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Monday, August 10th
	Marketing + Sales	Emerging Trends	Technology + Operations	Business Development
8:00 - 9:00 am	Morning Refreshments/Networking
9:00 - 9:45 am	Step by Step Ways to Increase your Sales and Decrease Costs (Hartland Ross - eBridge Marketing Solutions)	How Free Hosting Affects Budget Shared Hosting (Alex Melen - T35.com)	Leveraging Content to Differentiate Your Hosting Business (Chris Sheridan - eNom.com)	Double Your Revenue without Getting One New Customer (Sharon Koifman - Applicure/Empire Consultant )
10:00 - 10:45 am	Easily Grow Your Subscriber Base (Paul Engels - Hostopia.com)	Email Hosting Trends: Past, Present, and Future (Henry Weber - FuseMail, LLC)	Cost-Cutting Strategies for Web Hosts (Sojish Krishnan - Bobcares)	How to respond to legal threats to your business. (W. David Snead - W. David Snead P.C., Jeff K. Gordon - Andrews Kurth LLP )
11:00 - 12:00 pm	Alternatives to Search: Leveraging Local, Mobile, and Social Media Marketing (Gillian Muessig - SEOmoz)	Going Green with Web Hosting (Ashish Moondra - Avocent Corporation, Christian Dawson - Servint)	Tracking Metrics for Performance and Growth (W. David Snead - W. David Snead P.C., Frank Stiff - Cheval Capital, Inc., Alex Kazerani - Edgecast, Hari Ravichandran - Endurance International Group, Ditlev Bredahl - UK2 Group, Adam Dillaplain - Caro Hosting)	How to Structure Your Company Now to Sell Later (Larry Donahue - Deep Web Technologies)
12:00 - 1:45 pm	Luncheon/Networking
2:00 - 3:00 pm	Keynote Compete and Thrive in a Changing Hosting Industry (Serguei Beloussov - Parallels)
3:15 - 4:15 pm	Keynote Walking a Mile in Your Shoes (Iain Grant - SeaBoard Group)
4:30 - 5:30 pm	Keynote Surviving the Financial Crisis (Mike Jones - SoftLayer, Tim Holland - UK2 Group, Paul Stapleton - DH Capital)
5:30 - 7:30 pm	Networking Reception

Tuesday, August 11th
	Marketing + Sales	Emerging Trends	Technology + Operations	Business Development
7:00 - 8:00 am	Morning Refreshments/Networking
8:15 - 9:15 am	Keynote Virtualization: Enabling Hosting Providers to be Successful in the New Era of Software-plus-Services (Zane Adam - Microsoft)
9:30 - 10:30 am	Keynote Shaping the Cloud Opportunity: Vision and Growth for the Future (Zane Adam - Microsoft, Antonio Piraino - Tier1 Research, Stephen Cho - Google, Daniel Burton - Salesforce.com, Emil Sayegh - Mosso, Rackspace Cloud Division)
10:30 - 6:00 pm	Exhibit Hall Open
10:30 - 1:00 pm	Networking/Exhibits
11:30 - 1:00 pm	Luncheon/Networking
12:45 - 1:45 pm	20 Ways to Outsmart Your Competitors (Adam Eisner - Tucows)	Following Web Hosting Trends (Philbert Shih - Tier1 Research)	Accepting Credit Cards and PCI / DSS Compliance (Rick Wilson - Miva Merchant, Mike Petitti - Trustwave, Curtis R Curtis - RankSense SEO, Stacy Griggs - MaximumASP.com, Mike Auger - Pinnacle Cart, Carl Hartman - Applicure Technologies, Ltd., Jason Silverglate - Fortress ITX/DedicatedNow)	Capitalizing on Cloud Computing Opportunities (Antonio Piraino - Tier1 Research, Sandip Gupta - Netmagic Solutions, Justin Barney - 3Leaf Systems, Cameron Bahar - ParaScale)
2:00 - 2:45 pm	Get More From Email Marketing (Jeff Rohrs - ExactTarget)	It's No Longer IPv4, Meet IPv6 (Richard Jimmerson - American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN))	How to Choose A CDN Provider (Mike Flatin - BandCon)	Selling Premium Services to Cost-conscious Customers (Bob Angus - VeriSign, Inc.)
3:00 - 3:45 pm	Launch Your Product Like a Pro (William Toll - NaviSite, Sumeet Sabharwal - NaviSite)	PHP on the Windows Platform, Beyond WS (Michael Joffe - Microsoft, Shaun Hirschman - Microsoft)	Interoperability and Cloud Computing (Tony Lucas - XCalibre Communications Ltd)	Interactive Workshop: Valuing and Structuring Web Hosting Acquisitions (Hillary Stiff - Cheval Capital, Inc., Elliott Noss - Tucows)
4:00 - 4:45 pm	High Impact Email, Search and Social Media Marketing (Gillian Muessig - SEOmoz)	Stop Web-based Malware Attacks (Neil Daswani - Dasient, Inc.)	Driving Cloud Computing With Open Source Messaging (Rafael Laguna de la Vera - Open-Xchange)	Growing Your Business: Getting Upside in a Down Economy (Chris West - CDGcommerce)
5:00 - 6:00 pm	General Session Offering Cloud Services To Your Customers (Iain Grant - SeaBoard Group, Nathan Day - Softlayer, Jack Zubarev - Parallels, Steve Lesem - Mezeo, Emil Sayegh - Mosso, Rackspace Cloud Division)

Wednesday, August 12th
	Marketing + Sales	Emerging Trends	Technology + Operations	Business Development
7:00 - 8:00 am	Morning Refreshments/Networking
8:15 - 9:15 am	Keynote Data Protection Policies in US and EU (Larry Donahue - Deep Web Technologies, David Ritchie - Office of Technology and Electronic Commerce, Frank Schmiedel - Delegation of the European Commission)
9:30 - 10:30 am	Keynote A Good Domain Deserves Great SEO (Rand Fishkin - SEOmoz)
10:30 - 4:00 pm	Exhibit Hall Open
10:30 - 1:00 pm	Networking/Exhibits
11:30 - 1:00 pm	Luncheon/Networking
12:45 - 1:45 pm	Top Social Media Strategies (Guillaume Bouchard - NVI, Dennis Yu - BlitzLocal.com, Sharon Koifman - Applicure/Empire Consultant )	Exploring Advantages for Hosting Companies in the Emerging World (Arun Narayanan - InstaCarma.com, Eduardo E. Vila - HostingPanama.com)	Next Generation Email Security (Jamie de Guerre - Cloudmark, Bill Boebel - Rackspace Email & Apps Division)	Best Practices in Staffing, Training and Retention (Elya McCleave - Superb Internet, Sean Richards - cPanel)
2:00 - 2:45 pm	Affiliate Marketing / Lead Generation in an Extremely Competitive Market (Curtis R Curtis - RankSense SEO, Chris Lloyd - Web Hosting Unleashed, Nick Nelson - UK2 Group)	Operating in Next Generation SaaS 2.0 (Bob Leibholz - Intermedia)	Cloud Storage Technology Trends: Making Money in 2009 (Cameron Bahar - ParaScale)	Using the Application Packaging Standard (Rafael Laguna de la Vera - Open-Xchange, Diarmuid Daltún - 1&1, Soeren von Varchmin - Parallels, Miguel Ramos - Network Solutions, Wilfried Beeck - ePages, Eric Chen - Persony)
3:00 - 3:45 pm	Handling Scalability, Marketing and Service Level Agreements in a Web 2.0 World (W. David Snead - W. David Snead P.C., Derek Vaughan - Independent Consultant)	New Advances in Continuous Data Protection Technology (David Wartell - R1Soft)	Providing Services with APIs (Kevin Laude - Softlayer, Ilya Baimetov - Parallels)	Dissecting a Hosting Company Acquisition (Tom Millitzer - New Commerce Communications)
4:00 - 4:45 pm	Leveraging Partners to Improve Time to Market (Bill Jolly - Network Solutions)	Virtualization Solution Portfolio for Hosting Providers (Chris Samson - Microsoft)	How Security Researchers Run Web Servers (Waseem Daher - Ksplice)	Find New Revenue with Domain Names (Kellie Peterson - Name.com)
5:00 - 6:00 pm	General Session Moving to the Next Level: Professional Management for Your Career and Your Business (Dan Hackett - Aileron)
7:00 - 10:00 pm	Closing Reception

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