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Scott Klososky, technology trends and innovation expert |
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Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing for IBM Corporation |
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Steve Demuth, director of BRMS product marketing, ILOG |
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Bob Bixby, chief science officer, ILOG |
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Jon Ferraiolo, lead operations, OpenAjax Alliance
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David Simchi-Levi, MIT professor and LogicTools co-founder, ILOG
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Allen Fahden, author of Innovation on Demand and Is Half the World Crazy? |
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Daryl Plummer, group vice president, Chief Gartner Fellow
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Keynote presentation: Do You Have Velocity Leadership?
Time: 9:45 am - 10:30 am
Presenter: Scott Klososky, technology trends and innovation expert
Track: General
Scott Klososky shares a new model for organizations to manage speed and change that is challenging executive teams across the world.
This model is based on three observational realities:
- Organizations need to get better at predicting the future
- Organizations must learn how to build better digital plumbing
- Organizational culture needs to change, to capitalize on the very different generations now hitting the workforce
This keynote presentation will leave you with a set of new ideas and vocabulary to create the possibility for increased velocity in everything you do.
About Scott Klososky
Scott Klososky started, and has been part of, building numerous successful technology companies, including two that were sold for over $200 million in aggregate. His most recent technology company, Shryk.com is well on its way to being another big hit. As a consultant, Klososky advises organizations across industries on new ways to maximize technology and vision to win. As a highly rated keynote speaker, he combines clever ideas with an exciting stage presence. His recently completed book, Velocity Leadership, is due to be published this Spring.
Keynote presentation: The New Language of Business—SOA and Web 2.0
Time: 10:45 am - 11:45 am
Presenter: Sandy Carter, vice president, SOA and WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing for IBM
Track: General
What does it mean to be "flex-pons-ive," and why is it becoming table stakes in today's market?
It has always been very difficult to build profitable growth and far more difficult to sustain it. But it is required in today's environment. Sandy Carter, vice president and leading authority of IBM's SOA and WebSphere strategy, will discuss issues that are top-of-mind recalls for today's executives, based on her best selling book, The New Language of Business: SOA and Web 2.0,
According to Sandy, becoming "flex-pons-ive" will become a key success factor. "Flex-pons-ive" describes a company that responds with lightning speed and agility to rapidly changing business needs—leveraging the new language of business. A "flex-pons-ive" business enables business effectiveness with thoughtful, well-designed investments in IT focused on business models and processes. Companies that go down that path show, on average, significantly better business results than their peers.
About Sandy Carter
Sandy Carter is vice president, SOA and WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing for IBM Corporation, and author of the newest SOA technology book The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0. She is responsible for driving IBM's cross-company, worldwide SOA marketing initiatives, and in this role, helps oversee the company's SOA strategy across software, services and hardware, driving the company's SOA marketing direction. Carter has played a critical role in helping identify SOA acquisition targets and ensure the successful integration of these organizations into the IBM SOA portfolio. She directs SOA messaging and content, leading a global team in driving customer demand for IBM and IBM Business Partner SOA solutions.
Her track record in strengthening brands through savvy marketing campaigns and strategic acquisitions is evidenced by her past successes, including IBM's "On Demand" and WebSphere e-Commerce campaigns. She has also ensured that IBM's SOA initiatives consistently earn third party validation and top leadership rankings by analysts and pundits alike. With a bachelor of science degree in math and computer science from Duke University and a master of business administration from Harvard, Carter's background in technology and business gives her the unique ability to author a book that addresses the changing business landscape and how organizations can capitalize on this shift.
Keynote presentation: How BRMS Can Make Managing Change a Competitive Advantage
Time: 11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Presenter: Steve Demuth, director of BRMS product marketing, ILOG
Track: BRMS
The ability to quickly implement policy changes in response to market and regulatory pressures is an urgent requirement for any business that relies on automated decision making. Hear how business rule management systems, when combined with the architectural advantages of service-oriented architecture (SOA), and the process management agility conferred by a business process management (BPM) system, are helping progressive businesses build information architectures geared to handle change quickly and safely.
About Steve Demuth
As the director of Business Rule Product Management at ILOG, Steve Demuth is responsible for product strategy and marketing for the ILOG's BRMS product line. Before working at ILOG, Demuth was the chief technology officer for a private consulting firm that specialized in business rules applications, where he consulted on architecture and design for a number of large ILOG JRules projects.
Keynote presentation: The Evolution of Optimization in Business
Time: 11:30 pm - 12:15 pm
Presenter: Bob Bixby, chief science officer, ILOG
Track: Optimization
In this presentation, Bob Bixby will discuss the real role of optimization in the management sciences, providing his experienced perspective on what has changed, what has worked, and what primary hurdles remain to optimization becoming one of the standard approaches to solving business problems today.
About Bob Bixby
Bob Bixby co-founded CPLEX Optimization, Inc. in 1987, which was acquired by ILOG in 1997. He is currently the chief science officer and general manager of the ILOG semiconductor business division. Previously, he was chairman of the Mathematical Programming Society and former editor-in-chief of the journal Mathematical Programming. Bixby has authored over 50 scholarly publications and is is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the Humboldt Senior Scientist Award in 1992, and the Mathematical Programming Society Beale-Orchard-Hayes Prize for Computational Mathematical Programming in 2000.
Keynote presentation: The Power of Mashup Technology—Helping the Enterprise Meet the Promise of Web 2.0 and SOA
Time: 11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Presenter: Jon Ferraiolo, IBM Lead Operations, OpenAjax Alliance
Track: Visualization
Businesses must embrace Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 approaches if they hope to remain competitive. Mashups—a revolutionary new approach to application development—foster competitively agile business operations and enhanced worker productivity, due to their support for situational applications.
In this session, Jon Ferraiolo will demonstrate the leading mashup products. He will explain how useful widgets are discovered, and how end users assemble their applications. He will also describe the role that OpenAjax Alliance plays in defining the key mashup standards critical to helping the industry achieve the full benefits of Enterprise 2.0.
About Jon Ferraiolo
Jon Ferraiolo joined IBM's Emerging Technologies group in 2006 as the director of operations for the OpenAjax Alliance, the primary standards and advocacy group for Ajax. Before joining IBM, Ferraiolo worked for Adobe for 13 years where he was a product manager, architect, and engineering manager on multiple products, including Adobe Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop, Photoshop Album, and Display PostScript. From 1998-2001, he was the editor of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 specification and principal architect for Adobe's SVG product efforts. Ferraiolo holds a bachelor of science from Stanford University and a master of business administration from Santa Clara University.
Keynote presentation: Countering the Risks of Offshoring and Lean Manufacturing
Time: 11:30 pm - 12:15 pm
Presenter: David Simchi-Levi, MIT professor and co-founder of LogicTools, a division of ILOG
Track: Supply Chain Management
Industry trends, including outsourcing, off-shoring and lean manufacturing that focus on reducing supply chain costs significantly increase the level of risk in the supply chain. At the same time, a number of leading companies have been successfully transforming their supply chains into robust and resilient supply chains. This presentation will:
- Examine the sources of risks in the supply chain
- Identify strategic and tactical strategies to help manage risk while creating value and improving supply chain performance
- Address the need to plan for green logistics concerns, such as carbon emission footprints
- Report on case studies that illustrate the impact of these strategies
With examples from a variety of industries, this presentation will demonstrate how product design, network modeling, information technology, procurement and inventory strategies are used to build flexibility and redundancy in the supply chain.
About David Simchi-Levi
David Simchi-Levi has won awards for his work in supply chain, logistics, and transportation; and he has consulted and collaborated extensively with private and public organizations. He is co-author (with Julien Bramel) of The Logic of Logistics, and Designing and Managing the Supply Chain (with P. Kaminsky and E. Simchi-Levi), which received the Book-of-the-Year award and the Outstanding IIE Publication award in 2000 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Simchi-Levi received his Ph.D. in operations research from Tel-Aviv University.
Keynote presentation: Innovation Black Holes—How Do You Avoid Them?
Time: 8:30 am - 9:30 am
Presenter: Allen Fahden, author and humorist
Track: General
Allen Fahden provides a funny and engaging romp through innovation's black holes and how to avoid them. This presentation will explain why:
- 85 percent of people will naturally reject your ideas
- Starters won't finish; finishers won't start
- Meetings sap your will to live
You'll return to work with new skills for successful innovation. You will be able to:
- Design your teams for strength-based roles
- Keep big ideas alive while debugging them
- Redivide the work to do your best; then hand it off to the next needed strength
About Allen Fahden
Allen Fahden's groundbreaking books Innovation on Demand and Is Half the World Crazy? have provided inspiration and insight to readers everywhere. His strength-based team model was headlined in Mark Victor Hansen and Robert Allen's best-selling book One Minute Millionaire, and he originated the "speed team meeting" and the single principle behind all breakthrough ideas. Fahden's innovations, such as the one-book bookstore and the Portland Beavers' Arthur Andersen Appreciation Night have landed him features with ABC-TV, CNN, ESPN, NPR and People Magazine. Many of Fortune's 100 largest companies, including Disney, 3M and Coca-Cola, have sought him out as a speaker and consultant.
Keynote presentation: Dynamic BPM—Where SOA, Rules, Processes and Events Come Together
Time: 10:45 pm - 11:30 pm
Featuring: Daryl Plummer, group vice President and Chief Gartner Fellow
Track: BRMS
Daryl Plummer introduces the challenge that dynamic business process management (BPM) will not be an option—it will be a requirement. Due to the amount of accelerating change coming from multiple directions, such as shifting laws and geopolitical events, Plummer predicts businesses will put a premium on rule technologies, events, services and governance.
Key questions:
- How will BPM become more dynamic during the next five years?
- What impact will service-oriented architecture (SOA), the Web, governance and events have on BPM?
- What best practices will help companies take advantage of dynamic BPM during the next five years?
About Daryl Plummer
Daryl Plummer is a group vice president and Chief Gartner Fellow. He manages the Emerging Trends Group in Gartner and is a primary analyst in software infrastructure. He is responsible for researching Internet platforms and Web services, applications development, application integration and middleware, emerging trends and technologies, and enterprise architecture.
Plummer has more than 25 years of IT industry experience. Prior to joining Gartner, he was division director and technology coordinator for the State of Florida's Department of Management Services. He was also data center director of the Technology Resource Center, one of the largest data centers in Florida. In this capacity, he managed the introduction of statewide client/server systems and methodologies. He was instrumental in the creation of the state's TCP/IP network and designed and implemented the Florida Communities Network, Florida's economic Internet presence. Plummer has been with Gartner for ten years.
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Conference Update:
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DIALOG 2008 was a big success due to the exceptional participation of our customers, speakers, partners, sponsors and exhibitors. We can't thank you enough for taking the time and effort to travel to Palm Springs.
We look forward to seeing you next year at DIALOG 2009.
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