Where the old events go when they are long
forgotten...
Currently, engagements prior to January 1,
2003 are stored here
Date |
Venue |
Event |
Comments & Links |
| 2000 | |||
| 15-19 May | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | WWW9 | The annual massed gathering of the clans for web standards and innovation; I was the awards chair. Next year's conference is in Hong Kong. |
| 24 May | Seattle, WA | ICM | I gave a keynote on Wednesday morning |
| 24 May | Seattle, WA | barCode | On a fun evening with loads of Seattle software developers I spoke about how the web works and the shape of the future of computing. |
| 6-9 June | San Francisco, CA | JavaOne | The hub of the Java world, 25000+ delegates at the Moscone Centre in San Francisco. |
| 22 June | London | SIGS Application Development 2000 | I delivered the Thursday morning keynote and gave two interviews. The book I recommended is available from Amazon UK and Amazon US. |
| 10-14 July | Prague and Munich | Press Tour | Visited Prague and Munich and gave press interviews. If only I could read Czech I could find out what the articles say... |
| August | California | Family holiday | Saw beautiful places, met up with friends, relaxed. |
| 26-31 August | Beijing and Singapore | Press Tour | Visited Beijing for the first time (where I took the Tianenmen Square photo I use in my keynote) and Singapore. |
| 5-7 September | Boston, MA | XML World | I delivered my keynote as part of a sequence of industry keynote addresses. |
| 25 September | Brooklyn, NY | NYSIA Software Summit | I participated in a lively and enjoyable keynote panel as well as unexpectedly standing in for Kelvin Lawrence... |
| 2 October | San Francisco, CA | Baystart | I delivered a keynote address to a rather small audience. The coverage that resulted was excellent though. |
| 18-20 October | London | XMLOne | I was the conference co-chair (with Kelvin Lawrence of IBM) and delivered the opening remarks. |
| 29 October - 3 November | Keystone, CO | Colorado Software Summit | In a beautiful setting high in the Rockies, this conference remains the best place for experienced Java and XML practitioners to get up-to-date education. It has a great, expert community and I highly recommend it, if you can get a place. I delivered the 'closing' keynote. |
| 15 November | Toronto, Canada | Java and Object Technology Forum | I delivered the opening keynote address for this small but enthusiastic conference in Canada. |
| 16 November | Las Vegas, NV | COMDEX | I went to COMDEX for the first time in six years to support Snap Appliances in their announcement of the provision of Java support in the Snap Server 4100 - this will provide a Java appliance, I think it will be huge. |
| 30 November | Washington, DC | MedBiquitous Consortium Executive Conference | I delivered the opening address at this fascinating event, the launch of the new cooperative consortium for data and processing standards between medical professional societies. Thanks for the warm reception! I hope your initiative receives the support and success it deserves. |
| 5 December | San Jose, CA | Wireless Devcon | I delivered a keynote address. The J2ME toolkit I demonstrated can be downloaded from Sun's J2ME web site. |
| 2001 | |||
| 17 January | Palo Alto, CA | Standards Webcast | I participated in a live panel and webcast on standards with people from Microsoft, IBM, Red Hat and The Open Group |
| 27 January | Caribbean Sea | XML eXcursion | I delivered the keynote on board ship for this XML event. Presentation slides are available. |
| 5 February | San Francisco, CA | Sun ONE launch | I participated in the general hullabaloo in the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. |
| 7-8 February | Scottsdale, AZ | XML Enabled eBusiness | I delivered a keynote address and participated in a panel on XML and Wireless. The Keynote slides are available. |
| 14 February | Lisbon, Portugal | Customer sales conference | I delivered a keynote address at a Sun customer conference. If you were there and want my slides, please send e-mail from your company e-mail account, or contact Fons de Groot of Sun. |
| 23 February | Harlow, UK | Customer conference | I spoke at the internal XML information event organised by a Sun customer. If you were there and want my slides, please send me w-mail from your company e-mail account or contact Stacey Greenwood. |
| 26 February | Beijing, PRC | SunONE Press Conference | I explained SunONE to an educated and attentive audience of journalists in Beijing. I also got the chance to walk the Great Wall. |
| 27 February | Shanghai, PRC | Sun Solutions Fair | I delivered a keynote address about SunONE, met Sun customers and spoke at a press conference and in press group discussions. |
| 1 March | Taipei, Taiwan, ROC | SunONE briefings | I gave an internal presentation, met a customer, spoke at an iForce partner briefing and met local journalists. |
| 13-14 March | London | Wireless Java | I chaired day 1 of this conference, as well as presenting a keynote on day 1 and participating in a panel on Open Source on day 2. |
| 20-22 March | London | XMLOne | I co-chaired the conference with Kelvin Lawence of IBM |
| 27 March | Amsterdam | XML World | I delivered the opening keynote address. |
| 28 March | Santa Clara, CA | O'Reilly Enterprise Java Conference | I delivered the opening keynote address and answered a number of interesting questions before engaging in some press interviews. O'Reilly posted a load of photographs of me in action too! |
| 10 April | San Jose, CA | Web Services World | I spoke straight after Rod Smith of IBM in the opening keynote session of this new conference. The conference organizers have a recording of my talk online. |
| 1-5 May | Hong Kong | WWW10 | I was the Awards Chair for the conference.The Awards process is documented here. |
| 7 May | Taipei, Taiwan, ROC | TIM Seminar | I delivered an address concerning ebXML at the invitation of III |
| 8 May | Singapore | NYP Seminar | I delivered an afternoon of lectures as part of the Nanyang Polytechnic "XML MAsters" series. |
| 1 June | New York, NY | Executive breakfast | Had great fun speaking to NYMIA executives at breakfast. |
| 4-8 June | San Francisco, CA | JavaOne 2001 | No doubt about it, this is still the ultimate conference - nothing else has the blend of huge numbers of people, information and eduaction straight from the source and endless social stimulation. One day at JavaOne is the same as a week at any other event in terms of the sheer energy and quantity of the thing. Anyway, I spoke at several events and gave a number of media interviews - see the Clippings page. |
| 21-22 June | Detroit, MI | Motor Industry Tour | I spoke at events for each of Detroit's motor manufacturers. |
| 29 June | Brussels, Belgium | MedBiquitous Europe launch | Repeating my keynote of last November in Washington, I had the great pleasure to help the medical sharing consortium MedBiquitous launch their european initiative. A deeply charming group of people, cultured and intelligent, with a vision to transform their community through technology sharing and co-operation. |
| 29 August | Boston, MA | SD Web Services World | I delivered a keynote at the conference, which you can hear at DDJ. |
| 11 September | Erfurt, Germany | NetObjectDays | I delivered an invited speech at this annual high-point of the German object and Java world. |
| 17 October | London Heathrow | SunONE | I delivered two talks, one about SunONE and one my usual speech. |
| 18 October | Belgium | Sun Developer Day | I delivered a keynote at this large developer event - Belgium seems hot for Java. |
| 21-26 October | Keystone, CO | Colorado Software Summit | I delivering a keynote address as well as enjoying the great atmosphere of this, the 10th anniversary conference.b |
| 5-8 November | Washington, DC | O'Reilly P2P and Web Services | This event was rescheduled to November following Sept 11. I delivered a keynote address. |
| 13 November | Dublin, Ireland | CSE Conference | I delivered a keynote at this specialist software engineering conference in Ireland |
| 27 November | London, England | Wireless Java | I chaired the first day of this conference again. |
| 29 November | New Orleans, LA | JavaPro Tech Summit | I delivering a keynote and participated in a discussion on web application servers. The conference was broadly speaking a wash-out - I keynoted to 34 people. |
| 3-4 December | Stanford, CA | The Once and Future Web | I participated on the second ("Future") day of this event, the 10th birthday of America's first web site. Reviewed here. |
| 6 December | New York, NY | New York Java SIG | I spoke at their evening meeting in Greenwich Village |
| 14 December | Orlando, FL | XML 2001 | I had great fun delivering the conference round-up keynote on the final day. |
| 2002 | |||
| 9 February | Harvard Business School | Cyberposium | I was a panellist, talking on Web Services. One of the more controversial asides got reported in eWeek You can see a webcast of the panel. |
| 28 February | New York, NY | Reuters Summit | I was involved in a panel at their technology summit. |
| 1 March | Savannah, GA | Customer Internal Event | I delivered a talk on web services and XML pipelines. |
| 13 March | Dublin | XML Ireland SIG | I was the guest speaker for the evening and also participated in a panel on web services (billed as XML and databases :-). |
| 25-29 March | San Francisco, CA | JavaOne | The original and still the best. For the first time I got to speak on main stage (on a panel on Thursday) as well as loads of media work. |
| 7 May | New York, NY | President's Forum | Opening keynote and panel |
| 24 May | Web | The Politics of Standards | Online chat, it'a all there... |
| 14 June | Vancouver, BC | OMA | The Open Mobile Alliance was formed at this meeting, a uniquely broad association of all the players in the mobile device value chain. Sun is a founding sponsor and board member. |
| 25 June | New York, NY | Web Services Edge East | Keynote Panel on Web Services and Java; reported by IDG. |
| 26 June | New York, NY | PC Expo | Panel on web services |
| 27 June | New York, NY | Web Services Edge East | Keynote panel on .NET vs J2EE |
| 27 June | New York, NY | SiliconIndia | Dinner panel |
| 11 July | Singapore | XML Asia 2002 | Opening keynote explaining the web services phenomenon - presentation available |
| 26-29 August | Rome, Italy | OMA | Initial general meeting - huge attendance, high politics |
| 12 September | Asia-Pacific region | Webcast | Web services webcast - I introduced it with a discussion of the history, future and value of Web services. |
| 16-20 September | San Francisco, CA | Sun Network | First outing for Sun's customer conference, I was staffing PR activities and gave maybe 20 interviews. |
| 25 September | Mumbai, India | Nasscom Gartner Summit | I delivered an overview of Web services |
| 27 September | New Delhi, India | Customer visits | An interesting day visiting key Sun customers in Delhi |
| 2 October | Singapore | Web Services and e-Government | Government seminar |
| 4 October | Taipai, Taiwan | SunONE | Software launch |
| 7-10 October | Sydney, Australia | Evolve | Keynote and closing panel. Slides for my keynote are available (905k PDF). |
| 3-8 November | Keystone, CO | Colorado Software Summit | I delivered a keynote address called "The Third Degree" at this excellent conference. |
| 11-15 November | Waikaloa, HI | OMA Plenary | I lead Sun's delegation to OMA |
| 19 November | Las Vegas, NV | COMDEX | Keynote panel on Web services - good line-up for this one |
| 12 December | Brussels, Belgium | IST Diffuse | Web services speech - report now online |
| 2003 | |||