SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Enterprise
Connect, the leading conference and exhibition for enterprise
communications, today announces that the CTO and co-founder of
Slack, Cal Henderson, will deliver a
Keynote address at the 2018 event, marking Slack's first-ever
appearance at Enterprise Connect.
Enterprise Connect 2018 will take place March 12-15 at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, FL. For more information and to
register, please visit:
enterpriseconnect.com/orlando/.
"Enterprise Connect has become the most important venue for
enterprise communications and collaboration professionals to learn
about the rapid, disruptive changes now impacting our market," said
Eric Krapf, Enterprise Connect
General Manager and Program Co-Chair. "I'm excited that our
audience will be able to hear, first-hand, Slack's vision for the
future of enterprise communications and collaboration."
Cal Henderson, CTO and
Co-Founder, Slack
Currently serving as CTO and co-founder of
Slack, Henderson is also a world-renowned expert, author, and
speaker on building scalable web apps. Prior to building Slack,
Henderson served as Director of Engineering at Flickr where he led
technical development. He is the author of the best-selling
O'Reilly Media book "Building Scalable Websites," and is recognized
as a pioneer in the use of APIs, having created the basis for oAuth
and oEmbed, now used by YouTube, Twitter, and many others. Before
moving to North America from the
UK, Henderson was the technical director of Special Web Projects at
Emap and was involved in London's
early online community through his work with B3ta and his personal
blog iamcal.com, which he has run for 15 years. Having been
born color blind, Henderson has also worked closely on numerous
applications to make the web more accessible for other color blind
users.
Learn more about the Enterprise Connect Keynotes here:
enterpriseconnect.com/orlando/conference/keynotes
Enterprise Connect 2018
Enterprise Connect will return to Orlando in 2018, bringing together enterprise
communications professionals of all levels for an extensive
four-day Conference focused on maximizing attendees' knowledge in
communications and collaboration systems, services, apps and
networks. The event will feature Keynotes, breakout sessions,
networking opportunities and more, across nine tracks encompassing
major technology streams in the industry.
The event will also host the largest and broadest exhibition
focused on enterprise communications systems, software, services
and applications – giving attendees a chance to experience the
latest tools and innovations firsthand.
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Twitter: @enterprisecon
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About Enterprise Connect
For more than 27 years, Enterprise Connect has been the leading
conference and exhibition for enterprise communications and
collaboration in North America.
Enterprise Connect brings corporate IT decision makers together
with the industry's vendors, analysts and consultants to focus on
the issues central to enterprise networks and communications.
Enterprise Connect owns and produces No Jitter, (nojitter.com),
providing daily blogging and analysis of enterprise communications,
and it also serves the community with a weekly email newsletter
and a webinar series. For more information,
visit enterpriseconnect.com/orlando. Enterprise Connect
is organized by UBM Americas, a part of UBM plc (UBM.L), an
Events First marketing and communications services business. For
more information, visit ubmamericas.com.
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