Keynotes
Hear visionary industry leaders discuss the future of business technology.
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Wednesday, September 17 9:00-11:00 AM |
Thursday, September 18 9:00-10:00 AM |
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Bob Picciano, General Manager, Lotus Software and WebSphere Portal, IBM
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Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media
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Marie Hattar, Vice President, Network Systems and Security Solutions, Cisco
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Clay Shirky, shirky.com
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Ronald W. Hovsepian, President and Chief Executive Officer, Novell, Inc.
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David Yach, Chief Technology Officer for Software, Research In Motion
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Bob PiccianoGeneral Manager, Lotus Software and WebSphere PortalIBM Web 2.0, Mashups and Other Collaboration Trends for the Enterprise Embracing web 2.0 for the enterprise means capitalizing on the power of participation to move ahead of your competition. It means making your experts more visible and your teams more agile. It means allowing business users to combine and share enterprise data with feeds from public sources through mashups, technology that is changing the economics for situational application development. This session explores how these technologies are other trends are allowing companies to build better business outcomes through collaboration. As general manager for Lotus software, Bob Picciano has oversight for an extensive portfolio of collaboration tools designed to empower people to be more effective, responsive and innovative within the context of the work they do. It includes email, calendar, instant messaging, electronic forms, web conferencing, portals, team spaces, business dashboards, document management, social software and Web 2.0. Mr. Picciano is also a member of IBM's Integration and Values team – a select group of executives who provide guidance across IBM on various business and strategic issues. Mr. Picciano served as vice president, worldwide sales, Information Management, Software Group from 2006 to 2008. He was responsible for sales and operations for the Information Management portfolio, a multi-billion dollar product set that is sold in over 130 countries. Bob had previously been vice president for Data Servers, responsible for business line performance of IBM's highly successful database portfolio of software products including DB2, Informix IDS, Cloudscape, RedBrick, and XPS. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Picciano led the worldwide development and support of DB2 Linux, Windows and UNIX platforms as vice president of Database Technology while on international assignment at the IBM Toronto Software Development Lab in Markham, Canada. Mr. Picciano holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University. |
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Marie HattarVice President, Network Systems and Security SolutionsCisco From Virtualization to Cloud Computing: Is the Sky Really the Limit? Social, cultural, and economic changes are afoot, changing not only our relationships with technology but our relationships with each other. Find out how virtualization is playing a key role in this evolution -- and why this changes the networking and security landscape. Marie Hattar brings more than 18 years of industry experience to her role as Vice President of Network Systems and Security Solutions at Cisco. Currently, Hattar is responsible for setting and developing a strategic vision that integrates key places in the network: branch, wide area network, campus and security. Under her guidance, her organization creates and markets innovative routing, switching and security solutions focused on enterprise and mid-market organizations. Throughout her career, Hattar has held leadership roles in product marketing, product management, software engineering, competitive intelligence, and finance. She has been instrumental in building security and network architectures for leading Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Cisco, Hattar served as a senior leader for Nortel's enterprise business unit where she co-created the company's enterprise vision. She holds a master's degree in business administration in marketing from York University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto. |
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Ronald W. HovsepianPresident and Chief Executive OfficerNovell, Inc. Making IT Work As One™ Today's IT environment involves a mix of software, hardware, customizations, and ever-evolving trends. These changing standards and technologies can make it hard for you to keep up and stay efficient. Ron Hovsepian, Novell president and CEO, will discuss the challenges and the solutions you can implement into your business environment that will – Make IT Work As One – allowing you to focus on running your business today and in the future. As a result, you can reduce cost, manage complexity, and mitigate risk. Mr. Hovsepian, 46, joined Novell in June 2003 as President of North America, was later named Chief Operating Officer and in June 2006 became President and Chief Executive Officer. As CEO he has guided Novell to several quarters of strong performance, while adding to our global ecosystem of partnerships and building out our industry leading portfolio of infrastructure software. Previously, Mr. Hovsepian held management and executive positions at IBM Corporation over a 17-year period, including worldwide general manager of IBM's distribution industries, managing global hardware and software development, sales, marketing and services. He held several leadership roles in various IBM units, building a proven track record of achieving revenue goals and profit growth in the IT industry. Mr. Hovsepian also served as managing director of Internet Capital Group, a venture capital firm. Mr. Hovsepian is also non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ann Taylor Corporation. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston College. |
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David YachChief Technology Officer for SoftwareResearch In Motion The Era of Enterprise Mobility Mobility is top of mind for enterprises today and has become a key communications strategy in this "Era of Enterprise Mobility". At Interop New York 2008, David Yach, Chief Technology Officer, Research In Motion (RIM), will discuss the continuing evolution of mobility and the importance of leveraging the wireless capabilities of today to meet the business challenges of tomorrow. David Yach is the CTO for Research In Motion. David oversees and manages the development of software that has helped RIM become a world leader in the mobile communications market. His teams create software ranging from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server to the applications, operating systems and radio firmware on BlackBerry Smartphones. David joined RIM in December 1998 and has led the team that brought the Java platform to BlackBerry Smartphones, created standard applications for a wide variety of handhelds, developed and enhanced BlackBerry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino and Novell GroupWise, and developed BlackBerry Internet Solution. Prior to joining RIM, David held various leadership positions including Chief Architect for all products at Sybase Inc.He has participated in CLDC 1.0 and MIDP 1.0 expert groups and was member of the original Java Community Process Executive Committee (JCP EC). David holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University. |
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Tim O'ReillyFounder and CEOO'Reilly Media, Inc. Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. The company also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source, open standards, and sensible intellectual property laws. Since 1978, Tim has led the company's pursuit of its core goal: to be a catalyst for technology change by capturing and transmitting the knowledge of "alpha geeks" and other innovators. His active engagement with technology communities drives both the company's product development and its marketing. Tim has built a culture where advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism are key tenets of the business philosophy. |
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Clay ShirkyShirky.comshirky.com Mr. Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC. In addition to his consulting work, Mr. Shirky is an adjunct professor in NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology—how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. His current course, Social Weather, examines the cues we use to understand group dynamics in online spaces and the possible ways of improving user interaction by redesigning our social software to better reflect the emergent properties of groups. Mr. Shirky has written extensively about the internet since 1996. Over the years, he has had regular columns in Business 2.0, FEED, OpenP2P.com and ACM Net_Worker, and his writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, Wired, Release 1.0, Computerworld, and IEEE Computer. He has been interviewed by Slashdot, Red Herring, Media Life, and the Economist's Ebusiness Forum. He has written about biotechnology in his “After Darwin” column in FEED magazine, and serves as a technical reviewer for O'Reilly's bioinformatics series. He helps program the “Biological Models of Computation” track for O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conferences. Mr. Shirky frequently speaks on emerging technologies at a variety of forums and organizations, including PC Forum, the Internet Society, the Department of Defense, the BBC, the American Museum of the Moving Image, the Highlands Forum, the Economist Group, Storewidth, the World Technology Network, and several O'Reilly conferences on Peer-to-Peer, Open Source, and Emerging Technology. Mr. Shirky graduated from Yale College with a degree in art. His writings are archived at shirky.com, and he currently runs the N.E.C. mailing list for his writings on networks, economics, and culture. |