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Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
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POWER PUB: TUESDAY, APRIL
27, 2004
"NANO-BIO-IT CONVERGENCE: DOES NANOTECHNLOGY
OFFER THE TRULY ULTIMATE BIO-IT INTERFACE?"
Pub Master: Mr. Brock Hinzmann, Technology Navigator & Principal
Consultant, SRI Consulting Business Intelligence
5:00 p.m.: Networking & Registration
5:30 p.m.: Pub Exchange
6:30 p.m.: Networking
7:00 p.m.: Pub Closes!
Open to the Public. Fee: $15 (cash or check, payable at the door).
Pre-registration is highly encouraged. Registration information
below.
Please Note: This Power Pub will be held in the Cyprus Room
at the Crowne Plaza Cabaña Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.
Directions included below.
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EXECUTIVE BRIEFING:
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2004
"CAPTURING THE VALUE OF THE EXTENDED MANUFACTURING
MODEL: BEYOND THE EXTENDED ENTERPRISE: NBT=EEM+SOA. CONQUER IT DATA
NIGHTMARES AND ENABLE COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION"
By Mr. Eric Schlumpf, Principal and Global Manufacturing Practice
Leader, Archstone Consulting & Corporate Sponsor, Silicon Valley
World Internet Center
5:00 p.m. Registration & Networking
5:45 p.m. Presentation & Discussion
6:45 p.m. Additional Networking
7:30 p.m. Program concludes. Open to the Public. No fee to attend.
Pre-registration is highly encouraged.
Please Note: This Executive Briefing will be held in the
Cyprus Room at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real,
Palo Alto.
Registration information below.
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OF SPECIAL NOTE…
"INDIAN AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE VISITS SILICON VALLEY TO DISCUSS FUTURE
DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA AND ITS HIGH TECH SECTOR"
Summary and links below.
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POWER PUB: TUESDAY,
APRIL 27, 2004
"NANO-BIO-IT CONVERGENCE: DOES NANOTECHNLOGY OFFER THE TRULY ULTIMATE
BIO-IT INTERFACE?"
Pub Master: Mr. Brock Hinzmann, Technology Navigator & Principal
Consultant, SRI Consulting Business Intelligence
5:00 p.m.: Networking & Registration
5:30 p.m.: Pub Exchange
6:30 p.m.: Networking
7:00 p.m.: Pub Closes!
Open to the Public. Fee: $15 (cash or check, payable at the door).
Pre-registration is highly encouraged.
Registration information below.
Please Note: This Power Pub will be held in the Cyprus Room
at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.
The buzz around nanotechnology in Silicon Valley has not dried
up, in spite of delays and debates over definitions and timing.
Does nanotechnology offer the truly ultimate Bio-IT interface? If
so, when will this all come to pass? Nanotechnology has been described
as offering the ultimate interface between biology and information
technologies. Visionaries imagine a pervasive computing environment
in which everything, wet and dry, has sensing, computation, and
communication capabilities built into it. Many questions exist about
how sensors made with nanotechnology will be built and what kind
of new capabilities they will offer. In previous World Internet
Center sessions, the value of having wireless sensor networks built
on nano or any other technology have been discussed and debated.
Advanced biological-computer interfaces may also be desirable, but
questions exist over what is technically possible and commercially
feasible within the timeframe of an attractive investment cycle.
However, the potential creative nano-links with the Valley's biotechnology,
electronics, and IT strengths have only wetted the appetites. Even
so, many investors are struggling to find value in paying for science
projects to discover the links between nanoparticles and biological
organisms or the interface between the nano, the bio, and the macro.
Most of the new investments in nano appear to be going into lowering
the cost of nanoparticle production methods, new tools to figure
out where all those nanoparticles are and to manipulate them, sensors
built from nanoparticles that are highly sensitive and specific
as to which other particles or biological organisms they detect,
and simulation and design software tools. The debate over what happens
when nanoparticles are introduced into the human biological system
and the environment is just beginning.
At this Power Pub, come discuss these questions with Mr. Hinzmann,
the Pub Master for the evening:
- Since electronics researchers can already project they will
be able to stay on the Moore's Law curve for another decade using
well-known conventional technology, and that large electronics
companies are conducting their own nanotechnology research, can
nanoelectronic start-up companies have any commercial impact in
that timeframe?
- Will the concern over the environmental and health impacts
of using nanoparticles slow the development of the technology?
- If nanotechnology really does make it possible to put cheap
sensors, sensor networks, interfaces, and nanoactuators everywhere,
what would be the benefit?
ABOUT BROCK HINZMANN
Brock Hinzmann is the technology navigator and a principal consultant
with SRI Consulting Business Intelligence. Over the past 25 years,
Mr. Hinzmann has worked with hundreds of clients to conduct future
scanning exercises, create future scenarios, conduct business opportunity
searches, and to draw technology road maps. Over the past few years,
his projects have dealt with nanotechnology, fuel cells, advanced
interfaces, robotics, and pervasive computing.
ABOUT SRI CONSULTING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
SRI Consulting Business Intelligence (http://www.sric-bi.com)
was formed originally as the Long-Range Planning Service for the
Stanford Research Institute. SRIC-BI specializes in making sense
of the future for its large corporate and government clients around
the world. SRIC-BI is able to customize its consulting projects
by leveraging off the knowledge gained from several syndicated research
programs. Scan® is a subscription-based program that alerts participants
to potential major business impacts that might result from today's
early weak signals of change and works with clients to customize
those implications into actionable ideas. Explorer® is a technology
mapping service that tracks nearly 40 technology areas in nanotechnology,
biotechnology, electronics, IT, energy, and so forth. VALS® is a
consumer market segmentation system that predicts purchasing behavior
based on psychological motivations on end-users.
REGISTRATION & SPECIAL INFORMATION
Pre-registration is highly recommended. There is a $15 fee (cash
or check only) which will be collected at the door. Please make
checks payable to Silicon Valley World Internet Center. To pre-register,
please send your name, title, company name, telephone number, and
email address to:
Ms. Claire Kahrobaie
Manager, Client Services
T: 650.565.8070
E: kahrobaie@worldinternetcenter.com
** Special Note: As a special
welcome to the Center's Pub attendees, the Cabaña Hotel is extending
a discount for post-Pub networking! Please ask to receive a coupon
for a 10% discount off of beverages at the Crowne Plaza Cabaña Palo
Alto's bar applicable the night of the Pub.
DIRECTIONS TO THE CROWNE PLAZA CABANA HOTEL
From Highway 101 - North or South
- Take Highway 101 to San Antonio Road/Los Altos exit.
- Proceed on San Antonio west, approximately 2 miles.
- Turn right on El Camino Real and proceed 1/2 mile.
- Turn left at Dinah's Court stoplight into the Crowne Plaza
Cabaña hotel entrance.
- Parking is available in the front and back of the hotel. Ask
for the Cyprus Room.
From Highway 280 - North or South
- Take Highway 280 to the Page Mill Road exit.
- Proceed on Page Mill east, approximately 3 miles.
- Turn right onto El Camino Real.
- Continue for 1 mile to Dinah's Court stoplight.
- Turn right into the Crowne Plaza Cabaña hotel entrance.
- Parking is available in the front and back of the hotel. Ask
for the Cyprus Room.
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EXECUTIVE BRIEFING:
THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2004
"CAPTURING THE VALUE OF THE EXTENDED MANUFACTURING
MODEL: BEYOND THE EXTENDED ENTERPRISE: NBT=EEM+SOA. CONQUER IT DATA
NIGHTMARES AND ENABLE COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION"
By Mr. Eric Schlumpf, Principal and Global Manufacturing Practice
Leader, Archstone Consulting & Corporate Sponsor, Silicon Valley
World Internet Center.
5:00 p.m. Registration & Networking
5:45 p.m. Presentation & Discussion
6:45 p.m. Additional Networking
7:30 p.m. Program concludes. Open to the Public. No fee to attend.
Pre-registration is highly encouraged.
Registration information below.
Please Note: This Executive Briefing will be held in the
Cyprus Room at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel, 4290 El Camino Real,
Palo Alto.
Can companies conquer IT/data nightmares and enable communication
and collaboration? The relatively easy stuff has already been done:
eProcurement, back office financials, etc. - easily done with stand-alone
applications. Now, organizations need to adopt ways of thinking
about how their IT is structured to enable greater flexibility and
a more robust use of data across the organization and with trading
partners.
Companies are able to operate internally using enterprise solutions,
but their connections to trading partners are often clumsy. This
is because enterprise applications limit the amount and quality
of intercommunication that can happen beyond the enterprise between
businesses, trading partners and other third-parties.
However, EEM (Extended Enterprise Management) and SOA (Service-Oriented
Architecture), when combined, can overcome this inherent shortcoming,
providing greater flexibility, efficiency and consistency in interactions
with customers and increasing collaboration.
Efficient information processing and exchange is powerful - especially
when coupled with the Internet as a vehicle to connect and extend
enterprise. Archstone Consulting asserts there is a right way to
go about structuring to truly realize value. Simply put, SOA is
the most effective way to drive to EEM.
In this interactive Executive Briefing, led by Archstone Consulting's
San Francisco-based principal and global manufacturing practice
leader, Eric Schlumpf, participants will explore a holistic view
of business systems from a business process, information and decision-making
perspective. Input from Valley companies that are grappling with
these, and other timely issues will enliven the discussion.
Archstone Consulting, Silicon Valley World Internet Center's newest
corporate sponsor, has reinvigorated the consulting business model,
emerging as a leader in the industry with a unique approach to provide
their clients viable alternatives based on their new-found focus
on independence, focus and creativity.
ABOUT ERIC SCHLUMPF
With more than 23 years of manufacturing, industrial service,
and consulting experience, Eric Schlumpf is a recognized leader
in advanced supply chain topics. He specializes in the development
of cost effective solutions that improve his clients' performance,
speed to market, and working capital return on investments. Mr.
Schlumpf has worked extensively with clients in the high tech, aerospace
and defense, and consumer products industries. Prior to joining
Archstone Consulting, Mr. Schlumpf served as a partner of Deloitte
Consulting, where he developed the first comprehensive collaborative
commerce methodology for the firm. He has held several industry
leadership positions including vice president of marketing and sales
for a major industrial services firm and vice president, operations
for a major oil & gas services company.
ABOUT ARCHSTONE CONSULTING
Archstone Consulting (http://www.archstoneconsulting.com)
is an independent business strategy and operations consulting firm
specializing in manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, life sciences
and business and consumer services sectors. Focused on innovation,
growth and value, Archstone Consulting's expertise includes product
development, complex manufacturing and supply chain operations,
strategic sourcing and information technology effectiveness. Headquartered
in Stamford, Connecticut, the company has offices in New York, Chicago
and San Francisco.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
To pre-register for the Executive Briefing, please send your name,
title, company name, telephone number and email address to:
Ms. Claire Kahrobaie
Manager, Client Services
T: 650.565.8070
E: kahrobaie@worldinternetcenter.com
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OF SPECIAL NOTE…
"INDIAN AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE VISITS SILICON VALLEY TO DISCUSS FUTURE
DEVELOPMENT OF INDIA AND ITS HIGH TECH SECTOR"
On Sunday, April 18, 2004, our Knowledge Network Partner, the Crowne
Plaza Cabana Hotel (http://www.cppaloalto.crowneplaza.com),
hosted the Indian Ambassador-at-Large to the U.S., Dr. Bhishma K.
Agnihotri, for a fascinating discussion of the future development
of India and its high tech sector. Dr. Agnihotri called for individuals
from the Silicon Valley to submit suggestions for how best to develop
the capabilities of the Indian technology economy in the near future.
The Center's CEO, Dr. Susan Duggan, committed to continuing a dialogue
with the ambassador, is looking at what technology sectors in India
could best benefit from an intense exchange of strategic intelligence
with Valley counterparts. Several attendees called for a serious
focus on biotech and nanotechnology markets, noting that India was
well-prepared to "leap frog" into a position of intellectual and
market leadership.
The event was highly supported by India Post (http://www.indiapost.com)
and by TechBiz Radio (http://www.tech-biz-radio.com).
Any suggestions for the development of the Indian technology economy
may be submitted through the World Internet Center (mailto:info@worldinternetcenter.com).
Or for further information, please access the Ambassador-at-Large's
website: (http://www.indianambatlarge.com).
To view a photo of Center CEO Dr. Susan Duggan with Dr. Bhishma
Agnihotri, visit: (http://www.worldinternetcenter.com/Photo_Album/index.html).
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For further information on the Center's Sponsors and Knowledge
Network Partners, visit their Websites:
CORPORATE
SPONSORS
SAP http://www.sap.com/
Archstone Consulting http://www.archstoneconsulting.com/
KNOWLEDGE
NETWORK PARTNERS
Halleck http://www.halleck.com
IC Growth, Inc. http://www.icgrowth.com
Market Wire http://www.marketwire.com
Incucomm http://www.incucomm.com
Xterprise http://www.xterprise.com
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