Franz Aman , Chief of New Product Concepts, SAP
Tuesday, June 15, 10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Franz Aman is Chief of New Product Concepts, responsible for envisioning and building “concept cars” of new and next generation products for SAP. SAP has embraced rapid product development methodologies; building concepts and prototypes allows for quick iteration before the actual product development therefore assuring product success or early failure. Mr. Aman's career has spanned over 20 years in the hardware and software technology sector in executive corporate, product marketing and engineering positions working for leading companies such as Sun Microsystems, BEA Systems and Business Objects. Collaboration within Context

Standalone collaboration environments and social networks have been the focal point in the market to date, but what is possible when you marry traditional enterprise software with newer enterprise 2.0 thinking? To start, you free people from the struggle to use enterprise systems and you help them find the right information for daily work.  view more

You put into their hands powerful, business-relevant content-including business processes, data, events and analytics -that combines structured data and unstructured data from social and online networks to bring together people, information and business methods in a cohesive online working environment. Marge Breya will discuss this “collaboration within business context” and demonstrate how it can move business forward.

 David Berlind , Chief Content Officer, Editor-in-Chief, TechWeb.com, UBM TechWeb

David is General Manager of Alternative Events in the Live Events Group of UBM TechWeb (formerly CMP). He is also Editor-At-Large for InformationWeek.com and the Executive Conference Director for Interop. Prior to his career in tech media, David spent eight years as a software developer, network engineer, and IT manager.

 Christian Finn , Director of Product Management, SharePoint, Microsoft Corporation
Wednesday, June 16, 9:05 AM - 9:25 AM

Christian Finn is the Director for Collaboration in Microsoft’s Information Worker Product Management Group in Redmond, Washington. Christian and his team lead Microsoft’s vision, business strategy, and global marketing efforts for collaboration, enterprise social computing, and portal technologies, including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows® SharePoint Services 3.0, two of the most widely used collaboration and social computing products in the world. He is the executive sponsor of the influential FASTForward blog and the Editor-in-Chief of this Web site. Christian frequently speaks to customers and industry groups and meets with analysts and press on Enterprise 2.0 topics and future directions. An 11-year Microsoft veteran, Christian has over 15 years of varied experience in the collaboration field, including positions in consulting, marketing, solutions development, learning, channel management, and sales. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

On Becoming a Connected Enterprise: The Seven Essential Truths Microsoft Has Discovered So Far

As a market leader in enterprise social software, a global $60B company with more than 90,000 people collaborating every day, and one of the world’s most email-addicted corporate cultures, Microsoft is in a unique position to learn what works—and what doesn’t—in transforming an organization.  view more Here at Enterprise 2.0, we’ll share what we’ve learned with you. You’ll hear how to select the right business problems to solve with social approaches, how to gain stakeholder sponsorship and market your solutions effectively, and how to measure success—all illustrated with examples drawn from Microsoft’s own experiences, as well as those of our customers.

 Bevin Hernandez , Project Manager, Penn State
Wednesday, June 16, 10:05 AM - 10:25 AM

A former vocal performance major, Bevin has spent her career helping teams find their third alto - making work effective and effortless. Pulling from an extensive toolkit including Project Management, Organizational Development, Leadership and Change Management, she has designed solutions for a wide variety of organizations - from manufacturing and pharmaceutical to software development and academic institutions. She joined Penn State Outreach to lead the launch of the Enterprise 2.0 solution now known as Our.Outreach. She is also a co-founder of Firebrand Tribe – creating culture-driven strategies and solutions for organizations that wish to move to the next level. In their spare time, Bevin and her husband also manage a diversified, sustainable farm providing fresh foods to the local community.

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You have installed your Enterprise 2.0 solution. Now you're wondering, “what's next?” Bevin answers that question by explaining what to include in your strategy to realize Enterprise 2.0's business value as well as the uncommon approach taken by Penn State Outreach to transform their organization.

 Yuvinder Kochar , Vice President–Technology, Chief Technology Officer, Washington Post

Yuvi Kochar, corporate CTO, collaborates with the major divisions of The Washington Post Company in the areas of technology strategy, architecture and Shared Information Technology Services. Under his leadership, Shared IT Services has rapidly expanded to support key Compliance, Identity Management, Security and Privacy, HR, Benefits, Payroll and Procurement processes across all divisions. The team also supports the corporate Intranet and is innovating in the areas Enterprise 2.0, collaboration and flexible architectures, enabling rapid deployment of new solutions to respond to the fast-evolving requirements of the Company’s business units.

Kochar evaluates opportunities and threats presented by new technologies to the various Post businesses. He collaborates with business executives to develop innovative strategies to leverage the rapidly changing technology environment.

Prior to joining The Washington Post Company, Kochar was the CTO at BrassRing (now Kenexa), a leading SAAS solution for Talent Management. He led the architecture, design, development and hosting of the most innovative product in the space. BrassRing earned a number of prestigious industry awards, including two consecutive Software & Information Industry Association Codie Awards (2004 and 2005) for "Best Human Resources Product.” BrassRing serviced over 50 Fortune 500 customers on a single multi-tenant instance of a highly scalable and reliable application suite.

Kochar has managed several large offshore outsourcing engagements as a customer and a vendor, including a $100+ million application management outsourcing contract.

He has worked at several technology startups: a PC fax product developer in California, a small footprint RDBMS developer in New York and a software localization service provider in Normandy, France. His personal technology blog is at http://yuviontech.blogspot.com.

 R. Lemuel Lasher , President, Global Business Solutions Group (GBS) & Chief Innovation Officer, CSC
Tuesday, June 15, 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM

Mr. Lasher is President of Global Business Solutions (GBS) within CSC. He is also President and Chief Innovation Officer with CSC's Office of Innovation, which includes The Leading Edge Forum, The Research Network, Global Solutions Organization, Collective Intelligence, Catalyst, and Knowledge Management & Enablement. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Lasher has held numerous Managing Director positions within CSC's European Group, including: BAE Systems global account, European Consulting, CSC Belgium, and Luxembourg; and Director, Industry Practices for Benelux.

Mr. Lasher joined the CSC European Group in 1992, as Director of Network Integration, Europe, where he was responsible for CSC's network and telecommunications activities in Europe. He joined CSC in 1990 as Director, Commercial Program Development for the Network Integration Division in Herndon, Virginia. From 1984 until joining CSC, Mr. Lasher was Vice President for Integrated Software Resources, Inc., a software consulting and engineering firm in the airline telecommunications industry. Prior to this, he held the following executive positions: president, Deca Group, Inc., Executive Vice President, Aitta, Inc., director, Investment Seminars, Inc., and Director, North American Operations, Elan Vital, Inc.

Mr. Lasher attended Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, Ohio and Friedrich Wilhems University, Bonn, Germany, where he studied German literature and Philosophy.

The C-Level Perspective: Social Collaboration Fueling Innovation, Business Results and Competitive Advantage

CSC has had remarkable success with social business software through a strategic, award-winning initiative called C3 to "connect people to people, connect people to content, and connect people to communities." This global social collaboration platform enjoyed early success during its pilot phase collapsing time zones, distance and organizational barriers, reducing business development time and driving revenue and innovation.  view more

Join this keynote to hear CSC's C3 executive business sponsor Lem Lasher give insight on why he chose to sponsor this program and how it aligned with CSC's broader strategic collaboration and innovation initiatives required for fueling the company's growth and competitive strategy. Finally, Lem will share his thoughts on successfully engaging executive sponsors and how to tailor your business case to the C-level.

 Eugene Lee , CEO, Socialtext
Wednesday, June 16, 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Eugene Lee is the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at Socialtext. Lee assumes day-to-day management and operational control over all aspects of Socialtext's business, including driving product direction and development, strategic alliances, and scaling the sales, marketing and support organizations globally.

Lee comes to Socialtext from Adobe Systems, where he led Adobe's enterprise marketing and vertical market segments. Previously, he held several executive leadership roles at Cisco Systems, ranging from Vice President (VP) Worldwide Small/Medium Business Marketing to VP Worldwide Enterprise Marketing. Lee also held key management positions at Banyan Systems, including General Manager for the messaging business unit. He was co-founder of Beyond Inc., developers of the award-winning BeyondMail product, and holds four patents in messaging, workflow and privacy technologies. Lee has a B.A. in Physics and B.S. in Engineering and Computer Science from Harvard College and an MBA from M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.

Business Value Is Everything

The fact that so much of the Enterprise 2.0 industry still focuses on issues of adoption is disheartening. It indicates that many E20 implementations lack a business focus and an overall understanding of where specific pain points inside an organization actually exist.  view more

Enterprise 2.0 is dead in the water if it doesn't help a customer book a deal, accelerate a project, or collaborate more freely in real-time. Socialtext CEO Eugene Lee will discuss what areas both practitioners and vendors should focus on to achieve business value from Enterprise 2.0, moving both companies, and the industry that serves them, forward.

 Andrew McAfee , Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management
Tuesday, June 15, 11:10 AM - 11:25 AM

Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition itself –  the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry.

He coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. He also began blogging at that time, both about Enterprise 2.0 and about his other research. McAfee’s blog is widely read, becoming at times one of the 10,000 most popular in the world (according to Technorati). He also maintains a Facebook profile and Twitter account.

McAfee’s book on Enterprise 2.0 was published in 2009 by Harvard Business School Press.

In the July / August issue of Harvard Business Review McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson published “Investing in the IT that Makes a Competitive Difference,” a summary of their research investigating IT’s links to changes in competition. This work was the first to reveal that competition began to heat up in the US in the mid 1990s –  to become faster paced, more turbulent, and more winner-take-all –  and that this acceleration was greater in industries that spent more on IT.  This research continues, and continues to highlight that technology appears to be significantly reshaping the landscape of competition.

McAfee is the author or co-author of more than fifteen scholarly articles and ninety case studies and other materials for students and teachers of technology. This work has convinced him that modern information technology is the most powerful tool available to business leaders, yet also the most misunderstood and under-appreciated resource at their disposal.

In 2008 McAfee was named by the editors of the technical publishing house Ziff-Davis number 38 in their list of the “100 Most Influential People in IT.” He was also named by Baseline magazine to a separate, unranked list of the 50 most influential people in business IT that year. He was invited by Prof. Gary Hamel to join a ‘renegade brigade’ of thinkers in the task of assembling a set of Moon Shots for Management, which was published in the January 2009 Harvard Business Review.

He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences, and has taught in executive education programs around the world.

McAfee is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a fellow at the Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

He received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.

The State of Enterprise 2.0

The technologies, practices, and philosophies of Enterprise 2.0 continue to gain traction in corporate life, and some believe a tipping point has been reached. This talk will cover what's happening, what's working well, and what could be improved as we work to change how work gets done.

 William S. McNee, Founder and CEO, Saugatuck Technology

Mr. McNee is the President and CEO of Saugatuck Technology, a strategy consulting and subscription research and advisory firm focused on emerging IT markets. Most recently, Mr. McNee has helped spearhead the firm's research into evolving business models as a result of the shift to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing.

Prior to founding the firm in 1999, Mr. McNee spent eleven years with Gartner, Inc., most recently as Group Vice President and Research Fellow, responsible for guiding the firm's overall research strategy. A recognized expert in enterprise software and related business/IT services, Mr. McNee spent five years leading Gartner's Business/IT Management practice as its Director of Research, focusing on CIO governance, IT sourcing models and e-commerce management strategies. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Mr. McNee has published hundreds of articles and consulted with thousands of user and vendor clients over the years, throughout the world.

Prior to Gartner, Mr. McNee held strategic planning, business development and marketing positions at CBS, HBO, Comshare and the Institute for Social Research. Mr. McNee is a Board or Advisory Board member for a number of emerging and established technology companies as well as the Westport Public Library. Mr. McNee is a University of Michigan alumnus and has completed graduate work in economics at New York University.

 Vinnie Mirchandani, Founder, Deal Architect

Vinnie Mirchandani is a well-known technology blogger and the author behind the Deal Architect enterprise technology blog and business. He has just authored a wide ranging book on technology-enabled innovation, The New Polymath. Polymath is Greek for a renaissance person. Someone like Leonardo Da Vinci who excels at many disciplines. The book has received a fair share of early praise like fresh and inviting (Benjamin Fried, CIO Google) and I am inspired by this book (Maynard Webb, ex COO eBay).

Enterprise 2.0 in an Age of AND not OR

 Sean Poulley, VP Online Collaboration Services, IBM

Sean Poulley is the vice president of the Online Collaboration Services business unit for the Lotus software division in IBM. Sean leads the sales, design, development and delivery of software-as-a-service offerings for the IBM LotusLive services.

In the Lotus Software division, Sean also had responsibility for the Strategy and Business Development groups overseeing strategic alliances and driving the overall strategy for the division. He also had specific channel responsibility for Global Independent Software Vendors and Global Systems Integrators. In previous roles he held similar responsibilities for the Websphere brand specifically focused on Websphere Business Integration.

Sean graduated from the University of Birmingham in the UK and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering.

 JP Rangaswami , CIO and Chief Scientist, BT Design
Tuesday, June 15, 9:05 AM - 9:25 AM

JP Rangaswami studied Economics and Statistics at St. Xavier's College, University of Calcutta, specializing in developmental economics. Originally an economist and financial journalist, he has worked with technology in finance since 1980 with a number of large multinationals. He was named CIO of the Year by Waters Magazine in 2003, and CIO Innovator of the Year by the European Technology Forum in 2004. In 2007 and 2008, JP was selected as one of technology's 50 most influential individuals in the silicon.com Agenda Setters poll. JP was chosen for "vision and innovation rarely seen in CIOs." Today JP is Chief Scientist for BT Group. Prior to joining BT in 2006, JP was Global CIO at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts and the British Computer Society.

Are CIOs Ready to Bite?

Enterprise 2.0 projects to date are largely departmental initiatives led by business leaders and technology strategists who voice frustration over legacy applications and IT's slow response to initiate sweeping improvements.  view more

But many CIOs continue to cite concerns around security, privacy and a lack of enterprise-grade, interoperable solutions. While the stalemate continues, businesses are reaching a crisis point in information management and need workable solutions to keep pace with tools found in the fast-paced consumer web. Have we reached an impasse in business-wide adoption or are CIOs beginning to show signs of Enterprise 2.0 acceptance?

 Ted Schadler , Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Ted serves Information & Knowledge Management professionals. With 22 years of experience in the software industry, Ted advises clients in a wide variety of industries on collaboration tools and strategy assessment, telepresence and videoconferencing, instant messaging and Web conferencing, cloud-based email and collaboration, collaboration on smartphones, the consumerization of IT, and surveying and segmenting information workers.

In 2009, Ted spearheaded the launch of Forrester's Workforce Technographics®, the industry's first benchmark survey of workforce technology adoption. This quantitative approach helps Information & Knowledge Management professionals and the teams they work with to understand and measure how information workers use (or don't use) technology to get their jobs done.

Ted is also the co-author of the Forrester book, Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business, (Harvard Business Press, September 2010). This management book helps CIOs and IT organizations implement strategies for supporting workforce "HEROes" – highly empowered and resourceful operatives – who harness social technology, mobile devices, video, and cloud services to solve customer problems.

Ted's previous experience in 12 years at Forrester includes two years as vice president of Forrester's Consumer Technographics® business; two years as a vice president and principal analyst focused on consumer devices; and seven years as an enterprise software analyst and research director, including two years as the founding product manager and research group director for TechRankings, the forerunner of the Forrester Wave™ methodology.

Ted has appeared as a technology industry expert on ABC, CBC, CNBC, NBC, and PBS and has been quoted in publications such as BusinessWeek, The Economist, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

 Murali Sitaram , VP/GM Enterprise Collaboration Platform, Cisco
Tuesday, June 15, 9:25 AM - 9:45 AM

As Vice President and General Manager for the Cisco Enterprise Collaboration Platform, Murali Sitaram leads the development of an enterprise social software (ESS) solution to address the growing collaboration market. This solution is designed to transform the way employees within large companies interact and collaborate, share knowledge, innovate, and accelerate team performance using an integrated combination of click-to-collaborate social media tools, applications, and network-based context. Sitaram's product development team is delivering an integrated end user experience to the enterprise that is built around social media solutions and based on a suite of Cisco software and networking technologies.

Since joining Cisco in 2007, Sitaram has held leadership roles in product development. Most recently he led the Customer Contact Business Unit as Vice President/General Manager; in 24 months his team delivered two major new products to the marketplace. Previously he led the Customer Contact Engineering team and oversaw the redesign of the product portfolio for better supportability and scale.

Sitaram's engineering leadership experience spans more than 20 years in software product delivery. He has an established track record in leading large global development teams building enterprise software solutions. Sitaram has held senior management positions in software development at several companies including Narus, Aspect Communications, Avaya, and Quintus.

Sitaram serves on the Cisco Collaboration Customer Advisory Board whereby key Cisco customers are regularly engaged to drive Cisco collaboration strategy and solutions forward.

Sitaram holds two bachelor's degrees, one in mathematics and physics and the other in computer engineering, from the University of Bombay and a master's degree in computer science from Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.

The Human Network @ Work

Cisco has evolved its business from networking to human networking. Through compelling software solutions, we're establishing secure and meaningful connections between people, communities, and information, enriched by video, real...  View More

...time communications and enterprise-class social collaboration. This is Cisco's vision for The New Collaboration Experience. Please join Murali Sitaram, VP/GM of Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform, and Jim Grubb, VP of Corporate Communications, as they discuss Cisco's approach to collaboration and how, with our new enterprise collaboration software offerings, Cisco is empowering "The Human Network @ Work".

Are CIOs Ready to Bite?

Enterprise 2.0 projects to date are largely departmental initiatives led by business leaders and technology strategists who voice frustration over legacy applications and IT's slow response to initiate sweeping improvements.  view more

But many CIOs continue to cite concerns around security, privacy and a lack of enterprise-grade, interoperable solutions. While the stalemate continues, businesses are reaching a crisis point in information management and need workable solutions to keep pace with tools found in the fast-paced consumer web. Have we reached an impasse in business-wide adoption or are CIOs beginning to show signs of Enterprise 2.0 acceptance?

 Gentry Underwood , Head of Knowledge Sharing, IDEO
Tuesday, June 15, 11:25 AM - 11:45 AM

Gentry Underwood heads IDEO's Knowledge Sharing domain, which focuses on facilitating large scale collaboration through the human-centered application of technology. Gentry began his career as a software designer, following a degree from Stanford in Human-Computer Interaction, but left the world of startups and Silicon Valley to study psychology, anthropology, and community development. Today Gentry combines his social science and design backgrounds to focus on building collaborative systems that people actually want to use.

Innovation Through Enterprise 2.0

As organizations look to stay competitive in an increasingly volatile marketplace, technology can play a part in becoming more innovative and collaborative. But where and when should these tools be used, and how do you get real value out of them? Gentry Underwood, head of Knowledge Sharing at IDEO, will share examples, strategies, and lessons learned from the employment of technology to facilitate broad-scale innovation.

 James Whitmoyer , Business Applications Manager, Sony
Wednesday, June 16, 9:25 AM - 9:45 AM



Going Social with SharePoint at Sony

 Alexander Wolfe , Editor-in-Chief, InformationWeek.com
Tuesday, June 15, 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM

As editor-in-chief of InformationWeek.com, Alex oversees the leading online technology news site, which generates more than 5 million page views per month. Alex also authors the popular Wolfe's Den blog, and writes frequently about Microsoft, Intel, and Google. In his two decades as a technology editor, Wolfe has written for IEEE Spectrum, Byte.com, and Electronics Magazine. He spent nine years at UBM's Electronic Engineering Times, where he broke the nationally known story of Intel's Pentium floating-point division bug in 1994. Alex holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cooper Union.

Are CIOs Ready to Bite?

Enterprise 2.0 projects to date are largely departmental initiatives led by business leaders and technology strategists who voice frustration over legacy applications and IT's slow response to initiate sweeping improvements.  view more

But many CIOs continue to cite concerns around security, privacy and a lack of enterprise-grade, interoperable solutions. While the stalemate continues, businesses are reaching a crisis point in information management and need workable solutions to keep pace with tools found in the fast-paced consumer web. Have we reached an impasse in business-wide adoption or are CIOs beginning to show signs of Enterprise 2.0 acceptance?

 Tony Zingale , Chief Executive Officer, Jive Software
Wednesday, June 16, 9:45 AM - 10:05 AM

As interim CEO of Jive Software, Tony Zingale is responsible for overseeing the company's overall strategic direction, planning and execution. He currently sits on the boards of Jive Software, McAfee Software, Coverity and Service Source. Mr. Zingale has nearly 30 years of experience building profitable, high growth information technology companies. He most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mercury Interactive, the worldwide leader of Business Technology Optimization (BTO) solutions. Mr. Zingale successfully grew Mercury to over $1B in annual sales and then engineered the $5B merger with Hewlett Packard which was completed at the end of 2006.

Prior to Mercury, he was President and Chief Executive officer of Clarify, a publicly traded enterprise technology company that was a leader in the customer relationship management (CRM) market from 1997 until Nortel Networks acquired it in 2000 for $2.1B. During his tenure, Clarify's revenue grew more than 300 percent to more than $300 million. Following the acquisition, he served as president of Nortel's billion-dollar eBusiness Solutions Group until 2001.

Previously, Mr. Zingale spent more than 10 years at Cadence Design Systems, the world's leading supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) products and services, in a succession of executive management positions leading to his role as senior vice president of worldwide marketing. He served on the executive team that grew Cadence from approximately $40 million in revenue to more than $1.2 billion while also completing more than 15 mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Zingale began his career in product marketing at Intel Corporation in 1980.

Mr. Zingale holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from the University of Cincinnati. He is a member of the University of Cincinnati Foundation's Board of Trustees.

The Biggest "From > To" in Business in a Generation

Most of the business applications we experience at work are architected around a model that prized transaction efficiency. Think of it as an offshoot of the assembly line from a different era.  view more

The new model is social, with an incredible focus on the user experience to create a work environment that's reflective of how we interact with each other. It's also a model that shifts from a focus on transactions to one on conversations. In doing so, an organization can cut through the chatter to what really matters in business: decision making and action taking.

The new, social-business-powered enterprise platform supports open models that make operations frictionless. It enables companies to unlock the business value in both their existing enterprise systems, and most importantly, their people. It's the biggest change to how work gets done, and it's happening right now.

In this session the following will be covered:
* How companies have embraced social business software to drive outcome in revenues, earnings and customer engagement
* How social business software helps companies break free of enterprise technology silos
* Why traditional business applications, including email, CRM and ERP, will ultimately be retired
* Real-life examples of social business software driving breakthrough changes in the enterprise