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San Francisco, CA — November 17, 2011

GigaOM, a leading business and technology media company, today announced new headline speakers for the second-annual GigaOM Net:Work 2011 conference, set to take place December 8, 2011 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. A new research report conducted by the Institute of Work Psychology at The University of Sheffield, titled ?Remote-Workers: Stressed and Alone?, will also be unveiled at the conference ? providing new insights into the realities of a managing a remote workforce.

Back for its second year, Net:Work is the only conference to focus on how collaboration and mobile technologies are creating a ?human cloud? ? fundamentally changing the way companies run their businesses and how employees collaborate. Leading speakers include top executives from Box, Citrix, Google, LinkedIn, VMWare, Workday, Quickoffice, iPass, Jive Software, Yammer, and iPass, with more joining weekly.

?By 2013 the number of independent workers in America will grow from the current 16 million to 20 million ? and there are already millions more employees working from home either full- or part-time. The shift to a 24×7 workforce is well under way, based on the proliferation of collaborative, mobile, and cloud technologies,? said Nicole Solis, GigaOM senior writer. ?We created the GigaOm Net:Work conference as a place where top thinkers can come together to discuss the technologies and together we can all shape the future of work.?

GigaOM Net:Work will gather GigaOM editors and GigaOM Pro research analysts alongside leading CEOs, CIOs, entrepreneurs, and investors to debate the technologies impacting enterprise collaboration, HR and recruitment, remote working, operational and office design, training and retention, and other critical aspects of running a business in the networked age.

Top Speakers

Top tier speakers include Tom Conophy, EVP and CIO of InterContinental Hotels Group; Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-Founder of Box; Aneel Bhusri, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Workday; Bernd Christiansen, VP and CTO of Research at Citrix Online; Gary Swart, CEO of oDesk; Alan Masarek, CEO of Quickoffice; David Gutelius, Chief Social Scientist at Jive Software; Deep Nishar, SVP of Products and User Experience at LinkedIn; Amit Singh, VP of Enterprise at Google; Brian Murray, Head of Implementation Strategy at Yammer; Ariel Seidman, Co-founder and CEO, Gigwalk; Rhonda Lowry, VP of Emerging Social Web Technologies at Turner Broadcasting System; Barbara Nelson, CTO of iPass; and many more.

Turner Broadcasting System, Flextronics and InterContinental Hotels Group will share exclusive case studies illustrating how their organizations have successfully implemented new corporate social networking tools across hundreds of thousands of global workers to support complex workflows and encourage deeper collaboration.

During interactive panel sessions, fireside chats, and keynote presentations, attendees and speakers will engage in an open debate about which innovative web- and cloud-based leaders will become the next giants in the $ 222B enterprise software market. What does the 100% virtual workplace look like, and how can employees and companies thrive in this new environment? How can companies harness mobile and cloud collaboration technologies to become more productive and profitable? Speakers will tackle these questions and more at Net:Work.

Register Now

Spaces at Net:Work are selling quickly and those interested in attending the conference should register as soon as possible. Anyone interested in the way companies must leverage technology to build their workforces, increase productivity, and boost profitability should not miss Net:Work.

Top Sponsors

Headline sponsor Alfresco is joined by leading sponsors such as Korn/Ferry International, MBO Partners, Gist, Box, Citrix, Igloo, Sooner, Moxie Software, Meshin, Quickoffice, and UTest. Net:Work is supported by top-tier media partners, including The Churchill Club, The pariSoma Innovation Loft, StartupDigest, TiE, SfAMA, VC Taskforce, VentureBeat, and the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab. To learn more about sponsorship and exhibition opportunities that connect your brand to the top decision makers in enterprise technology, please visit the Net:Work sponsorship page or contact Mike Sly via email at sly(at)gigaom(dot)com or (415) 235-0358.

About GigaOM

Founded in 2006, GigaOM has grown into the leading provider of online media, events and research for global technology innovators. The company is one of the most credible and insightful voices at the intersection of business and technology, with an online audience of more than 4 million monthly unique visitors; industry-leading events, including Structure, Mobilize, GigaOM RoadMap, Net:Work, and Structure:Data; and a pioneering market research service and digital community, GigaOM Pro, which provides expert analysis and research on emerging technology markets.

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