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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 ***************************** INTERACTIVE PANEL
DISCUSSION: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2003 ********* SPECIAL INVITATION:
"GERMAN SPEAKING EUROPE - LOOKING FOR U.S. TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES"
PANEL DISCUSSION & NETWORKING EVENT ********* POWER PUB: THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 6, 2003 ********* SMART ITEMS BUSINESS FORUM
(SIBF) WORKING GROUP: DATE TO BE RE-SCHEDULED ********* SUMMARY: POWER PUB: THURSDAY,
OCTOBER 2, 2003 **************************** INTERACTIVE
PANEL DISCUSSION: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2003 There has been a great deal of recent interest garnered by open source software products, such as Linux. The issues surrounding licensing has eclipsed in many peoples minds the key benefits of open source software. Open Source software has the ability to create a complete ecosystem that extends far beyond the program that is open sourced. It can mean, and has meant, changes to hardware design, educational curricula, organizational structure, business models, and a large number of tangible and intangible business and commercial artifacts. This Interactive Panel Discussion is aimed at introducing the concepts behind this, and how and why it is an attractive business model. After short presentations from the panelists, audience participants will have the opportunity to engage in a lively, interactive discussion. The panelists include:
ABOUT MARK CATHCART Mark Cathcart is an IBM Distinguished Engineer in IBM's On Demand Architecture and Design team and an elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology. His responsibilities include the technology strategy and direction of corporate initiatives, as well as significant input into and influence on the Server strategy. In prior assignments Mr. Cathcart has been involved with the introduction, adoption and strategy for Linux, XML, Java and J2EE at IBM. He has been an open source software proponent for some 20-years and has been at the forefront of the open standards strategy at IBM since 1992. ABOUT LAWRENCE ROSEN Lawrence Rosen is both an attorney and a computer specialist. As an attorney, Mr. Rosen's specialty is technology, but he is also a skilled litigator and negotiator, and is a legal advisor to individuals and companies throughout the world. He also has extensive experience teaching computer programming, and has been a department and product manager in the computer and communications industry. Mr. Rosen is very involved in the open source community. He is the general counsel and secretary of the Open Source Initiative (OSI, www.opensource.org). OSI reviews and approves major open source licenses, several of which were written by Mr. Rosen. OSI manages and promotes the Open Source Definition for the good of the community, specifically through the OSI Certified open source software certification mark and program. Mr. Rosen often publishes and speaks around the world on open source licensing and patent issues. View more about Mr. Rosen at his firm's website, www.rosenlaw.com. REGISTRATION INFORMATION The $15 fee is payable at the door via cash or check. To pre-register for the Interactive Panel Discussion, please submit your name, title, company name and telephone number to: Ms. Claire Kahrobaie **************************** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
"GERMAN SPEAKING EUROPE - LOOKING FOR U.S. TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES"
PANEL DISCUSSION & NETWORKING EVENT Dr. Susan Duggan, the Center's CEO, would like to bring to your attention a special announcement for two panel discussions and networking events offering resources for accelerating your company's development in the European market. As a special offer, members of the Center's online community will receive a 20% discount off of the $90 registration fee at either of the programs. The panel events will be held in Santa Clara on Wednesday, October 22, and in San Francisco on Thursday, October 23. Susan will be attending the October 23rd program in San Francisco and hopes to welcome members of the World Internet Center's community at what will prove to be enlightening programs. If you are an innovative U.S. technology company looking for leverage in the European market, this event will give you the contacts and perspective on opportunities to accelerate your development. Attendees will be provided with targeted resources to secure a competitive advantage as you consider expansion into Europe - a market of 100 million people, representing over a quarter of the EU population. Learn from the experiences of successful business leaders about:
REGISTRATION INFORMATION Remember: Members of the Center's online community will receive a 20% discount off of the $90 registration fee. To register for the Wednesday, October 22, 2003, event in Santa Clara, visit: (http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=55712) To register for the Thursday, October 23, 2003, event in San Francisco, visit: (http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=55714) To find more information about the agenda, panel participants, location and directions, visit: (www.bridgingthewest.org). **************************** POWER PUB: THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 6, 2003 The market for wireless -- as an alternative to T1 and Fiber, and in many cases to DSL and Cable Modem -- is in for quite a boom. Wireless in the "last mile'" has the potential of rapidly and dramatically increasing bandwidth to office buildings, residences and hotspots by providing faster-than-copper wireless multi-point services. Broadband wireless subscriber revenues will reach around $17 billion in 2005 according IGI. According to Ovum, by 2008, there will be 16 million lines. The questions heard most often are about using licensed versus unlicensed frequencies:
Please join our Pub Masters, George Sidman and Les Laky, for a hot discussion. George Sidman is the President of Monterey Network Center (http://www.montereynet.net) and Les Laky is the Co-Founder of the Fiber Internet Center (http://www.fiberinternetcenter.com). This Power Pub is aimed at the deployment of broadband wireless systems in both domestic and international markets and the reason wireless networks represent an attractive business model. The discussion will specifically address key issues of licensed versus unlicensed frequencies, the adequacy of wireless security, and whether hotspots will be free. ABOUT GEORGE SIDMAN George Sidman is a proven entrepreneur with a 20 year track record in launching and growing successful software companies in the information sciences. In 1984, he founded INLEX, Inc., which quickly became a leading provider of library automation systems worldwide. He is the Founder and President of Nousoft, Inc., (1994), a software company specializing in very large-scale object management technologies. Mr. Sidman also is the founder of Arista Systems, Inc., (1997), a venture capital funded distance-learning company. Currently, he is Founder & President of Monterey Network Center, a regional web commerce provider. In this capacity, he provides leadership for company formation and growth, technology development, marketing, and sales. Mr. Sidman has conducted successful financings in public and private markets. Among his other accomplishments, he is a licensed architect and developer of award-winning sports facilities; and a consultant and public speaker to the information sciences community. In total, Mr. Sidman has started 7 companies over the last 25 years, all of which are operating successfully today. ABOUT LES LAKY Les Laky (http://www.leslaky.com) is the CTO of New Access International, a fixed broadband wireless service provider with operations in the United States and South America. He is Co-Founder of the Fiber Internet Center of Palo Alto, intent on reducing the cost of connecting to the fiber optic network and upgrading customers to the faster speeds. Mr. Laky was also one of the founders of MediaCity, a successfully Palo Alto ISP acquired by SoftNet in 1996. He is a telecom and Nortel veteran, a pioneer in cable modem technology, and an active participant and advisor to several start-up ventures as a co-founder of Internet Inventions. In addition, Mr. Laky is the Keeper of DomainKeep, a private domain name registration service. **************************** SMART ITEMS BUSINESS
FORUM (SIBF) WORKING GROUP: DATE TO BE RE-SCHEDULED In the second session in a three-part series on commercial usage of sensor nets, this Smart Items Business Forum Working Group will focus on the viability of battery-based, low-powered radios in supporting communication for industrial control applications within the petroleum industry. The academic and industrial research area of Sensor Networks covers a wide range of technology issues. One outgrowth of this research is commercial short-range battery-powered radios that can provide low-bandwidth data streams across multiple nodes of an ad-hoc network. This technology approach has an obvious contribution when conventional communication structures are not possible, for example on battlefields and on the surface of Mars. Some proponents of this technology have argued that it can greatly reduce the cost of providing data connectivity in industrial control situations. If data connectivity is substantially cheaper, then it should open up more sensor and control applications that can lead to overall process savings, improved reliability, reduced emissions, and so forth. Around these new control and monitoring applications new business processes will be needed and new enterprise-scale applications. Petroleum processing and distribution is an example of a high value industry that has processing plants and pipelines spread over large geographical areas in very harsh environments. The cost of providing data connectivity is considered very high. This Working Group session will focus on the technology requirements for out-door control and monitoring capabilities in the oil industry. The Working Group will address three major areas: 1. What are the characteristics of modern, current data communication and industrial control technologies used in refineries and along pipelines?
2. If there were a dramatic cost reduction in providing safe, reliable data communication for petroleum industry environments, then how would it be deployed?
3. What developments of existing sensor net data communications technology would be needed for deployment in oil industry environments?
We expect to have several contributors from the petroleum industry - experts in industrial controls - share their knowledge of what is used today and what the industry needs. Working Group participants will discuss the viability of current technologies, as well as the benefits to the petroleum industry resulting from the deployment of radio-based sensor nets. Note: In order to keep the discussion focused on potential new applications and data sources, we will exclude certain relatively established applications and technologies. For example, applications of transponders and geographical location and tracking technology have been covered widely in the marketplace. REGISTRATION INFORMATION To register for this SIBF Working Group, please submit your name, title, telephone number, and a short bio to: Dr. Susan J. Duggan There is no fee to attend, however, as this in an invitation-only session limited to 18 participants, the commitment to participate is strongly requested. **************************** SUMMARY: POWER PUB:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2003 The first Power Pub was a huge success drawing participation from HP Labs, SAP Labs, SRI, and many small- and medium-sized businesses. Many of the 45 participants underlined how much they preferred the full hour's worth of discussion in the middle of the Pub to focus on a topic. The townhall-style conversation, led by Pubmaster Ames Cornish of Montebello Partners, covered a great variety of possible solutions to the growing cybersecurity breeches caused by worms and viruses. Mr. Cornish underlined that on average companies spent $500,000 for fixing problems resulting from the recent Blaster Worm attack. He also cautioned that motivations for hackers are changing from just pure challenge to the desire to make money from such viruses and infiltrations. The discussion flowed around who should be responsible for the security of our personal computers and for corporate and government IT systems. Each time someone pointed to the need for more legislation from the government, a Pub Participant would counter with an elegant plea to keep the government away from our personal information. As one person put it, "No, we don't want the FBI-Carnivore going through my email to track the bad guy down." Another participant raised the point that "reasonable and customary caution" needs to be applied by the user in order for insurance companies to stand behind any claims arising from the "hijacking" of information from someone's computer and used for criminal activity. But even there, few could agree upon what was "reasonable caution" and few could agree who should be responsible for shoring up this caution: software vendors? ISPS? the government? individuals? A fired up participant claimed, "I don't think any amount of government regulation and oversight is going to solve this problem." One frustrated participant pointed out that what we have here is an "unbelievably bad software problem" that vendors are perpetuating by not holding their development to high standards, allowing for all sorts of cracks to viruses to worm their way into. Mr. Cornish wrapped up the lively discussion with four main points, looking to future movement against this cybersecurity crisis in the next year. He predicts that we will see a lot more political pressure placed on governments and vendors. There is a regulatory trend towards defining breeches against privacy, here in California (and should be effective elsewhere). He underlined his concern that we may go too far in regulating cybersecurity and we need to be vigilant about keeping a balance between protection and the free flow of data. And he called for us, as individuals, to be more aware of security issues for our own computers and our own offices, pointing out that we need to make good choices of software and security measures. Susan Duggan, the Center's CEO, welcomed the group to stay and network for the remainder of the Pub. We look forward to having a similarly stimulating Pub Exchange on Thursday, November 6. For further information on Ames Cornish, the Pub Master, please see, below. ABOUT AMES CORNISH Ames Cornish leads Montebello Partners (http://montebellopartners.com) which he founded in 1997 to provide business strategy, Internet security, and application development services to high-technology businesses. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial start-up companies, and venture capital firms. Mr. Cornish was the founder, Chief Technical Officer, and President of Vividus Corporation, which was funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson in 1991, and acquired by Sunburst Communications in 1997. As the product visionary, he conceived, designed, and developed Vividus' award-winning multimedia authoring (Cinemation), web authoring (Web Workshop), and children's (Amazing Animation) products. Prior to founding Vividus, Mr. Cornish's roles included managing the Desktop Presentations marketing group at Apple Computer and managing the product marketing team for Business Graphics Software at Hewlett-Packard. Previously, Mr. Cornish worked in corporate finance at Kidder, Peabody, where he assisted in initial public offerings for technology companies and invented a debt-for-debt swap, in which over $100,000,000 was invested. Mr. Cornish has presented at numerous industry conferences and appeared on national TV and radio broadcasts. He has been elected to the board of directors for the Bay Area chapter of Infragard (http://www.sfbay-infragard.org), an FBI-sponsored cyber-security organization. He is a member of the executive council of the Software Development Forum (http://sdforum.org), Silicon Valley's leading developer organization and is the Founder and Co-chairman of SDForum's Internet Security and Privacy special interest group (http://sdforum.org/sigs/security). Mr. Cornish holds bachelor's and master's degrees in theoretical physics from Harvard University and an MBA from Stanford University. **************************** For further information on the Center's Sponsors and Knowledge Network Partners, visit their Websites: EXECUTIVE
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