Meet with leading vendors and notable start-ups in the Demo Pavilion, and learn about the latest tools and technologies through a series of free sessions open to all attendees.
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Learn how businesses are using a social computing fabric to take enterprise productivity and innovation to the next level. BEA's AquaLogic User Interaction suite provides a social computing framework for participant-driven social applications and team collaboration. This session explores how disparate Web 2.0 tools (blogs, wikis, tags, social networks and RSS etc.) can be leveraged with enterprise sensibilities to help achieve business and IT goals in a practical and sustainable fashion.
Speaker - Ajay Gandhi, Sr. Director, Enterprise Social Computing, BEA Systems
Ajay Gandhi is a Senior Director of Product Marketing for BEA Systems where he currently leads the worldwide strategy, partnership and marketing initiatives for BEA?s portal solutions and Web 2.0 social computing products. Previously at BEA, Mr. Gandhi was a Director of Product Management for the BEA AquaLogic Product Family and was responsible for platform strategy, product planning and strategic partnerships. Prior to BEA, Ajay held senior product management positions at several software companies developing products in CRM, analytics and collaborative development. He was also a Principal with Crimson Ventures focused on infrastructure software companies in the areas of distributed BPM, security policy compliance and vertically focused EAI. Earlier in his career, Ajay worked as a strategy consultant in McKinsey?s Worldwide Technology Practice and as an engineer at Microsoft, Intel and Corel. Ajay received his M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania?s Wharton School and his B.A.Sc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
With the movement of communication and content generation from documents and e-mail to hypertext, Enterprise 2.0 has the promise to deliver on the benefits that CMS systems have touted, but failed to produce: effective search and content re-use. See how the integration of blogs, wikis, social tagging, search and the permission filtering necessary for enterprise collaboration can come together to make your business work like the web. Practical examples and Enterprise case study vignettes will explain how real companies are experiencing real results today.
Speaker - Jordan Frank, VP Marketing & Business Development, Traction Software
Jordan Frank earned his blog and wiki black belt after joining Traction Software as VP Marketing and Business Development in 2002. Besides living and breathing every day in the company?s internal blog and keeping an external blog at www.tractionsoftware.com, Jordan engages with leading pharmaceutical, US Government and many other organizations to guide implementations and ensure Wiki fast success at customer sites. Jordan previously held program, product and operations management roles at Inktomi and Adero. Jordan earned an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management in 2000 and a BA from Dartmouth in 1994.
In this fast-paced, entertaining presentation, intranet consultant and ThoughtFarmer co-creator Chris McGrath will share the 10 not-so-easy steps to convert an impossibly complex, seldom used corporate intranet into Intranet 2.0: a simple, social intranet that helps employees collaborate, share ideas and find information.
Chris is the co-creator of ThoughtFarmer, social software that powers enterprise intranets in Microsoft environments. He's been consulting on web and intranet projects since 1995 with a particular emphasis on interface design, information architecture and usability analysis. Chris lives with his wife and 2 children in the backwaters of British Columbia, Canada, where he bikes, skis, skates and enjoys fine espresso from the local roastery.
Learn how to let your employees use consumer tools, such as social networks (Facebook, etc), personalized homepages (iGoogle, Windows Live, Netvibes), social bookmarking, RSS, and more to collaborate with peers, partners, and customers, securely. Get the inside scoop on making popular Web 2.0 platforms enterprise-grade.
Speaker - David Lavenda, Vice President, Marketing and Product Strategy, WorkLight
David has an extensive background in marketing and product management and has held key senior positions in successful technology companies. Recently, he served as Chief Marketing Officer of V-Secure Technologies (sold to Radware - NASDAQ:RDWR). Prior to that, he co-founded and served as Vice President of Marketing and Product Strategy at Business Layers (sold to Netegrity ? NASDAQ:NETE). Previously, he has held a variety of business and technical positions in technology companies and organizations. Mr. Lavenda has a B.Sc. in Physics from Bar-Ilan University, an MBA in Marketing from the Recanati School of Business at Tel Aviv University, and has completed advanced studies in Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University.
See how companies are integrating user generated content, and folksonomies via social bookmarking, tagging, and social networking applications into corporate Intranets to help employees discover information and expertise, and enable intense collaboration to drive innovation and worker productivity
Puneet Gupta is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with over 15 years of marketing and operations experience at both large and small technology companies. Most recently, he was CEO of CourseCafe, an online social collaboration application company enabling researchers around the world to work together online on academic and coursework-related research.Puneet was Director of Product Marketing at Selectica (NASDAQ: SLTC) - an enterprise sales and solutions pricing software company, helping to grow the company from 70 employees to over 900, with one of the top ten IPOs in Nasdaq's history, and guiding it into new industry verticals with innovative solutions, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions. He has also held marketing and product development positions at Peoplesoft, and Oracle Corporation, where he brought several new products to market. He received the Best Innovative Product of the Year award at Oracle.Puneet holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Ohio State University, Management of Technology from UC Berkeley, and an MBA from Columbia University in New York.
Traditional Intranet: zero oomph. 2.0 technologies for adding oomph: big expense with major integration headaches. A complete 2.0 Intranet suite, out-of-the-box: Priceless. Come see for yourself how the unbelievably complete Intranet 2.0 suite can take your organization from ghost town to success - instantly! Don't overlook the potential of your Intranet; it's the heartbeat of your organization. Finally, an Intranet 2.0 that creates a social, agile and truly collaborative enterprise - and makes everybody in the organization feel at home.
Martin Amm is the CEO and one of the founders of adenin TECHNOLOGIES, providers of IntelliEnterprise, a fully-integrated intranet suite for mid-sized to large organizations. The suite includes collaboration, knowledge management, content management and Enterprise 2.0 capabilities, delivering a virtual workspace where people inside and outside the organization can work together more effectively. Mr. Amm has more than 26 years of hands-on experience in the software industry, both in management and software development. Before founding Adenin, he was the CEO of Amasis Software Corporation, an ERP vendor, and of Two to One Consulting Ltd. Mr. Amm speaks at industry conferences and has authored articles on the topic of intranet best practices for CIO, IntranetsToday and TechRepublic.
Hear how millions of professionals are getting things done and gaining back up to 5 hours a week! By visually capturing and sharing information in context, they're driving instant returns in productivity, innovation, and outcomes. Visualize the Enterprise at work with 3 real examples: meetings, strategic planning, and project initiation.
Speaker - Neil Mendelson, Vice President of Products, Mindjet
Neil Mendelson brings more than 25 years of product development and marketing insight, with speaking appearances at Location Intelligence Conference, The Desktop Conference and many others. Prior to Mindjet, Mr. Mendelson held key roles at Oracle Corporation as Vice President of Product Management and Strategy where he initiated Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing products and most recently at Business Objects as Vice President of Product Management and Strategy.
The excitement surrounding Web 2.0 has organizations wondering how best to harness its power. Web 2.0 provides both new opportunities and new challenges, but with the right strategy and an integrated Enterprise 2.0 offering, the possibilities are endless. This session will explain:
* how to accommodate this wave of collaborative content
* what this means for corporate records and compliance
* what you need to know about the emerging use of rich media Join this session to learn how 2.0 organizations can provide a high-performance workspace for their employees and a rich, interactive experience for their customers and partners.
What is Learning 2.0, and how can it and transform your HR initiatives? How do workplace communities fit into a "WE" - based company culture, in which the collective wisdom of the masses is as highly valued as the insights of "experts"? Corporate communications and learning have traditionally been solely focused on the transfer of information, knowledge, and expertise of designated individuals to many. This status quo however, is being challenged by peer-to-peer exchanges through blogs, wikis, discussion forums, comments and the like. Increasingly, the transfer of expertise is peer-to-peer, and more importantly, it's proving to have a greater impact on job and business performance. Join this session to learn how companies are embracing this change to profoundly improve business functions, including learning and development, across the enterprise.
Speaker - David Wilkins, Senior Director, Workplace Communities, Mzinga
David has been a thought leader in the eLearning, simulation, and electronic performance support (EPSS) industries for many years, most notably in the development of several ground-breaking products in the simulation and EPSS spaces. Through frequent speaking sessions at industry conferences as well as numerous articles and white papers, David has had a significant impact on the direction of the learning industry.In his current role as Mzinga's Senior Director of Workplace Solutions, David is responsible for product development and strategy for community and learning solutions targeted at employees within an organization. Prior to his current role, David was the Senior Director of Product Strategy for KnowledgePlanet.
Troubleshooting customer problems can be an emotional roller coaster. A customer frustrated by an interruption to his workday, an agent under pressure to quickly diagnose and resolve that problem. Finally, relief, and satisfaction, when the customer's question is quickly answered and the problem is resolved. Join InQuira for an entertaining demonstration of its solutions for agent-assisted support, web self-service, and knowledge management. Experience the power of a software platform that combines intelligent search, knowledge management, and advanced analytics into the most advanced solution for resolving support issues available today.
Nav Chakravarti , Vice President, Product Marketing Nav Chakravarti joined InQuira in April 2000, as a member of the founding team. As Vice President of Product Marketing, he is responsible for InQuira?s product messaging and positioning. During his seven year tenure at InQuira, he has had extensive experience in consulting with InQuira?s customers to present InQuira?s value proposition, guiding solution architecture and implementing search and knowledge management solutions. Prior to joining InQuira, Nav spent seven years at Cambridge Technology Partners where he was a Director of Internet Solutions. Nav?s education includes a BS and an MS in Computer Engineering from Michigan State University and an MBA in Marketing from the Anderson School at UCLA.
The adoption of Enterprise 2.0 collaboration technology is on the rise in corporate environments. Learn how RSS enhances the collaboration capabilities by creating easy, cross-organization collaboration and discussion, improving expertise discovery and internal networking, and energizing portals with relevant, dynamic content, tagging, tag clouds, pop-up profiles, and more.
Brian Kellner is responsible for overall product management and the consumer business segment of NewsGator. Brian has held product or development management positions for over a dozen years. Most recently he was Vice President of Enterprise Products for Webroot Software. Brian holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. in Management from Colorado Tech.
In this session the technical and business components that make up Web 2.0 and its effect on the modern enterprise will be explored. The challenges associated with adopting Web 2.0 technologies plus present an overview of solutions, including the subscription-based MySQL Enterprise will be explored, as well as the high-availability and scalable open source architectures available from Sun. The session will conclude with several case studies concerning enterprises which have successfully implemented applications based on Web 2.0 technologies including MySQL and Sun.
Speaker - Jimmy Guerrero, Sr Product Marketing Manager, MySQL Sun Microsystems
Jimmy Guerrero currently coordinates MySQL?s Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and SaaS technical marketing programs within Sun Microsystems. He joined MySQL in 2005 as the product manager for MySQL Cluster and other MySQL high availability technologies. Prior to joining MySQL he held various sales and technical positions at Idera Software and Embarcadero Technologies. He currently resides in Houston, Texas.
When people work together, great things happen! Now imagine the impact of what happens when employees and partners contextually collaborate around the softer aspects of the traditional automated enterprise business process. Now consider the impact of 200 job roles, 80 natural enterprise communities, and 40 teaming-oriented business processes. In this brief introduction, Oracle sets the stage for its keynote and session, and wants to ask you, "Have you imagined how innovative engaged employees can be?"
Speaker - Peter Heller, Senior Director, Oracle Worldwide Marketing, Oracle
Are you measuring and mining your community's data? Your social network is a goldmine of customer information! Listen in as we discuss how online communities can contribute to business intelligence and how understanding user behavior can prove ROI for your brand.
Rob Howard, CEO and Founder, drives the corporate vision and growth for Telligent®. As an expert in planning and growing social media communities on the Web, Mr. Howard is a pioneer in developing enterprise-ready software applications for online communities. Whether it?s streamlining project management with forums or supplementing traditional online advertising with blogs, Mr. Howard is determined to help organizations of any size apply the value of social media communities to their business. Prior to founding Telligent, Rob was a Program Manager and Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Corporation, where he contributed to the development of the ASP.NET technology while helping organizations adopt Microsoft?s Web platform. Mr. Howard has authored several books on the topic of software development and speaks around the globe at developer conferences, such as Microsoft?s PDC and TechEd.Rob is a Dallas, TX Microsoft Regional Director and a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP. Blog: weblogs.asp.net/rhoward
A new class of Enterprise 2.0 collaboration services address challenges faced by CIOs - from the proliferation of e-mail attachments to document issues like version control and content organization - through flexible, affordable web-based services. Box.net's Enterprise service specifically addresses critical collaboration issues and concerns facing CIO's and IT staff.
Speaker - Jim Herbold, Enterprise GM and VP of Sales, Box.net, Inc.
As VP Sales and Enterprise GM , Jim is responsible for the sales, marketing and product development of the Box Enterprise service. Jim brings 15 years of experience in sales and operations. He previously held a variety of sales and management roles at EmailLabs, a leading hosted email marketing platform, and over a four-year period grew the business from just over $1 million to more than $13 million in revenue while consistently maintaining profit margins in excess of 30%. Prior to EmailLabs, Jim held sales and operations roles at AboveNet, National Computer Board (Singapore), Centennial Communications, and MCI. Jim graduated with a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
Speaker - Karen Appleton, VP of Business Development, Box.net, Inc.
As Vice President of Business Development, Karen is responsible for driving Box.net's high growth initiatives. She initiates, evaluates and structures new business opportunities, including strategic alliances and partnerships, to build demand for Box.net. Prior to Box.net, Karen was Vice President of Development and a member of the executive team at Prosper Marketplace and was responsible for a full range of growth activity including acquisition and retention and the development of ecosystem-based partnerships and alliances. Before Prosper, Karen held roles at Citigroup/Smith Barney, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLP, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP and Lexis-Nexis. Karen graduated with a B.A. from Towson University and earned a M.A. from Johns Hopkins University She holds an advisory board seat with The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives, and serves on the marketing and membership committees for SV2.
A wiki is more then just a collaborative web site, it's a new way of doing things. So how do you introduce it to your organization, get people excited about it, and encourage wiki-based collaboration and knowledge construction? We'll talk about all that and more, with plenty of real examples.
Stewart Mader is Wiki Evangelist for Atlassian, and a noted wiki/social software researcher, author, blogger and speaker. Before joining Atlassian, he worked with several universities and a number of other organizations to introduce wikis and grow wiki collaboration across departments, teams, and projects. Stewart has published two books including Wikipatterns and Using Wiki in Education. His blog can be found at www.ikiw.org .
Drawing on case studies from Fortune 500 organizations, learn how to identify appropriate online community applications, key functionality that guarantees results, and strategic considerations for enterprise implementation. Whether you are familiar with online communities or not, you will walk away with new insights that will improve your Enterprise 2.0 strategy.
Karen Orton is the Vice President of Enterprise Solutions for Lithium Technologies. She has more than 11 years of experience in working with online communities, and she has over 20 years of experience as a marketing and sales executive for internet and high-technology companies. In addition, Karen serves as an advisor to several Web 2.0 start-ups. At Lithium, Karen works with key enterprise customers and advises them on their online community business strategy. Additionally, she is responsible for many of Lithium?s strategic accounts including Symantec, Lenovo, and MTV (Viacom), CA and RIM. Lithium Technologies provides market-leading solutions for building successful enterprise online communities. Lithium?s on-demand platform, backed by community management expertise, enables its companies to engage with their customers to increase brand loyalty, sales, and customer satisfaction while decreasing customer care costs. Lithium?s solutions have been implemented by many of the world?s largest organizations, including Dell, AT&T, Comcast, Sprint, DoubleClick, Sage and others. Founded in 2001, Lithium is privately held with headquarters in Emeryville, Calif. For more information, visit www.lithium.com.
