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Past copies of Newsletters and Directions to the Center are available on the Web site. All programs are held at the Center unless otherwise noted. To join our community, click on this link: http://center.infopoint.com/join.php ***************************** EXECUTIVE BRIEFING:
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2004 ********* POWER PUB: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
5, 2004 ********* SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
"SENSOR NETWORKS IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY" ******** CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT: 2004
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM ********* "NEW YEAR'S WISH FROM
THE WORLD INTERNET CENTER" **************************** EXECUTIVE BRIEFING:
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2004 IC Growth (http://www.icgrowth.com/), a Knowledge Network Partner of the Silicon Valley World Internet Center, has developed a breakthrough methodology and software approach to creating value in the global enterprise. Intellectual Capital Assets now comprise most of stock value, yet Enterprise Management Systems have been unable to optimize capital use in the growth of these assets. Until now! On January 29, IC Growth's CEO, Mr. Don Presson, and key members of his management team (Dr. Dennis Dugan, Senior Vice President of Product Development and Mr. Chris Hook, Vice President of Product Engineering) will provide an Executive Briefing on IC Growth's breakthrough metrics and software design. The Briefing will cover:
The only competitive advantage left is the ability of organizations to grow their Intellectual Capital Assets faster than their competitors! Tangible assets are now commodities. Learn to view this new world of value creation from the new vantage point . . . critical to every organization from start-up to global enterprise. ABOUT THE PRESENTERS ABOUT DON PRESSON Mr. Don Presson, Chief Executive Officer of IC Growth, has 20 years of executive search and management consulting experience in a broad variety of disciplines and industries. He has also built and managed a multimillion-dollar executive search company. A sampling of his clients include Wells Fargo Bank, Levi Strauss & Co., The California Supreme Court, Genentech, and KPMG Peat Marwick LLP. He has also held operating responsibilities at the CEO and CFO levels. Mr. Presson has been an Adjunct Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University where he co-authored the course, "Creating Wealth in the Knowledge Economy." His formal education includes a B.S. in Finance from Georgetown University and an MBA in Finance from American University. ABOUT DENNIS DUGAN Dr. Dennis Dugan, Senior Vice President of Product Development for IC Growth, has 25 years of IP valuation experience. Dr. Dugan was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of IDDEX, a network-based IP Strategic Alignment and Management company. Dr. Duggan is an expert in Economic Profit methodology and valuation. He has held assignments as Director, IP Services for KPMG; Chairman of the Department of Economics at Notre Dame; an Economic Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution; Chief Economist at the General Accounting Office; and a Partner in the Economic Consulting Group at Coopers & Lybrand. Dr. Dugan has published three books, and over 50 articles, technical reports and chapters of books. He is responsible for over 200 reports and 50 testimonies to Congress. His education includes a B.S. in Mathematics from Creighton University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University. ABOUT CHRIS HOOK Mr. Chris Hook, Vice President of Product Engineering for IC Growth, has 19 years of experience on all aspects of the software technology product and service solution cycle including creation, architecture, design, development, testing, implementation, delivery and management/maintenance. Mr. Hook has worked for Visa, TekMetrix, Cisco, IBM/ICBC, HP and Hughes Aircraft. His business emphasis is with Software Products, Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Solution Architecture, Project Management, IT Solution Systems, and IT Restructuring. His technology emphasis is in Business Intelligence/Analytics, ERP/CRM, Database & Data Warehouse, e-Commerce, Web Development, Software Development, Data & Voice Communications, IT Systems, Network Services, and System Management & Diagnostics. Mr. Hook received a Masters of Applied Sciences in Engineering & Mathematics from the University of British Columbia in Canada. REGISTRATION INFORMATION The $15 fee will be collected at the door. Only cash or checks, made payable to Silicon Valley World Internet Center, will be accepted. To pre-register for the Executive Briefing, please send your name, title, company name, telephone number and email address to: Ms. Claire Kahrobaie **************************** POWER PUB: THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 5, 2004 As the marketplace for RFID warms up, questions arise as to the key choices for the standards affecting the use of tags in supply chain management and other applications. If the Auto-ID Center's Electronic Product Code (EPC) is expensive or its standards are not well defined, the U.S. military could use tags that would carry a unique Internet Protocol address using the next generation Internet Protocol called IP Version 6, or IPv6. It expands the length of Internet addresses to 128 bits, which means that there will be enough addresses to give one to every item on earth. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has mandated that its battlefield network use IPv6 by the end of 2006. Meanwhile, on the retail side of the RFID arena, Wal-Mart announced in 2003 that it will require its suppliers to place RFID transponders using EPC technology on pallets and cases by January 2005. Here is the challenge: DOD suppliers are larger than Wal-Mart's. They include the likes of Boeing and Lockheed, and therefore if EPC is not accepted outside of the consumer packaged goods industry, its success will be incredibly diminished. Please join us at the Power Pub for a townhall-style discussion around this issue. Guiding questions for the evening are:
ABOUT ROHIT GUPTA Rohit Gupta is a Group Leader at NPTest, Inc. (http://www.nptest.com/), which traces its rich history back to 1965 when Fairchild Semiconductor established an automated test equipment (ATE) division. In 1979, Schlumberger acquired Fairchild Semiconductor; and in 2003, NPTest became a private company. Dr. Gupta has worked with clients such as Intel, AMD, and Sun Microsystems and is responsible for systems engineering. He also serves as a Research Associate at the Silicon Valley World Internet Center. His current research topics are RFID and the Next Generation Internet. Dr. Gupta is also interested in nanotechnology and is a member of nanoSIG. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Ph.D. in engineering and worked on projects for ONR (Office of Naval Research) and DOE (Department of Energy). ABOUT DINESH VADHIA Dinesh Vadhia is the founder of FortyOne, Inc., an RFID middleware software company. Mr. Vadhia has been a senior marketing management professional at Oracle and Sun with a track record of winning in the competitive software market. Mr. Vadhia has a background in engineering and marketing. Originally from London, England, he received an MSc and BSc in Applied Math from Cranfield Institute of Technology and the University of Kent. Mr. Vadhia passionately believes that of all the standards to come out of the Auto-ID Center the EPC standard is of the greatest value and that eventually the RFID. **************************** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
"SENSOR NETWORKS IN THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY" The Center is pleased to release the summary from the Smart Items Business Forum's Working Group on "Sensor Networks in the Petroleum Industry: A Technologically Viable Path . . . or Just Marketing Hype?" The invitation-only session, convened on October 27, 2003, brought together a group of 17 experts in the sensors and sensor networks arena for an interactive knowledge exchange on the viability of sensors and sensor networks, and its underlying communications networks, in supporting industrial control and other business applications in the petroleum industry. The Working Group focused primarily on insights of the key subject-matter expert, Mr. Mike Bean, Senior Technical Consulting with the CTO's Office of BP Plc (formerly known as British Petroleum). The summary may be accessed from the Center's Home Page (www.worldinternetcenter.com), under Announcements. To access the summary from the October 27, 2003 Working Group on "Sensor Networks in the Petroleum Industry" in the future:
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2004 CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM "INVIGORATING HIGH TECH INNOVATION"
The Silicon Valley World Internet Center is pleased to announce its 2004 Corporate Sponsorship Program, whose objective 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. In November 2003, the Silicon Valley World Internet Center announced SAP Corporate Research as the first member of the Corporate Sponsorship Program. "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," said Dr. Susan Duggan, CEO of the Silicon Valley 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." FOR FURTHER INFORMATION For further information about the Silicon Valley World Internet
Center and the 2004 Corporate Sponsor Program, please contact: **************************** "NEW YEAR'S WISH FROM THE WORLD INTERNET CENTER" Candlelight and champagne sparkled our spirits at the Center's Sixth Annual Gala held in December 2003, here at the Stanford Barn. Amid the gowns and tuxedos, executives, scientists, professors, and entrepreneurs toasted a new year full of promise for the re-invigoration of high technology innovation in the Valley. Mr. Quentin Hardy, Bureau Chief for Forbes Magazine in the Silicon Valley regaled the revelers with visions of a positive future for technology advancements in 2004. Our own CEO, Susan Duggan, called for significant investments in research and development, moving the community of innovators towards a collaborative spirit of production and success. Below, please find excerpts from Susan Duggan's remarks from the Gala, which serve as New Year's wishes to all of us in this global community of innovators. "INVIGORATING HIGH TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION"
I mean shaking up the R&D budgets to move beyond the head-in-the-sand stance that many companies have taken over the last few years and moving forward to create new ideas, products, and markets that go beyond Q4 sales. I mean harvesting the talent of the Valley by setting the standards high, investing in entrepreneurs with solid plans, and culling the next-generation of inventors into a pro-active business environment that encourages rather than discourages. This means getting more and more companies involved at the World Internet Center. It also means continuing to support the Community of Innovators which spans across a broad range to include "youngsters!" from Stanford, serial entrepreneurs, and former EVPs who are now starting their first company at 60 years old. To this end, we have significantly revised our CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM this year to encourage involvement in the Center by a much larger group of companies than we have had in the past. I see this as a huge plus to all concerned. I believe we need to get back to much more cross-fertilization between the companies here in the Valley. We had that in '97 & '98, but then things got tight in the last three years and companies stopped sharing-or stopped taking the time to share. I firmly believe that to re-invigorate innovation here in the Valley, we must come back to a concerted arena for collaboration. And that's the Center's middle name! This broader and larger support of the Center's activities will help sustain the public-oriented programs here that keep the INNOVATOR'S DIALOGUE open. We are known for our small, closed-door think tank sessions. They wield a tremendous amount of valuable information and relationships for our clients in a short amount of time. But beyond that, we need to keep the finger on the pulse of change and invention and that means having the Center's doors open to the Valley's start up companies, entrepreneurs and inventors. The new Corporate Sponsorship Program -- priced for quick consumption -- is meant to support the programs and sessions for that Community of Innovators. I am very pleased that SAP Corporate Research (http://www.sap.com/company/research.asp) has stepped up to the plate to be our initial 2004 Corporate Sponsor. I encourage the rest of you to join them in this effort. FORUM FOR HOMELAND SECURITY INNOVATION In December, we had a think tank session, sponsored by SAP Corporate Research, around the critical needs for Homeland Security in the State of California and the potential for collaborative research projects to respond to those needs. In doing the recruitment for that 20-person session, I was struck at how much the Silicon Valley has to offer in this arena and how little we know about the actual needs in this convoluted, but crucial space called "HOMELAND SECURITY." I was also struck by two other revelations: 1.) That the key responders and coordinators for much of our security in California is the California Highway Patrol. Did you know they oversee the largest communications infrastructure in California and are responsible for tracking cyber-security for the State? Their CIO expressed to me that this was the very first time anyone had ever invited them to share their needs to with the high tech community. Normally they just get hosed down with sales pitch on a one-off basis. We had a great session, by the way! 2.) The other revelation was how little money is getting funneled into California for research. (I got an earful from many on this score.) Both of these revelations have prompted us, here at the Center, to take a proactive response. To that end, I am announcing, tonight, our intention to form the FORUM FOR HOMELAND SECURITY INNOVATION, which we will run through the World Internet Center. We have 7 years of experience in providing high-quality sessions designed to move the industry forward. I think it's time to take on the California and Federal Government, and the high tech companies, which stand to benefit -- and get them involved in this collaborative effort. I look to you -- to this community of technology producers and funders -- to become financially engaged in this Forum to move your own agenda forward in a collaborative fashion with your partners and competitors; and with a tremendous number of end-users out there. LET'S TALK AUTO-ID We did a lot this year in the RFID and Sensor Network space. It started with Mr. Dean Frew, the President of Xterprise (http://www.xterprise.com/), our Knowledge Network Partner, giving a talk on RFID in Supply Chain Management. We had an overflow crowd with Sun showing up with 25% of the audience. SAP stepped up to the plate and help found the SMART ITEMS BUSINESS FORUM and have run several sessions under that aegis, most recently a two-part Working Group series on business applications for sensor networks. (Which summaries will be posted, soon, on our Website). By the way, we would like more members in that Forum! We ran several open-to-the public sessions around RFID and business opportunities. And as much as the VCs may be down on this right now, I don't agree with them. Our think tank sessions are revealing a great deal of use (and need for further R&D) around RFID. To that end, I call for this community to sit down with us and structure a series of closed and public sessions that will move this business dialogue forward and MAKE THE VALLEY KNOWN FOR ITS CONCERTED WORK IN THE AUTO-ID AND SENSOR NETWORK SPACE. The World Internet Center already has the forum for it and the relationship base to move that forward. We need engaged financial players to make this come alive. Step up to the plate and make innovation come alive again in your group, your department, your company and in Valley. We at the World Internet Center will provide our INNOVATION PLATFORM to make that collaborative initiative turn into positive results for all in 2004! **************************** For further information on the Center's Sponsors and Knowledge Network Partners, visit their Websites: KNOWLEDGE
NETWORK PARTNERS **************************** To join our community, click on this link: http://center.infopoint.com/join.php
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