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The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing support: EXECUTIVE SPONSORS * Amdocs, Inchttp://www.amdocs.com KNOWLEDGE NETWORK PARTNERS * Inclusion Inc.http://www.inclusion.net CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE:http://www.worldinternetcenter.com Past copies of our newsletters and directions to the Center are available on the Web site. ALL PROGRAMS ARE HELD AT THE CENTER UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. *************************************** ***PUB: THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2001 ***THINK TANK SESSION: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2001 ***PUB: THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2001 ***NO PUB: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2001
Enterprises are challenged with accommodating new modalities for eBusiness-- wireless, voice-over-IP (VoIP), mobile -- all demanding support, infrastructure, and management systems. Beyond that, there are demands for increased customer care and Customer Relationship Management (CRM); partnership management; Supply Chain Management (SCM), and other areas. How do enterprises keep up with these demands? To outsource or not to outsource? This remains the big question for enterprises under pressure to compete in an increasingly fast-paced business world. Who has the bandwidth, the expertise, and the necessary applications to support these new modalities? In addition, is it cheaper, better, faster to do this all in-house or to outsource? These and other questions will be addressed by the panelists during the first 30 minutes of the two-hour program. The remainder of the time will be a facilitated, interactive knowledge exchange between the audience members and the panelists. PANELISTS * Dr. Marguerite Raaen, Senior Vice President of e-Enablement,
Cable & Wireless Global * Mr. Richard M. Schultz, Vice President of Sales and Implementation
Services, Digital Island * Mr. George Sidman, President, The Monterey Network Center; Chair,
Technology Council, Silicon Valley World Internet Center (Moderator) * Mr. Ric Telford, Director of Technology & Business Development,
Intelligent Infrastructure, IBM Corporation REGISTRATION Registration is not necessary but highly recommended due to limited seating. To register for this Panel, please send your name, title, company name and email address to: Ms. Debra Wright
Join us this Thursday, August 23 to welcome Cable & Wireless as the newest Executive Sponsor of the Center! Dr. Marguerite Raaen's talk, will cover Cable & Wireless financial prowess, its significant customers, commitments and benefits to those customers. Dr. Raaen will also share the global map of Cable & Wireless IP network and discuss global hosting and eSolutions. ABOUT MARGUERITE RAAEN Dr. Marguerite Raaen is responsible at Cable & Wireless for 250 informational and commerce Web sites, plus Web Tools and Web Applications for customers in Japan, Europe, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Previously, she was Vice President of Business Development at Metiom where she was responsible for directing the firm's business development efforts. Dr. Raaen joined Metiom from IBM where she held various senior level management positions in sales, marketing, product development, and research. As manager of IBM's Emerging Technologies department, she led a distinguished group of PhDs in exploring new technologies for IBM's top customer accounts. Her work in expert systems and intelligent agents led to several joint industry engagements for IBM. Dr. Raaen and her worldwide team in IBM's CIO's office improved IBM.com by introducing a new, self-service design for Contact IBM. The initiative, the result of data gathered from thousands of international eMails and customer trials, dramatically cut the cost of handling over 50,000 monthly customer eMails, and led to new customers for IBM in eMail management, data mining, and web self-service. Dr. Raaen holds several degrees in psychology, education, and computer science. She has authored two books and 120 papers. In 1999, she and her teammates won a patent for IBM in Natural Language Processing/Categorization technology. ABOUT CABLE & WIRELESS Cable & Wireless (http://www.cw.com) is a major worldwide telecommunications business with revenue of over 8 billion British pounds (US$11 billion) with customers in 70 countries. Cable & Wireless' focus for future growth is on IP data services and solutions for business customers. It is developing advanced IP networks and value-added services in the US, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region in support of this strategy. With the capability of its global IP infrastructure and its strength in key markets, Cable & Wireless holds a unique position in terms of global coverage and services to business customers.
The explosion of mobile communications in Europe and Asia has lead to speculation about when and how the U.S. market will embrace similar trends and jump aboard the mCommerce wagon. As a follow up-program to the Center's Think Tank Session on mCommerce on June 27, 2001, we are coordinating a session focused specifically on the driving factors behind mCommerce in the United States. * Are those key factors technological? Social? Standards-based? * What actual elements need to be addressed before we see mCommerce take off in the U.S. market? * What is the timeline for benefiting from the business opportunities in mCommerce? For possible participation, please send your name, title, company name, email address and telephone number along with a bio to: Dr. Venilde Jeronimo The IBM Almaden Research Center has developed IBM CueVideo, which provides video and speech indexing, retrieval and advanced browsing. It is a server-client architecture, integrated with multimedia streaming and advanced video browsing. Its speech retrieval capability is not only speech recognition (ViaVoice), but also combines phonetic retrieval of out-of-vocabulary words, sound-like words, and words missed by the speech recognition. The people and markets that are probably interested in this include Web content creators, broadcast news, remote education, media content consumers in various industries. The Cue Video team is looking for partnerships with consulting and services companies that would integrate CueVideo into their content management and knowledge management solutions. In addition, a CueVideo Toolkit is available for evaluation and licensing via Alphaworks (IBM's prototyping Web site) or directly from IBM Almaden Research Center. FURTHER INFORMATION Dr. Arnon Amir
On behalf of the Center, we wish everyone a safe and happy Labor Day weekend holiday! The weekly Pub will resume the following week.
The Pub Talk begins at 6 p.m. The Pub gathers 80-100 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's Pub. It's...
For directions, please visit http://www.worldinternetcenter.com and click on directions. 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 For inquiries about upcoming Center programs, send an email to mailto:wright@worldinternetcenter.com To unsubscribe from this eNewsletter: click: http://thecenter.inclusion.net/thecenter/preferences.html |