AT THE CENTER
The electronic newsletter of the
Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Wednesday, January 7, 2004
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"NEW YEAR'S WISH FROM
THE WORLD INTERNET CENTER"
Further information below.
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EXECUTIVE BRIEFING:
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2004
"IC GROWTH ANNOUNCES BREAKTHROUGH ENTERPRISE
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO DRIVE STOCK PRICE"
By Mr. Don Presson, Chief Executive Officer,
Dr. Dennis Dugan, Senior Vice President of Product Development,
&
Mr. Chris Hook, Vice President of Product Engineering, IC Growth
5:15 - 6:00 p.m. Registration and Networking
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Presentation and Discussion
Open to the Public. Fee: $15 (cash or check, payable at the door).
Registration and further information below.
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POWER PUB: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
5, 2004
Mark your calendars with the first Power Pub of 2004 on Thursday,
February 5. The topic and Pub Master will be announced in an upcoming
eNewsletter.
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CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT: 2004
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Further information below.
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"NEW YEAR'S WISH
FROM THE WORLD INTERNET CENTER"
Candlelight and champagne sparkled our spirits at the Center's
Sixth Annual Gala held in December 2003, here at the Stanford Barn.
Amid the gowns and tuxedos, executives, scientists, professors,
and entrepreneurs toasted a new year full of promise for the re-invigoration
of high technology innovation in the Valley. Mr. Quentin Hardy,
Bureau Chief for Forbes Magazine in the Silicon Valley regaled the
revelers with visions of a positive future for technology advancements
in 2004. Our own CEO, Susan Duggan, called for significant investments
in research and development, moving the community of innovators
towards a collaborative spirit of production and success.
Below, please find excerpts from Susan Duggan's remarks from the
Gala, which serve as New Year's wishes to all of us in this global
community of innovators.
"INVIGORATING HIGH TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION"
- What does that mean?
- Invigorating?
- Sounds like working out?
- Sounds like we should sweat!
- Sounds like infusing something with results-enhancing drugs.
- I MEAN WAKING UP THE VALLEY!
I mean shaking up the R&D budgets to move beyond the head-in-the-sand
stance that many companies have taken over the last few years and
moving forward to create new ideas, products, and markets that go
beyond Q4 sales. I mean harvesting the talent of the Valley by setting
the standards high, investing in entrepreneurs with solid plans,
and culling the next-generation of inventors into a pro-active business
environment that encourages rather than discourages. This means
getting more and more companies involved at the World Internet Center.
It also means continuing to support the Community of Innovators
which spans across a broad range to include "youngsters!" from Stanford,
serial entrepreneurs, and former EVPs who are now starting their
first company at 60 years old. To this end, we have significantly
revised our CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
this year to encourage involvement in the Center by a much larger
group of companies than we have had in the past.
I see this as a huge plus to all concerned. I believe we need to
get back to much more cross-fertilization between the companies
here in the Valley. We had that in '97 & '98, but then things got
tight in the last three years and companies stopped sharing-or stopped
taking the time to share. I firmly believe that to re-invigorate
innovation here in the Valley, we must come back to a concerted
arena for collaboration. And that's the Center's middle name!
This broader and larger support of the Center's activities will
help sustain the public-oriented programs here that keep the INNOVATOR'S
DIALOGUE open. We are known for our small, closed-door think
tank sessions. They wield a tremendous amount of valuable information
and relationships for our clients in a short amount of time.
But beyond that, we need to keep the finger on the pulse of change
and invention and that means having the Center's doors open to the
Valley's start up companies, entrepreneurs and inventors.
The new Corporate Sponsorship Program -- priced for quick consumption
-- is meant to support the programs and sessions for that Community
of Innovators. I am very pleased that SAP Corporate Research (http://www.sap.com/company/research.asp)
has stepped up to the plate to be our initial 2004 Corporate Sponsor.
I encourage the rest of you to join them in this effort.
FORUM FOR HOMELAND SECURITY INNOVATION
In December, we had a think tank session, sponsored by SAP Corporate
Research, around the critical needs for Homeland Security in the
State of California and the potential for collaborative research
projects to respond to those needs. In doing the recruitment for
that 20-person session, I was struck at how much the Silicon Valley
has to offer in this arena and how little we know about the actual
needs in this convoluted, but crucial space called "HOMELAND
SECURITY."
I was also struck by two other revelations:
1.) That the key responders and coordinators for much of our security
in California is the California Highway Patrol. Did you know they
oversee the largest communications infrastructure in California
and are responsible for tracking cyber-security for the State?
Their CIO expressed to me that this was the very first time anyone
had ever invited them to share their needs to with the high tech
community. Normally they just get hosed down with sales pitch on
a one-off basis. We had a great session, by the way!
2.) The other revelation was how little money is getting funneled
into California for research. (I got an earful from many on this
score.)
Both of these revelations have prompted us, here at the Center,
to take a proactive response. To that end, I am announcing, tonight,
our intention to form the FORUM FOR HOMELAND
SECURITY INNOVATION, which we will run through the World
Internet Center. We have 7 years of experience in providing high-quality
sessions designed to move the industry forward. I think it's time
to take on the California and Federal Government, and the high tech
companies, which stand to benefit -- and get them involved in this
collaborative effort. I look to you -- to this community of technology
producers and funders -- to become financially engaged in this Forum
to move your own agenda forward in a collaborative fashion with
your partners and competitors; and with a tremendous number of end-users
out there.
LET'S TALK AUTO-ID
We did a lot this year in the RFID and Sensor Network space. It
started with Mr. Dean Frew, the President of Xterprise (http://www.xterprise.com/),
our Knowledge Network Partner, giving a talk on RFID in Supply Chain
Management. We had an overflow crowd with Sun showing up with 25%
of the audience. SAP stepped up to the plate and help found the
SMART ITEMS BUSINESS FORUM and have
run several sessions under that aegis, most recently a two-part
Working Group series on business applications for sensor networks.
(Which summaries will be posted, soon, on our Website). By the way,
we would like more members in that Forum!
We ran several open-to-the public sessions around RFID and business
opportunities. And as much as the VCs may be down on this right
now, I don't agree with them. Our think tank sessions are revealing
a great deal of use (and need for further R&D) around RFID.
To that end, I call for this community to sit down with us and
structure a series of closed and public sessions that will move
this business dialogue forward and MAKE THE
VALLEY KNOWN FOR ITS CONCERTED WORK IN THE AUTO-ID AND SENSOR NETWORK
SPACE. The World Internet Center already has the forum for
it and the relationship base to move that forward. We need engaged
financial players to make this come alive.
Step up to the plate and make innovation come alive again in your
group, your department, your company and in Valley. We at the World
Internet Center will provide our INNOVATION
PLATFORM to make that collaborative initiative turn into
positive results for all in 2004!
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EXECUTIVE BRIEFING:
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 2004
"IC GROWTH ANNOUNCES BREAKTHROUGH ENTERPRISE
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO DRIVE STOCK PRICE"
By Mr. Don Presson, Chief Executive Officer,
Dr. Dennis Dugan, Senior Vice President of Product Development,
&
Mr. Chris Hook, Vice President of Product Engineering, IC Growth
5:15 - 6:00 p.m. Registration and Networking
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Presentation and Discussion
Open to the Public. Fee: $15 (cash or check, payable at the door).
Registration and further information below.
IC Growth (http://www.icgrowth.com/),
a Knowledge Network Partner of the Silicon Valley World Internet
Center, has developed a breakthrough methodology and software approach
to creating value in the global enterprise. Intellectual Capital
Assets now comprise most of stock value, yet Enterprise Management
Systems have been unable to optimize capital use in the growth of
these assets. Until now!
On January 29, IC Growth's CEO, Mr. Don Presson, and key members
of his management team (Dr. Dennis Dugan, Senior Vice President
of Product Development and Mr. Chris Hook, Vice President of Product
Engineering) will provide an Executive Briefing on IC Growth's breakthrough
metrics and software design.
The Briefing will cover:
- a review of the crisis in Corporate Performance Management
- the evolution of technologies in Corporate Performance Management
- the ICG Economic Profit diagnostic approach: methodology, metrics,
and software
The only competitive advantage left is the ability of organizations
to grow their Intellectual Capital Assets faster than their competitors!
Tangible assets are now commodities. Learn to view this new world
of value creation from the new vantage point . . . critical to every
organization from start-up to global enterprise.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
ABOUT DON PRESSON
Mr. Don Presson, Chief Executive Officer of IC Growth, has 20
years of executive search and management consulting experience in
a broad variety of disciplines and industries. He has also built
and managed a multimillion-dollar executive search company. A sampling
of his clients include Wells Fargo Bank, Levi Strauss & Co., The
California Supreme Court, Genentech, and KPMG Peat Marwick LLP.
He has also held operating responsibilities at the CEO and CFO levels.
Mr. Presson has been an Adjunct Professor at the McDonough School
of Business at Georgetown University where he co-authored the course,
"Creating Wealth in the Knowledge Economy." His formal education
includes a B.S. in Finance from Georgetown University and an MBA
in Finance from American University.
ABOUT DENNIS DUGAN
Dr. Dennis Dugan, Senior Vice President of Product Development
for IC Growth, has 25 years of IP valuation experience. Dr. Dugan
was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of IDDEX, a network-based
IP Strategic Alignment and Management company. Dr. Duggan is an
expert in Economic Profit methodology and valuation. He has held
assignments as Director, IP Services for KPMG; Chairman of the Department
of Economics at Notre Dame; an Economic Policy Fellow at the Brookings
Institution; Chief Economist at the General Accounting Office; and
a Partner in the Economic Consulting Group at Coopers & Lybrand.
Dr. Dugan has published three books, and over 50 articles, technical
reports and chapters of books. He is responsible for over 200 reports
and 50 testimonies to Congress. His education includes a B.S. in
Mathematics from Creighton University and a Ph.D. in Economics from
Brown University.
ABOUT CHRIS HOOK
Mr. Chris Hook, Vice President of Product Engineering for IC Growth,
has 19 years of experience on all aspects of the software technology
product and service solution cycle including creation, architecture,
design, development, testing, implementation, delivery and management/maintenance.
Mr. Hook has worked for Visa, TekMetrix, Cisco, IBM/ICBC, HP and
Hughes Aircraft. His business emphasis is with Software Products,
Software Engineering, Software Architecture, Solution Architecture,
Project Management, IT Solution Systems, and IT Restructuring. His
technology emphasis is in Business Intelligence/Analytics, ERP/CRM,
Database & Data Warehouse, e-Commerce, Web Development, Software
Development, Data & Voice Communications, IT Systems, Network Services,
and System Management & Diagnostics. Mr. Hook received a Masters
of Applied Sciences in Engineering & Mathematics from the University
of British Columbia in Canada.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
The $15 fee will be collected at the door. Only cash or checks,
made payable to Silicon Valley World Internet Center, will be accepted.
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: 650.462.9800
E: kahrobaie@worldinternetcenter.com
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POWER PUB: THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 5, 2004
Mark your calendars with the first Power Pub of 2004 on Thursday,
February 5. The topic and Pub Master will be announced in an upcoming
eNewsletter.
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CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT:
2004 CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM "INVIGORATING HIGH TECH INNOVATION"
Further information below.
The Silicon Valley World Internet Center is pleased to announce
its 2004 Corporate Sponsorship Program, whose objective is to provide
a powerful and effective center - a third-party forum and nexus
of innovators - for clients from Internet- and communications-based
industries, governments and enterprise end-users to explore near-
and medium-term solutions for advanced communications, business
processes and security.
The Corporate Sponsorship Program has a $9,900 annual fee. The
Corporate Sponsorship Program will deliver series of multi-organizational
sessions, open to the public, around such topics as business applications
for sensor networks, RFID applications for supply chain management,
future of wireless broadband, convergence of nano- and biotechnology
with IT, among other cutting edge topics. The Sponsorship Program
will also highlight key advances made by members of the program,
bringing innovations into a multi-corporate community of developers
and end-users.
In November 2003, the Silicon Valley World Internet Center announced
SAP Corporate Research as the first member of the Corporate Sponsorship
Program. "As we look to 2004, our objective is to leverage the collective
and collaborative weight of about 30 industry and government leaders
to support technology, communications, and eBusiness evolution in
an open, yet critical multi-organizational environment. Having SAP
Corporate Research lead that challenge is a great first step," said
Dr. Susan Duggan, CEO of the Silicon Valley World Internet Center.
"We need to embrace, anew, the collaborative nature of innovation,"
says Dr. Joachim Schaper, vice president of SAP Corporate Research
Americas. "Our partners -large and small-should join Susan Duggan
and the World Internet Center in moving the pace and quality of
innovation forward in the Silicon Valley. SAP Corporate Research
calls for other enterprises, governments, and end-users to join
us in this challenge to focus the next generation of innovation
around the Internet and communications."
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information about the Silicon Valley World Internet
Center and the 2004 Corporate Sponsor Program, please contact:
Dr. Susan J. Duggan
Chief Executive Officer
T: 650.462.9800
E: duggan@worldinternetcenter.com
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For further information on the Center's Sponsors and Knowledge
Network Partners, visit their Websites:
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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