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Conferences: Web 2.0 Expo, Structure 08, Google I/O, SemTech 08 & More

2008-04-14T05:03:59Z

April is usually a busy month on the Web conference schedule, with my personal highlight being the Web 2.0 Expo. Since 2005 I've never missed a TechWeb / O'Reilly Web 2.0 conference; and this one will be no exception. In fact there will be a number of ReadWriteWeb authors roaming around, with Marshall Kirkpatrick, Josh Catone, Sean Ammirati, Emre Sokullu, and Charles Knight of AltSearchEngines also in attendance.

]]> As well as Web 2.0 Expo, there is the AltSearchEngines Get Together on Monday 21 April. Other conferences we're highlighting in this post are Structure 08, Google I/O, the 2008 Semantic Technology Conference and TECH Cocktail. We have discounts and free tickets too...

Structure 08

Our friends at GigaOm are holding the first annual Structure 08 conference on June 25, 2008 in San Francisco. It will focus on innovations in Internet infrastructure and speakers include Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, and Greg Papadopoulos, CTO of Sun Microsystems. ReadWriteWeb readers can get a 10% discount to Structure 08 - register here and enter the discount code "RWW".

Google I/O

Google I/O is a two-day gathering for developers "to share knowledge about Google's own developer products and web application development in general." Google I/O will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on Wednesday, May 28th, and Thursday, May 29th, 2008.

ReadWriteWeb has 10 free tickets to Google I/O to giveaway, valued at $400 each. Simply leave a comment (with an email address - not published) to be in to win. The first 10 comments that say "I can attend, gimme the ticket" will win.

2008 Semantic Technologies Conference

Now in its fourth year, SemTech 2008 will be a great place to learn about the commercialization of Semantic Technologies.

TECH cocktail

TECH cocktail is a series of mixer events founded by Frank Gruber and Eric Olson, "open to bloggers, technology enthusiasts, entrepreneurs and other business professionals interested in the technology arena in under recognized technology communities."

The next conference will be held May 29, 2008 at Loyola University, Kasbeer Hall, 25 East Pearson, Chicago, Illinois. RWW readers can get a discount by entering "rrwrocks".

Those are just some of the excellent Web Tech conferences upcoming. If you know of others, please add to the comments.

Comment from Chowdary on 2008-04-13

2008-04-14T06:09:08Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from Ajay Pathak on 2008-04-13

2008-04-14T06:16:42Z

can i attend this web conference.

Comment from Ajay Pathak on 2008-04-13

2008-04-14T06:17:29Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from Superfluity on 2008-04-13

2008-04-14T06:21:23Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket.

Comment from Eugenio on 2008-04-13

2008-04-14T06:30:23Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket!!! :)

I've been in SFO last October, missing the Oracle open Days for a week only. I'll be in SFO Late May this time and would be VERY happy to put a feet inside Google I/O.
Thanks!

Comment from Eugenio on 2008-04-13

2008-04-14T06:38:52Z

By the way, please fix the link for the Google I/O: http://code.google.com/events/io/

Eugenio

Comment from Raymond Rouf on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T07:01:20Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from Dan Grossman on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T07:07:40Z

I'd love to go to some of these, but not if it means traveling to California. Must I really move to overpriced, overly smug CA to be part of the community? More conferences in New York and Philadelphia, please! :)

Comment from Brandon Sheats on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T07:11:42Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from Barry P. Medoff on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T07:13:06Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from Joey on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T07:18:42Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket! It's also the day after my birthday, I'd love to go :)

Comment from Ed on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T07:20:28Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from Chris on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T10:44:23Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from Michael on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T11:28:13Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from charles on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T14:05:24Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from charles on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T14:30:59Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from Cory on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T14:33:37Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from Rajiv Doshi on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T14:45:13Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from Johnyzar on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T14:52:18Z

I would love to attend!

Comment from Sheldon McGee on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T19:19:20Z

Well, I'm comment 20 but maybe 9 others forgot to include email addresses!!

I can attend, ticket me please!

Comment from vineet gupta on 2008-04-14

2008-04-14T22:47:12Z

I can attend, gimme the ticket

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2008-04-15

2008-04-15T09:58:48Z

Thanks all, I will send out the winning tickets tomorrow.

Comment from Charles Hudson on 2008-04-15

2008-04-15T17:39:14Z

Richard,

Wow, great article. I wanted to let you and your audience know about a cool conference that I'm organizing in San Francisco in June. It's called the Social Gaming Summit and it will focus on the intersection of game design and social networking. We've got a great group of speakers confirmed and more to be announced shortly.

I'd be happy to set up a discount code for RWW readers if you think it's of interest to your audience. Keep up the great work on the blog.

Comment from Richard MacManus on 2008-04-15

2008-04-15T20:56:20Z

I've just sent out the 10 winners email notifications. The winners were comments #1-13 (3 of those comments were dupes or can't make it). Thanks everyone for commenting and sorry if you didn't win this time.