[nfais-l] Discounts Ending for the NFAIS Annual Conference

[Bonnie Lawlor]

DISCOUNTED REGISTRATIONS ENDING SOON FOR THE 2014 NFAIS ANNUAL CONFERENCE 


 

Early-bird discounted registrations will end this coming Friday, January 10,
2014 for the 2014 NFAIS Annual Conference, Giving Voice to Content:
Re-envisioning the Business of Information. Until then savings of up to $200
off the full registration fee are available and NFAIS members registering
three or more staff at the same time receive even greater savings (for
details, see http://nfais.org/event?eventID=530. The Conference will take
place February 23 - 25, 2014 at the historic Hyatt at the Bellevue
<http://philadelphia.bellevue.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/index.jsp>  in
Philadelphia, PA.

 

Continuing this year: 

 

*         50% discounts for staff of member organizations that are in the
early stages of their career (5 years or less). Call for details. 

*         38% discount on daily rates for all government employees

*         20% discount on full/daily rates for first time non-member
attendees

*         Use of audience-response devices throughout the conference to
capture audience opinions - all 

registrants will have access to the results

 

This three-day meeting will take a look a new information mindset that is
emerging. The ability to unearth or create new layers of knowledge using big
data techniques such as data mining, linking, analytics, and metrics is
challenging content providers and librarians to look at their information
from a new perspective, considering its value in terms of all the possible
ways it can be deployed in the future, not merely how it is used in the
present.  This new mindset provides an opportunity to ensure their relevance
in a highly-competitive digital information world by re-envisioning their
content and developing the policies, practices, and business models that
will facilitate - not inhibit - its use.

 

Highlights Include: (program details can be accessed at:
http://nfais.org/event?eventID=537)

 

*         A thought-provoking keynote by Hilary Mason, Data Scientist in
Residence at Accel and Scientist Emeritus at bitly, on the application of
big data techniques to extract new insights or create new forms of value
that can potentially change information markets and the organizations that
serve them.

 

*         A look at "datafication," the generation of data and visualization
from social and environmental processes, data that can then be quantified
and measured to create new understanding or the world around us.

 

*         John Blossom's view of the Signal Economy, a global shift in how
value is created in all markets across manufacturing, media, marketing and
services. 

 

*	A look at how  innovative publishers such as The New York Times,
OCLC, and Elsevier are applying data mining, linking, analytics, and metrics
to create smart content.

 

*	New technologies for collecting, enhancing, and managing
information, including crowd-sourcing and the use of mobile devices for data
collection.

 

*         A discussion of the issues that content providers and librarians
must address as the new information mindset takes hold, issues such as the
re-use and sharing of content, privacy, content ownership, attribution, and
others which if they are to be resolved require moving beyond the comfort
zone of current practices, policies, biases, and business mindsets.   

 

*         A closing keynote by Kerrie Holley, IBM Fellow and Chief
Technology Officer, IBM SOA Center of Excellence, on the impact of "SMAC" -
social, mobile, analytics, and cloud - that will combine with cognitive
systems to have a major impact on 21st-century business, government, and
society in general.

 

To register or obtain more information contact: Jill O'Neill, NFAIS Director
of Communication and Planning (jilloneill at nfais.org
<mailto:jilloneill at nfais.org>  or 215-893-1561) or visit the NFAIS Web site
at: http://nfais.org/. National Federation of Advanced Information Services
(NFAIS), 1518 Walnut Street, Suite 1004, Philadelphia, PA 19102-3403. 

 

NFAIS:  Serving the Global Information Community

 

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