My friend Emanuele Quintarelli organized an amazing International Forum on Enterprise2.0, June 25th 2008, in Varese. Participation is free but you have to register.
The programme looks very interesting and every speech will be available both in English and in Italian.

Enterprise 2.0 has been widely recognized as a radical shift in the way organizations work. A mean for improving performance, reducing costs, moving towards an informal way of learning, supporting innovation and building engagement and motivation.
Collaborative, informal, emerging models – wikis, blogs, social networks, tagging, prediction markets – have been disseminating passion and a new mindset all over the world, opening up unexpected sources of competitive advantage. Innovation breaks down old paradigms and marks a path of change from: top-down to distributed approaches, from closed to open and interconnected models, from rigid control to flexibility and adaptivity, from a hierarchical to a starfish-like organization.

Programme

Università dell’Insubria
June 25th 2008
Aula Magna – Via Ravasi, 2
Varese (Italy)

Every speech will be available both in english and in italian
9.00 – 9.45 Registration
9.45 – 10.00 Welcome Reception
Renzo Dionigi (Rector University of Insubria)
An Overview on Enteprise 2.0 and its Strategical Value for Companies
10.00 – 10.30 Web 2.0 comes to an enterprise near you
Rosario Sica, Emanuele Quintarelli
10.30 – 11.00 It’s not technology, stupid! Enterprise 2.0 as an organizational and strategic revolution
(TBD)
Enterprise 2.0: Tools and International Success Stories
11.00 – 11.30 Building web communities that add value
David Terrar (D2C and ITBrix LLC)
11.30 – 12.00 Social network analysis: From informal conversations to tangible assets
Laurence Lock Lee (Optmice)
12.00 – 12.30 Cultivating wikis to change the enterprise and improve the bottom line
Stewart Mader (Atlassian)
12.30 – 13.30 Business Lunch & Networking
13.30 – 14.00 Social tagging to unlock the collective intelligence
Thomas Vander Wal (InfoCloud Solutions)
14.00 – 14.30 TamTamy: our reply to Enterprise 2.0 needs
Emanuela Spreafico (Reply)
14.30 – 15.00 Thinking out of the inbox: More Collaboration through less e-mail
Luis Suarez (IBM)
15.00 – 15.30 Consumerizing the Enterprise
Ran Shribman (Worklight)
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break & Networking
Italian Cases
16.00 – 16.30 Innovation through Collaboration: Social Networking for Sales
Diego Gianetti (BTicino)
16.30 – 17.00 Empowering the Middle Management Leveraging Communities of Practice
Direzione Personale (Banca Popolare di Vicenza)
Enterprise 2.0 at Work
17.00 – 18.00 How to bring Enterprise 2.0 to your company
Emanuele Scotti (Open Knowledge), Roberto Battaglia (Intesa Sanpaolo), Roberto Mairano (Future Drive)
18.00 – 18.15 Presentation of the Course in Enterprise 2.0
Gaetano Aurelio Lanzarone (DICOM)
18.30 End of the Conference