Boston, Massachusetts - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 5, 2008 - The inaugural Web Experience Forum, will be launched with exclusive media sponsorship from Internet Retailer magazine and other web experience vendors, by web management services, Gomez, Inc.

The Web Experience Forum is a two-and-a-half-day conference that will take place Oct. 14-16, 2008 at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers in Boston, Mass. The first-of-its-kind event synthesizes all aspects of the web experience - business, sociological and technical - with an eye on perhaps the biggest factor affecting experience: web application performance.

Attendees, including both business and information technology (IT) executives, will explore the challenges, processes and technologies that shape the web experience, gaining new understanding and perspective from some of the best thinkers and practitioners of the web experience. Lou Carbone, author of the best-selling ‘’Clued In, How to Keep Customers Coming Back Again and Again,'’ is a featured speaker at the event. Mr. Carbone is founder and CEO of the Experience Engineering research firm and has been a leader in the experience management revolution for over two decades.

Mr. Carbone will be joined by industry experts from Crutchfield, New York Life Insurance, Trend Micro, Wachovia and other companies, to explore the many perspectives of the web experience including: Best practices - lessons from the web experience frontier The technology ecosystem of the web experience The effects of globalization and communities on the web experience The economic imperatives of a good web experience How to build a web experience centric culture When buyers react to the web experience - how to measure, analyze and act Industry professionals are invited to propose first-rate presentations on the newest and best practices in all aspects of web experience management.

William Agush, Vice President, Marketing, Gomez, Inc. noted, ‘’Until now, there hasn’t been a single industry event that comprehensively addresses all facets of the web experience lifecycle. By underwriting the first Web Experience Forum, Gomez’s goal is to help create a venue where executives and experts across the entire web experience management spectrum can meet and learn from one another in a vendor-neutral environment.'’

Rackspace Hosting, Clickability, Inc. and Genuine Interactive are sponsors of the inaugural event. More about the Web Experience Forum, including the conference agenda, venue, and other details can be found at www.webexperienceforum.com.

To learn more, please visit: www.webexperienceforum.com.