SES China

[mcanerin]

Does anyone know when SES China will be? I've sent off a few emails but they seem to have disappeared into cyberspace. Since many of my contact emails still have the old Jupiter Media domains, I'm not surprised.

I'm in the process of trying to set up the China Search Marketing Tour 2007 (http://www.chinasearchmarketingtour.com/), but of course that's based on the timing and location of SES China.

We have a lot of people who have shown interest, and we are trying to schedule trips to the China research facilities for Microsoft, Google and Yahoo - but, once again, we need dates in order to actually set up the meetings.

I've checked on the web:

http://www.searchenginestrategies.com/
http://www.isas.cn/en/

...but there is no indication of the conference being held yet. Does anyone know? Chris, Tim? Danny? Inway?

I'll do what I can to promote the event and help out, but I'm already being contacted by various clients and governments about speaking engagements around that time, so it would be great to be able to start planning ahead. (as a personal favour, if we could make sure it doesn't overlap with SES NY or Toronto, I'd REALLY appreciate it!)

Based on the feedback I received last year on the conference, the main 2reasons many people could not attend was A) too close to SES NY, and B) not enough lead time to plan and book the trip. They wanted to, but it was a scheduling issue.

Cheers,

Ian

[David Temple]

According to this latest post by Inway over at China Search Daily (http://www.chinasearchdaily.com) Search Engine Strategies Conference in China will be held in April 2007 in Xiamen a coastal city in southern China. The exact dates have not yet been posted but the NY SES is April 10-13.

As soon as we get the exact dates we'll be setting the itinerary for the China Search Marketing Tour (http://www.chinasearchmarketingtour.com). It will most likely include Beijing, (gotta see the Great Wall, Forbidden City, 2008 Olympic stadium, etc), Xiamen and HongKong.

[ewc21]

I hope to be there.

[mcanerin]

From the sounds of things, this year the tour will be filled with a bunch of fairly well known names in search. At the very least, getting to hobnob with some of the best SEM's around can be a lot of fun (and a great learning experience).

There there is that "getting to go on a really cool tour" part of it. ewc21, since (if I remember) you are already in China, I'm sure it won't cost nearly as much to go as most people - I definitely hope to see you there!

Ian

[mcanerin]

YAY!

The official dates have been announced, and there was an effort to make sure that it didn't interfere with other SES shows as much as possible (thanks guys!).

China SES will be held on May 25-26 in Xiamen, China.

Of course, that means that the China Search Marketing Tour now has some dates to work with, as well. This year we will be going to Beijing, Hong Kong, and then to Xiamen.

Since I just found out about an hour ago, we don't have the official tour site updated yet, but I have more information in my blog (http://mcanerin.blogspot.com/2006/11/china-search-marketing-tour-dates.html) if you are interested.

This are a couple of threads here at SES from last year about the tour and conference:

http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=10583
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=9672

This year, there is more time to prepare and Incisive has been VERY helpful, so we are hoping to cross-promote the events (there will be people who want to go on the tour but were not thinking about SES, and vice versa).

They are independent of each other - we just realize that there is a lot of potential synergy by working together.

Ian