OASIS OPEN STANDARDS CONFERENCE - WED 25 OCT-FRI 27 OCT 2006

September has been the busiest month for Government tenders for the last 3 years

This September has also seen the Information Technology Industry working together to raise 
awareness of the tremendous benefits that Electronic Information Technologies [EIT] can provide
businesses and consumers.

IDC has organised 2 Conferences and OASIS has arranged an Open Standards conference where the 
OIC is outlining how TIMS is an XLM Standard for Government Tenders.

The two IDC one-day Conferences are:

1	"The Mobile Enterprise" with speakers from Panasonic, Palm, Avaya, Optus, Blackberry, 
	Hutchison and Lucent Technologies

	This was a stimulating event with case studies illustrating the impact of email,
	standard forms, workflow and mobile technologies to provide a wide range of enhanced
	customer services with greatly reduce input errors and communication costs

2	"The Power of Service Oriented Architecture [SOA]" on Tue 10 Oct with speakers from 
	Intel, IBM, Citrix, Foundry Networks, Avaya, Egenera and VMware looks to be an equally
	important experience and information forum

The OASIS Conference is a scintillating 3-day conference with 24 speakers on how XML, Open 
Systems and Service Oriented Architecture CAN provide the long anticipated Returns of 
Investment for IT development.

The OIC is pleased to advise that it has negotiated special fees for members and Local 
Government Agencies to assist them understand the benefits of XML and Open Standards
for the Economic Development Strategies for their rate-payers

The OIC early bird registration cut-off date is 17:00 Fri 29 Sep 2006

EVENT Conference TOPIC Open Standards
DATE Wed 25 Oct 2006 TIME 08:30 - 17:00
VENUE Avillion Hotel
389 George Street
SYDNEY 2000
TRANSPORT Train: Town Hall
Bus: Town Hall
Car: Car Park

Registration for Conference - Early Bird by 17:00 Fri 29 Sep 2006

AGENDA:

Conference
Duration
Start Date
Finish Date
Tutorials
1 day
Wed 25 Oct 2006
$ 400
Conference
2 days
Thu 26 Oct 2006
Fri 27 Oct 2006