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Management and R&D teams are no longer the only participants in an organization’s innovation efforts. Social tools have made innovation a more open and transparent effort where customers and employees become active contributors. Principal Analyst Mike Gotta and Senior Consultant Alice Wang from Burton Group will profile how organizations have leveraged communities and social networking to improve innovation and ideation initiatives. Moderator - Mike Gotta, Principal Analyst, Gartner Mike Gotta is a principal analyst for the Collaboration and Content Strategies team at Gartner. He covers real-time collaboration (presence, IM, web conferencing), unified communications, social software and networking, and organizational strategies related to improving collaboration. Prior to joining Burton Group, Mike performed duties as an IT analyst advising Global 2000 companies and held positions as application architect, enterprise technology services, emerging technologies, product management, and developer at Aetna. With 25 years of experience in XML syndication, community building, and social networking, Mike is a frequent speaker at industry events and often quoted by media sources covering collaboration, social computing, and knowledge management. Mike blogs at http://blogs.gartner.com/mike-gotta/ Moderator - Alice Wang, Director, Gartner Inc Ms. Wang is focused on information technology (IT) strategy, architecture, and optimization, specializing in the areas of identity and access management, security and risk management, governance, and operations and process improvement. She is currently examining the identity, privacy, and security risks associated with social media and social networking (Enterprise 2.0), in collaboration with Gartner analysts, as well as the impact of social tools on innovation as these tools have made the exchanging of information more open and transparent. With over 10 years of experience, Ms. Wang has advised and assisted Fortune 500, higher education, and Federal, state, and local government clients with designing and implementing large scale IT projects.
Ms. Wang is a frequent speaker at conferences and professional organization meetings worldwide, has authored numerous whitepapers, and is ITIL Foundation, JAVA Programmer, and Solaris Systems Administrator certified. Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Wang performed duties as a systems engineer, project manager, and industry consultant at Sun Microsystems, Inc., and PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. Panelist - Greg Lowe, Social Media Architect, Alcatel-Lucent Over 20 years of success with transforming organizations through technology as an IT professional for large Fortune 500 companies in emergent areas such as; Desktop Management, Identity /Access Management, Collaboration and Unified Communications. Currently working at Alcatel-Lucent and recognized as a corporate leader in driving strategy and adoption of many Enterprise 2.0 initiatives including; Micro-blogging, Communities of Interest, Social Networking. Key member of a company-wide, cross organizational team charged with understanding and solving Collaboration & Knowledge Management challenges. Inaugural Member of the 2.0 Adoption Council. Panelist - Anthony Bondi, Project Manager, Abbott Laboratories Tony is project manager for eMarketing in Abbott's Global Strategic Marketing and Services division. He has been working in international eMarketing for more than 5 years at Abbott, and in that time he has been the lead behind many of the key initiatives in the enterprise collaborative/social space. Tony has been with Abbott for the last 9 years, and is also responsible for delivering some of Abbott's global web initiatives.
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Policy formation, governance and risk management programs are a critical requirement as organizations assess implications to the enterprise (e.g., identity assurance, data loss, compliance, e-Discovery, security), arising from internal and external use of social networking and social media. This panel of social media and Enterprise 2.0 practitioners will discuss real-life approaches that address management concerns.
Mike Gotta is a principal analyst for the Collaboration and Content Strategies team at Gartner. He covers real-time collaboration (presence, IM, web conferencing), unified communications, social software and networking, and organizational strategies related to improving collaboration. Prior to joining Burton Group, Mike performed duties as an IT analyst advising Global 2000 companies and held positions as application architect, enterprise technology services, emerging technologies, product management, and developer at Aetna. With 25 years of experience in XML syndication, community building, and social networking, Mike is a frequent speaker at industry events and often quoted by media sources covering collaboration, social computing, and knowledge management. Mike blogs at http://blogs.gartner.com/mike-gotta/
Abha Kumar is a Principal in Vanguard's IT division, responsible for the leadership, vision and operational support of the global strategic portfolios of corporate systems, global business systems and the Enterprise 2.0 agenda at Vanguard. Prior to joining Vanguard, Ms. Kumar was VP, Divisional Information Office, at Dow Jones where she was responsible for corporate systems, enterprise portals, business intelligence and offshore services. Prior to that, she was a Group Director at The New York Times Company.
I am Chief Compliance Officer at a Beacon Capital Partners, LLC, a real estate private equity firm. The views expressed are mine alone. They may not reflect those of Beacon Capital Partners, LLC. Please read the disclaimers and do not attribute anything said here to my employer. I was previously a senior attorney in the Real Estate Group of Goodwin Procter LLP, helping clients invest in real estate through a variety of investment vehicles. (I blogged at Real Estate Space) In addition to my real estate practice, I was a member of Goodwin’s Knowledge Management Department. In that role, I was responsible for developing and implementing tools and resources to identify, create, represent and distribute knowledge for reuse, awareness and learning across the firm. (I blogged at KM Space.)
Ms. Wang is focused on information technology (IT) strategy, architecture, and optimization, specializing in the areas of identity and access management, security and risk management, governance, and operations and process improvement. She is currently examining the identity, privacy, and security risks associated with social media and social networking (Enterprise 2.0), in collaboration with Gartner analysts, as well as the impact of social tools on innovation as these tools have made the exchanging of information more open and transparent. With over 10 years of experience, Ms. Wang has advised and assisted Fortune 500, higher education, and Federal, state, and local government clients with designing and implementing large scale IT projects. Ms. Wang is a frequent speaker at conferences and professional organization meetings worldwide, has authored numerous whitepapers, and is ITIL Foundation, JAVA Programmer, and Solaris Systems Administrator certified. Prior to joining Gartner, Ms. Wang performed duties as a systems engineer, project manager, and industry consultant at Sun Microsystems, Inc., and PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP.