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AT THE CENTER
The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Center

Tuesday, August 13, 2002

 

The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing support:

EXECUTIVE SPONSORS
• Amdocs, Inc. •• Cable & Wireless •• Deutsche Telekom •• Fujitsu •• IBM Corporation •• SAP •• Sun Microsystems •

KNOWLEDGE NETWORK PARTNERS
•• Halleck ••• IC Growth, Inc. ••• Internet Wire ••

Check out the Center's Web site: http://www.worldinternetcenter.com

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.

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CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT: NO PUB TALKS FROM AUG. 29 – SEP. 26, 2002
There will be NO Thursday Pub Talks from August 29 – September 26.
Further information below.

CABLE & WIRELESS ANNOUNCEMENTS
"Cable & Wireless Achieves Gold Re-certification From Cisco Systems"
For further information (http://www1.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=mc_549july3102).

"Cable & Wireless Expands Product And Service Offerings With New Business Continuity & Recovery Services"
For further information (http://www1.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=mc_548july2902).

CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2002
"Collaborative Commerce: Strategies, Architectures & Implementation Roadmaps"
By Dr. Rod Heisterberg, Managing Partner, Rod Heisterberg Associates
Registration and Networking: 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Presentation and Interactive Discussion: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Open to the Public. No Fee. Pre-registration recommended due to limited seating.

PUB TALK: THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2002
"Sustaining Telecom Innovation With New Partnership Engines"
By Mr. Gabriel Sidhom, Vice President, Business Development & Alliances, France Telecom Research & Development, LLC
Open to the Public. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. The Pub Talk begins at 6:00 p.m.

PUB TALK: THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2002
"The Tablet PC Initiative And What It Means"
By Mr. Tom Bernhard, Director, New Technology and Applications, Fujitsu PC Corporation
Open to the Public. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. The Pub Talk begins at 6:00 p.m.


CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT: NO PUB TALKS FROM AUG. 29 – SEP. 26, 2002
There will be NO Thursday Pub Talks from August 29 – September 26.

There will be NO PUB TALKS on the following dates:

Thursday, August 29
Thursday, September 5
Thursday, September 12
Thursday, September 19
Thursday, September 26

Pub Talks will resume in October. More information on the fall Pub Talk schedule will be in upcoming issues of the Center's newsletter.


CABLE & WIRELESS ANNOUNCEMENTS
"Cable & Wireless Achieves Gold Re-certification From Cisco Systems"
For further information (http://www1.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=mc_549july3102).

"Cable & Wireless Expands Product And Service Offerings With New Business Continuity & Recovery Services"
For further information (http://www1.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=mc_548july2902).

Cable & Wireless, an executive sponsor of the Center, would like to show two recent announcements with the Center’s online community:

1) "Cable & Wireless Achieves Gold Re-certification From Cisco Systems"
For further information (http://www1.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=mc_549july3102).

Cable & Wireless has achieved Gold Re-Certification from Cisco Systems, Inc. for its expertise in selling, implementing, and supporting Cisco network solutions as part of the Cisco partner program. "The purpose of our Certification Program is to build channel partner expertise," said Nick Watson, Director of Operations, Unified Channels organization, Cisco Systems UK & Ireland. "Gold Re-Certification status provides strong recognition of Cable & Wireless' ongoing commitment to delivering superior network knowledge and customer service." The Re-Certification follows Cable & Wireless' success at the Cisco EMEA Awards 2001, where it was named 'Global Service Provider and Reseller of the Year.'

2) "Cable & Wireless Expands Product And Service Offerings With New Business Continuity & Recovery Services"
For further information (http://www1.cw.com/template_05.jsp?ID=mc_548july2902).

Cable & Wireless has introduced a suite of new Business Continuity & Recovery Services that will be delivered by its Web hosting business in the U.S., Exodus, a Cable & Wireless Service. The new services offer a combination of consulting and dedicated infrastructure services that enable organizations to avoid downtime of their mission critical applications in any event -- planned or unplanned. These new solutions standardize the most frequently requested services making deployment more efficient and cost effective for customers.


CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2002
"Collaborative Commerce: Strategies, Architectures & Implementation Roadmaps"
By Dr. Rod Heisterberg, Managing Partner, Rod Heisterberg Associates
Registration and Networking: 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Presentation and Interactive Discussion: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Open to the Public. No Fee. Pre-registration recommended due to limited seating.

At this Challenge-The-Expert, come interact and "challenge" Rod Heisterberg on Collaborative Commerce (cCommerce) as he identifies it as the key strategy in the next stage of eBusiness.

cCommerce business practices enable trading partners to create, manage, and use data in a shared environment to design, build, and support products throughout their lifecycle, working separately to leverage core competencies in a value chain to form a virtual enterprise. Sustainable competitive advantage may be realized by adoption of cCommerce concepts and critical success factors as well as a strategic planning methodology that incorporates the use of a balanced scorecard with supply chain management metrics to affect an adaptive planning process for value chain optimization.

Leading enterprises have created a business case to realize the cCommerce value proposition by promoting the critical success factors to deploy Internet technologies for internal and external data sharing; provide loosely coupled application interoperability via Integration Hubs across the value chain; focus on core competencies for collaborative business practices; and build virtual enterprises on trusted value chains to redefine competitive advantage.

The following key issues for the development of the next generation eBusiness strategies will be addressed and opened for "challenge" for an interactive discussion during the second hour of the program:

• What is Collaborative Commerce and Why Should I Care?
• Conducting Strategic Planning for cCommerce
• Developing cCommerce Business/Applications/Technical Architectures
• Building Interactive Incremental Implementation Roadmaps for cCommerce
• Leveraging Value Chain Management: Lessons Learned and Next Steps

ABOUT ROD HEISTERBERG
Rod Heisterberg guides firms moving into Collaborative Commerce with his experience in software product management, enterprise systems integration, and IT management perspectives. Before founding Rod Heisterberg Associates, he was the Director of IT Management Consulting for Gartner Group in San Jose. His engagements spanned consulting and research projects that focused on strategic planning for cCommerce, including the formation, implementation, and operation of businesses as virtual enterprises using a private trading exchange enabled by Extranet. Dr. Heisterberg has been employed by or consulted for numerous Global 500 companies, including British Aerospace, Ford, General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Mitsubishi, Procter & Gamble, Sunbeam, and US Steel. He has served as the US industry advisor to NATO for eBusiness and industrial logistics. Dr. Heisterberg holds bachelors and masters degrees, as well as a Ph.D. from Purdue University where he studied industrial engineering, computer science, and business administration. He is a registered professional engineer and an internationally-recognized speaker and writer. Currently, he is authoring the cCommerce section of The Internet Encyclopedia to be published by John Wiley & Sons.

ABOUT ROD HEISTERBERG ASSOCIATES
Rod Heisterberg Associates (RHA) represents a global network of seasoned veterans in the fields of business management and IT who provide leadership for cCommerce strategies that enterprise software vendors and end users can leverage to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. The RHA portfolio of international management consulting offerings features cCommerce strategic planning and readiness assessment, architecture development and sourcing, and implementation roadmap advisory services which include executive team coaching and IT trends seminars.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION & REGISTRATION
Pre-registration is not required, but highly recommended due to limited seating. Confirm attendance by sending your name, title, company name, and telephone number to:

Ms. Claire Kahrobaie
Manager, Client Services
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
T: 650.462.9800
E: kahrobaie@worldinternetcenter.com


PUB TALK: THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2002
"Sustaining Telecom Innovation With New Partnership Engines"
By Mr. Gabriel Sidhom, Vice President, Business Development & Alliances, France Telecom Research & Development, LLC
Open to the Public. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. The Pub Talk begins at 6:00 p.m.

Technological options facing a company today are multiplying faster than available resources to evaluate them. Convergence is creating technological combinatorial forms difficult to discern and even more difficult to measure in terms of potential risks and opportunities. Added to this is the current season of inclement financial weather, which is radically shrinking companies’, planning horizons to quarters if not months. At this Pub, Gabriel Sidhom will discuss how France Telecom R&D is facing these challenges while maintaining the cadence of innovation necessary for a telecommunications firm to succeed in keeping relevant and fresh the value proposition it brings to its clients. Specifically, he will focus on the changing role of partnership management as one of the engines necessary for generating sustained innovation.

ABOUT GABRIEL SIDHOM
Gabriel Sidhom was named Vice President, Business Development & Alliances for France Telecom Research & Development, LLC in April 2001. In this capacity, he is responsible for defining the company's business strategy; developing new markets and contracts; directing the company's technology, business scouting, and research engagements; managing research and development partnerships with companies, universities, associations, and institutions; and managing the company's product management group. In addition, Mr. Sidhom is responsible for developing and managing the company's broadband competency group. Previously, he held the position of Vice President for France Telecom's business wholesale services. In this role, he defined the strategy for the wholesale activity, developed and marketed the wholesale offer, and established and managed commercial relations with fixed, wireless and internet resellers and operators in France and internationally. Mr. Sidhom also represented France Telecom on several international alliance steering committees. Prior to joining France Telecom, he held various positions with GTE Corporation. Mr. Sidhom holds a BA in monetary economics & political science from Occidental College and a MA in industrial organization & financial markets from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a former board member of the American Marketing Association in New York.

ABOUT FRANCE TELECOM R&D, LLC
France Telecom (http://www.francetelecom.com) is one of the world's leading telecommunications carriers with over 107 million customers on five continents (220 countries) and consolidated operating revenues of 22.5 billion Euros for the first half of 2002. Through its major international brands -- including Orange, Wanadoo, Equant, and GlobeCast -- France Telecom provides businesses, consumers, and other carriers with a complete portfolio of solutions that spans local, long-distance and international telephony, wireless, Internet, multimedia, data, broadcast, and cable TV services.

Innovation is a fundamental priority for France Telecom. France Telecom R&D is the source of design and development for about 80 percent of the products and services marketed by France Telecom. The organization pursues three concurrent objectives: 1) continually improve existing services and networks through the initiatives of project teams over three to twelve months; 2) create foundations for the impossible through the efforts of work groups with 12-to-36-month horizons to develop new technologies and platforms; and 3) imagine the unthinkable in radically new domains through brainstorming workshops and by anticipating future uses. Since 1997, France Telecom R&D's laboratory in South San Francisco provides the France Telecom group with innovative technologies in Internet, enterprise services, multimedia, and Wireless through its access to US markets and execution of its six primary roles of technology & business model analysis and evaluation, software and hardware testing and evaluation, participation in industry forums and standard bodies, integration of innovative technologies into France Telecom's offers, and prototype development &. commercial "visioning" of new technologies. Key to these efforts has been a commitment to ongoing development of a wide range of partnerships with both large and start-up companies as well as alliances such as Liberty (of which France Telecom was a founding member), extensive work with universities (Stanford, MIT, UC Santa Barbara & Santa Clara University), and ongoing contacts with venture capitalists, including due diligence support.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Mr. Gabriel Sidhom
Vice President, Business Development & Alliances
France Telecom Research & Development, LLC
801 Gateway Blvd, Suite 500
South San Francisco, CA 94080
T: 650.875.1504
F: 650.875.1505
E: mailto:Gabriel.sidhom@rd.francetelecom.com


PUB TALK: THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2002
"The Tablet PC Initiative And What It Means"
By Mr. Tom Bernhard, Director, New Technology and Applications, Fujitsu PC Corporation
Open to the Public. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. The Pub Talk begins at 6:00 p.m.

At this Pub Talk, come hear Tom Bernhard discuss the Tablet PC and this new technology. In November of this year, Microsoft will launch Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, a new operating system designed specifically for pen-based computing. Some of the questions being discussed as a result of this launch include:

• What functionality will this new OS offer?
• How will this OS and the new systems it ships on affect the PC market?
• What are the target markets for these new devices?
• Who are the players in this "new" market?

ABOUT TOM BERNHARD
Tom Bernhard boasts 20 years of experience in the technology and computer industries. He has been with Fujitsu PC Corporation for four years: first as a Senior Product Manager; then Director, Product Marketing for Pen Tablets; and now as Director, New Technology and Applications. His responsibilities have included specifying and overseeing the successful launch of several pen tablet computer systems, developing product road maps for multiple product lines, identifying essential new technologies, and serving as company spokesman for the pen tablet product line. In 2000, Mr. Bernhard received the Fujitsu Achiever Award for Marketing. Prior to Fujitsu PC, Mr. Bernhard was Product Manager, Desktop Systems for Unisys Corporation where he specified and launched numerous desktop computer systems and developed product road maps. Before Unisys, Mr. Bernhard was Product Manager, Hardware/Software for Action Computer Supplies. Mr. Bernhard is a member of the Mobile Advisory Council’s Board of Directors. He holds both BS and MS degrees in business administration from California State University, Hayward.

ABOUT FUJITSU PC CORPORATION
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Fujitsu PC Corporation (http://www.fujitsupc.com) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited and the leading provider of ultra-mobile computing solutions. Fujitsu PC Corporation delivers high-performance mobile computing solutions for the North American market, including a wide range of LifeBook notebooks and Stylistic® pen tablet PCs. Fujitsu PC Corporation emphasizes leading-edge technology, exceptional product quality, user comfort and productivity, and outstanding customer service as primary competitive advantages. For more information on Fujitsu PC Corporation’s complete line of mobile computing solutions, visit their Website or call 1-877-FPC-DIRECT.

JOIN US FOR OUR WEEKLY PUB
Come join us for our weekly Pub every Thursday from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

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...

--- The best reason to take off work early on Thursdays ---

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 or obtaining additional information about current Center programs and services should contact Dr. Venilde Jeronimo, the Center's Senior Director, Client Services (mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com).

For inquiries about upcoming Center programs, send an email to mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com

For further information on the Center's Sponsors and Knowledge Network Partners, visit their Web sites:

EXECUTIVE SPONSORS
• Amdocs, Inc. http://www.amdocs.com
• Cable & Wireless http://www.cw.com
• Deutsche Telekom http://www.dtag.de/english/index.htm
• Fujitsu http://www.fujitsu.com
• IBM Corporation http://www.ibm.com
• SAP http://www.mysap.com
• Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com

KNOWLEDGE NETWORK PARTNERS
• Halleck http://www.halleck.com
• IC Growth, Inc. http://www.icgrowth.com
• Internet Wire http://www.internetwire.com

 

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