Tech Tidbits Daily Podcast for December 16, 2005

Today's podcast is all about conferences ... these are listed in order of occurrence.  So the first ones are really soon, and the ones towards the end are in the future ... but don't procrastinate on signing up if they sound interesting ....

• Guy Kawasaki @ Garage Technology Ventures will be having an online seminar to discuss his book The Art of the Start (highly recommended and not just because I got mentioned in the forward) on January 4th, 2006 at 10 am Pacific.
• Consumer Electronics Show 2006 will be in Las Vegas, NV from January 5-8, 2006.
• If you are coming to AFCEA West 2006 in San Diego, you might want to check out a course called "Military Satellite Communications in a Net-Centric Environment" that is running January 10-12, 2005.
• SANS is offering their Firewalls, Perimeter Protection and VPNs course in Mission Viejo, CA in the SANS Mentor format beginning on Wednesday, January 18, 2006.
• VoIP 2.0 & the Internet Telephony Conf. & Expo will be Jan. 24-27, 2006 in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
• Medical Design and Manufacturing West 2006 will be in Anaheim, CA from Jan. 30 through Feb. 2, 2006.
• Supporting, Troubleshooting, and Optimizing Windows Server 2003 by CompuMaster will be in San Diego, CA from Feb. 2-3, 2006.
• Software Security Summit will be held in San Diego, CA from Feb. 6-8, 2006.
• DCI's Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing Conference will be held Feb. 7-9, 2006 in Chicago, IL.
• TDWI World Conference on Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing will be held in Las Vegas, NV from Feb. 19-24, 2006.
• The Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo 2006 will be February 27 - March 2, 2006 in New York City.
• Fred Pryor Seminars' "How To Supervise People" will be in select locations in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah during the month of March 2006.
• O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference or ETECH will be in San Diego, CA from March 6-9, 2006.
• FOSE 2006 will be at the Washington Convention Center in Washington DC from Mar. 7-9, 2006. The focus will be on software, hardware, security, wireless, mobile, and networking technologies.
• Software Developer West 2006  will be held Mar. 13-17, 2006 in Santa Clara, CA.
• The Inteq Groups' Business Systems Analysis Training will be in the Washington, DC area from March 21-30th, 2006.
• DCI's Portals, Collaboration, & Content Management Conference will be starting on April 4, 2006 in San Diego, CA.
• IDC's IT Forum & Expo "Enabling Business Transformation: From Vision To Reality" will be at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA from Jun. 14-15, 2006 and will be held in-conjunction with CIO Summit 2006.

Announcements:

• Listen to the podcast for Thursday, Dec. 8, 2005 for details on a special contest from TomBihn.com for listeners of TechNewsRadio.com.
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• The next GotoMeeting & TechPocasts.com event is being planned for January 2006.