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Fergus has posted his keynote slides from the IWTC Conference on slideshare.

Barry here from IrishDev.com. We are releasing 50euro day passes for the final day of the Irish Web Technology Conference.

Pay on the day, the schedule commences at 9.15am so aim to arrive at 8:30 - 8:45am.

Schedule includes online Brand Engagement, business blogging, data protection, open source licencing (by the daddy himself, Russ Nelson form New York) IPR fro online activities, MS Volta, agile web development (Exoftware), mobile web (Roccoco) Developing secure web apps, enabling trust on the internet (Paul Walsh - Segala) Semantic Web (John Breslin) SEO (hobo), Google Analytics (IQ Content) - see http://iwtc.firstport.ie

Price includes lunch, brochure, and special laptop bag.

Send an email to patricia@irishdev.com or call her after hours on 087 924 3392 to confirm you place.

Lastly, remember tonight is Irelands first technology pub quiz - we have companies, user groups and even friends who have formed teams of four - if you want to enter simply turn up to the CineWorlds tonight.

Its all happening this week on the conference front in Dublin.

From Tuesday through Friday we have the Irish Web Technology Conference hosted at the Cineworld Complex on Parnell Street. Fergus Burns and Conor O’Neill will be presenting and I would suggest you also try and catch Paddy Holohan of Newbay. Paddy has made more money from software in the last twenty years than is probably legal :-). If you are really stuck, you could kill and hour with this guy.

The IWTC unfortunately clashes with two other great events I want to attend this week as well. XCellerate 2008 is a tabled as “Bringing Silicon Valley to Ireland” but seems to heavily focussed on an (impressive) lineup of irish presenters including Brian Caulfield, Chris Horn, Bernie Cullinane and Shay Garvey.

Its only a half day affair so in theory you could nip across to The Ballsbridge Court (aka the Berkeley Court) for the morning if you wanted to catch up on what appears to be a ISA conference from 5 years ago, dug up and dusted off.

The real clash comes with the ISA Conference next day which has some great speakers but the worst website I have ever seen (did I say website, web page! more like). Guy Kawasaki, the ex Apple Evangelist, A-list blogger and sometimes VC at Garage Ventures is paired with Anthony Williams the co-author of Wikinomics. These are world class speakers and its a real coup for the ISA to get them to come to Ireland. The ISA Conference is hosted at the O’Reilly Institute, UCD in Belfield.

Then to cap it all off on Saturday we have the Irish Blog Awards, organised by Irelands most prolific blogger, Damien Mulley for the third year in a row. This will held at the Alexander Hotel in Dublin (just behind Trinity). Entrance fee is €10 and a good night is guranteed for all.

Don’t even get me started on BlogTalk 2008 which kicks off on Sunday in Cork.

Prices are as follows:

• IWTC : Four Days, 41 speakers : €245 but €189 if you pre-register online
• XCellerate 2008 : Half Day, €100 or 450 bundle which gives you access to the ISA Conference
• ISA Conference : Members €250, Non members €300, Incubation Centre Member €200
• BlogAwards : €10 on the door

I think the keepers are the IWTC for the scope of its presenters, the ISA conference for Guy and Anthony and the BlogAwards because Damien sensibly organised it not to clash with anyone else.