Las Vegas|October 28 - 30, 2008
Keynote Presentations | Panel Discussions | Speakers' Bios | Special Guests
Business Technology and Transformation
Ann Livermore
Executive Vice President, Technology Solutions Group, Hewlett-Packard
One of the biggest challenges facing companies today is the explosion of digital content. This information is fundamental to business success, but the volume of data being created can overwhelm IT organizations and frustrate decision makers. As a result, companies are looking for new ways to capture and manage all that information, both structured and unstructured, turn it into business intelligence and build a competitive advantage.
Ann Livermore, executive vice president of HP’s Technology Solutions Group, will discuss the opportunities for businesses to transform their technology environments to deliver better business outcomes, drawing on the experience of HP and its customers. She will highlight technologies and solutions that are helping companies achieve real-time business decisions.
Ann Livermore leads HP's Technology Solutions Group, a nearly $38 billion business that encompasses storage and servers, software and services. The products and services from this organization serve HP's business customers of all sizes in more than 170 countries.
For more than two decades, Livermore has been involved with building solutions to help customers manage and transform their technology environments to optimize business outcomes. She joined HP in 1982 and held a variety of management positions in marketing, sales, research and development, and business management before being elected a corporate vice president in 1995.
For more than two decades, Livermore has been involved with building solutions to help customers manage and transform their technology environments to optimize business outcomes. She joined HP in 1982 and held a variety of management positions in marketing, sales, research and development, and business management before being elected a corporate vice president in 1995.
Grown-Up Digital
Don Tapscott
Chief Executive of New Paradigm and co-author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Flash forward a decade since the publication of his book Growing Up Digital. Tapscott’s latest research reveals that the Net Generation has not only arrived, but it has come of age. In 2008 the eldest of this generation turned 30, and the youngest is 12.
During this thought-provoking presentation, Tapscott will share what makes this generation different from all others before it. From birth, “Net-Geners” have been surrounded by high-tech tools and digital media, which has cultivated an entire generation of Net-savvy users. But is this population the catalyst for changes in education, recreation, commerce, the workplace, the family and government?
Don Tapscott is an internationally renowned authority on the strategic value and impact of information technology. He consistently predicts the next business imperatives and defines the business models and strategies that the new imperatives require. He has authored or co-authored 11 widely read books on technology and business, and his most recent book was named one of the best books on innovation in 2006 by BusinessWeek.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything explains how businesses can tap the full potential of the emerging networked economy and its self-organized, mass-participatory communities. Wikinomics is based on the largest investigation of strategic IT in business ever conducted, the Information Technology and Competitive Advantage project.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything explains how businesses can tap the full potential of the emerging networked economy and its self-organized, mass-participatory communities. Wikinomics is based on the largest investigation of strategic IT in business ever conducted, the Information Technology and Competitive Advantage project.
Innovation in Action
Tim Brown
President and CEO of IDEO
Geoffrey Moore
Managing Director, TCG Advisors Venture Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Everyone wants to innovate, but companies often get confused and off track during the process. Geoffrey Moore, Managing Director of TCG Advisors and Venture Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, and Tim Brown, President and CEO of IDEO, will answer your questions during this interactive presentation.
Moore and Brown will walk you through the innovation process, from identifying the best opportunities at your organization to avoiding some of the key misunderstandings that can throw off even the most well-intentioned efforts. Learn how taking a “Design Thinking” approach will allow you to move past having the idea to implementing it in the real world.
Tim Brown speaks regularly on the value of design thinking and innovation to business and design audiences around the world. His leadership in design is widely sought in industry, academia and the nonprofit community. He advises senior executives of FORTUNE 500® companies on a variety of boards and committees.
Most recently, he joined the Advisory Council of Acumen Fund, a not-for-profit global venture fund focused on improving the lives of the poor. He has led strategic client relationships with such companies as DaimlerChrysler, Microsoft, Motorola, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, and Steelcase.
Brown has received numerous design awards, and his designs have been exhibited around the world.
Geoffrey Moore is a leading business consultant to large companies facing formidable strategic challenges, an expert in market development and business investment strategies, and a best-selling author. In addition to his roles with TCG Advisors and Mohr Davidow Ventures, he is the founder of the Chasm Group.
Moore’s books, including Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado and Living on the Fault Line, are required reading at leading business schools.
He holds a bachelor's degree in literature from Stanford University and a doctorate in literature from the University of Washington.
Most recently, he joined the Advisory Council of Acumen Fund, a not-for-profit global venture fund focused on improving the lives of the poor. He has led strategic client relationships with such companies as DaimlerChrysler, Microsoft, Motorola, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, and Steelcase.
Brown has received numerous design awards, and his designs have been exhibited around the world.
Geoffrey Moore is a leading business consultant to large companies facing formidable strategic challenges, an expert in market development and business investment strategies, and a best-selling author. In addition to his roles with TCG Advisors and Mohr Davidow Ventures, he is the founder of the Chasm Group.
Moore’s books, including Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado and Living on the Fault Line, are required reading at leading business schools.
He holds a bachelor's degree in literature from Stanford University and a doctorate in literature from the University of Washington.
The Balancing Act
Jim Davis
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
SAS
Globalization, the economy and the spread of technologies are bringing rapid change to both established and new organizations. Achieving success amidst changing times involves the ability to balance innovation, optimization and, ultimately, the transformation process within your organization. Business transformation is considered essential to an organization’s competitive cycle. Innovation has become necessary for survival, but it also involves risk and sometimes may have a disruptive effect. Optimization has a profound impact on effective decision making and the ability to gain a competitive advantage.
So, how do we optimize without killing innovation? How do we innovate while mitigating risks? How do we effectively transform our business while remaining competitive? How do we achieve the balance of innovation, optimization and business transformation?
Jim Davis will share how organizations can achieve this balance while empowering effective decision making at every level and enabling a transformation effort that takes them from “business as usual” to achieving true competitive differentiation.
As Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Jim Davis provides worldwide marketing direction for SAS® solutions and services. He is responsible for managing product direction, professional services, education, advertising and communications.
A respected thought leader, Davis co-authored the book Information Revolution: Using the Information Evolution Model to Grow Your Business.
Since joining SAS in 1994, Davis has pioneered many key initiatives, including global projects that incorporate customer feedback in the development process. Today, he continues to refine the model for continuous collaboration and innovation among engineers, marketers and customers, enabling SAS to meet the global demand for enterprise intelligence.
A respected thought leader, Davis co-authored the book Information Revolution: Using the Information Evolution Model to Grow Your Business.
Since joining SAS in 1994, Davis has pioneered many key initiatives, including global projects that incorporate customer feedback in the development process. Today, he continues to refine the model for continuous collaboration and innovation among engineers, marketers and customers, enabling SAS to meet the global demand for enterprise intelligence.
The Challenges and Opportunities of Globalization in the 21st Century
Jeremy Rifkin
President of the Foundation on Economic Trends
A great change is occurring in the nature of commerce. The unprecedented crisis of global warming, peaking oil and gas production, and the increasing rate of globalization have far-reaching implications for the future of society. Profound changes are taking place in the global economy with particular emphasis on the new economic models that are beginning to fundamentally change the way we do business.
Jeremy Rifkin will discuss the many features of the emerging new economic system, including: the shift from geography to cyberspace and from national markets to global networks; the conflicts and synergies that organizations will face in this transition; and the emergence of cultural production and new culturally based industries.
Jeremy Rifkin is President of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of 17 best-selling books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the work force, society and the environment.
Rifkin has been influential in shaping public policy in the United States and around the world. He has testified before numerous congressional committees and has had consistent success in litigation to ensure responsible government policies on a variety of environmental, scientific and technology-related issues. He has been a frequent guest on numerous television programs, including Face the Nation, The Lehrer News Hour, 20/20, Larry King Live, Today and Good Morning America.
The National Journal named Rifkin as one of 150 people in the US who have the most influence in shaping federal government policy.
Rifkin has been influential in shaping public policy in the United States and around the world. He has testified before numerous congressional committees and has had consistent success in litigation to ensure responsible government policies on a variety of environmental, scientific and technology-related issues. He has been a frequent guest on numerous television programs, including Face the Nation, The Lehrer News Hour, 20/20, Larry King Live, Today and Good Morning America.
The National Journal named Rifkin as one of 150 people in the US who have the most influence in shaping federal government policy.
The Numbers Don't Lie: Harnessing the Power of Quantitative Analysis to Improve Your Business Results
Jeffrey Ma
The number-crunching MIT whiz kid who took Vegas by storm and inspired the hit movie 21
Jeffrey Ma explores how to use quantitative analysis to improve business decision making and the bottom line. Both at the blackjack table and in the world of pro sports, Ma has been able to enter what were traditionally very emotional, "gut-feel" environments and achieve success by gathering the right data, analyzing it rationally and having the courage to follow through on the answers it provided. This same approach can improve the results of any business.
Ma shares how the intersection of math and computers has allowed for the creation of powerful tools that can quantify many of the things experts thought could not be quantified – and examines the effects these tools have had in real-world business settings.
Jeffrey Ma first put his unique approach to the test as a member of the MIT Blackjack Team, a small group of hyper-geniuses and number-crunching whiz kids who took the gaming world completely by surprise. His life story became the New York Times best-seller Bringing Down the House, which inspired the motion picture 21.
Ma knows that numbers don’t lie. As founder of PROTRADE, the revolutionary sports fantasy Web site that allows fans to trade players like stocks, he is putting his innovative theories to practice. By showing companies how to harness the power of rational, quantitative analysis to improve decision making and the bottom line, Ma stands at the forefront of what BusinessWeek calls “a new age of numbers.”
Ma knows that numbers don’t lie. As founder of PROTRADE, the revolutionary sports fantasy Web site that allows fans to trade players like stocks, he is putting his innovative theories to practice. By showing companies how to harness the power of rational, quantitative analysis to improve decision making and the bottom line, Ma stands at the forefront of what BusinessWeek calls “a new age of numbers.”