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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Marie Hattar, Vice President, Network Systems and Security Solutions, Cisco
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Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce.com Inc.
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Ronald W. Hovsepian, President and Chief Executive Officer, Novell, Inc.
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Clay Shirky, shirky.com
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Bob Picciano, General Manager, Lotus Software and WebSphere Portal, IBM
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David Yach, Chief Technology Officer for Software, Research In Motion
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Marc BenioffChairman and CEOSalesforce.com Inc. Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. He founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create an on-demand information management service that would replace traditional enterprise software technology. Benioff is regarded as the leader of what he has termed "The End of Software," the now-proven belief that multi-tenant, on-demand applications democratize information by delivering immediate benefits at reduced risks and costs. |
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Marie HattarVice President, Network Systems and Security SolutionsCisco 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. An industry expert in data communications, convergence, and security, Hattar was previously chair of the Broadband Content Delivery Forum and is co-author of IP Services at the Network Edge published by Addison-Wesley. 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. Hattar resides in Los Gatos, California with her husband and two children. |
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Ronald W. HovsepianPresident and Chief Executive OfficerNovell, Inc. 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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Bob PiccianoGeneral Manager, Lotus Software and WebSphere PortalIBM 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. Over the course of his twenty-one year career at IBM, Mr. Picciano has held numerous technical management and executive positions including Technical Assistant to IBM Chairman and CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. and IMS Family Product Manager, where he also managed the Santa Teresa laboratory central development technologies team, providing development, test and product packaging services to the lab's development teams. Mr. Picciano holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University. |
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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. Prior to his appointment at NYU, Mr. Shirky was a Partner at the investment firm The Accelerator Group in 1999-2001, an international investment group with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London. The Accelerator Group was focused on early stage firms, and Mr. Shirky's role was technological due diligence and product strategy. Mr. Shirky was the original Professor of New Media in the Media Studies department at Hunter College, where he created the department's first undergraduate and graduate offerings in new media, and helped design the current MFA in Integrated Media Arts program. Prior to his appointment at Hunter, he was the Chief Technology Officer of the NYC-based Web media and design firm Site Specific, where he created the company's media tracking database and server log analysis software. Site Specific was later acquired by CKS Group, where he was promoted to VP Technology, Eastern Region. Before there was a Web, he was Vice-President of the New York chapter of the EFF, and wrote technology guides for Ziff-Davis, including a guide to email-accessible internet resources, and a guide to the culture of the internet. He appeared as an expert witness on internet culture in Shea vs. Reno, a case cited in the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Communications Decency Act in 1996. Mr. Shirky graduated from Yale College with a degree in art, and prior to falling in love with the internet, he worked as a theater director and designer in New York. His company, Hard Place Theater, staged “non-fiction theater”, theatrical collages of found documents. Mr. Shirky's writings are archived at shirky.com, and he currently runs the N.E.C. mailing list for his writings on networks, economics, and culture. |
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David YachChief Technology Officer for SoftwareResearch In Motion 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. |
