Bernhard Secher will replace Hölzer-Klüpfel in presenting
"Unified Reference - a PRM for SPICE in Healthcare" at 14.30 on Conference Day 2 (20 May 2010)
The contents are unchanged.

The SPICE Conference 2010 Site Program Pages are now up to date.
Please for any further info on Conference scheduling refer to the following links:

• Program - synoptic view
• Program - Tutorials Day, 18 May 2010
• Program - Day 1, 19 May 2010
• Program - Day 2, 20 May 2010
• Social Event - Day 1 (19 May 2010)
• Conference Banquet (19 May 2010)
• Social Event - Day 2 (20 May 2010)

The SPICE 2010 Conference social event scheduled on Day 2 (Thursday, 20 May 2010) is the Visit of the "Piazza Dei Miracoli Guided Tour".
The tour includes a visit to the "Duomo" and the "Battistero" and takes about one hour.
Two English speaking guides will be available there.
For further information, please refer to the event site page

The Conference Banquet will take place Wednedsday, 19 May 2010 at "Le Arcate" Restaurant

After the visit to the Leaning Tower, starting from "Piazza dei Miracoli", at 20:00 we will get, by bus, to the "Le Arcate" Restaurant (http://www.villaposchi.it) for the Conference Banquet.
For further information, please refer to the event site page

The SPICE 2010 Conference social event scheduled on Day 1 (Wednedsday, 19 May 2010) the Visit of the Leaning Tower:

• 17:15 buses will leave from the Conference location to Piazza dei Miracoli
• 17:45 meeting point at the "Fontana dei Putti" (in front of the Leaning Tower

Visits of the leaning tower are allowed to limited groups of people (about 25 people every 30 minutes).
We reserved 3 time slots for the SPICE conference attendants according to the following schedule:

• 18:00 - 18:30 GROUP 1
• 18:30 - 19:00 GROUP 2
• 19:00 - 19:30 GROUP 3

For further information, please refer to the event site page

The talk by Tony Coletta on Conference Day 2 at 12:00 has been switched with Tom McBride´s one on Day 1 at 16:00.
So, the new scheduling is:

• DAY 1 - 16.00
  Antonio (Tony) Coletta "Emerging Process Models for Services. Comparing CMMI-SVC and ISO/IEC 20000"
• DAY 2 - 12.00
  Tom McBride, Philip Bailey "Process description elements required for process improvement"

For the complete Conference scheduling, please refer to the SPICE 2010 Conference site pages, starting from the conference program page

The Spiceconference 2010 Tutorial scheduling have been decided: there will be two paralles sections both in the morning and in the afternoon.
The Tutorial day is 18 may, 2010 and the schedule is:

• 9.00 - 12.30
  Tomas Schweigert "The SPI Manifesto and the ECQA Certified SPI Manager"
  Nuzhat Haneef "Design and Management of a Digital Process Asset Library (PAL)"
  
• 13.30 - 17.00
  Erwin Petry "How to Upgrade SPICE-Compliant Processes for Functional Safety"
  Terry Rout "The role and application of ISO/IEC 15504 - Process Assessment"
  

The tutorials rooms will be soon assigned: for further information, please refer to the site related webpage.

Tomas Schweigert will replace Richard Messnarz in presenting
Tutorial 1: "The SPI Manifesto and the ECQA Certified SPI Manager".
The contents are unchanged.

For further details about the Spiceconference 2010 Tutorials, please refer to the web site related pages:

• Site Tutorials page
• Tutorial by Tomas Schweigert [abstract] [bio]
• Tutorial by Nuzhat Haneef [abstract] [bio]
• Tutorial by Erwin Petry [abstract] [bio]
• Tutorial by Terry Rout [abstract] [bio]

And for Tutorial scheduling, refer to the related site program pages: Conference Program Page and Tutorials Program Page

Spiceconference 2010 Keynotes site pages are now all availables.
For further information, please follow this links:

• Site Keynotes page
• Keynote by Alec Dorling [abstract] [bio]
• Keynote by Antonia Bertolino [abstract] [bio]
• Keynote by Frances Scarff [abstract] [bio]
• Keynote by Munish Khurana [abstract] [bio]

Exact schedule is to be defined.
Please stay in touch for incoming news.

The third keynote by Frances Scarff with argument "Frameworks provide the answer - but what is the question?" has been confirmed. Please, refer to the Spiceconference site keynote page for further details

Spiceconference 2010 Tutorials site pages have been published.
For further information, please follow this links:

• Site Tutorials page
• Tutorial by Nuzhat Haneef [abstract] [bio]
• Tutorial by Richard Messnarz [abstract] [bio]
• Tutorial by Erwin Petry [abstract] [bio]
• Tutorial by Terry Rout [abstract] [bio]

Exact schedule is to be defined.
Please stay in touch for incoming news.

In the following a list of Hotels in Pisa providing a special rate for CNR guests
(to obtain the special rate, you should contact the hotel and ask for CNR special rate).

• Hotel Santa Croce in Fossabanda *** (0,9 Km from CNR)
• Hotel Repubblica Marinara **** (0.8 Km from CNR)
• Hotel San Ranieri **** (2 Km from CNR)
• AC Hotel **** (1,5 Km from CNR)
• Hotel Verdi *** (city center - around 2 Km from CNR)
• Hotel Victoria *** (city center - around 2 Km from the CNR)
• Abitalia Tower Park ***** (0,9 Km from the leaning tower - 3,5 km form the CNR)

For additional Hotels in Pisa visit the Pisa Tourism Office website: www.pisaturismo.it

The Conference Registration Cancellation deadline has been extended from April 9, 2010 to May 10, 2010.
Cancellations may be sent by mail to secretariat@spiceconference.com or by fax to +39 050 3153464.

• Cancellation before may 10th 2010: refund of the registration fee minus 50 administrative fee.
  
• Cancellation after may 10th 2010: no refund of the registration fee..
  

Substitutions are allowed at any time.

The Keynote Speakers schedule has been defined.
For further details on Speakers and talks, please refer the related Conference site pages:

• keynotes page
• keynote by Alec Dorling
• keynote by Antonia Bertolino
• keynote by Munish Khurana

Registration fees include coffe breaks and lunch for the days of the related event, and, only for the SPICE CONFERENCE partecipants, the social dinner on May 20th, 2010.
Cancellations may be sent by mail to secretariat@spiceconference.com or by fax to +39 050 3153464.
Cancellation before April 9th 2010: refund of the registration fee minus 50 administrative fee.
Cancellation after April 9th 2010: no refund of the registration fee.
Substitutions are allowed at any time.

It's now possible to register to the tenth Spice Conference.
Please visit the Spice Conference site registration page and fill the related form.

A preliminary program of the tenth Spiceconference has been established.
Please check the Conference Site Program page for details and for further updates.

As the premier annual international conference on SPICE, it is an excellent place to gain visibility for your organization and to emphasize your organization´s involvement in Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination.
For details on Sponsorship Opportunities and Benefits please download the SPICE CONFERENCE SPONSOR PROSPECTUS now available in (-->PDF<--) format.
For further information on the SPICE 2010 sposorship program:


You can also refer the SPICE 2010 site sponsorship page: (-->here<--)

The Extended Paper Submission Deadline (2nd February 2010) has passed: paper submission is definitively closed.
Please refer to the next important dates:

Notification of acceptance	5 March, 2010
Preliminary programme	15 March, 2010
Registration	15 March, 2010
Final copy of paper due	7 April, 2010
Tutorials and Workshops	18 May, 2010
Conference	19-20 May, 2010

The tenth International SPICE Conference on Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination in Software, Systems Engineering and Service Management, will be held in Pisa, Italy from 19th to 20th May 2010 preceded by a Tutorials day on the 18th May.
The conference is hosted on behalf of The SPICE User Group by the Institute of Information Science and Technologies, ISTI-CNR.
Full papers and/or extended abstracts for Industrial Experience presentations are welcome until    2nd February 2010.

A custom search inside the site function, powered by Google, has been added: you can find the search form at the end of the menu column. The search results are shown in a new page where it is possible to perform searchs again both inside the Spiceconference site or the whole internet. A customized search page will be soon available as wel as other goodies (sitemap, statistics report and so on).

From now on, you can subscribe the SPICE 2010 News and Announcements RS Feed constantly upadted. Youc can find the feed link i the footer of every page or alternately at this: address

A visits counter (and others info) has been added to the site. You can see all of this info in the footer of every page.
Soon will be published the page with montly stats.

The NEWS page has been added to the site ;-)

The SPICE Conference Call For Papers is already available here: (-->PDF<--)

The tenth SPICE Conference schedule has been published:

Call for Papers	5 October, 2009
Tutorials submission	31 December, 2009
Full paper and extended abstracts submission	22 January, 2010
Notification of acceptance	5 March, 2010
Preliminary programme	15 March, 2010
Registration	15 March, 2010
Final copy of paper due	7 April, 2010
Tutorials and Workshops	18 May, 2010
Conference	19-20 May, 2010

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The SPICE User Group is pleased to announce that the tenth International SPICE Conference Paper Submission is Opened.
Paper Submission deadline is 22 Jenuary 2010. The Compltee schedule is to come.

The SPICE User Group is pleased to announce the tenth International SPICE Conference on Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination in Software, Systems Engineering and Service Management, to be held in Pisa, Italy from 19th to 20th May 2010 preceded by a Tutorials day on the 18th May.
The conference is hosted on behalf of The SPICE User Group by the Institute of Information Science and Technologies, ISTI-CNR.