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Exceptionally confused by the Exceptional Web Experience Conference 2011


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IBM is holding the Exceptional Web Experience Conference in just under a month.  This was formerly known as the Portal Excellence Conference in past years.  It will be May 16-19 back in Florida to be exact.

The event sounds great so far, but I went in and saw the public agendas as they were being updated.  Strangely there are sessions being decided before the speakers were even selected for the event.  I know organizers like to see certain topical areas covered, but making a whole abstract and not having the skilled person on tap to produce it is very strange.  See the example here:

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So how does one gauge whether or not to attend if you do not know the content will be presented in a relevant format?  The above image was a sample from multiple pages.  I asked this question long before I knew if I was speaking or not at the event.