Eclipse Summit Europe 2007 - The Eclipse Foundation's European Conference

Registration for Eclipse Summit Europe Opens

OTTAWA, September, 2007. The Eclipse Foundation is hosting its "Eclipse Summit Europe" conference for the European community again this year. The second annual Eclipse Summit Europe (ESE) takes place on October 9-11, 2007 at Forum am Schlosspark in Ludwigsburg, which is in the Stuttgart region of Germany. The goal of the conference is to give the European Eclipse community a platform to collaborate, to promote cooperation among Eclipse projects, and to provide information to attendees about the Eclipse Foundation and its members. The Eclipse Foundation expects ESE to have a mixture of lectures covering Eclipse projects, consumer stories, and product demonstrations. The symposia is also an exciting event for the Eclipse ecosystem. "Eclipse Summit Europe is a good opportunity to learn about new Eclipse technology and to network with new people from the Eclipse ecosystem," says Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation.

Keynotes this year include Dr. Erich Gamma of IBM and Dr. Jörg Sievert of SAP Ventures. Dr. Gamma is presently one of the lead architects in IBM's new Jazz project. Dr. Sievert is responsible for the Partner and Investment program for SAP Ventures in Europe and Israel.

Since July 18, registration for the conference will be open at a price of 360 euro, at http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2007.

During the three-day conference, participants will have the opportunity to attend lectures, network with numerous project leads and committers and to gather news and product information from sponsors. The Eclipse Summit Europe 2007 program includes one day of symposia, which will take place on the Tuesday before the main conference, as well as two days of technical and business related sessions, keynotes, and project demonstrations. The main reception for attendees occurs on the Wednesday evening. The complete conference program will be available towards the end of July.

Further information on the conference, registration, travel and accommodation can be found at http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2007.

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