Spiceworks to Host Inaugural “SpiceWorld” Conference for Small Business IT Professionals
SpiceWorld 2008 First Crowdsourced IT Conference for Small Business
AUSTIN, Texas (September 30, 2008) –
Spiceworks(TM), Inc. today announced the final agenda for SpiceWorld 2008, the company’s inaugural conference focused on helping its community of small business IT professionals to better manage their computer networks. The in-person SpiceWorld 2008 get-together is touted as an alternative to IT events that usually feature “buttoned-up” experts, classroom-style seating, and exorbitant fees. The decidedly casual SpiceWorld conference will take place in Austin October 24-25 at the Alamo Drafthouse movie theater. It will feature Spiceworks users sharing practical information and advice about solving real-world IT issues that small businesses like them face each day. In addition, Spiceworks announced that Microsoft and CDW are sponsoring the event, along with media sponsors bMighty.com and RedMonk.
“Our 400,000 loyal users collaborate and work together through the Spiceworks IT Desktop application and community to help their friends and colleagues solve pressing IT issues,” said Scott Abel, founder and CEO of Spiceworks. “The SpiceWorld event will replicate the same collaborative atmosphere of small business camaraderie in a casual, in-person setting Austin-style.”
The SpiceWorld 2008 event will feature topics and areas of interest voted on by the Spiceworks community. Sessions will include in-person talks with Spiceworks company founders and product developers. It will also feature breakout sessions hosted by experts, including members of the Spiceworks user community. Sample speakers and topics include Michael Cote, analyst with RedMonk, who is moderating “Coffee Talk”; Fred Paul of TechWeb’s bMighty.com, who is moderating “Showing the Value of IT”; and Kevin McKeown of Spiceworks, who is moderating the “IT Services/Outsourcing” panel.
SpiceWorld 2008 will also host an event honoring winners of the inaugural “Spicies Awards,” a competition in which the Spiceworks community of IT small business professionals vote on their favorite technology products and services. More information on the awards can be found at http://community.spiceworks.com/group/show/299.
Attendance at the inaugural SpiceWorld event is limited to 200 Spiceworks users and is selling out quickly with users from the U.S., Canada & Europe already registered.
Designed for small and medium organizations with up to 250 employees, the free Spiceworks IT Desktop is an IT management application used by 400,000 small business IT professionals in 194 countries around the world to automatically inventory, monitor, troubleshoot, report on and run a help desk for their IT networks. It is the first business application to embed crowdsourcing and community collaboration features directly into an IT professional’s daily workflow. The free Spiceworks application is supported by displaying relevant, non-intrusive ads on topics that are useful to IT professionals.
For more information on the SpiceWorld 2008 conference, visit http://www.spiceworld2008.com/.
About Spiceworks
Founded by network and systems management software pioneers, Spiceworks develops the first free collaborative IT management application that incorporates crowdsourcing to help over 400,000 small businesses simplify everything IT. Spiceworks makes it easy for IT pros to manage their networks, collaborate to solve technology problems, and find the best practices, products and services they need day-to-day. Spiceworks is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas with funding from Austin Ventures and Shasta Ventures. For more information visit www.spiceworks.com.
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