials, and no big-name industry pundits."
• Conference web site
• Hosted by Google
• See: IETF Meetings. IETF meetings are held three times a year.
• Previous conference: 72nd IETF Meeting. July 27, 2008 - August 1, 2008. Dublin, Ireland. Hosted by Alcatel-Lucent. 1183 attendees. With Meeting Materials and Proceedings.
• See IETF Jabber Services. The IETF provides Jabber Groupchat services for use by the various working groups during meetings and at other times. IETF Chatrooms are logged and publicly archived.
• See also: IETF Meetings (from "The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force").
• See also: IETF Journal.
• The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Open Standards Forum 2008: Security Challenges for the Information Society. September 30, 2008 - October 03, 2008. Ditton Manor, Near London, UK.

• Description: "The Open Standards Forum 2008 will provide users who are evaluating or looking to deploy ecurity infrastructures with an opportunity to explore the state of the art in security services, standards and products."
• Conference web site
• Call for participation
• Schedule at-a-glance
• Conference program
• Event Sponsors
• Open Standards Forum 2007: 'Enabling Transformational Government Through Web Services and SOA'. See also earlier years.

IEEE Key Management Summit 2008. September 23-24, 2008. Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

• Description: This summit "brings together the top companies that develop cryptographic key management for storage devices with the standards organizations that make interoperability possible and the customers that rely on key management to secure their encrypted data."
• KMS 2008 is co-located with the IEEE Mass Storage and Systems Technologies conference (MSST)
• Conference web site
• Conference program
• Call for participation
• Program Committee
• Hosted by the IEEE Computer Society
• Email contact: Matt Ball

Digital ID World 2008: Seventh Digital ID World Conference. "Identity IS Center." September 8-10, 2008. Hilton Anaheim, Anaheim, CA, USA.

• Description: Topics: GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) and Identity; The growing usage of user-centric identity technologies; Securing the perimeter with identity; Using identity for application integration and virtualization; Achieving 'anywhere access'; Identity's role in your Sharepoint deployment; Moving past point to point federation... "Identity technologies, tools and governance have reached a point of critical mass; the resulting 'big bang' has made identity the critical piece that spans nearly all technology deployments."
• Conference web site
• Conference Schedule: At-a-glance
• Complete conference program
• Sponsored by Microsoft, Novell, BearingPoint, Oracle, Sailpoint, etc
• Conference Speakers
• See also Fourth OSIS User-Centric Identity Interop
• See also the September 8, 2008 Liberty Alliance Identity Assurance Workshop featuring the Liberty Identity Assurance Framework (IAF)

32nd Internationalization and Unicode Conference (IUC 32). September 8-10, 2008. Hilton San Jose, San Jose, CA, USA.

• Description: The Internationalization and Unicode Conference is the premier annual technical conference focusing on multilingual, global software and Web internationalization. Each IUC conference features a variety of tutorials and conference sessions that cover current topics related to Web and software internationalization, globalization, and Unicode. IUC 32 will include sessions with a special focus on security, conformance testing and related topics.
• Call for participation
• Conference web site
• At-a-glance
• Conference program
• Hosted by Object Management Group (OMG). Sponsored by Adobe, MultiLingual Computing Inc., Globalization Insider, Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA), and Globalization and Localization Association (GALA)
• Conference Advisory Committee
• Conference Program Review Committee (Joe Becker, Martin J. Dürst, Richard Ishida, Rick McGowan, Sandra O'Donnell, Addison Phillips, Russ Rolfe, Tex Texin, Cathy Wissink, François Yergeau)
• Previous conference: Earlier: IUC 31 Conference
• See also past Unicode conferences
• Email contact: Stephanie Covert, Object Management Group: info@unicodeconference.org
• Unicode Consortium

International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2008). August 19-22, 2008. ICT Technologie Park Innsbruck, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

• Description: "The International Conference on Electronic Commerce brings together the top of the scientific research community in e-commerce and e-business from all over the world. The theme of this conference is semantic technology moving towards interoperability."
• Conference web site
• Call for participation
• Conference program Also in PDF (cache/archive)
• Email contact: Eva Zelechowski (STI International)
• Program Commttee (Chaired by Dieter Fensel and Hannes Werthner)

Balisage 2008: The Markup Conference. August 12-15, 2008. Best Western Hotel Europa Downtown, Montréal, Canada.

• Description: "Balisage 2008: The Markup Conference" continues the popular Montréal conference series (formerly "Extreme Markup Languages") under a new title "Balisage." Balisage 2008 Conference topics include languages and processes for manipulating XML, the Semantic Web and semantically-based document markup, resource-oriented architectures, ontology design, schema mashups, constraint management, real-time generation of topic maps, secure publishing for social networks, managing overlapping annotations over the same primary data, the social limitation of interoperability in digital libraries, implementation of XSD 1.1 conditional-type assignment, and a host of others.
• Cover Pages News story: Balisage 2008 Conference in Montrial Continues Extreme Markup Tradition
• Co-located with International Symposium on Versioning XML Vocabularies and Systems (August 11, 2008)
• Conference web site
• At-a-glance
• Conference program
• Hosted by Mulberry Technologies, Inc. Other sponsors include: DC XML Users Group; OASIS; Philadelphia XML Users Group; Text Encoding Initiative; United Kingdom Forum for Structured Information Standards; World Wide Web Consortium (WWW)
• Email contact: B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies, Inc)
• Conference announcement
• Collected Proceedings of Balisage
• Previous conference: Extreme 2007

Fifth International Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives (XIMEP 2008). June 13, 2008. Vancouver, Canada.

• Description: "XIME-P 2008 invites original research contributions as well as reports on industrial efforts on the implementation, utilization, and overall prospects of XQuery."
• Conference web site
• Conference program
• Co-located with ACM SIGMOD ACM SIGMOD 2008

W3C Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development. June 2-3, 2008. São Paulo, Brazil.

• Description: "The goal of the Workshop is to understand specific challenges of using mobile phones and Web technologies to deliver services to underprivileged populations of Developing Countries — including analysis of using mobile phones in development projects; strengths and weaknesses of SMS technology v. mobile Web v. voice technology; and challenges of integrating information and Communication Technologies in rural communities."
• Co-located with
• Conference web site
• Call for participation
• Conference program
• Workshop Submitted Papers
• Workshop Executive Summary
• Hosted by NIC.br (Network Information Center), CGI.br Internet Steering Committee, and Institute CONIP
• Announcement: "W3C to Examine Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development. Workshop Participants Will Discuss How To Unleash the Power of Mobile Phones for Delivering eServices."
• See: W3C Mobile Web Initiative
• W3C Workshops and Symposia

2008 Ontology Summit: Toward An Open Ontology Repository. April 28-19, 2008. Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.

• Description: "The theme of the 2008 Ontology Summit is the vision of an Open Ontology Repository. This vision forms the basis of the international Open Ontology Repository community. Issues will include the themes of the 2006 and 2007 Ontology Summits — Upper Ontologies, and a framework for classification of ontologies, respectively.
• Conference web site
• Conference program
• Hosted by NIST and (US) National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR)
• Email contact: Steve Ray (NIST)
• See: OntologySummit2008 Communiqué: Towards an Open Ontology Repository
• See: ONTOLOG: an Open, International, Virtual Community of Practice on Ontology, Ontological Engineering and Semantic Technology