(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Media company iNET Interactive (www.inetinteractive.com) will host HostingCon 2009, the premier conference and trade show, at Washington, D.C.’s Gaylord National Resort on August 10 to 12.
This marks the first year the annual event will be produced by iNET Interactive, which acquired HostingCon from Interjuncture last July.
This year’s conference is also the first time the conference will be held in Washington D.C., after being held for three years in Chicago and one year in Las Vegas.
This year’s agenda covers a wide range of topics to be discussed in keynote presentations and educational sessions over the course of three days.
Keynotes will include exciting presentations from Parallels chairman and CEO Serguei Beloussov, Deep Web Technologies COO and corporate counsel Larry Donahue, SeaBoard Director managing director Iain Grant, UK2 Group CFO Tim Holland, DH Capital managing director Paul Stapleton, SoftLayer CFO Mike Jones, Salesforce.com senior VP Daniel Burton, Tier1 Research research director of hosting Antonio Piraino, Google director of Google Apps channels Stephen Cho, Mosso GM Emil Sayegh, SEOmoz CEO and co-founder Rand Fishkin, and Delegation of the European Commission first secretary, political, justice & home affairs Frank Schmiedel.
The sessions will span the categories of marketing and sales, emerging trends, technology and operations, and business development. Speakers include eBridge Marketing Solutions’ Hartland Ross, Hostopia’s Paul Engels, Attorney David Snead, Tier1 Research’s Philbert Shih, Miva Merchant’s Rick Wilson, Netmagic Solutions’ Sandip Gupta, NaviSite’s William Toll, Open-Xchange’s Rafael Laguna de la Vera, Cloudmark’s Jamie de Guerre, Softlayer’s Kevin Laude, and New Commerce Communications’ Tom Millitzer.
The event is backed by a handful of sponsors, including cPanel, FuseMail, GlobalSign, ISPsystem, Microsoft, Parallels, Purity Networks, Scalix, SoftLayer and VeriSign.
The Exhibit Hall will be open on Tuesday, August 11 from 10:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Wednesday, August 12 from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The hall will feature promotional booths from more than 100 companies, including Parallels, K2 Group, ParaScale, PhoenixNAP, OpenSRS, ResellerClub & Logicboxes, ResellerClub, DemoWolf, Aflexi, CoyoteSystems, Comodo, eNom, FuesMail, Hostopia, Limestone Networks, Mezeo Software, Vembu, BobCares, cPanel, GlobalSign, R1Soft, and Sedo.
