CM Pros is pleased to announce that Salim Ismail, head of The Brickhouse at Yahoo!, has agreed to deliver the keynote address at the CM Pros Fall 2007 Summit in Boston, November 26, 2007. Ismail’s presentation, Internet 3.0: The Web as a Content Management System, will demystify what he calls, “the third phase of the internet”—routing relevant, device- and platform-independent, structured content to the right people, in the right places, in the right format, at the right time.

Ismail is a successful angel investor and entrepreneur and is currently the heading up the Brickhouse, Yahoo’s newly launched program for rapid web product development. He also co-founded Confabb, a conference services web portal (where he serves as Chairman) and advises numerous startups on growing technology ventures. In all, Salim has operated seven early-stage companies.

He is a wildly popular speaker on internet technologies, private equity, and entrepreneurship. Check out his blog, You’ve Got Ismail to see what’s he’s been up to.

Ismail is best known for co-founding and building PubSub Concepts, a New York based startup which builds Internet-scale Publish/Subscribe systems and is redefining how content is delivered over the Internet. PubSub was launched in early 2004 and led the category of Prospective Search starting with RSS and blogs. PubSub launched the Structured Blogging Initiative in 2005 with participation from over 50 leading technology companies. Salim built it to a $15 million valuation.

He started his career with CSC Europe building large-scale application systems and then spent five years as a management consultant restructuring some of the largest companies in Europe.

In 2001, Salim was presented with a New York City Award of Recognition by the Giuliani Administration, and in 2003 was nominated by Crain’s Magazine as one of New York City’s “Top 40 under 40” businesspeople. He frequently presents and speaks at conferences on the future of the internet, digital media, entrepreneurship and and private equity.

He has traveled extensively, has lived and worked in eight different countries, speaks 2.75 languages and has an honors degree in theoretical physics and computing from the University of Waterloo near Toronto, Canada.