China Focus 2006 Speaker Information

Benefits

Benefit in the following ways as a speaker at LISA’s China Focus 2006 ...

Present your ideas to a targeted audience of executive, business and technical decisionmakers in charge of implementing globalization solutions for their company or their clients. LISA Members and invited guests represent the most active companies in the global information management sector today. They include the leading users and developers of automated language workflow solutions and multilingual communications technologies.

Specific benefits include:

• Recognition for you and your company on the LISA web site
• Your professional and company profiles featured on all China Focus 2006 pages
• Your presentation published and distributed to all China Focus 2006 Participants and LISA Corporate Members
• Speaker dinner and introductions to other key industry players
• Company literature for distribution to China Focus 2006 Participants on the Registration Information Table
• Participation in the entire event at a minimal fee
• A one-year premium subscription to the Globalization Insider, LISA’s monthly publication

Location

Sofitel Hyland Shanghai
505 Nanjing Road East
200001
Shanghai
China
Tel: (+86)21/63515888
Fax: (+86)21/63517466

Important Deadlines

Jan. 27, 2006	Deadline: Topic Description	Submit your final topic description by filling out the speaker proposal form.
Mar. 15, 2006	Deadline: Presentations	As soon as the Program Committee confirms your topic, send your final presentation slides (Microsoft Powerpoint or OpenOffice Impress format) to presentations@lisa.org or events@lisa.org, for inclusion in the Program Booklet.
Feb. 20, 2006	Deadline: Speaker and Company Profiles, Photo	Send your personal and company profiles, along with your photo, to events@lisa.org for posting on our web site and inclusion in the printed agenda and final program.

Presentation Guidelines

Presentation slides should focus on the agreed topic and be more graphically than textually oriented.

Except when otherwise noted, you are limited to ONE introductory slide about your company or department organization (Case Study or Operations Review excluded). Absolutely no "selling" of products or services is permitted.

All presentations submitted for LISA Events are copyright the author and LISA. By submitting your presentation, you agree to allow LISA to make your presentation available from the LISA web site for download to the LISA membership and to the Event participants.

You are encouraged to place any published materials about your organization and its products/services on the Registration Information Table during the Event. Please bring at least 100 copies.

Speaker Testing & Briefing Meetings

• The speaker testing session & speaker buffet will follow the Welcome Cocktail reception from 19:30 - 21:00 on Tuesday, April 18, 2006.
• Please confirm your attendance via return mail to events@lisa.org. We would like you to attend this session as this gives all speakers and session moderators a chance to meet and also provides time to review introductions, presentations, panel strategies and testing all presentations on the AV equipment.
• Please bring a copy of your final presentation to the event on either a diskette, CD, USB Flash Drive or MemoryStick.
  MURPHY's LAW: If possible, please bring your portable computer as back-up to our main system.
• Your presentation will be made available on the LISA Web-site for members and all attendees. All rights are shared between the author and the LISA.

Audio Visual Support

Plenary Sessions:

• An LCD Projector for PC and Macintosh portables
• A portable running Windows
• Microphones and table microphones

All other workgroup sessions:

• An LCD Projector for PC and Macintosh portables

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please specify any special requirements by contacting events@lisa.org.

Audience Profile

China Focus 2006 attendees include Corporate Executives, International Managers, Enterprise Globalization Strategists, Company Directors, Knowledge Managers, Global Web Development Specialists, Project Managers, Localization Production Managers and Media Representatives seeking to learn more about how standards in technology and business processes are providing unprecedented ROI and strategic advantages in today's China.

The participants will be decisionmakers and key suppliers, responsible for global information management systems for software publishing companies, telecom and internet service providers, finance, government trade groups, automotive, chemical, pharmaceutical, management consulting, education, localization service companies and internationalization consulting groups.

Speaker Policy

LISA is a member-driven, non-profit association funded by its constituency and Event revenues. All commercial company representatives are asked to pay an event attendance fee. Speakers are offered a substantial discount due to their work and support of the event. In order for LISA to fulfill its mandate, we do make exceptions to this policy for non-profit and educational institutions, as well as for smaller organizations whose policies may not otherwise permit them to contribute.

Please contact events@lisa.org with any questions.