Today’s podcast is all about conferences … these are listed in order of occurrence.  So the first ones are really soon, and the ones towards the end are in the future … but don’t procrastinate on signing up if they sound interesting ….

• Guy Kawasaki @ Garage Technology Ventures will be having an online seminar to discuss his book The Art of the Start (highly recommended and not just because I got mentioned in the forward) on January 4th, 2006 at 10 am Pacific.
• Consumer Electronics Show 2006 will be in Las Vegas, NV from January 5-8, 2006.
• If you are coming to AFCEA West 2006 in San Diego, you might want to check out a course called "Military Satellite Communications in a Net-Centric Environment" that is running January 10-12, 2005.
• SANS is offering their Firewalls, Perimeter Protection and VPNs course in Mission Viejo, CA in the SANS Mentor format beginning on Wednesday, January 18, 2006.
• VoIP 2.0 & the Internet Telephony Conf. & Expo will be Jan. 24-27, 2006 in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
• Medical Design and Manufacturing West 2006 will be in Anaheim, CA from Jan. 30 through Feb. 2, 2006.
• Supporting, Troubleshooting, and Optimizing Windows Server 2003 by CompuMaster will be in San Diego, CA from Feb. 2-3, 2006.
• Software Security Summit will be held in San Diego, CA from Feb. 6-8, 2006.
• DCI’s Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing Conference will be held Feb. 7-9, 2006 in Chicago, IL.
• TDWI World Conference on Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing will be held in Las Vegas, NV from Feb. 19-24, 2006.
• The Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo 2006 will be February 27 – March 2, 2006 in New York City.
• Fred Pryor Seminars’ "How To Supervise People" will be in select locations in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, and Utah during the month of March 2006.
• O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference or ETECH will be in San Diego, CA from March 6-9, 2006.
• FOSE 2006 will be at the Washington Convention Center in Washington DC from Mar. 7-9, 2006. The focus will be on software, hardware, security, wireless, mobile, and networking technologies.
• Software Developer West 2006  will be held Mar. 13-17, 2006 in Santa Clara, CA.
• The Inteq Groups’ Business Systems Analysis Training will be in the Washington, DC area from March 21-30th, 2006.
• DCI’s Portals, Collaboration, & Content Management Conference will be starting on April 4, 2006 in San Diego, CA.
• IDC’s IT Forum & Expo "Enabling Business Transformation: From Vision To Reality" will be at the Sheraton Boston Hotel in Boston, MA from Jun. 14-15, 2006 and will be held in-conjunction with CIO Summit 2006.

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