EduGeek Preston Conference 2011

It's that time of year again when we invite you all to make you way up, down and across to Preston in Lancashire on Thursday 2nd of June for a day of informed talks from companies specialising in education and other areas, socialising and meeting the site sponsors and being pampered by us.

This year we also have a change of venue as we have now adopted the University of Central Lancashire's Westleigh Conference Centre as our new venue location this year. Just a 5 minutes’ drive from the Ibis hotel it means no more trekking to Chorley and booking coaches. As always, the conference is free as we shall keep you up to date on speakers as and when we can confirm them. Please note we have booked 80 seats, so it's first come first served and booking is being handled via EventBright.

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Confirmed speakers are:

• Dell (courtesy of Joskos) - Demonstrating the Dell Kace automation system
  
• Lancaster University Network Services - Schools and independent internet connections
  
• Rick Byers - The Data Protection Act - Myths and Musts
  
• Adobe - Adobe products and support
  
• AEG - UPS and power management
  
• SmoothWall - Netcap
  

We shall also have tables exhibiting products and services from our speakers and other companies. These include:

ICT-Direct

SmoothWall

Joskos/Dell

Meru

Net-Ctrl

LUNS

Adobe

Invictus Technology/Zybert Computing

Travel and hotels

As usual we recommend that you stay at the Ibis Preston North which is comfortable, cheap and a mere 5 minute drive from the venue: http://www.ibishotel.com/gb/hotel-3162-ibis-preston-north/index.shtm

The venue is easy to get to and you can get the location and directions from this site here:

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/information/services/fm/services/conferences/travel.php

And for those of you using sat-nav you can use this address to find your way:

Westleigh Conference Centre

Lea Road

PR4 0RB Preston

For those that cannot attend

We will be streaming the conference online courtesy of Adobe and Adobe Connect. More details are to follow about the streaming service.

If you have a ticket but cannot attend after all

Please please contact us ASAP as we can usually allocate your space to another member, the sooner you let us know the faster we can fill the vacant slot.