Keynote Speakers
Hear visionary leaders discuss the future of business technology throughout the week in Keynote sessions Tuesday and Wednesday April 29-30.
| Tuesday, April 29 Morning Keynote 8:30am - 10:00am |
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C. K. Prahalad Distinguished Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan Abhijit Dubey Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company 
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Platforms Panel: |
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| David Knight Vice President, WebEx Connect, WebEx Communications, Inc. – a division of Cisco |
Vivek Luthra Senior Vice President & Global Head of Services, Ramco Systems |
| Tuesday, April 29 Afternoon Keynote 2:00pm - 3:30PM |
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Dynamic IT: Transforming Management & the Datacenter
Join Microsoft Senior Vice President Bob Muglia as he discusses Dynamic IT and the transformation of the datacenter -- all driven by today’s rapidly changing business environment and the resulting demands on IT. Dynamic IT is Microsoft's initiative focused on helping customers deliver technology innovation that helps IT create highly-optimized and agile infrastructures. The result? Reduced costs and an IT infrastructure that continuously aligns to changing business needs. Muglia will discuss Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and demonstrate new technologies from Microsoft that enable IT to become an even stronger, more strategic partner to the business. |
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Driven by shifts in application and architectural dynamics, datacenter re-centralization sees IT re-establishing its business relevance and reasserting strategic criticality. Join Cisco Senior Vice President of Datacenter, Switching and Services Technology, Jayshree Ullal to learn how innovations in virtualization resulting from the move to SOA and Web2.0 architectures are enabling the network as the platform for scalable implementation of collaboration technologies that increase efficiency and accelerate productivity.
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Software Trends Panel: |
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| Roger Burkhardt President and CEO, Ingres Corporation |
Stephen J. Mellor Freeter, Integranova |
Philip Winslow Vice President - Software Analyst, Credit Suisse |
| Wednesday, April 30 Morning Keynote 8:30am - 10:00AM |
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Looking Beyond Enterprise Applications
Learn how the largest and most successful enterprise software company in the world is collaborating with customers to move beyond traditional enterprise applications and into addressing differentiated innovative business processes by leveraging modern SOA based integration techniques that are complete and open. We'll also highlight Enterprise 2.0 techniques that extend the boundaries of a conventional business, creating new ways to work both internally and with your entire ecosystem. |
Security in the Web 2.0 World Panel:
Ubiquitous access to the Net from anywhere, constant communication through email and instant messaging, and participation in diverse communities through blogs and wikis has completely changed the dynamic of the Internet in the last few years. Along with this change, the threat landscape has become far more complex with dynamic worldwide botnets, sharp rises in identity theft and online fraud, and the ease with which sensitive information can leak out of an organization today. Add to this the constant pressures of increasing IT efficiency and giving users more flexibility and control. Clearly, this Web 2.0 world demands a new look at how we secure our enterprises -- be they high assurance networks, or smaller enterprises.
Join this distinguished panel of experts with John McNulty, Chairman and CEO fo Secure Computing, Gary Hodge, CTO of US Bancorp, Scott Messina head of security services at ESPN and Garry Dobbins, director of Information Security at the University of Notre Dame as they look at the security issues facing CIOs in today's Web 2.0 world. Not only will they look at the new threat landscape they face, but also policy issues, customer demands, business needs, and the tradeoffs necessary when blending all these together. See how the leading information architects from these diverse enterprises are approaching the problems and finding solutions that work for their businesses.
 John McNulty Chairman and CEO, Secure Computing Corporation |
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| Dmitri Alperovitch Director, Intelligence Analysis and Hosted Security Secure Computing Corporation |
Gary Dobbins Director - Information Security, University of Notre Dame |
Gary L. Hodge CTO, U.S. Bank |
| Wednesday, April 30 Afternoon Keynote 2:00pm - 3:30PM |
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Security is morphing. Join Dave DeWalt, president and CEO of McAfee, Inc. for insight on the challenges facing security professionals, including proliferation of network connected devices, globalization, increased malware and sophisticated cybercrime groups.
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Software development has come a long way from the days of punch cards. We no longer have to reserve time in a room full of massive computers storing information on tape to do programming. Today software development is done around the world on computers that fit in a briefcase. The prevalence and advances in technologies such as the internet and telecommunications now easily allow a piece of code to be developed in one part of the world, tested in another, installed somewhere else and then monitored and maintained from a fourth location. However, the current ability of the industry to consistently deliver software projects to standards that customers are expecting is seriously lacking. According to one study, only 37% of businesses feel that their IT service providers deliver projects on time and only 42% feel their providers deliver at an acceptable quality level. The cost of rework for these failed projects can significantly exceed the original estimate. Clearly something is wrong.
Join Surya Kant, President of Tata Consultancy Services’ North America operations, for a revealing discussion on the current state of the software delivery industry, how TCS is addressing these issues and what the next generation of software delivery will look like. |
