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Come this June, some of the big guns from Microsoft, Yahoo and Google will be in Singapore for the iX2006, organised by STiF.

The topic this year will "discuss the phenomenon of the invasion of consumer applications at the workplace".

According to the press release emailed to themediaslut, "the theme ICT at Work – Collaboration and Peer-to-Peer Technologies, this year’s conference will explore how peer-to-peer consumer technologies such as instant messaging, Internet telephony, Wikis and other popular freeware, are transforming the enterprise.

"Invited keynote speakers will share their take and lead discussions on the strategic implications of such technologies to businesses, while examining their potential impact on corporate productivity and security. "

Guest speakers include

Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience, Google Inc. 
Marissa leads the product management efforts on Google’s search products – web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She joined Google in 1999 as Google’s first female engineer and led the user interface and webserver teams at that time. Her efforts have included designing and developing Google’s search interface, internationalising the site to more than 100 languages, defining Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100 features and products on Google.com. Several patents have been filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design.