USI | USI 2011 is a 2 day conference for Geeks and Bosses that many compare to TED.  The audience size is 600 people.  Previous conference speakers include Neil Armstrong, Ely Goldratt, Chris Anderson, Martin Fowler, Leo Apotheker, Juan Enriquez. This fourth edition of the conference will be structured around four themes: Differently, Shortly, Humanly and Technically. The list of 2011 speakers can be found here and the program for day one is listed here, including the lecture The Web Within Us: When Minds and Machines Become One, by celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil. After the success of 2010, its 500 participants, its 54 sessions, this year again the USI team is offering you a program worthy of the best conferences of the IT sector.

A new edition, new themes. During two days, the challenge is to gather international prominent persons and models of the profession around 4 innovative themes: Differently, Technically, Humanely and Shortly.

• Differently: inspirations coming from other domains (for eg. sciences, architecture, medicine), video games editors, Web masters, Big Mashups, DevOps.
• Humanely: social impacts of IT, animation dynamics, human factors, personal efficiency, agile and Lean transition.
• Technically: Cloud in practice, coding masters, Big Data, event architectures, mobile architectures, HTML5 vs owner.
• Shortly: prospective, evolution of our jobs per sector, future interfaces, IT at the speed of light, blend of Web and TV.

Thematic tracks will enable you to immerse yourself in subjects such as DevOps, future man/machine interface, human factors, event architectures, agile transition, etc.