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Legacy Content Migration

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This conference examines ways in which organisations looking to migrate legacy content can do so as seamlessly as possible. The event demonstrates how to plan, design, implement, measure and maintain your content effectively when you migrate it from an existing system to another.

Organizer: Ark Group

Dates: 28 February - 2 March 2005

Anyone who has ever moved from one legacy system to another will say that content migration is one of the biggest challenges they've come across. This event examines ways in which organisations looking to migrate legacy content can do so as seamlessly as possible. The conference demonstrates how to plan, design, implement, measure and maintain your content effectively when you migrate it from an existing system to another.

Price:
Two-day conference: £1,195
Two-day Conference & workshop day: £1,840
(Early birds discount: until 21st January 10% discount on both rates)

For more information please email events@ark-group.com or Tel: +44 (0)208 785 2700

Conference Description:

If you're about to start moving content from one electronic environment to another, you need to know what time bombs await you on your content portability journey. Ark Group’s ‘Legacy content migration’ conference will provide you with a sound blueprint for migrating your content as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Each speaker has recently completed a migration project and will speak candidly about their content portability experiences, both positive and negative, so that you can pre-empt and overcome the variety of obstacles you will undoubtedly encounter. Featuring experienced practitioners from throughout Europe and the US and offering public sector, private sector and voluntary perspectives, this annual event represents an excellent networking opportunity.

Highlights include:

· Aligning your new electronic environment to your business needs; Heineken International

· Recruiting sponsors and champions for your project to ensure maximum buy-in; British Standards Institution

· Applying accessibility standards to the design of electronic content; RNIB

· Running a project in a dynamic organisation with constantly changing content; NHS Modernisation Agency

· Taking advantage of a shared taxonomy structure to make tagging and extraction rules easier; Schroders

· Walt Disney Internet Group speaking about the evolution of mobile content and how it will impact on the future of your business

· BT Wholesale providing a “warts and all” case study of its content migration project

WORKSHOP THEMES (2nd March 2005)

Theme 1:
Taking the people and processes with you
Led by: Soozy Gilbert, Director, IntraCommunicate

Theme 2:
Practical approaches to implementing successful legacy content migration
Led by: Dave Addey, Director, Agant

With time set aside for peer-to-peer networking and informal discussion, this is the definitive place for Content Managers, Corporate Communicators, Heads of Online and electronic Media, e-Business professionals, Communication Channels Directors and Web, Intranet and Portal Managers to gather and thrash out their content migration challenges.

Location

Hilton Kensington, London