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UKCMG Annual Conference 2011
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
16th & 17th May 2011
Oxford Belfry Hotel, Thame, Oxford
DEADLINE ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS:31st January 2011
ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION SENT BY: 4 th February 2011
PRESENTATION FILES DUE FOR REFEREEING BY: 16 th February 2011
FINAL PRESENTATION FILES DUE BY: 8 th April 2011
UKCMG runs on three principles:
• We are platform independent - we believe the same guiding principles apply to all
environments, from the biggest to the smallest, from the most complex to the simplest.
• Users, Consultants and Vendors meet and contribute on an equal footing.
• Technical and Management issues are given equal importance.
We would like you to share your experiences with other practitioners, and with us. Slots for
presentations are 55 minutes long (50 minutes presentation and 5 minutes questions and
discussion) or 20 minutes long (20 minutes presentation and 5 minutes questions and
discussion).
Annual Conference
UKCMG Annual Conference runs over a 2 day period with a number of concurrent tracks. All
the tracks are focused specifically on issues and themes relevant to industry for the future.
The programme committee will confirm the final tracks after the submission deadline.
We particularly welcome presentations from end user companies as our membership
consistently rate real user experience as the type of presentation they would most like to see.
Please do not worry if you have not spoken before – seasoned UKCMG presenters are
available to help and will provide active guidance for preparing and presenting your
presentation if requested. If your abstract is accepted, you can submit either an annotated
PowerPoint presentation or a Word document as a paper. Remember, the audience has
come to listen to your ideas, not to criticise your presentation style.
While we remain independent, we encourage vendor and consultant participation at all our
events and this allows our members to get access to some of the top vendor companies and
industry experts in the world.
Special Notice:
To promote more user related content on the agenda, vendors and consultants are
encouraged to submit joint end user presentations / case studies with key customers.

Types of paper and presentations
Experience – particularly end user case studies
Presentations are welcomed from users, consultants and vendors; UKCMG members
especially want to hear how problems were solved, how a solution was implemented or how
new systems or technologies were installed and managed. What went wrong is often as
important as what went right.
Tutorial
These are presentations that allow speakers to share their experience and understanding of a
topic with UKCMG members.
Why present at the Annual Conference?
1. All accepted papers will be published on the UKCMG website for all members of UKCMG.
2. There is nothing like presenting a paper on a specialist topic to reinforce your
understanding of the topic.
3. Giving effective presentations is an important skill. Sharing your experiences with the other
members of UKCMG is very useful experience.
Presentation Selection
Some of the presenters are specifically targeted by the UKCMG programme committee to
ensure a high quality of presentation. However the overall section is balanced across all of
our membership and end user papers in particular are greatly encouraged as they often
provide the best source of information in the real world. Many papers are received each year
and vetted for content by a team of industry experts.
Abstracts
If you would like to give a presentation, please send the abstract on the accompanying form,
or submit on the on-line form, as soon as possible. The abstract should be no longer than
100 words, and should introduce the subject to the audience.
The contents of the abstract are important since these will be published on the website to give
potential delegates the opportunity to know the gist of your presentation. The title of your
paper should also be meaningful, descriptive and reasonably short (less than 100 characters).
Remember that delegates often decide which paper to attend on the basis of the title.
Subject Areas
The list below represents most of the topics covered. Additional topics are always given
consideration.
Capacity Management
Capacity Planning, Tuning and Optimisation, Modelling, Application Sizing, Reporting,
Monitoring, Demand/ Workload Management, Capacity Database Management
Service Management
Service Level Management, Financial Management/ Charging, Availability Management, IT
Service Continuity Management, ITIL, ISO20000, Service Reporting, Datacentre
Rationalisation
Performance
Software Performance Engineering, Performance/ Load Testing, Application Performance
Assurance
Hot Topics
Virtualisation, Consolidation, SOA, SaaS, End-to-End Measurement, New and Future
Technologies
Technologies Covered
Mainframe, Distributed, Storage, Networks, Database, .NET, Java, Messaging, End user
Hardware (Desktops), Software, Middleware, Hardware

Annual Conference 2011
Abstract Submission Form
I would like to present at UKCMG Annual Conference 2011 at the Oxford Belfry Hotel,
Thame, Oxford on the 16 th & 17 th May 2011.
The presentation title is (maximum of 100 characters):
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My session abstract is (minimum 50 words maximum 200 words):
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Please indicate the track you think it is best placed in (Capacity Management, Service
Management or Performance Management. If Hot topics, please specify which.)
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Please indicate the intended audience (e.g. management, technical, application
developers, network etc)
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This is a 50 minute/20 minute presentation (please specify one)
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This is a Technical/Tutorial/Product vendor presentation/ Discussion group (please
specify one)
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It is platform specific/non-specific (please specify)
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Name ____________________________________________________________________
Company _________________________________________________________________
Address __________________________________________________________________
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E-mail
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Please send completed form to: ukcmg@ukcmg.org.uk
For further assistance please contact the UKCMG Office on +44 (0) 20 8421 5330.