It is fairly common that tech companies give away Cebit day tickets to trade experts and sometimes even interested visitors who have no ties to the industry.

One company that is currently giving away Cebit Tickets is the computer manufacturer Dell. Please note that the whole Registration process is in German. I have added annotations to the screenshots for your convenience. Visit the ticket registration page on this web page and fill out the form in the lower right of the screen.

All you need to fill out is your first name, last name, email address, phone number and company that you are working for. You also need to click on the pulldown menu to select the number of tickets that you want. You can select between one to five tickets.

You are then taken to the next page where your tickets are listed on as links. These links lead to the official Cebit website where you have to register again to complete the registration process.

Good news is that you can switch that registration form to English. The ticket code should have been entered automatically, so that you only need to click on the next button to go to the next step of the registration process.

You are then asked to enter user account information and business details into the forms on the next two pages, before you will receive confirmation that your ticket has been registered successfully on the last page. Please note that you need to complete the same steps – without the registration of course – for each ticket that you have ordered from Dell.

Each ticket is then send automatically as a printable e-ticket to the registered email address. You need to print out the ticket and have it with you to gain admission.

It is not clear if the contingent is limited. I suggest you use it immediately if you are interested in free Cebit tickets. I’m not sure if I can make it this year, but if I do, I’d love to meet some of you there. (thanks Caschy)

Cebit Live is an online service that broadcasts keynotes and panels for those computer interested users who cannot come to Germany to attend in person. The broadcasts provide a small glimpse at what Cebit is offering. The main page of Cebit Live can be accessed here.

The different keynotes are streamed live and provided as a recording afterwards so that everyone, even can access them easily. Most keynotes are held in the morning in Germany which outlines that it can be problematic to view them live depending on the timezone (US users for instance are asleep at that time).

Here are all keynotes and links:

Thuesday:

• Successful Strategies in the Cloud: Perspectives from Amazon Web Services
• A Changing Focus for Business and IT
• Keynote SAP
• Gov 2.0: building a strong foundation for open democracy
• Keynote Telefonica S.A.
• Evolution of the Web: Open, social, mobile and transparent

Wednesday:

• New Skills and Collaboration for a Smarter Planet
• Beating the Competition: How Efficient and Accessible Technology is Driving Today’s Growing Business
• Tomorrow’s Potential, Shaped by Information Technology Today
• The Customer-Driven Enterprise: Changing Enterprise Software, One User at a Time
• The Decade When Enterprise Software Died
• Creative Technologies for dynamic times – How ICT empowers tomorrows business

Thursday:

• Connecting the Digital Lifestyle & Digital Work style
• Changing markets – Telecommunication 2020
• Spurring Creativity and Innovation During Tough Times–and Good Times, Too
• New value-add partnerships in the ICT industry
• Cloud computing for the end user
• Next generation digital music

Friday:

• The Biggest Thing Since the Domestication of Animals
• Keynote Tuenti
• The Ultimate Immersive Experience – Using Virtual Worlds to Connect, Communicate and Collaborate.
• The Power of Live: Real-Time Community and Connections
• Webciety – Connecting Work & Life

Saturday:

• Interview: The Future of the Music Business
• Who is still willing to pay for creativity – How can authors and creators exercise their rights?

Additional information about the speakers and keynotes can be found on the program page at the official Cebit website. Other options include Cebit TV, podcasts and the official Cebit channel at Youtube.

Here are videos from some companies who attend Cebit 2010:

And hundreds more if you search Youtube for Cebit 2010.

It decodes neural signals into unique commands that are used to interact with the computer. I found a video on Youtube that was taken on the CEBIT 2007 (a year ago) were someone was playing an ego shooter with a mouse and the OCZ Actuator. He did not have to press buttons to shoot, he did not have to press the forward key to move, all he needed the mouse for was to look around.

That’s a whole new level of gaming in my opinion. OCZ will be present on this years Cebit again which takes place from March 4th to 9th in Hannover, Germany. The release date (planned) for the device is mid 2008.