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7:30
8:00 |
Registration / Continental Breakfast
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8:00
8:15 |
Opening Speech: Rajit Gadh, Professor & Director, UCLA - WINMEC
'Convergence in the CIO's World'
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8:15
8:30 |
Welcome Speech:
Alfred Osborne, Senior Associate Dean, The UCLA Anderson School of Management
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8:30
9:00 |
Morning Keynote:
Ray Gilbert, Director-CIO-IT, Lucent Technologies
Convergence: CIO-IT possibilities, trends and opportunities
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9:00
10:15 |
Session 1: Servicing the Government Enterprise
Discussion will include CIO's challenges in providing public safety, defense applications, information security using convergence technologies such as VOIP, Video of WiFi, etc.
Chair: Ray Gilbert, Director-CIO-IT, Lucent Technologies
Plenary: T. Keith Glennan, VP and CTO, Northrop Grumman
'Convergence Challenges For A Defense Enterprise'
Thera Bradshaw, CIO and General Manager, City of Los Angeles
'City of Los Angeles Information Technology Initiatives & Challenges'
Peter Himmelberger, VP and CTO, CSC
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10:15
10:30 |
Coffee Break
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10:30
11:45 |
Session 2: Information Convergence in the Service Economy
Enterprises have to manage a variety of heterogenous types of information. This involves data such as video, pictures, web pages, databases, emails, etc. Information storage networks that are globally managed and stored will become important in the converged information economy. Services industries in particular will be looking for new paradigms of managing "Information Convergence"
Chair: Ann Mangal, Associate Research Director, Anderson School, UCLA
Plenary: Joe Solimando, CIO, Disney Consumer Products
'Key IT Strategies in a Creative Consumer Products'
Girish Gaitonde, Founder and CEO, Xoriant
'New Paradigm in Regulatory Compliance Using Information Technology'
Mike Cook, Sr VP and GM, Hughes Network Systems
'NETWORKING FOR RICH MEDIA.INFORMATION SERVICES'
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11:45
12:15 |
Lunch Starts
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12:15
12:45 |
Lunch Keynote:
Shaygan Kheradpir, CIO, Verizon Communications
The Customer Experience in an Always-Connected World
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12:45
1:10 |
Lunch Speech 1:
Rajit Gadh, Professor & Director, UCLA - WINMEC
What Wireless has in store for the CIO - RFID, WiFi, VoWiFi...
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1:10
1:30 |
Lunch Speech 2:
Uday Karmarkar, Research Director - CMIE, Professor, UCLA - Anderson Business School
Industrialization and Globalization in the Information Economy
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1:30
2:30 |
Session 3: Convergence for Entertainment-Media and the Consumer
Strategic value and implications of the convergence of the enterprise and consumer functions for entertainment. Management in the changing global services environment.
Chair: Gunjan Bagla, Advisor, Amritt Ventures
Plenary: Jeffrey Mirich, SVP and CIO, Walt Disney Studios
Norm Fjeldheim, CIO, Qualcomm
'Convergence for Entertainment-Media and the Consumer.'
Tsvi Gal, CIO, Warner Music Group
'Growing the Business Through New Markets and Products'
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2:30
2:45 |
Coffee Break
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2:45
4:15 |
Session 4: The Role of Technology in Convergence
Are Devices, Networks, Applications really converging or are they diverging; How does technology affect the CIOs ability to deliver what his/her customer wants. Security Issues with Convergence
Chair: Jim Armstrong, Managing Director, Clearstone Venture Partners
Plenary: Vaho Rebassoo, CTO, IT Services, Boeing
'Convergence in Multiple Dimensions'
Bob Bauer, CTO, Xerox Global Services
'Democratizing Access at Work and Play: Remedying the Convergence Stranglehold of Platform Providers'
Martin Menard, Director - Information Services and Technology Group, Intel Corp
'Intel Mobilizes Employees'
John Barcomb, Dir. of Wireless App. Engg. and Implementation, Sprint
'Sprint Business Solutions'
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4:15
5:25 |
Session 5: Gazing into the Crystal Ball - Where do cutting edge CIOs see themselves 2-5 years from now
How is wireless expected to grow? How will wide area and local area wireless converge? How are personal business devices merging with consumer devices? Will ubiquitous connectivity and ubiquitous computing be a reality?
Chair: Bob Foster, Adjunct Associate Professor, UCLA Anderson School
Plenary: Leonard Kleinrock, Professor, UCLA
'Facing the Complexity Wall'
Jim Davis, CIO, University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Kogut, CIO, University of California, Merced
'Wireless: Whence the.Next Killer App'
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5:25
6:25 |
Cocktail Networking
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Conference Ends
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