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For the first time, the conference will be held outside Norway. On June 25th and June 26th, 300 people from more than 30 countries will celebrate in Paris, only a few meters away from the Champes Elysées. There are three different tracks to provide relevant content for a mixed audience. The tracks focus on:

- eZ technology, search technology and PHP related subjects.- Web Content Management, where analysts, consul-tants and partners share their thoughts on new trends in their fields.- Digital Media, where specialists from key internation-al media groups analyse the complex situation of online media companies.

The eZ Conference also provides a unique opportunity to meet the eZ Crew, to actively take part in discussions about future versions of eZ Publish and to get informed about eZ’s strategy as an Open Source Content Man-agement vendor. Developers also have the chance to get eZ Publish certified at the conference.

During the traditional eZ Awards ceremony special members of the eZ ecosystem will be rewarded for their participation as developers, article and blog authors. We will also award partners and customers for their contribution and support.

Register online for this unique conference and celebrate Web Content Management and Digital Media technology together with eZ Systems and the community.

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Welcome to eZ Conference & Awards 2009 in June

The annual eZ Conference and Awards is the largest Open Source Content Management event in Eu-rope. 2009 marks the 7th annual eZ Conference & Awards, but also the 10th Anniversary of eZ Systems as a company. This Web Content Management & Digital Media Conference celebrates this special anni-versary, and you are welcome to find interesting sessions from the 3 tracks listed below:

Whether you are a member of the eZ Ecosystem, do business with free and/or open software,are involved in the telecom market or just want to meet some of the world’s leading companies dealing with Open Source Software – eZ Conference has the best speakers, the most informed attendees and a wealth of useful information in these areas.

1. Developer & Community track

2. Web Content Management track

3. Digital Media track

Keynote speakers

Aleksander Farstad CEO at eZ Systems Talk description: 10 years of Open Source Content Management Track: KeynoteTime: Friday 09:00 am

James Hewes Head of International Development at BBC Magazines Talk description: Organizing editorial teams for success in digital mediaTrack: KeynoteTime: Friday 02:00 pm

Steve Powers Senior Analyst at Forrester Talk description: Content Management: Yesterday, Today, and TomorrowTrack: KeynoteTime: Thursday 09:00 am

Pierre Spilleboudt CEO at Audaxis Talk description: Audaxis, web enabling customers’ businessesTrack: KeynoteTime: Thursday 02:00 pm

Global Sponsor


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Felipe Jaramillo CEO at Aplyca Talk description: Web Testing and Optimization for ConversionTrack: Web Content ManagementTime: Thursday 10:00 am

Web content management speakers

Jean-François Teissier Marketing Director at Prosodie Talk description: eZ outsourcing with ProsodieTrack: Web Content ManagementTime: Thursday 11:20 am

Jon Henry IT Section Manager from Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks Talk description: Evolution of Web Content Management solutions at the State of Kansas with eZ PublishTrack: Web Content ManagementTime: Thursday 03:00 pm

Christian Lundvang CEO & Co-founder NX Consulting Talk description: CMIS interface to eZ PublishTrack: Web Content ManagementTime: Thursday 10:40 am

WCM sponsor

Frank Dege (together with Piotr Karas from Mediaself) CEO at Silver SolutionsTalk description: Staging system for eZ PublishTrack: Web Content ManagementTime: Thursday 03:40 pm

Tony White Lead Analyst, Web Content Management at the Gilbane Group Talk description: Evolution of Web Content Management, trends and moreTrack: Web Content ManagementTime: Friday 10:00 am

Bernard de Groot CIO at Sanoma Learning & Literature Talk description: The latest release of the Sanoma Sharing PlatformTrack: Web Content ManagementTime: Friday 11:20 am

Björn Dieding CEO at Xrow Gmbh Talk description: Extend e-commerce possibilities in eZ PublishTrack: Web Content ManagementTime: Thursday 04:20 pm

Christophe Condomines Director of Microblau Software Talk description: Managing content at the Catalan Socialist PartyTrack: Web Content ManagementTime: Friday 10:40 am


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Angela Broer Director Business & Strategy at G+J New Media VenturesTalk description: G+J international digital strategyTrack: Digital MediaTime: Thursday 11:20 am

Digital media speakers

Julien Pauthier (together with Damien Pitard) International Coordinator at Prisma Presse Talk description: Using eZ Publish at Prisma Presse, feedback after 3 yearsTrack: Digital MediaTime: Thursday 03:00 pm

Victor F. Sanchez Director of Web Solutions at Hachette Filipacchi MediaTalk description: eZ Publish, eZ Flow and eZ Find at Woman’s DayTrack: Digital MediaTime: Thursday 10:00 am

Per Buer Varnish Product Manager at Redpill Linpro Talk description: High loaded and high performance sites with VarnishTrack: Digital MediaTime: Thursday 10:40 am

Digital Media Sponsor

Felix Laate Head of Schibsted Dinmat Talk description: Establishing a modern media companyTrack: Digital MediaTime: Thursday 03:40 pm

Thomas Schieke Chairman at YMC AG Talk description: News publication - the devil is in the details / Case study Swiss Television Track: Digital MediaTime: Friday 10:00 am

Graham Tillotson COO at Duo Consulting Talk description: The Christian Science Monitor: Moving from Print to 100% Web strategy at a US national newspaperTrack: Digital MediaTime: Friday 10:40 am

Johnny Thøgersen Vice President Business Development WoodWing Software Talk description: Moving from print-oriented toward brand-oriented thinkingTrack: Digital MediaTime: Friday 11:20 am

Digital Media Expert Panel Victor F. Sanchez Director of Web Solutions at Hachette Filipacchi Media, Angela Broer Director Business & Strategy at G+J New Media Ventures, Espen Sundve at Schibsted, Bård Farstad CTO at eZ Systems Track: Digital MediaTime: Thursday 04:20 pm


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Derick Rethans Project Manager eZ Components Talk description: eZ Components PerspectivesTrack: CommunityTime: Thursday 10:40 am

Paul Borgermans Head of eZ LabsTalk description: eZ Publish in a changing CMS landscapeTrack: CommunityTime: Thursday 10:00 am

Nicolas Pastorino Consultant & trainer at eZ Systems Talk description: eZ Find and eZ Flow, enterprise-grade duoTrack: CommunityTime: Thursday 03:40 pm

Some of the community speakers

Christophe Ballihaut General Director at Alterway Talk description: eZ Publish architecture for the media marketTrack: CommunityTime: Friday 10:00 am

Community Sponsor

eZ AwardseZ Awards is an event hosted by eZ Systems as part of the eZ Conference. On the evening of Thursday 25th at 08:30 pm, special recognition will be given to key people within the eZ Ecosystem and the Open Source community as a whole. eZ Awards nominees and recipients have contributed to Open Source and the eZ Ecosystem in an exceptional way.

Giving to the community consists not only of code, bug fixes and expertise in technical matters, but it also includes being actively engaged in daily business and promoting Open Source projects.

Each winner receives a special statuette, which is a small appreciation for the contributions to the eZ Ecosystem.

The evening ends with an anniversary party at Le Queenie at 10:00 pm. Dress code: Business

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Program Thursday 25th of June 2009

Track Community & Developer track Web Content Management track Digital Media trackRoom Mezzanine Paris Auditorium

09:00 - 09:50 am Keynote: Content Management: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

by Stephen Powers, Forrester

09:50 - 10:00 am Break

10:00 - 10:30 am eZ Publish in a changing CMS landscapeby Paul Borgermans, eZ Systems

Web testing and Optimization for conversion by Felipe Jaramillo, Aplyca

eZ Publish, eZ Flow and eZ Find at Woman’s Dayby Victor F. Sanchez, Hachette Filipacchi Media

10:30 - 10:40 am Break

10:40 - 11:10 am eZ Components Perspectivesby Derick Rethans, eZ Systems

CMIS interface to eZ Publishby Christian Lundvang, NXC

High loaded and high performance sites with Varnish by Per Buer, Redpill Linpro

11:10 - 11:20 am Break

11:20 - 12:00 pm The State of Quality Assurance Tools for PHPby Sebastian Bergman, eZ Systems

eZ outsourcing with Prosodieby Jean-François Teissier, Prosodie

G+J international digital strategy by Angela Broer, G+J International

12:00 - 02:00 pm Break

02:00 - 02:50 pm Keynote:Audaxis, web enabling customers’ businesses

by Pierre Spilleboudt, CEO Audaxis

02:50 - 03:00 pm Break

03:00 - 03:30 pm Deployment of a multi-site platformby Gilles Guirand, Kaliop

Evolution of Web Content Management solutions at the State of Kansas with eZ Publish

by Jon Henry, State of Kansas

Using eZ Publish for Prisma Presse’s largest sites. Feedback after 3 years

by Julien Pauthier & Damien Pitard, Prisma Presse

03:30 - 03:40 pm Break

03:40 - 04:10 pm eZ Find and eZ Flow, enterprise-grade duoby Nicolas Pastorino, eZ Systems

Staging system for eZ Publish by Frank Dege, Silver Solutions and Piotr Karas, Mediaself

Establishing a modern media company by Felix Laate, Schibsted Dinmat

04:10 - 04:20 pm Break

04:20 - 05:00 pm Customizing the editor experience with eZ Online Editor 5.0 by André Rømcke, eZ Systems

Extend e-commerce possibilities in eZ Publishby Björn Dieding, Xrow Gmbh

Digital Media Expert Panel with Victor F. Sanchez, Angela Broer, Espen Sundve, Bård Farstad

05:00 pm Closing

07:30 - 08:30 pm Cocktail Reception

08:30 - 10:00 pm eZ Awards

10:00 - 01:00 am eZ 10th Anniversary Party at Le Queenie

Program Friday 26th of June 2009

Track Community & Developer track Web Content Management track Digital Media trackRoom Mezzanine Paris Auditorium

09:00 - 09:50 am Keynote: 10 years of Enterprise Open Source Content Management

by Aleksander Farstad, CEO eZ Systems

09:50 - 10:00 am Break

10:00 - 10:30 am eZ Publish architecture for the media marketby Christophe Ballihaut , Alterway

The evolution of Web Content Management - Trends and more, by Tony White, Gilbane Group

News publication - the devil is in the details / Case study Swiss Television by Thomas Schieke, YMC AG

10:30 - 10:40 am Break

10:40 - 11:10 am eZ Teamroomby Paul Forsyth, eZ Systems

Managing content at the Catalan Socialist Partyby Christophe Condomines, Microblau

The Christian Science Monitor : Moving from Print to 100% Web strategy at a US national newspaper

by Graham Tillotson, Duo Consulting

11:10 - 11:20 am Break

11:20 - 12:00 pm eZ Publish lifecycle and community contributionsby Paul Borgermans & Roland Benedetti, eZ Systems

The latest release of the Sanoma Sharing Platformby Bernard de Groot, Sanoma Learning & Literature

Moving from print-oriented toward brand-oriented thinking by Johnny Thøgersen, Woodwing

12:00 - 02:00 pm Break

02:00 - 02:50 pm Keynote : Organizing print and digital editorial teams at BBC

by James Hewes, BBC

03:00 - 05:00 pm Barcamp eZ Media User Group Certification


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Sponsors

Global Sponsor eZ Awards Sponsor

WCM Sponsor Community Sponsor Digital Media Sponsor Partner Day Sponsor

Audaxis is an industry–oriented IT services organization which specializes in open source enterprise applications (CMS, web portals, ERP, BI). It serves +300 customers operating in Media, Industry, NGO & Public sector.

In collaboration with Paris Region

YMC is focused on corporate multi-site Enterprise CMS and Social Media Applications. Based on Open Source solutions, YMC offers consulting, software development, maintenance and technical support services.

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Energy Saving Trust explains why they use Oracle database and eZ PublisheZ Publish has always been known as an open and relevant platform when it comes to integration. eZ Publish 4.1 supports Oracle natively and in November 2008, EST completed a major upgrade of its Web site, leveraging eZ Publish with Oracle Database infrastructure.

eZ Publish has always been known as an open and relevant platform when it comes to integration. eZ Publish 4.1 supports Oracle natively and in November 2008, EST completed a major upgrade of its Web site, leveraging eZ Publish with Oracle Database infrastructure.

IT Manager Adam Spindler says: “We’re trying to leverage off-the-shelf applications when-ever possible and as a result, our application development efforts are focused more on integra-tion and being able to extend applications rather than writing them from scratch.”

Spindler continues: “We use PHP to communicate from eZ Publish to our CRM system, by generating XML and then receiving XML back, processing it, and putting it all in,” says Spin-dler. “Everything’s PHP, in fact, strong support for PHP was a key reason that the Energy Saving Trust chose eZ Publish. We liked the idea of PHP beforehand, but it was really the fact that eZ Publish was written in PHP that was the deciding factor,” says Spindler. “Previously we had to have a separate service running to handle our Web requests and basically used it to pass off the requests from Apache to this other service and process it there. But now with the PHP-based solution, it just runs as a plug-in, so it’s far more robust and efficient than before.”

This native support of Oracle for Enterprise grade customers, as well as of other Sun products as Mysql or Open Office bring interesting opportunities for companies with an Oracle based in-frastructure willing to adopt eZ Publish to optimize their Web Content Management strategy.

Further details on www.oracle.com

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The 451 Group analyzes eZ’s WCM strategy and positioningeZ Systems has been analyzed by the 451 group which is a technology industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT in-novation. The company’s ‘analysts provide critical and timely emerging-technology insight to clients at vendor, investor, services and end-user organizations – insight that aids both strategic and tactical decision making for competitive advantage.

The details in the report says: “Though it only opened its office in Chicago in late 2008, eZ Systems appears to have hit the ground running, in part because of its open source model, which is based primarily on selling support subscriptions; it does not have a dual license or any proprietary code extensions that it sells.

So since all of the code is freely available, the company already has a number of fairly large deployments (one with a state government) that it is now beginning to support commercially.

eZ Systems also does more than three-quarters of its sales via partners and already has about a dozen partners in the US selling implementation services for eZ Publish. The new general manager for North America, Todd McElroy, will be tasked with expanding these relationships, which is something he should know how to do since he formerly ran channels and alliances for RedDot and then Open Text’s WCM group”.

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eZ Conference Community sponsor interviewWe have had a talk with Thierry Pinar, Vice President of sales for Alter Way Group about being eZ Conference Community sponsor 2009.

eZ: Please introduce yourself and your company

Hello, my name is Thierry Pinar, I am Vice President of sales for Alter Way Group. Alter Way is a leading integrator in the Open Source Market, providing services such as consulting, integration, hosting and training: ETL, BI, ECM, DMS, infrastructure, databases, collaborative solutions, groupware and specific developments. 4 components : Alter Way Consulting, Alter Way Solu-tions, Alter Way Hosting, Alter Way Formation. Alter Way counts more than 200 customers in medium and large accounts.

eZ: What is your relation to eZ Systems?

TP: In the beginning, it was only with 2 of our Business Units (long term partnership), Nexen Services (Hosting) and Anaska (Training).

Today, we are happy to provide expertise and professional services on eZ solutions with our 4 business units.

eZ: What made you decide to sponsor the eZ Conference 2009 in Paris?

TP: Alter Way is a leading provider in ECM solutions. We are focused on eZ solutions and eZ Conference 2009 in Paris is located in our major market. To make this choice was easy for Al-ter Way, showing its commitment.

eZ: What will be your main focus at the event?

TP: Our main focus at this event will be to confirm our expertise for the audience, strengthen our partnership and to become a key provider for eZ customers in the European market.

eZ: What do you hope to benefit from this event?

TP: We wish to meet excited people by your technologies (customers and employees), to dis-cover new and numerous projects and make eZ System a pillar of our ECM strategy.

eZ: Thank you for your time


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Interview with the eZ Conference Digital Media sponsorWe have talked to Cecilie Amundsen at Redpill Linpro regarding their sponsorship for the eZ Conference in Paris.


CA: Redpill Linpro is the leading provider of Professional Open Source services and products in the Nordic region. We provide consulting, development services, training, support, application management and IT operations for Open Source products ranging from infrastructure, databases to middleware. We also provide enterprise applications to customer specific solutions based on Open Source components. Our offices in Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Karlstad, Gothenburg and Stavanger work together to ensure that our customers are offered the best services irrespective of location.


CA: Redpill Linpro is an eZ System partner and we implement and host eZ Publish solutions. Both companies work within the Open Source environment.


CA: eZ System has been a strategic Redpill Linpro partner for several years and we see this as a great opportunity to meet customers, introduce Varnish to a broader market and to strength-en our relationship with eZ Systems.


CA: We would like to introduce Varnish to a global market and to launch eZ Systems as our first official Varnish partner allowing them to sell Varnish services.


CA: The idea is to spread the news about Varnish. We are also interested in meeting custom-ers and other partners in the international market and to gain better knowledge and experi-ence about possibilities and market demands.



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Reverse auctions with eZ PublishMobello.de is an online portal and reverse auction house which emerged as the largest online auction house in Germany within the first six month after its launch in 2006. It currently serves 1,5 million page impressions per month caused by up to 10.000 visitors a day.

Chosen for its flexibility and extendibility eZ Publish was the perfect solution for an ever evolving site like mobello.de. The German Gold Partner all2e GmbH has been responsible for the solution from the start. Until today, all2e integrated external Live Chat and Customer Rating solutions as well as an external payment gateway. The customer experience has fur-ther been enhanced by the use of eZ Flow, eZ Find and eZ Newsletter. Download the full Case Study (German).


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Interview with Partner Day sponsor at eZ Conference 2009

We have had a talk with David Thomas, Hosting Sales manager at In-teroute about being Partner Day sponsor at eZ Conference 2009.


DT: I’m David Thomas, Hosting Sales manager at Interoute and I’ve worked with eZ Systems since 2005 in different companies. As the largest Pan European network, Interoute offers unparalleled homogeneity hosting solutions & support a reachable and unlimited capacity infrastructure. Our products and services include bandwidth, virtualprivate networks, high speed internet access and transit, managed hosting services, media streaming and in house CDN solutions.


DT: Interoute is a bronze hosting partner. As we have good relations within the eZ community, we’ll sponsor the partner day during the next eZ Conference.


DT: It is proven that the link is strong between the CMS solutions leader eZ Systems and the European leader in the hosting market. As a new partner we want to meet and share with the whole community where the best place is to be at this main event.


DT: Meeting the community, focusing on their needs and sharing our vision of the scalable and easy to use hosting solutions. We’ll announce new virtual and scalable hosting solutions to sup-port eZ project at all the stages, from design to exploit.


DT: We hope to meet and to develop strong relationships with eZ community and bring them into a new hosting area covering all Europeans markets. For Interoute, eZ Conference is the prefect place to better understand community expectations and to relieve them of the burden of networks and hosting concerns.



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eZ Awards & Reception Sponsor interviewWe have had a talk to Thomas Schieke at YMC regarding their sponsorship for the 2009 eZ Conference & Awards in Paris.


TS: YMC AG is an agency for online brand management and web technology. I am a founding partner of YMC and responsible for key accounts, especially in the media sector. Our services include market analysis, strategy and development. We look back at six years of working with media companies and successful development of media strategies with Open Source software. Besides eZ Publish, we are using Solr/Lucene for projects in the field of Enter-prise Search. Therefore we appreciate the eZ Find initiative. We are also using eZ Components for projects that are not powered by eZ Publish.

eZ: YMC was the first eZ Publish partner in Switzerland. Why did you choose eZ Publish?

TS: In 2003, we conducted an extensive evaluation of the major Open Source CMS systems, among them Mambo/Joomla, Typo3 and Drupal. eZ Publish won because of its flexible database scheme and the software architecture. Both enable us to develop our own extensions. But the main motivation was that eZ Publish is the only Open Source CMS with a commercial vendor backing its development and offering a business partnership. This enables us to work on a much higher level than with pure community products.

eZ: With YMC Volano you have also developed one of the biggest eZ Publish extensions. What is Volano?

TS: We have always tried to write software in a generic way, so that the code could be used by many of our customers. Technically, Volano is an eZ Publish extension comprised of all our im-provements and functionality, most of them from the Social Media field. Volano also integrates other useful OS packages, or third party services like Google Maps and Omniture SiteCata-lyst. In the course of implementing eZ Publish / Volano for our customers, we have also built a clustered caching solution that can perform updates and upgrades on high traffic sites without downtime. Together with the eZ core developer team, we are currently working to issue this as a certified eZ extension.

eZ: So you believe in the Open Source idea?

TS: Absolutely. The days when Open Source was dismissed as the plaything of nerdy techies are over. Today open standards avoid a technology lock- in and correlate with significantly lower costs.


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Site of the month: Mens HealthMenshealth.it is the online portal of the most read men’s magazine in the world, published by Arnoldo Mondadori, developed by Femar Consulting S.r.l. on eZ Publish 4.

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eZ: What kind of customers do you target?

TS: We help Swiss and German media companies to succeed in the sector’s revolution. This includes developing on-line strategy and revenue models for them, helping to improve their editorial processes and of course migrating content from existing CMS installations. The main goals in such projects are usually to create cross-media applications and/or transform consum-ers into contributors. In view of the current fight for attention in the media, we see eZ Pub-lish’s cost-efficiency and flexibility as a competitive advantage.



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S H A R E · by Gilles Guirand, Kaliop Evolution of Web Content Management solutions at the State of Kansas with eZ Publish by Jon Henry, State of Kansas Using eZ Publish for Prisma