Baseline's Look Ahead, Week of Sept. 25

News and events to watch for the week.

Sept. 28, 10 a.m. ET: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd is scheduled to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations, regarding the recent disclosure that HP spied on several journalists in an attempt to uncover which of the company's board members was leaking sensitive information. The meeting will be broadcast via the Web. Hurd reportedly signed off on the investigators' tactics. See Report: HP Chief Approved 'Sting' on Journalist.

CONFERENCES THIS WEEK

Sept. 25-27: DEMOfall2006, at the Sheraton San Diego, San Diego, Calif. About 70 new products and services will be (as the show's name says) demonstrated for the first time.

Sept. 25-27: Gartner Application Development Summit, at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Hotel & Spa in Phoenix, Ariz. Theme of the conference: "Adapting to a world of SOA and Web innovation."

Sept. 25-28: Embedded Systems Conference Boston 2006, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston.

Sept. 26-28: Intel Developer Forum (IDF) Fall 2006, San Francisco.

Sept. 27-28: MIT Emerging Technologies Conference (ETC), Keynote speakers and panelists to include: Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and AOL CEO Jonathan Miller.