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DISKCON USA 2006
HDDs: The Next 50 Years
Presented by IDEMA, DISKCON USA is held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel/Santa Clara Convention Center (formerly the Westin Hotel) and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the hard disk drive. The future has never been brighter for the HDD industry: The industry is expected to ship as many drives in the next five years as it did in the last 50 years.

Join the celebration!

Although online registration is now closed, you can register in person by going to the registration desk located at the Hyatt Regency Hotel/Santa Clara Convention Center.

Attend the conference to learn what market analysts, key engineers, and marketplace leaders envision for this dynamic industry:

Industry analysts such as Gartner, IDC and TrendFOCUS continue to forecast impressive unit and revenue growth for the global HDD market.

Unit shipments of all drives are anticipated to be robust -- even record breaking -- driven by the industry's ability to innovate for existing computing applications and breakthrough consumer products (many of which would not be possible without HDD technology).

Key benefits of HDDs such as performance, cost, capacity, ease of use and form factor size are also key drivers of the industry’s rapid growth. The traditional enterprise, PC and notebook hard drive markets are still increasing, and there are new, fast growing hard drive markets for consumer products like MP3 players, mobile phones, digital cameras, PVRs/DVRs, game consoles, navigation equipment, hand held video players and much more.

In addition to the conference, DISKCON USA features a poster session featuring posters from AMD, Adept Technology, Taylor Hobson, Gencoa, Adhesives Research, and Donaldson. Click here for information about participating in the poster session.

Visit the show floor to see the latest technical developments from HDD suppliers.

September 11: Technology for Youth Charity Golf Tournament
September 13: Keynote Dinner Featuring Fred Moore, Futurist and Founder of Horison Information Strategies. Mr. Moore's talk, Disk - the Past, the Present and the Future... will discuss the evolving role of hard disk drives in the overall storage industry including a look at future architectures, technology advancements and growth opportunities.

September 13-14: Trade Show and Conference

Show hours:

Wednesday: 10 am to 5 pm

Thursday: 10 am to 5 pm

On-site registration is $30.00. Conference registration are $660/member and $930/non-member for the two-day conference and $354/member and $510/nonmember for a one-day conference registration.

In honor of the 50^th anniversary of the hard disk drive, contributions are being accepted to preserve the history and legacy of magnetic disk storage. Contributions go to the Magnetic Disk Heritage Center, where they are currently restoring a RAMAC drive. Click here for more information or view the pdf available at the bottom of this page.

Hyatt Regency Hotel/Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA (formerly the Westin Hotel)

Although the specially priced room rate for hotel rooms at the Hyatt Regency Hotel has expired, you can still receive a discount on rooms by asking for the DISKCON USA rate, subject to availability. Call 888-591-1234 to reserve your room.