
Software 2006: Breakout Sessions
Software 2006 will host 24 hours of interactive and insightful breakout sessions for CEOs, CFOs, CTOs, VPs of Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Services and Support. These sessions will be presented by your peers in the industry.
11:00 – 12:00pm
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| Leveraging
New Trends
in the Global
Ecosystem Moderator: Brian Turchin, President Cape Horn Strategies. Panelists: Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft; Robert Gersten, Chief Develop- ment Officer, Hyperion Solutions; Sudhakar Muddu, CEO, Kazeon Systems; Gordon Brooks, President and CEO, Symphony Services. |
CFO Panel Moderator: Jack
Jenkins- Stark, CFO SVB Financial Group. Panelists: Ken Goldman, former CFO, Siebel Systems; Tom Berquist, CFO, Ingres; Christine Russell, CFO, OuterBay Techno- logies. |
China: Threat
or Oppor- |
‘Govern- ment Saves Taxpayer Dollars’ is Not an in Ohio: Thin Computing and Municipal WiFi Bill Hill, CIO and Director of Information and Technology, City of Dayton and Jeff McNaught, Vice President, Marketing Operations, Wyse Technology. |
The New Era
of Software
as a Service Moderator:
Jnan Dash, CTO,
Sonata Software.
Panelists:
Deborah Magid,
Director, Strategic
Alliances, IBM;
Matt Yearling,
Senior VP & CTO,
Embarca- |
Moving from Physical to Digital Distribution: A Roadmap for Success Moderator: Bob Corrigan, Macrovision; Panelists: Brian Vile, VP Product Management, Macrovision; Jonathan Lewin, VP of Information Commerce Macrovision. | SOFTWARE SHOWCASE
Open Source
CollabNet Compiere Digium Ingres Zimbra |
Your Appli- cations and Content: Mobilized, Globalized and Monetized in 24 Hours Michael C. Pousti, Chairman and CEO of SMS.ac; Peter Harrison, CEO, Induslogic. |
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| SaaS: Successful Go-to- Market Strategies Greg Gianforte, CEO, President, Chairman and Founder of RightNow Techno- logies. |
Digital Defrost
– How Blogs
and other Web
2.0 Approaches
are Heating
Up Marketing
Commun- ications Moderator: Sabrina Horn, president and CEO, Horn Group. Panelists: Sarah Lacey, Business Week; Bruce Lowry, Global PR, Novell; Andy Lark, Consultant and blogger. |
Make Winning a
Habit Rick Page, Author and CEO, Complex Sale. |
Mainten- ance is Strategic... Now What? Moderator: Mike Smerklo, President & CEO of Service Source. Panelists: Keith Leimbach, VP, Americas Support, BEA Systems; Glenn Weinstein, VP, Technical Support & Services, Borland; Brian Slepko, VP Maintenance Revenue & Operations, Agile Software; Alex Slusky, Managing Partner, Vector Capital. |
Why Business Open Source is Ready for Prime Time Moderator: Tom Berquist, CFO, Ingres. Panelists: Bill Roth, VP Workshop Business Unit, BEA Systems; Yogesh Gupta, CTO, CA; Kevin Thompson, Former CFO, Redhat |
10 Best Practices for Successful Offshore Develop- ment Centers Sheng Liang, Vice President of Engineering, Seven. |
SOFTWARE SHOWCASE Enterprise Software eWork Itemfield Kalido StorePerform Wyse |
Licensing and Pricing: The Next Segment- ation Weapons Jim Geisman, President, MarketShare Inc. |
Product Develop- ment Outsourcing: The Next Wave Moderator: Vamsee Tirukkala, Co- Founder, Zinnov. Panelists: Puranik Ranganath, Sr. Dir., Offshore R&D Strat. and Op., Motorola; James Maury, Dir. of Eng., OpenWave; Warren Smith, VP of Eng., Mirapoint; Vijay Laxmi, Manager- Developer Partner & Evangelism, Microsoft |
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| Wednesday, April 5 11:00 – 12:00pm |
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| Acceler- ating Your Software as a Service (SaaS) Business Moderator: Liz Herbert, Forrester Research. Panelists: Steve Lucas, VP, Business Objects; Sam Ramji, Director, Microsoft; Gordon Ritter, General Partner, Emergence Capital Partners; Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource. |
An Insider’s
Perspective of
the M&A Process
at Leading
Acquirers Moderator: Kevin
Iudicello, Principal
SVB Alliant.
Panelists: Doug
Kehring, Senior
Vice President
of Corporate
Develop- |
Open Source:
Money Pit or
Money Machine? Moderator:
Shirish Netke,
President, Aztec
Software.
Panelists: Jason
Maynard,
Software Analyst,
CSFB;
Jorg Janke, Founder & President, Compierre; Raj Setty, Chairman, Cignex Technolo- |
Lead Generation
- What Works
Well and What
Doesn’t
Anil Gupta, Principal, The Applications Marketing Group. |
Customer Driven Innovation: Making it Happen with a Global Team Moderator:
Malcolm Frank, CMO, Cognizant.
Panelists: Bill
Ihrie, CTO, Intuit;
Billy Hinners,
VP IT Enterprise
Applications,
Autodesk; Carl
Theobald, SVP
Research and
Develop- ment, Serena Software. |
Software Offshoring as an Ecosystem Leo Brunnick, CTO, Vignette and Kris Canekeratne, CEO, Virtusa. | SOFTWARE SHOWCASE
Security
Columbitech Courion Fortify SOA Software Vontu |
Venture Advice: Guerrilla Warfare with Your Last $30K Rick Bennett, President, TRBA. |
It’s Time to Change our Thinking! Why Enterprises Need to Focus on Effective User Adoption to Realize the Value of IT Chris Dowse, CEO, Neochange and Steve Schlabs, Director of Enterprise Accounts, Salesforce.com. |
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| From Bubble
to Break- through: Reshaping a Dotcom Startup into an Enterprise Software Power- house Took Focus and Discipline Josh Pickus, Vice President, CA. |
Private Equity
Panel |
Partner or
Foe: Working
with Systems
Integrators to
Win Deals Moderator: David
Munn, President & CEO, ITSMA.
Panelists:
Jesus B. Mantas Partner, IBM Business Consulting Services, IBM Corporation; Ali Piyarali, Managing Partner, Software Industry Practice, Accenture; Doug Tuttle, Principal and Director of Strategic Alliances, Deloitte Consulting. |
Instant
Messaging
and the New
On-Demand
Workplace Brian Curry, VP,
Premium and
Subscription
Services, AOL and
David Knight,
VP, Product
Manage- ment, WebEx. |
Beyond
Reporting:
Higher- Value Business Intelli- gence for ISVs, ASPs and xSPs Moderator: Steve Lucas, Vice President, Indirect Business and Strategic Market, Business Objects. Panelists: Geni Whitehouse, VP Product Manage- ment, Sage Software; Phill Robinson, Chief Marketing Officer, Salesforce. com; John Callahan, Director, Large Segment Marketing, Thomson Elite. |
Mobile Computing and Hosted Solutions David Nagel, former CEO, PalmSource and Frank Yu, President and COO, Augmentum | SOFTWARE SHOWCASE New Media BDMetrics Blinkx ClairMail JotSpot Socialtext |
How to Turn an Inno- vation into a Billion- Dollar Business David Thompson, Author, Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Achieve Exponential Growth. |
Venture Capital Panel Moderator: Dan Dorosin, Fenwick & West LLP. Panelists: Bob Lisbonne, Matrix Partners; Tom Furlong, Granite Ventures; Steve Baloff, Advanced Technology Ventures. |
On-Demand Platforms Were Not All Created Equal Shawn Farshchi, CIO, WebEx. |
Positioning Strategies for Taking Market Category Leadership Moderator Bob Wright, Principal, Marketing Arts. Panelists: Heidi Melin, CMO, Hyperion; and Van Diamandakis, CMO, WebEx. |
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