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Last Call for Submissions to Emerging Technology Conference

Sep 20, 2008

Today is the last day to submit an idea for a talk at the 2009 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, to be held in March in San Jose, California. The conference will focus on exploring the emerging trends in the technologies that affect our everyday lives, including personalized healthcare, synthetic biology, and others. The submissions will all be reviewed by mid-October, says the post at O'Reilly Radar.

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