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Peter Keen is the founder and Chairman of Keen Innovations and its
subsidiary, Keen Education. He has served on the faculties of Harvard, MIT, and Stanford,
with visiting positions at Wharton, Oxford, Fordham, the London Business School, Stockholm
University and Duke University. In 1994, he was profiled by Forbes magazine as the
"consultant from Paradise." In 1988, he was named by Information Week as
one of the top ten consultants in the information technology field. A prolific writer, Peter Keen is the author of many books that have
strongly influenced the business-technology dialogue, starting with Decision Support
Systems (1978), that introduced in the early 1970s the concept of IT as a support to
managerial judgment, Competing in Time: Using Telecommunications for Competitive Advantage
(1986), the first book to anticipate the immense impact of telecommunications on the
basics of business, and Shaping the Future: Business Design Through Information
Technology(1991), a book addressed to senior executives that has been translated into
many European and Asian languages. His Every Manager’s Guide to Information
Technology (1995), now in a second edition, and Every Manager’s Guide to Business
Processes (1995), provide business managers with a succinct overview of key
concepts and terms. Every Manager’s Guide to Business Multimedia and Online
Profits: A Manager’s Guide to Electronic Commerce were published in October 1997
and The Business Internet in 1998. He works on a long-term basis as an adviser and executive educator to top managers across the world in helping them fuse business choices and technology decisions.
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Nanci Caldwell is a vice president of Hewlett-Packard Company and
general manager for the North America Enterprise Computing Sales Organization. She is
responsible for enterprise computing sales, marketing, and support services that represent
the full breadth of HP's computer, services and solutions to the North America
marketplace. Caldwell is located in Cupertino, Calif. Caldwell has been with Hewlett-Packard since 1982. She has held numerous sales, sales management, global sales management and marketing management positions. In 1994, Caldwell was named general manager of HP Canada's Computer Systems Organization. In 1997, she became worldwide manager for Global Sales Programs and Enterprise Marketing. In 1998, she was named vice president of the North America Enterprise Accounts Organization. She assumed her current position in 1999. Caldwell was born March 26, 1958, in Brockville, Ontario, Canada. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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Carleton
(Carly) S. Fiorina is president and chief executive officer of
Hewlett-Packard Company. HP is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and
intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of
which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. The company headquarters are
in Palo Alto, Calif. Reporting to Fiorina are HP’s four computing and imaging businesses: Enterprise Computing Solutions, Computer Products, Inkjet Imaging Solutions, and LaserJet Imaging Systems. Prior to joining HP, Fiorina spent a total of nearly 20 years at AT&T and Lucent. During the past two years, as president of Lucent’s Global Service Provider Business, the division dramatically increased its growth rate, rapidly expanded its international revenues and gained market share in every region across every product line. In addition, she spearheaded the planning and execution of Lucent’s 1996 initial public offering and subsequent spin-off from AT&T, one of the largest and most successful IPOs ever. Prior to Lucent, Fiorina held a number of senior positions at AT&T. She began her career with the company as an account executive. She became president and chief executive officer of HP on July 17, 1999, and will join the HP board of directors. The board elected Fiorina to succeed Platt, who recently announced his intention to retire.
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Thirty years ago, Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Today, he continues to
pioneer our exploration though the active development of space tourism for people like you
and me. Since retiring from NASA, the Air Force, and his position as Commander of the Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, Dr. Aldrin has remained at the forefront of efforts to ensure a continued leading role for America in manned space exploration. To advance his lifelong commitment to venturing outward in space, he has created a master plan of evolving missions for sustained exploration utilizing his concept. "The Cycler," a spacecraft system which makes perpetual orbits between Earth and Mars, and in 1993 received a patent for a permanent space station he designed. Dr. Aldrin participates in many space organizations worldwide, including chairmanship of the National Space Society, developing future space programs and space education. He has also endorsed two educational computer software products for children. His lecture topics include: "The Thirtieth Anniversary of the Walk On The Moon: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going;" "Space Tourism;" and "Seeking Adventure".
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Jacob (Koby) Huberman is the Vice President of InterNetworking
Marketing of the Enterprise Systems Group, Lucent Technologies, Systems Division. He is
responsible for the definition of Lucent’s marketing strategy for Enterprise
customers, and the coordination of Lucent marketing departments and activities,
initiatives and major operations on a world-wide basis. He is driving the marketing
organizations to ensure optimal marketing impact and growth of data networking business
for Enterprise customers. Koby joined Lucent Technologies in September 1998 following the acquisition of LANNET, an Israeli based pioneer in data networking switching, where he served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. In this role, he was responsible for LANNET business and marketing strategy, and led its marketing organization. He was also in charge of business development activities, OEM and strategic alliances with large corporations, such as NEC, Mitel, NTT, Trigem and more. Formerly, Koby served as the Managing Director of ServiceSoft Europe, a Pan-European leading vendor of artificial intelligence and knowledge based software for customer service applications (based in Brussels). His company developed strategic relationships with large customers, such as Siemens, Philips, IBM, ICL, Alcatel and Olivetti and helped define service vision and strategy, as well as implementation of knowledge based technology in their organizations. Koby Huberman brings over twenty years of extensive experience in executive management, sales and marketing operations of high tech companies, as well as strong global experience in the USA, Europe and Asia.
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Chuck Martin, a highly regarded on-line publisher, lecturer, marketer
and author, is chairman and CEO, Net Future Institute, a U.S.-based think tank focusing on
the future of the Internet and e-commerce. His latest book is titled Net Future: The 7
Cyber Trends that Will Drive Your Business, Create New Wealth and Define Your Future,
(McGraw-Hill, 1998). A pioneering leader in the interactive marketplace, Martin has the
far-reaching vision that is essential for success in the new networked economy. In his New York Times Bestseller, The Digital Estate, Martin provided a leading strategic guide to operating a business on the Internet. In the book, Martin explains that the Net is a totally new environment, not simply a place to extend your existing business, he outlines 20 key concepts and business themes vital to the future prosperity of your organization, including: -Virtual thinking on a global basis
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Fred G. Steingraber is chief executive officer of A.T. Kearney,
overseeing both the management consulting and Executive Search practices. He became CEO in
1983. During his 33 years with the firm, he has served in a variety of positions in the
United States and elsewhere, including launching many of the firm's European offices,
during his 12-year stay in Europe. During his tenure as CEO the firm has doubled in
revenues every three years, compounding at 25 percent per year for the span of 14 years
and 31 percent for the past seven years. During this same period, A.T. Kearney has
expanded its business outside the United States from less than 10 percent to 60 percent of
total revenues, including entry into 26 new markets in the last six years under Mr.
Steingraber's leadership. Mr. Steingraber joined A.T. Kearney in 1964 and was named managing director of the German operations in 1969; in 1972 he was elected a vice president and shareholder of the firm. In 1975 Mr. Steingraber was appointed head of the European and Middle East consulting practices, based in London. In 1980 he returned to the Chicago headquarters as managing partner of the western region. He was elected chief operating officer in 1981. In addition, he has served on and led all of the firm's principal committees and governance activities including serving as chairman of the board of directors.
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Raymond
J. Lane is President and Chief Operating Officer of Oracle Corporation,
the second-largest software company in the world and the leading enterprise software and
services company. Mr. Lane is responsible for planning, communicating, and implementing
policy and strategy decisions formulated by the firm's Executive Committee. Prior to being
named President and COO, Mr. Lane was Executive Vice President of Oracle Corp. and
President of Worldwide Operations. Mr. Lane joined the company in 1992 as President of
Oracle USA. Oracle has exhibited phenomenal sales growth under Mr. Lane's leadership, from
approximately $1 billion in FY93 to its current annual revenue of $8.0 billion. During his tenure at Oracle, Mr. Lane has changed the way the company does business by successfully expanding Oracle's business beyond its core database technology to include financial applications, manufacturing, supply-chain management, and other business-critical application software and services. Mr. Lane streamlined business practices, revamped worldwide customer support, recruited senior industry leadership and implemented new business procedures and product distribution models. Additionally, he initiated a revolutionary industry-solution strategy that addresses specific target markets, such as consumer products, financial services, telecommunications, energy, healthcare, and industrials with expertise and reusable software modules to create genuine solutions to unique industry-specific needs.
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Peter
Bergman brings his special brand of humor to business and corporate communities,
telling hilarious tales of life in the digital world and offering his wonderfully funny
take on what the man and woman of the 21st century are going to work like, look like, and
live like. Bergman’s fertile mind adds wit and wisdom to the areas of business,
medicine, and technology with material customized for each audience. A comedian with over 30 years of performance experience, Peter Bergman is co-founder of the classic American comedy ensemble, The Firesign Theatre, credited for 21 best-selling albums and two Grammy nominations. Bergman
has been involved in interactive media since 1986, when he designed and wrote interactive
games for the Phillips-Sony-Warner Brothers consortium. His most recent interactive disc
is PYST, the CD-ROM parody of MYST. PYST, starring John Goodman, was released in the fall
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Ann M. Livermore is the president and chief executive officer of the
Enterprise Computing business of Hewlett-Packard Company. Her organization is responsible
for providing enterprise customers integrated solutions that encompass hardware, software
and services from both HP and its partners. Livermore also is an HP corporate vice
president and member of the Executive Committee. Livermore joined HP in 1982, working on administration processes and systems in the U.S. Field Operations. In 1985, she was named marketing services manager for the Application Support Division. She was promoted to research-and-development manager of that division in 1986 and became its marketing manager in 1989. Livermore became the marketing manager of the Professional Services Division in 1991 and was named sales and marketing manager of the former Worldwide Customer Support Organization. She was elected a vice president in 1995 and was promoted to general manager of Worldwide Customer Support Operations in 1996. In 1997 she took on responsibility for HP's software businesses as general manager of the newly formed Software and Services Group. In 1998, when the company decided to merge its hardware, software and services into a single organization focused on the needs of enterprise customers, she was named general manager of the new Enterprise Computing Organization. Livermore holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree in business administration from Stanford University.
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Sixteen years ago, Michael L. Dertouzos introduced the world to the
"Information Marketplace," which was an accurate vision of where the World Wide
Web and the Internet are today. . . and where they are headed. Dertouzos' most recent book, What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives, made the bestseller top ten lists in Boston and San Francisco, made the No. 1 bestseller position at Amazon.com and was among the 20 bestsellers ever published by HarperCollins San Francisco. It has also been translated in 14 languages. Key Topics: -Forthcoming technology and its
human uses
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William V. (Bill) Russell is executive vice president and chief
operating officer of the Enterprise Computing business in Hewlett-Packard Company. He has
been a driving force behind HP’s strategy for capturing the leadership position in
the next chapter of the Internet, which HP believes will be dominated by the pervasiveness
of e-services that drive new sources of revenue and new operating efficiencies. Russell is
also the HP executive responsible for forging the 5Nines:5Minutes Alliance, which is
HP’s exclusive High Availability platform for delivering 99.999 percent IT
infrastructure uptime per year, which amounts to only five minutes of unplanned downtime.
The Alliance also includes SAP, BEA Systems, Oracle, Cisco and EMC. As COO, Russell has sales responsibility for enterprise computing across all product and service lines. In addition, he has worldwide profit and loss responsibility for Enterprise Computing's hardware and software products. These include HP's UNIX servers (the HP 9000), HP 3000 computers, the HP-UX operating system, microprocessor development (the PA-RISC architecture and the alliance with Intel to create the next generation IA-64 architecture), enterprise storage, telecommunications, OpenView, and a variety of software, solutions and appliances focusing on today's e-services world including e-speak and VeriFone. Russell joined HP in 1980 in the sales organization at HP's South Queensferry facility in Scotland. He was promoted to district sales manager of that region in 1981. He became area sales manager for the Computer Systems Organization (CSO) in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1984 and area general manager in 1985. Russell was appointed sales manager of CSO in the UK in 1990 and was named general manager of CSO in the UK in 1993, and later, in 1994, he became general manager of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He was promoted to general manager of the Technical Computing Business Unit in 1996 and was named general manager of the Enterprise Systems and Software Group in 1997. Bill became a board-elected vice president of Hewlett-Packard Company in 1998. He was appointed executive vice president and chief operating officer of Enterprise Computing in May 1999 and serves on the board of HP Japan Ltd. Russell was born January 14, 1952, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Edinburgh University.
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Lewis
O. Wilks is responsible for leading Qwest's Internet and multimedia initiatives. Lew has extensive senior-level management experience in delivering communications services to the corporate sector. In his current role, he leads Qwest's Internet and multimedia initiative which focuses on developing the company's electronic commerce and complex web hosting; virtual private networking; and managed software services. Previously, Lew served as president of business markets and was responsible for bringing Qwest's multimedia communications services to the nationwide business markets. Before joining Qwest in 1997, Lew was president of GTE Communications, and also held a number of senior management positions with MCI Corporation and Wang Laboratories. Lew holds a bachelor of science degree in public relations and computer science from Central Missouri State University.
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Danny Hillis revolutionized computing by inventing, building and
marketing massively parallel computers, thereby laying the foundation upon which most of
today’s supercomputers are constructed. Now, as vice president of research and development at The Walt Disney Co., Hillis is inventing the future of entertainment. He and other scientific wizards in the Disney Fellows program -- described by Newsweek as "geniuses without portfolio" -- range throughout the company’s divisions, creating new technologies and identifying new business opportunities. Computers, entertainment and children have defined Hillis’ adult life. While an undergraduate, he developed hardware and software for children at MIT’s Logo Laboratory, designed computer-related toys and games for Milton Bradley, and cofounded Terrapin, Inc., a producer of software for elementary schools. In his spare time, using fishing line and Tinkertoys, he built a tic-tac-toe-playing computer that is displayed at the Boston Computer Museum. While working on his Ph.D. at MIT,
Hillis invented the massively parallel computer, which accelerated computing exponentially
by enabling tens of thousands of processors to work on the same problem simultaneously. He
cofounded Thinking Machines Corp. to build and sell massively parallel computers to such
customers as American Express, Dow Jones, NASA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Stanford
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Mr. Coleman founded BEA Systems, Inc. with the other two principals of the company, Edward Scott and Alfred Chuang, in early 1995. Mr. Coleman brings to BEA over 27 years of high-technology experience with particular emphasis on software development. Prior to BEA, he held various management positions at Sun Microsystems, Inc., including: founder, vice president, and general manager of SunIntegration Services; vice president of system software overseeing SunOS, Solaris, and related products; and co-founder of Sun Federal, Inc. Before his work at Sun, Mr. Coleman co-founded and was vice president of engineering at Dest Systems. Prior to that, he held positions as director of product development at VisiCorp and manager of the high frequency systems group at GTE Sylvania. Mr. Coleman began his career in the U.S. Air Force as chief of satellite operations in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. Mr. Coleman has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the United States Air Force Academy, and a master's degree in computer science and computer engineering from Stanford University.
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