Overview

This session will be targeted toward the utilization of Cloud Computing infrastructures with a specific emphasis on integration amongst applications.

Will discuss
1. Introduction and trends in Cloud Computing and evolution
2. Best practices in connecting the cloud
3. Challenges faced

Rejected titles of this session include:

Why you should be as obsessed about wikis as Rex is
How to make lots of money with wikis
Wikis are way more cool than Twitter
Wikis & SEO: Your secret map to world domination

There's way, way more to wikis than you think. I promise.

After spending hundreds of hours developing one of largest business-oriented wikis around, SmallBusiness.com, I can't contain my obsession any more.

I feel this maddening need to show folks:

*Why wikis could be the best model for your corporate website.

Adobe has just released it's latest version of the ColdFusion web application server. By far the most powerful and feature rich release to date, Adobe has continued the mantra of "Making the Hard Things Easy" by enhancing the platform for even greater integration. This session will show, with code examples, how a developer can simply interact with MS Office and OpenOffice documents, interact with MS Exchange and SharPoint, leverage the power of the Hibernate ORM, build and consume PDFs, and much more, all with just a few lines of script.

Gain access to the Director of Technical Support at Sitemason, a proprietary content management system (CMS) developed in Nashville.

Based on working daily with website managers from Nashville and beyond, Nate Baker will share some of the most common and global issues people have with updating their website or blog.

-Why does it always look different after you publish?
-How do you get a pdf online?
-Why do my special characters not work?
-How do you create a link to an email?

Social Media can be your best friend or your worst nightmare! Ever changing, evolving, and always growing. How do you create a comprehensive and cohesive strategy?
This session will break down the hype, simplify the web2.0 babble, and show you exactly how to use social media to build a list of rabid fans, create a huge groundswell, and position yourself as the obvious expert in your field or niche.

You will also learn how to locate and engage key influencers in the social media world to help spread the word for you.

We all want to be more agile. We want a process that helps us deliver awesome code, but need to drag the rest of IT and the business along with us. How do you stop the nightmare of yesteryear, and sneak agile into your shop, right under the noses of the waterfall guardian trolls? We have five ways to be more agile without officially changing your process, or getting fired.

The generation of young people growing up in rural Tennessee today are experiencing a new kind of digital divide - an economic one. Many of their rural communities have been caught by tremendous forces of change fostered by the Internet and globalization and have collapsed economically. It is estimated that 90+% of rural students obtaining a post-secondary education do not return home to their communities due to lack of economic opportunity.

UPDATE: This session was originally envisioned as a panel discussion. That has since changed. See below.
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What we have traditionally defined as radio is rapidly changing. No longer is the equation just studio to transmitter to FM tuner. "Radio" is accessible on the internet and your mobile phone (Pandora, Slacker, Last.FM, Spotify et al). And not only that, but in this new model, you as the consumer have near total control.

With the challenges in the market today, it is imperative that you set yourself apart and above your competition. Did you know that 90% of your direct competitors are afraid to speak in public?

Hidden within this crazy statistic is an enormous opportunity for you to rise to the top 10% of professionals in your field, establish yourself as an expert, and to generate a ton of new prospects and clients through public speaking.

A brief overview of the importance of web security.

It's getting a lot easier to create web-based applications. Many of the frameworks that serve as a foundation for new projects contain security measures, but are you using them? What are the important things to check for? How do you balance the time it takes to make sure an application is really secure and the project's budget?

This talk will go over application-layer security. Briefly:

• XSS: Cross-site scripting - what is it, and why is it important?