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****************** AT THE CENTER ****************** The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing support: EXECUTIVE SPONSORS * Amdocs, Inc http://www.Amdocs.com
AFFILIATE SPONSOR CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE: http://www.worldinternetcenter.com Past copies of our newsletters and directions to the Center are available on the website. ALL PROGRAMS ARE HELD AT THE CENTER UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. *************************************** ***SUMMARY: THINK TANK SESSION: JANUARY 10 & 11, 2001 ***SUMMARY: WEBCAST INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION: WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 17, 2001 ***PUB TALK: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2001 ***SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2001 ***THINK TANK SESSION: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2001 ***CHALLENGE THE EXPERT: WEDNESDAY, FEBUARY 28, 2001 “CHALLENGES
AND ISSUES FOR MEGA - WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT”
Sara K. Dean, the Center's Program Manager, will take a position as the Production Manager at San Jose Children's Musical Theater, effective February 1, 2001! Sara came to the Center almost a year ago as its Program Assistant and, shortly thereafter, promoted to Program Manager due her excellent work on keeping the Center's programs and office running. At that time, the Center was in the process of increasing its programs and Sara never hesitated to roll up her sleeves and take on tasks that needed to be accomplished. With Sara's background is in theater production and management, the SJCMT is lucky to have her! On behalf of the Center and its community, we will miss her friendly smile at the Thursday Pub, but hope she'll be able visit us on Thursdays. Sara, we wish you well in your new endeavor! For inquiries or information regarding Center programs, please
contact: ********************************* On the first day of this Session, the participants took part in three simultaneous breakout sessions, entitled: * CONTENT, STRUCTURE & ENABLING TECHNOLOGY Detailed notes from these breakout sessions can be found on the center’s website under the January 10-11 Think Tank Session webpage (http://www.worldinternetcenter.com) *************************************** A summary of the panel discussion between the panelists and the audience participants will be available, as well as a press release, on the Center’s website next week.
ABOUT MARTIE NIELSON A business builder for over 25 years, Mr. Nielson was founder and CEO of UK-based NJS International, a mergers and acquisition company. Over 3 years, he drove the growth of client Corporate Express (Europe) from a start-up to a $450M subsidiary. In 1998 he founded Scandinavian Corporate Suppliers, with venture and debt funding, and grew it to become a very profitable, pre-IPO B2B company with $150 M in sales. As founder and CEO of The Business Superstore, Mr. Nielson built an office supply & computer superstore/telesales company with private financing, grew it to $15 million in sales and merged it with the largest chain in Europe. Prior to that Martin was a founding executive and Vice President of venture backed Businessland, Inc., a computer & networking reseller that he helped grow to $1.5 Billion and a NYSE listing. An executive with the Gap for 9 years, he helped build one of the world's premiere retailers from only a few stores to a $billion NYSE company. Martin is a graduate of San Jose State University and attended San Francisco State University's graduate school of business, with concentration on operations research. ABOUT INCLUSION Founded in 1997, Inclusion's (http://www.inclusion.net) mission is to "Revolutionize work through collaboration". Inclusion's founders, executives and board members have extensive startup experience. They have been associated with Software Publishing, Yahoo, the Gap, Businessland, Apple, CATS, America Online, Intel, Symantec, McKinsey, Corporate Express, and Proctor & Gamble.
In her Pub talk, Rachel Parikh will outline SAP's solutions for the emerging market. These include out-of-the-box eBusiness applications designed specifically for startups, with an emphasis on affordability and speed of implementation. Many new economy companies are coming to the realization that they will not flourish with little more than an attractive website, and that if they are to survive, they will need robust and scalable e-business solutions to support their company growth. They are learning an important fact of business life: that the need to focus on core business requires a more bottom-up management of the back office to front office processes. Come learn about SAP's solutions which are in greater demand than ever by small businesses. ABOUT RACHEL PARIKH Rachel Parikh has been with SAP since 1993, first at SAP's headquarters in Walldorf, Germany, and since 1996 in the USA. Based at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, she is currently working as the Solution Manager for emerging markets, defining and developing an eBusiness solution for Internet companies and technology start-ups. In the past, Ms. Parikh has worked as the Product Manager for the mySAP High Tech industry business unit as well as in consulting and training. ABOUT mySAP As the market leader of inter-enterprise software solutions, mySAP (http://www.mysap.com) is leveraging its strength in industry-focused business software and the world's largest enterprise software customer base to deliver mySAP.com. mySAP.com provides an open collaborative business environment of personalized solutions on demand. This enables companies of all sizes and industries to fully engage their employees, customers and partners to capitalize upon the new Internet economy. mySAP.com allows people to harness the power of the Internet by optimizing supply chains, managing strategic relationships, reducing time to market, sharing virtual information, and increasing productivity and shareholder value. For further information please contact: NOTE: At the Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California eFlow is the secure, trusted, and efficient movement of information through the business processes and systems of an eBusiness, including transactions with its critical constituents. This Conference, organized by the Open Group (http://www.opengroup.org) features speakers and case studies that use the aviation industry to examine and highlight the issues of security, manageability, directory, quality of service, and data synchronization in conducting e-business today. Interoperability issues, both within organizations and with supply chain partners will be examined, and the examples of business benefit gained from products that deliver interoperability through standard interfaces will be illustrated. ABOUT THE OPEN GROUP The Open Group http://www.opengroup.org is the only forum in which IT customers and suppliers come together to discuss their corporate and industry needs. Members of The Open Group include some of the largest and most influential organizations in the world; Compaq Computer, Fujitsu, Siemens, Hitachi, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Motorola, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA, Nortel Networks, Novell, Tivoli, and many others. Several members of the Open Group -- IBM, Fujitsu, and Sun Microsystems -- are Executive Sponsors of the Center. REGISTRATION
ABOUT DAVID HENSHAW David Henshaw advises Plural's clients on retail eCommerce business strategies. Mr. Henshaw has worked in the retail industry for the past ten years. During that time, he worked for one of the top U.S. general products retailers, and the largest consumer electronics retailer. His responsibilities have included managing IT eCommerce operations and coordinating retail strategies across multiple web sites. ABOUT PLURAL Plural (http://www.plural.com)
builds eBusinesses. Propelled by more than 600 skilled strategists,
creative specialists and technologists, Plural draws upon deep experience
in delivering critical business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer
(B2C) solutions to the Global 2000 and to Internet startup businesses.
Plural is in the client-benefit business. Our focus is on delivering
real, measurable success against our client's business goals: increasing
revenues, reducing costs, enhancing efficiency, and opening new
markets. How do we do it? By working with our clients to explore
and understand their opportunities. Opportunities in applying and
leveraging interactive technologies. Opportunities to build valued,
effective, and competitively advantaged eBusinesses. Our clients
know that to succeed in today's competitive business environment
they must understand, employ and embrace rapidly shifting technologies
and markets. They must achieve and maintain competitive advantage.
To do that, they need a strong and capable partner who will empower
them to compete and win in the Internet economy. Plural has an 11
year track record of performance in the intense, fast-paced, business-critical
solutions market, and a proven delivery capability hallmarked by
more than 1500 projects successfully completed with many of the
world's leading companies.
This invitation-only Think Tank Session will bring together 25-30
key leaders to brainstorm and discuss future 12 to 18 month market
opportunities for collaborative business, processes that transcend
the borders of individual businesses and support collaboration between
business partners over the Internet. Current and upcoming market developments for collaborative business
will be explored in the following areas: Established companies, innovative smaller companies, suppliers, and users will contribute to the discussion. Keynotes will be delivered, followed by the opportunity to build and exchange knowledge together. Benefits from participating include insight into upcoming market developments and networking for business opportunities. PARTICIPATION Those interested in participating, send name, title, and company
name along with a short bio and company summary to:
Willy Chiu will share experiences in building the world's highest volume eBusiness websites for sporting events, eCommerce, on-line trading and on-line banking. Impact on performance from bursty web traffic patterns as well as advanced technologies for multi-tier architectures, caching and web page designs will be described. Actual website data and examples will be used, including sporting sites like the Olympics. The best practices & lessons learned were documented by IBM in a series of white papers and are made available to the industry. This presentation is aimed at business development and technical leaders who have, or who anticipate, intense user demand, whether it is Websites, such as the Olympics, Charles Schwab & Co., and Victoria's Secrets or sites that have high quality-of-service end-user expectations. THE EXPERT REGISTRATION
The Pub gathers 100-120 mid- to high-level executives every week and, as always, is a great place to come and meet people from the Silicon Valley and all over the world. Representatives from small start-ups and major companies to venture capital and academic join in the exchange at the Center Pub. It's... “The best reason to take off work early on Thursdays.” For directions, please visit http://www.worldinternetcenter.com
The dress is casual and there is no fee to attend. Just bring your good ideas! Companies with an interest in giving a Pub Talk should contact Venilde Jeronimo, the Center's Director of Programs (mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com). For inquiries or to un-subscribe to this newsletter, mailto:info@worldinternetcenter.com |