Speaker - Akiba Saeedi [ Presentation], Program Director, Unified Communications & Collaboration Products, IBM Software Group
Stowe Boyd is an internationally recognized authority on social applications and their impact on business and society, and is the CEO of Blue Whale Labs, a consulting group focused on the design and development of social applications. He is the editor of /Message, and has served as editor and columnist for Cutter Consortium, Darwin, Fawcette, Wiley, and Knowledge Management magazine. He was formerly the president of Corante, the social media group, as well as the managing director of A Working Model. He is a member of the Web 2.0 Workgroup, and part of the Federated Media Publishing blog network.
Speaker - Gary Cattarin [ Presentation], Senior Network Architect, Nortel
Gary Cattarin is a Senior Network Architect for Convergence at Nortel, with 25 years of technology experience, 15 focused in communications. He joined Nortel in 1997, following senior roles at data and voice technology vendors spanning optical, LAN-WAN, ATM, voice, and multimedia converged networks. He is responsible for evangelizing new technologies from a business-focused approach to clients, partners, and Nortel staff in the Northeast, and he sits on corporate technology guidance committees. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer, and an M.B.A. Summa Cum Laude from Babson College.
Speaker - Paul Haverstock [ Presentation], Architect, Unified Communications, Microsoft
Paul Haverstock is an architect for the UC Application Server team at Microsoft. He has been at Microsoft for 3½ years, responsible for developing and bringing to market RTC?s web access client, ajax application developer platform for server developers, mobile client developers and web application developers, has managed Developer Evangelism for RTC, and has served as a trusted advisor on UC strategy to some of Microsoft?s largest customers. Previously, Paul spent 14 years at IBM/Lotus Development Corp./Iris where he was General Manager for Lotus Sametime. Paul spearheaded IBM's acquisitions of Kentucky-based DataBeam Corp. and Israel-based Ubique Ltd. to form a new Sametime organization focused on fulfilling the Sametime vision of bringing live communication to the web. Over the next 2½ years, Paul, lead this team to ship 3 commercially successful versions of Sametime to the market, achieving almost 2M seats and over $20M in product revenue in Sametime?s first year in market. Prior to Sametime, Paul conceived and led the development of Lotus Domino ? the combining of a Notes server with a web server ? that brought the power of Notes to millions of web browser users. Also during his tenure at Lotus, Paul managed the Lotus 1-2-3 product line, brought Chronicle collaborative desktop application technology to market as Version Manager for 1-2-3, and established Lotus' first corporate website and online Web communities of interest for Lotus Domino and Lotus InterNotes Web Publisher. After his long tenure at Lotus ? Paul was VP of R&D at Ezenia! where he lead product and business strategy for InfoWorkSpace ? a collaborative virtual team solution used by DoD and intelligence agencies.
Speaker - Ross Sedgewick [ Presentation], Director, Global Applications Marketing, Siemens Enterprise Communications
Speaker - Andrew McAfee [ Presentation], Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Andrew McAfee joined the faculty of the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School in 1998. His research investigates how managers can most effectively select, implement, and use Information Technology (IT) to achieve business goals. He was the recipient of a US Department of Energy Integrated Manufacturing Fellowship for his doctoral research, which focused on the performance impact of enterprise information technologies such as SAP?s R/3. His current research is an exploration of how Web 2.0 technologies can be used within the enterprise.
10:15 am–10:45 am
Keynotes
Keynote - How Video and Other Web 2.0 Technologies Are Changing the Enterprise
Speaker - Marthin De Beer [ Presentation], Senior Vice President, Emerging Markets Technology Group, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Marthin De Beer is the Senior Vice President of Cisco's Emerging Markets Technology Group (EMTG). Under his leadership, EMTG is responsible for cultivating a steady stream of new businesses that can drive 1 billion dollars worth of revenue in 5-7 years and take Cisco into new adjacent markets. De Beer most recently led the development of Cisco TelePresence, Digital Media Systems, Linksys One, IP Video Surveillance and Cisco IPICs. Previously, De Beer was responsible for Cisco's Global Enterprise IP Communications solutions and led the introduction of Cisco's Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data (Cisco AVVID) solution. He played a key role in taking Cisco's IP Communications business across the chasm from inception to a large profitable business. De Beer has more than 20 years of experience in the communications and software industry. He has been at Cisco for 11 years directing key platforms such as the Cisco Catalyst Switching platforms and Cisco's IP Telephony and VoIP systems. De Beer was also a founder of two start-up companies and previously held senior marketing and engineering positions at Hughes LAN Systems, Persetel Computer Systems, and Atlas Aircraft. De Beer holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
10:45 am–11:00 am
General Sessions
General Session - Collaborating in the Transparent Enterprise
Speaker - Jessica Lipnack [ Presentation], NetAge, Inc., CEO and Co-Founder
Jessica Lipnack, is CEO and co-founder of NetAge. NetAge transforms organizations into transparent, collaborative enterprises. For three decades, the company?s founders have provided expertise and tools that allow their clients to reinvent the way they work together. NetAge's comprehensive approach employs a system of analysis that examines all aspects of the organization's structure. Companies, public sector organizations, and non-profits benefit from NetAge's pioneering initiatives. Jessica and her partner Jeff Stamps? research and practical experience have taken them around the world. Among their clients: Apple Computer, AT&T Universal Card Services, BankBoston, Becton-Dickinson, Digital Equipment Corporation, GlaxoSmithKline, General Electric, Fidelity Investments, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Kerr-McGee, Merck, Pfizer, NCR, PeopleSoft, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Roche, Royal Dutch Shell, Steelcase, The United Nations, Unilever, U.S. Joint Forces and Volvo. Jessica is co-author of Virtual Teams (Wiley)?along with five other books, including Networking, The TeamNet Factor, and The Age of the Network?that have been translated around the world. Recent articles include ?Can Absence Make a Team Grow Stronger?? (May, 2004 Harvard Business Review), reporting on best-practices in ?far-flung? teams; and ?The Easier Way to Work: Collaborating in World-class Virtual Teams? (July, 2005 Cutter IT Journal). Her articles appear in numerous publications and she regularly contributes to books. Frequently interviewed by the press, Jessica began her career as a reporter. She also is a fiction writer. From 1982 until the founding of NetAge, she was president of The Networking Institute, Inc., a consulting firm engaged by global organizations to develop their network strategies.
11:00 am–11:30 am
Keynotes
Keynote: Amplify the Impact of your People with Enterprise 2.0 Technologies
Speaker - Derek Burney [ Presentation], General Manager, SharePoint Platform and Tools, Microsoft, Microsoft
Derek is currently responsible for the development of the Windows SharePoint Services platform and its associated development tools. He joined Microsoft in 2004 from Corel Corporation, where he held the position of President and CEO since October, 2000. He came to Microsoft as the GM of FrontPage, and led the transition of FrontPage to SharePoint Designer (SPD) and delivered the first release of Expression Web Designer.
11:30 am–12:00 pm
Keynotes
Keynote - Enterprise 2.1
Speaker - Dennis Moore [ Presentation], General Manager, Emerging Solutions, SAP Labs
Dennis Moore is General Manager, Emerging Solutions, for SAP. His team is responsible for creating solutions for untapped enterprise markets. Dennis? team has pioneered many industry firsts including composite applications for the enterprise (xApps), enterprise information worker productivity (Duet, formerly ?Project Mendocino?), and ground-breaking patent-pending techniques for model-driven development, user productivity, grid processing, and business process management. Dennis serves as a member of SAP?s Product Leadership Team and Senior Executive Team and reports directly to the Board of SAP AG. Dennis joined SAP in 2001 and has twenty years of experience in the enterprise software market. Before joining SAP, he spent four years working with numerous startups as a founder, key executive, and consultant. Previously, Dennis spent nearly eight years in a number of senior management positions in product development and marketing at Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle, Dennis held a number of product development and management positions with Ingres Corp., Dendrite International, and Procter and Gamble. Dennis graduated from Princeton University, earning a BSE degree in Chemical Engineering. Dennis enjoys spending time with his family, and in his roles as founder and president of The OracAlumni Network, SDForum Board member, volunteer with Northern California Music and Art Culture Center, and as an advisor to several early stage start-ups.
1:15 pm–2:15 pm
Conference Sessions
Building Bridges from Consumer to Enterprise - Sponsored by WebEx
Speaker - Mark Ferry [ Presentation], Partner Technology, SpringCM
Speaker - Prem Uppaluru [ Presentation], CEO and Co-Founder, Transera, Inc.
Moderator - Irwin Lazar [ Presentation], Principal Research Analyst and Program Director, Collaboration and Convergence, Nemertes Research
Irwin Lazar is a Principal Analyst & Program Director, Convergence & Collaboration at Nemertes Research, where he develops and manages research projects, conducts strategic seminars, and advises clients. His background is in network operations, network engineering, voice-data convergence, and IP telephony. Mr. Lazar is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in the enterprise in areas including VOIP, unified communications, and collaboration. He is on the advisory board for Enterprise 2.0 and VoiceCon.
Enterprise 2.0: Case Studies of Excellence - Part 1
Speaker - David Carter [ Presentation], Co-Founder and Chief Technolgy Officer, iUpload
Speaker - Jordan Frank [ Presentation], VP Marketing and Business Development, Traction Software
Jordan learned to type by copying BASIC computer programs from PC World magazine to his 1982 IBM XT. Fast forward to this century... Just over 4 years ago, Jordan's attention was captured by two four letter words: Blog and Wiki. These words were just beginning to find their way into our collective vocabulary. Jordan anticipated the impact these hypertext technologies would have on the net, and the enterprise thereafter. So he joined Traction Software which started building a collaborative hypertext system back in 1996. Posting pages and comments at a rate of 10 to 20 per day, Jordan is a black-belt blogger and wiki collaborator. Jordan gathered his education at the MIT Sloan School and Dartmouth College and can often be found tumbling down a hill at the helm of his mountain bike
Speaker - Mark Mader [ Presentation], CEO, Smartsheet.com
Mark Mader is the CEO of Smartsheet.com. Before joining Smartsheet.com, Mark was at Onyx Software Corporation, where he served as Senior Vice President of Global Services, leading the professional services and software maintenance groups. Mark joined Onyx in 1995 as one of the early members of the team. In addition to overseeing service operations in the Americas, Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Australia, Mark was a Director of Onyx KK, Onyx's joint venture in Japan. Prior to Onyx, he worked at Greenwich Associates as an Associate focusing on European financial markets. Mark graduated from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts in Geography (AB) in 1992.
3:45 pm–3:55 pm
Sponsor Sessions
Making the Customer Core to Your Business - Sponsored by Near-Time
Lee Buck is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Near-Time. Lee has served as an advisor, investor and board member of various local and regional technology companies. Previously, Lee was the co-founder and CTO of Extensibility, Inc. a leading provider of XML tools, acquired by TIBCO Software, Inc. in September 2000. After the acquisition Lee served as TIBCO's VP & Chief Scientist, XML Technologies. Lee is a recognized authority on XML and schema and has helped shape a number of Internet standards by serving on committees such as the W3C's XML Schema Working Group. Prior to Extensibility, Lee founded Software Designs Unlimited, a commercial software developer serving clients such as National Geographic Society, Simon & Schuster and Charles Schwab. Lee is a contributing author to the XML Handbook as well as an award winning author of an AppleScript Rapid Application Development tool.
5:05 pm–5:15 pm
Sponsor Sessions
Your Search is Over: How You Can Bridge the Information Gap for Customers, Employees, and Partners - Sponsored by KnowNow
Speaker - Todd Rulon-Miller [ Presentation], CEO, KnowNow, Inc.
5:25 pm–5:35 pm
Sponsor Sessions
The Business of Collaboration - Sponsored by Mindquarry
Speaker - Stephan Voigt [ Presentation], CEO, MindQuarry
Stephan is since November 2006 with Mindquarry as the new CEO. He met the Mindquarry founders during their pre-company stage at Hasso-Plattner-Ventures. He kept in touch with them and after they got financed and foundet the company the founder team invited him to bring in his rich experiences to lead the company. Prior Stephan has been with Scopeland for more than 15 years as a co-founder, COO and CEO. Scopeland created a universal software for the fast generation of database based web applications and market it worldwide.By his original training Stephan is a technical engineer with a degree from the Technical University Chemnitz. He started as programmer and became the co-founder of Scopeland Software in 1990. There he started his career in the field of sales and marketing and became the COO in 1998. In 2000/01 he lead the U.S. company branch in San Francisco, CA. There he was elected as a member of the board of directors of the German-American Chamber of Commerce of the Western United States (GACC West). Back in Germany, he became the CEO of Scopeland Technology in 2002 to 2006.
Social Project Management: Everything Big Is Small Again
Speaker - Leisa Reichelt [ Presentation], Principal Consultant, Flow Interactive
Leisa started working in the internet industry back in the early nineties as a project manager. She went on to project manage many large web projects before moving into User Experience Design and Information Architecture which she currently practices as a Principal Consultant at Flow Interactive in London. Leisa has a particular interest in experience design for social software and is often found evangelizing iterative and collaborative project methodologies.
Enterprise Search: "I Know It Was Here Somewhere"
Moderator - Larry Cannell [ Presentation], Enterprise Technology, Ford IT
Enterprise 2.0: Case Studies of Excellence - Part 2
Speaker - Dave Holvey [ Presentation], SVP of Enterprise Marketing, Wells Fargo Bank
Dave is SVP and Division Manager for Wells Fargo & Company?s Integrated Database Strategy Division within the Enterprise Marketing Group. Dave?s group currently leads Wells Fargo?s Enterprise-level efforts to develop an integrated database infrastructure to enable customer insights, marketing and analytical functions throughout the Company. On an ongoing basis, the Integrated Database Strategy team provides analysis and decision support for Wells Fargo marketing, product management, risk management, and pricing functions; and is also responsible for development and application of Wells Fargo?s largest relational database environment, and related information tools and business applications. Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 1996, Dave spent 4 years as SVP and Manger of Bank of America Relationship Marketing Group (a direct marketing function) and 6 years as an SVP and Manager in BofA?s Corporate Development and Mergers and Acquisitions areas. Dave has a Master of Science degree from MIT?s Sloan School with concentrations in Applied Economics and Management Information Systems.
Speaker - Jeff Herrmann [ Presentation], Co-Director of Research, Manning and Napier
Speaker - Joe Schwartz [ Presentation], VP, WW Marketing Operations and Segment Marketing, Webex Communications
Speaker - Maria Barnum [ Presentation], Technical Architect, Bank of America
Maria Barnum is a Strategic Planner and Technical Architect focused on Collaboration Products within Bank of America?s Enterprise Electronic Communications & Mobility Services organization. Maria works with the product engineering and support teams to align enterprise tools with business strategies. Before joining the Bank nine years ago, Maria spent the bulk of her twenty year career as a Computer Systems Engineer with General Electric?s Global Research Center where she was involved in many ?early Internet? efforts in Email, electronic communications and ?world wide web? exploration. She has both a BS and MS in Computer Science from Union College.
Nick Fera has led Parlano since 2003 and has since doubled the customer base, established an intercontinental presence, raised $11 million in capital, and made Microsoft a strategic partner. Parlano was one of only 26 organizations featured in Microsoft?s recent book ?Innovation Starts Here.? Prior to Parlano, Fera was vice president of data warehousing and business intelligence at Platinum Technologies, launching a Year 2000 software product and driving revenues to over $20 million in just eight months. He also worked at The Alcar Group Inc., a private software firm specializing in technology for strategic financial planning and mergers and acquisition analysis.
90% People, 10% Technology
Speaker - Dan Somers [ Presentation], Managing Director, VC-Net
Dan Somers is the founder and CEO of vc-net, a collaboration consultancy and solution provider with offices in London and New York. He has developed and spoken on the concept of "Chief Collaboration Officer": the significance and practicalities of role. Former management consultant, real estate entrepreneur and Chairman of the Campaign for Video Enabled Working. Alumnus of Cambridge University and Judge Business School.
Speaker - Tom Witkin [ Presentation], Marketing Head, Sitescape
10:30 am–11:30 am
Conference Sessions
Enterprise 2.0 Mash-Ups
Moderator - David Coleman [ Presentation], Managing Director, Collaborative Strategies
Ajay Gandhi is the Director of Emerging Products at BEA Systems where he heads the go-to-market strategy and marketing initiatives for Web 2.0 social computing products within BEA?s Business Interaction Division. Previously at BEA, Mr. Gandhi was Director of Product Management for the BEA AquaLogic Product Family and was responsible for platform strategy, product planning and strategic partnerships. Prior to BEA, Ajay held senior product management positions at several software companies developing products in CRM, analytics and collaborative development. He was also a Principal with Crimson Ventures focused on infrastructure software companies in the areas of distributed BPM, security policy compliance and vertically focused EAI. Earlier in his career, Ajay worked as a consultant in McKinsey?s Worldwide Technology Practice and as an engineer at Microsoft, Intel and Corel. Ajay received his M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania?s Wharton School and his B.A.Sc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Speaker - Eric Hoffert [ Presentation], CEO, ShareMethods
Eric Hoffert has more than twenty years of experience leading new business, product, and technology development in enterprise software, collaboration, and rich media. Eric is the CEO of ShareMethods, an on-demand sales and marketing document management and collaboration service with customers including BusinessWeek, CNET Channel, Agile Software, HID Global, salesforce.com, etc. Eric also serves as Chairman of Versatility Software Inc., a digital media management consultancy with clients including The Walt Disney Company, TiVo, Stanford University, Corbis, Scripps Networks, Carnegie-Mellon University, etc. Previously, he was Chairman and CTO for Magnifi, a digital asset management ASP where he received the Computerworld Honors Award. Prior to Magnifi, he managed Apple Computer's Multimedia Communications Group, where he co-founded the QuickTime software project and led development of the first real-time software video compression algorithm which is now used on more than 500 million computers. He also developed patented technology licensed to Cisco for use in their Internet Operating System. While at Apple, Eric received the CEO Technical Award for the development of QuickTime software. Prior to joining Apple, Eric was a research scientist at AT&T's Bell Laboratories. Eric holds fourteen US patents; has authored and co-authored papers for the ACM and IEEE; and has lectured widely around the world. Eric has been quoted in the press with work covered in the media including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New York Times, Fortune, The Financial Times, CIO, Computerworld, InfoWorld, eWeek, and Who's Who in America (2007 Edition).
Lee Buck is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Near-Time. Lee has served as an advisor, investor and board member of various local and regional technology companies. Previously, Lee was the co-founder and CTO of Extensibility, Inc. a leading provider of XML tools, acquired by TIBCO Software, Inc. in September 2000. After the acquisition Lee served as TIBCO's VP & Chief Scientist, XML Technologies. Lee is a recognized authority on XML and schema and has helped shape a number of Internet standards by serving on committees such as the W3C's XML Schema Working Group. Prior to Extensibility, Lee founded Software Designs Unlimited, a commercial software developer serving clients such as National Geographic Society, Simon & Schuster and Charles Schwab. Lee is a contributing author to the XML Handbook as well as an award winning author of an AppleScript Rapid Application Development tool.
Speaker - Rod Smith [ Presentation], Vice President, Emerging Technologies, IBM Software
Skype: The Communications Platform for Web 2.0
Moderator - Irwin Lazar [ Presentation], Principal Research Analyst and Program Director, Collaboration and Convergence, Nemertes Research
Irwin Lazar is a Principal Analyst & Program Director, Convergence & Collaboration at Nemertes Research, where he develops and manages research projects, conducts strategic seminars, and advises clients. His background is in network operations, network engineering, voice-data convergence, and IP telephony. Mr. Lazar is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in the enterprise in areas including VOIP, unified communications, and collaboration. He is on the advisory board for Enterprise 2.0 and VoiceCon.
12:15 pm–12:25 pm
Sponsor Sessions
Social Networking Meets Open Source Collaboration - Sponsored by Sitescape
Andy Fox is a serial entrepreneur who has founded many successful companies in the collaboration and telephony space. He came to SiteScape as the founder and CEO of Imidio, the company that created the Zon real-time collaboration solution and that merged with SiteScape in 2004. When he was chairman and CEO of iConverse, Andy was named 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year by MIMC (Massachusetts Interactive Medial Council). Andy speaks frequently about trends in collaboration and social networking in the enterprise. He has been a speaker at the 2005 and 2006 CTC conferences.
12:55 pm–1:05 pm
Sponsor Sessions
Shipping Expense Management - Sponsored by Point and Ship
Speaker - Ted Mesa [ Presentation], President and CEO, Pointandship Software, Inc.
Ted C. Mesa, president and CEO, Pointandship Software, Inc.. first founded the company as QuestNet Communications Management, Inc. in 1994 as a telemanagement and reseller of overnight shipping company. By 1998, the company had become the single largest reseller of telecom for MTC Telemanagement and the largest reseller of MTC Air (shipping). Mesa then merged the telecom arm of the company with QuantumShift and became that company?s executive director of Strategic Sales, while simultaneously continuing to grow the reseller shipping side of his business.In 2000, Mesa left QuantumShift to focus full time on his shipping management business, changed the company name to Pointandship Software, Inc., and effectively created and launched Shipping Expense Management Software (SEMS), a new product category in the parcel shipping industry. He saw the need to implement an enterprise-wide shipping process to manage multiple carriers, and was the first company to develop a Web-based desktop shipping and billing platform. Today, Pointandship has grown to a $35 million company with more than 100,000 users.Prior to founding his own company, Mesa served in top management for several major corporations over a 15-year period, including serving as VP, Sales for Business Communications Management (BCM), managing director of Centex Telemanagement, director of sales with VoiceMemo Communications, and a top sales producer for Sprint Communications, where in his second year, he was named the top sales person in the country, and stayed in the top five throughout his five-year tenure. Mesa is a father of three, resides in Blackhawk, CA, and is an avid supporter of the Oakland Children?s Hospital, Amfar, GLAAD and the Care Clowns, an organization that supports costumed doctors and nurses who entertain critically ill children.
General Session - Embracing Enterprise 2.0: How Successful Companies Have Adopted Enterprise 2.0 Platforms to Drive Innovation and Collaboration
Moderator - Don Tapscott [ Presentation], Chief Executive, New Paradigm
5:00 pm–5:10 pm
Sponsor Sessions
Real-Time Organization - An End to Sorting and Filing - Sponsored by Foldera
Speaker - Marc Orchant [ Presentation], Chief Evangelist, Foldera
Marc Orchant is Chief Evangelist at Foldera. He has been building, testing, and sometimes breaking hardware and software for more than 25 years. Orchant is a Microsoft MVP (Windows ? Tablet PC), a ZDNet blogger (Office Evolution ? http://blogs.zdnet.com/orchant), and author of The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 (Wiley, 2007). A self-professed productivity maven, Orchant regularly writes and speaks about personal and team productivity, organizational dynamics, and building high-performance cultures in organizations.
Organizing the Enterprise: Foundations for Enterprise 2.0
Speaker - Irwin Lazar [ Presentation], Principal Research Analyst and Program Director, Collaboration and Convergence, Nemertes Research
Irwin Lazar is a Principal Analyst & Program Director, Convergence & Collaboration at Nemertes Research, where he develops and manages research projects, conducts strategic seminars, and advises clients. His background is in network operations, network engineering, voice-data convergence, and IP telephony. Mr. Lazar is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in the enterprise in areas including VOIP, unified communications, and collaboration. He is on the advisory board for Enterprise 2.0 and VoiceCon.
9:30 am–10:30 am
Conference Sessions
Marketing 2.0 - The Beauty Comes From Inside
Speaker - Dr. Willms Buhse [ Presentation], Executive Director, CoreMedia AG
10:45 am–11:45 am
Conference Sessions
Leveraging Your Community as a Competitive Weapon
Speaker - Denise Kalos [ Presentation], Vice President . Corporate Solutions, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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