July 23, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Nearly 800 professionals in Web hosting and related industries gather at the beatufiul Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois today for Web hosting conference and trade show HostingCon 2007 (hostingcon.com/2007).
The three-day event features 40 conference sessions covering various hosting topics, as well as three keynotes. Kicking off the keynote presentations, Richard Rosenblatt, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Demand Media, will deliver "Next Generation Web: What Lies Ahead For Hosting", where he will examine current Internet trends and how they impact the hosting and domain registration markets.
Tuesday will bring "The Future of Service Enablement", where moderator David Snead will be joined by a panel of representatives from various vendors and industry representatives to discuss the direction of service enablement and provisioning. Finally, Wednesday offers a keynote entitled "Hosted Services -- Whats Next?", which will analyze the future of hosted services through the eyes of Amazon Web Services' Jinesh Varia, Cleversafe president and CEO Chris Gladwin and VeriSign VP of digital content services Jeff Richards.
The exhibit hall, which opens tomorrow, will showcase nearly 80 Web hosts, software companies and related Internet service and product companies, including Microsoft, Hostopia, Ensim, SWsoft, Sedo, The Planet, Tucows, FastServers.Net and GeoTrust.
