Las Vegas|October 28 - 30, 2008

 

Tim Brown
President and CEO of IDEO

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.

Jim Davis
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
SAS

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.

Thomas H. Davenport
President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management Babson College

Thomas H. Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management at Babson College and co-directs research for the Business Analytics research program at nGenera Corp. He is the former director of research centers at Accenture, Ernst & Young, and McKinsey.

Davenport is the author or co-author of 12 books and his latest book, Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, has become a best-seller and is being translated into 10 languages. He is also a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and other leading journals. His recent article "Competing on Analytics" was Harvard Business Review’s most requested article reprint of 2006.

Jim Goodnight
CEO
SAS

Since he co-founded SAS in 1976, Jim Goodnight has served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. A worldwide leader in enterprise intelligence solutions and services, SAS has more than 10,000 employees in 53 countries. In 2007, the company’s 32nd consecutive year of growth and profitability, its revenue was $2.1 billion.

In 2004, Harvard Business School named Goodnight as one of the "20th Century’s Great American Business Leaders," citing his impact on "the way people have lived, worked and interacted in the 20th century."

Goodnight has a PhD in statistics and speaks internationally on leadership, education and innovation.

Ann Livermore
Executive Vice President, Technology Solutions Group
Hewlett-Packard Company

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.

Jeffrey Ma
The number-crunching MIT whiz kid who took Vegas by storm and inspired the hit movie 21

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."

Jim McCann
CEO of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM

Jim McCann, founder and CEO of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, opened his first store in 1976 and built a chain of 14 flower shops in the New York metro area. In 1986, he acquired the 1-800-FLOWERS phone number and grew his business under the 1-800-FLOWERS^® name, successfully expanding into other retail access channels and launching the company’s now well-known Web site.

Geoffrey Moore
Managing Director, TCG Advisors Venture Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

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.

Jeremy Rifkin
President of the Foundation on Economic Trends

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.

Don Tapscott
Chief Executive of New Paradigm and co-author of Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

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.