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July 24, 2007

About eight-hundred Web hosting professionals gather at the Navy Pier in Chicago for the annual Web hosting conference and trade show HostingCon 2007. The event started yesterday.

The three-day event features no less than forty conference sessions covering various hosting topics, as well as three keynotes.

Kicking off the keynote presentations, Richard Rosenblatt, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Demand Media, will deliver "Next Generation Web: What Lies Ahead For Hosting", where he will examine current Internet trends and how they impact the hosting and domain registration markets.

Today's events will bring "The Future of Service Enablement", where moderator David Snead will be joined by a panel of representatives from various vendors and industry representatives to discuss the direction of service enablement and provisioning.

Finally, tomorrow offers a keynote entitled "Hosted Services -- Whats Next?", which will analyze the future of hosted services through the eyes of Amazon Web Services' Jinesh Varia, Cleversafe president and CEO Chris Gladwin and VeriSign VP of digital content services Jeff Richards.

The exhibit hall, which opens tomorrow, will showcase nearly 80 Web hosts, software companies and related Internet service and product companies, including Microsoft, Hostopia, Ensim, SW-Soft, Sedo, The Planet, Tucows, FastServers.Net and GeoTrust.

The evening will offer a handful of networking events, including the FastServers.Net/TopHosts-sponsored Business Networking Cruise on Michigan Lake and Microsoft's evening reception at the Riva Navy Pier.

RatePoint, AmbironTrustWave and the WHIR's V.I.P. party will be held at Lucky Strike Chicago.

HostingCon 2007 will continue today through Wednesday, July 25.

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Source: The WHIR