Microsoft Global High-Tech Summit Highlights How Manufacturers Can 'Accelerate Through the Economic Turn'
February 10 2010 - 9:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Interactive session will feature live polling, presentations from
industry leaders. REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
What: Industry leaders in the high-tech and electronics industry
share their companies' economic recovery preparation strategies at
the Microsoft Global High-Tech Summit on Feb. 11, 2010, in Santa
Clara, Calif. Attendees will learn how investments in improved
business systems and processes will ultimately position their
organizations to help grow revenues, profits and market share
during the upturn. The summit will feature keynote presentations
from these speakers: -- Gary Hamel, professor, author of "Leading
the Revolution and Competing for the Future," speaker, business
thought leader, director, Management Lab -- Mark Bernstein, chief
executive officer, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC Inc.) -- Dan'l
Lewin, corporate vice president, strategic and emerging business
development, Microsoft Corp. -- Drew Gude, director, U.S. high-tech
and electronics manufacturing industry solutions, Microsoft Panel
discussions on the following topics: -- "Improving Innovation and
Speeding Time-to-Market" -- "Building the Engaged, Interactive and
'Sticky' Customer Relationship" -- "Accelerating Sales Growth:
Product Launch Through Customer Adoption" -- "Leveraging IT to
Accelerate Through the Turn (CIO Panel)" When: Feb. 11, 2010, 7:30
a.m.-8 p.m. PST Where: Marriott Santa Clara Hotel 2700 Mission
College Boulevard Santa Clara, CA 95054 Who: In addition to the
keynote speakers, session participants include the following: --
Craig Hodges, general manager, U.S. manufacturing and resources
sector, Microsoft -- Gregg Hansen, vice president, application
development and data warehouse, AMD Inc. -- Ashley Eikenberry,
director, go to market program office, NetApp -- Kevin Cooney,
chief information officer and corporate vice president, Xilinx Inc.
-- Ken Venner, executive vice president, corporate services and
chief information officer, Broadcom Corp. -- David Smoley, chief
information officer, Flextronics International -- Ananthan Thandri,
vice president and chief information officer, Mentor Graphics Corp.
-- Peter Gosbee, global co-lead, product lifecycle management
center of excellence, Emerson -- Bob Parker, group vice president,
IDC Manufacturing Insights -- Ravi Iyer, senior manager, customer
value chain management, Cisco -- Brett Bonthron, partner, TCG
Advisors -- Dawn Lacallade, community manager, SolarWinds Inc.
More: Other highlights include live audience polling on attendees'
market impressions and technology strategies. Results will be
showcased live during the event's opening keynote address and will
be available following the event for interested media and analysts.
Info: More information is available at
http://www.microsoft.com/industry/manufacturing/hightech/
summit/2010/default.mspx and
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/industries/
manufacturing/default.aspx (Logo:
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Caitlin McCabe of Microsoft, +1-646-220-2261, ; or Jen Spark of
Ruder Finn, +1-617-784-3245, , for Microsoft Web Site:
http://www.microsoft.com/
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