Lotusphere will run from January 26-30, 2003 in Orlando, Florida. If you've never been to Lotusphere before, you can get an idea of what you're in store for by checking out DominoPower's coverage of Lotusphere 2002 in the February 2002 issue. In the article, "Lotusphere still has the magic," Senior Technical Editor Dan Velasco shares stories from his fifth Lotusphere. He also shares his priority list for 2002, so you can see how many of his wishes came true. You can also check out all the fun pictures from his adventure in Florida to get you psyched up for Lotusphere 2003. You can find the article at http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200202/lotuspheredan001.html.

For another perspective on last year's event, check out Mick Moignard's "Big changes, too little beer at Lotusphere 2002." The article details Mick's impressions, complaints, and highlights. You can find it at http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200202/mickreport001.html.

Finally, in his article, "Lotusphere through the digital lens," Editor-in-Chief David Gewirtz uses digital photography to try to capture the feel of Lotusphere 2001, from the sessions, through the halls, to what it was really like to be there. You can find this fond reminder of great times at http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200102/day001.html.

But now it's time to look forward to the exciting sessions Lotusphere 2003 has in store for you. Let's plunge ahead and see what you can expect.

Track One: IT management
Lotusphere, like many major conferences, is organized into "tracks," groups of sessions that fit a particular interest area or group.

This year, Track One focuses on IT management strategy and planning. Sessions cover topics such as business continuity planning for the Lotus environment; collaboration in context; customer involvement in the development process; driving down the cost of your Domino infrastructure; dynamic workplaces; the research behind Lotus products; knowledge discovery solutions; Lotus application development technical strategy and Domino developer's roadmap; messaging solutions; mobile and wireless industry roundtable; IBM's portal strategy; selling Notes and Domino 6 internally; Instant Messaging, Web conferences, and team workspaces; and e-learning.

Track Two: application development
This year's Track Two covers application development. It's designed to help you get up to speed up on the latest code, development tools, languages, programming techniques, and future technologies. Sessions include features in Domino 6, Sametime 3.0, and QuickPlace 3.0; strategies for advanced Domino Web development; adding a Web services interface to your existing Domino applications; advanced application development with the Domino JSP Tag Library; advanced real time data integration with Domino 6; advanced techniques for Java Programming in Notes and Domino; advanced techniques in LotusScript; application development with Domino C&S; applying design patterns to your LotusScript code; building blended applications for Domino and WebSphere; customizing the QuickPlace user interface, developing applications with the Lotus C API Toolkit for Notes and Domino 6; developing customized solutions with Domino.Doc; developing mobile applications with Domino EveryPlace; Domino 6 objects by example; Domino Designer 6 overview; Domino Designer advanced topics; leveraging the power of object-oriented programming in LotusScript; Lotus Workflow advanced programmability; Notes 6 and Microsoft Office integration; new features of Notes and Domino 6 agents; Notes and Domino 6 Web application development features; performance tuning your Domino applications, portlets for Domino Developers; and QuickPlace application development.