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The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing support: EXECUTIVE
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NETWORK PARTNERS 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 ***************************** HUNGARIAN TRADE AND
INVESTMENT SYMPOSIUM: THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2003 ********* TECHNOLOGY
BRIEFING: TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2003 ********* PUB
TALK: JUNE 5, 2003 ********* SUMMARY:
EXECUTIVE BRIEFING: TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2003 ********* SUMMARY: CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT:
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2003
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AND INVESTMENT SYMPOSIUM: THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2003 Mr. Walter Reichert, Chair of the Center's International Council and former head of the International Business Center at Hewlett-Packard, would like to invite the Center's community to attend a symposium focused on Hungary's high tech industry on Thursday, May 29, 2003, to be held at the Hewlett-Packard Auditorium in Palo Alto. Please note the special location. Mr. Reichert will moderate the symposium and provide introductory and closing remarks. The program will also include a welcome address by His Excellency Andras Simonyi, Ambassador of the Republic of Hungary, and a keynote speech delivered by His Excellency Dr. Istvan Csillag, Minister of Economy and Transportation of the Republic of Hungary. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION Pre-registration is required. To register, contact: Ms. Rita Abraham **************************** TECHNOLOGY BRIEFING:
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 2003 Auto-ID tags are an example of Smart Items aimed at low cost and widespread use in the economy. This presentation will tackle a range of business and technical questions:
About the Speaker Dr. Richard Swan founded SAP's Corporate Research Center in Palo Alto. One of the main research projects has been the development of an extensible infrastructure to support the wide spread deployment of "Smart Items". This technology has been deployed in two substantial pilots by SAP, one with Procter&Gamble in the U.S. and the other with Metro AG in Europe. Richard is guiding the setting of SAP's product roadmap for Auto-ID and the establishment of international public standards with the Auto-ID Center Software ActionGroup. **************************** PUB TALK: JUNE 5,
2003 Please join us for a special Pub Talk to help launch "Link Silicon Valley." At a time when up-to-date information is crucial to business growth and strategies, Link Silicon Valley is providing a very effective and affordable way to access key information about local companies, their focus, and their funding situations. Link Silicon Valley is an online database about the people who built and funded the technology companies of the Silicon Valley. LSV offers free access to this information as well as premium, subscription-based services, including customized reports. Their advanced search enables users to quickly narrow down to a list of target companies based on any combination of their extensive search criteria. Site visitors can purchase specific reports of interest without being a subscriber. To access the Link Silicon Valley site: http://linksv.com/ ABOUT THE SPEAKER Robert M. Karr, CEO and Founder, Link Silicon Valley Bob is an active angel investor, an advisor to emerging Internet companies and is a co-founder of the Angels Breakfast Club. Bob retired from a 30-year career in the corporate liability insurance business where he spent 15 years as a Partner of Dinner Levison Company and another 15 years as SVP of the Sedgwick Group, where he managed Business Development & Client Services focused exclusively on emerging and pre-IPO companies in the Silicon Valley. Many of Bob's emerging clients have turned into successful IPO's. **************************** SUMMARY: CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT:
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2003 Grid technology has made a big impact through its application in a small number of computing applications. The search for life in the universe, mapping the universe, looking for a Smallpox cure, seismic analysis, and calculating 401k values are all important - but are niche computing applications. The next generation of Grid technology is based on a standard open source architecture and will have standard definitions of the services available on the Grid, which can be accessed via Web Services. All well and good, but why all this effort for a small set of applications? At this session, participants learned why discovery and common resource models, together with enterprise clustering and data center virtualization, are likely to change computing as we know, understand, and use it today. Think utility computing is just ASPs warmed over? Think again! The commodity business transaction is on its way. Pay for your computing as you need it, how you need it and most importantly, when you need it. At this Challenge-the-Expert, Mr. Cathcart discussed what "underware" is and why the Open Grid Services Architecture will become a meta-OS, delivering services far beyond the current Grid realm. Mr. Cathcart's presentation will be available on the Center's website in the near future. **************************** SUMMARY: EXECUTIVE
BRIEFING: TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2003 To view Dr. Heuser's presentation, visit the Center's Website. Scroll down and click onto "May 13, 2003" to view the program information, ""Challenges and Rewards of Driving Innovation: Taking the Thought Leadership Approach." In a shifting economy when many enterprises lean towards tried-and-true solutions, business progress is attained through pushing innovation forward, even in a time of uncertainty. Dr. Lutz Heuser's Executive Briefing addressed how to optimize and extend business processes utilizing innovative technologies. Dr. Heuser, Vice President and Chief Development Architect of SAP Corporate Research, will conducted an Executive Briefing illustrating how processes for IT innovation can be supported by business-driven technology research. His briefing illuminated key areas of research-driven innovation being conducted at SAP worldwide, looking at optimizing existing business processes through, for example, Adaptive Supply Chain Networks and Smart Vending, as well as identifying new business processes arenas which enterprise-level applications can support, such as Homeland Security. As a producer of IT solutions, to become a trusted innovator you have to identify the right technology along with the most excited early adopters to experiment and place a first product in the market with certainty - all in a timely fashion. Rising to this challenge reaps great rewards: gaining momentum and market share. Dr. Heuser addressed SAP Corporate Research's approaches to these challenges, outlining specific areas of innovation. As Smart Items business-enabling technologies like RFID and ad hoc sensor networks are gaining momentum, SAP will sponsor a series of briefings and working groups specifically designed to identify and leverage new enterprise business opportunities across industry sectors. Dr. Heuser will specifically addressed SAP's Smart Vending initiative. The ability to connect machine data sources, better known as Smart Items, to SAP systems is becoming an important topic for SAP customers as the number of devices with the ability to collect and distribute data grows. SAP is embracing the evolution of Smart Items and their information. By allowing SAP customers to incorporate data from diverse sources, customers can optimize existing business processes that improve the bottom line. The SAP Smart Vending initiative is one such example. By collecting and exchanging data with vending machines in the field, customers will be able to reduce logistics costs while promoting sales. Together with its partners, SAP Corporate Research is setting up a vending demo center that allows interested parties to evaluate the ROI opportunities at a minimal risk. **************************** For further information on the Center's Sponsors and Knowledge Network Partners, visit their Websites: EXECUTIVE
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