C. K. Prahalad, Distinguished Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, discusses the major concepts behind his book "The New Age of Innovation" and how the convergence of customer-focused strategies and global networks is transforming modern business models.
Abhijit Dubey, Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company, extends the discussion of the new age of innovation, and what it means for forward-looking companies.
David Knight, VP, WebEx Connect,
WebEx Communications, Inc., a division of Cisco, and Vivek Luthra, Senior VP &
Global Head of Services, Ramco Systems, discuss the platform issues raised in the earlier morning keynote sessions.
Bob Muglia, Senior Vice President, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft, discusses Dynamic IT and the transformation of the datacenter, as well as Microsoft's interoperability initiatives.
Jayshree V. Ullal, Senior Vice President, Data Center, Switching and Services Group, Cisco, discusses how innovations in virtualization resulting from the move to SOA and Web2.0 architectures are enabling the network for scalable collaboration technologies that increase efficiency and accelerate productivity.
A panel discussion on trends in software interoperability with Roger Burkhardt, President and CEO, Ingres Corporation; Stephen J. Mellor, Freeter, Integranova; and Philip Winslow, Vice President - Software Analyst, Credit Suisse
John Dasher, PGP, and Matt Mosher, SVP, Americas, Lumension Security, discuss the evolving threat of data theft and how organizations can implement an effective endpoint security strategy.
Jesper Andersen, Senior Vice President - Application Development, Oracle Corporation, discusses how Oracle is moving beyond traditional enterprise applications and into addressing differentiated innovative business processes by leveraging modern SOA based integration techniques.
Dmitri Alperovitch, Director, Intelligence Analysis and Hosted Security, Secure Computing Corporation; Gary Dobbins, Director - Information Security, University of Notre Dame; and Gary L. Hodge, CTO, U.S. Bank, look at the security issues facing CIOs in today's Web 2.0 world--the threats, the policy issues, customer demands, business needs, and the tradeoffs necessary when blending all these together.
David DeWalt, President and CEO, McAfee, Inc., discusses the challenges facing security professionals, including proliferation of network connected devices, globalization, increased malware and sophisticated cybercrime groups.
Surya Kant, President, Tata Consultancy Services, North America, discusses the current state of the software delivery industry and what the next generation of software delivery will look like.