For Immediate Release
Dr. Susan J. Duggan
Chief Executive Officer
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
650.462.9800
info@worldinternetcenter.com
SAP CORPORATE RESEARCH
TO LEAD INNOVATION AS
THE NEWEST CORPORATE SPONSOR AT
THE SILICON VALLEY WORLD INTERNET CENTER
PALO ALTO, CA - November 12, 2003 -- SAP Corporate Research
(http://www.sap.com/research)
today announced that they will join the Silicon Valley World Internet
Center as the first member of the recently created Corporate Sponsorship
Program. SAP Corporate Research underlined the importance of financially
supporting the challenge to the high technology community to re-invigorate
innovation in the Silicon Valley which was put forth recently by
the World Internet Center.
"We need to embrace, anew, the collaborative nature of innovation,"
says Dr. Joachim Schaper, vice president of SAP Corporate Research
Americas. "Our partners -large and small-should join Susan Duggan
and the World Internet Center in moving the pace and quality of
innovation forward in the Silicon Valley. SAP Corporate Research
calls for other enterprises, governments, and end-users to join
us in this challenge to focus the next generation of innovation
around the Internet and communications."
"SAP Corporate Research continues to display its leadership in
the Internet space by supporting the collaborative nature of this
innovation platform called the World Internet Center. We are honored
to welcome them as the first member of our new Corporate Sponsorship
Program," said Dr. Susan Duggan, CEO of the Silicon Valley World
Internet Center. "As we look to 2004, our objective is to leverage
the collective and collaborative weight of about 30 industry and
government leaders to support technology, communications, and eBusiness
evolution in an open, yet critical multi-organizational environment.
Having SAP Corporate Research lead that challenge is a great first
step."
The objective of the Silicon Valley World Internet Center's Corporate
Sponsorship Program is to provide a powerful and effective center
- a third-party forum and nexus of innovators-for clients from Internet-
and communications-based industries, governments and enterprise
end-users to explore near- and medium-term solutions for advanced
communications, business processes and security.
The Corporate Sponsorship Program has a $9,900 annual fee. The
Corporate Sponsorship Program will deliver series of multi-organizational
sessions, open to the public, around such topics as business applications
for sensor networks, RFID applications for supply chain management,
future of wireless broadband, convergence of nano- and biotechnology
with IT, among other cutting edge topics. The Sponsorship Program
will also highlight key advances made by members of the program,
bringing innovations into a multi-corporate community of developers
and end-users.
The Silicon Valley World Internet Center is a for-profit corporation
for the advancement of Internet-related technologies and market.
A dynamic think tank and showcase, the Center leverages strategic
knowledge and relationships for the benefit of its clients. In its
eighth year in the Silicon Valley, the Center provides a multi-corporate
forum and the professional facilitation for the validation of products,
technologies, and strategic directions for producers of technologies
and end-users.
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