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AT THE CENTER
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 ***************************** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
WORLD INTERNET CENTER CEO SPEAKS AT SDFORUM'S INTERNATIONAL SIG
MEETING: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2004 ******** THINK TANK SESSION: TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER 16, 2004 ******** SUMMARY: POWER PUB: WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 29, 2004 **************************** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
WORLD INTERNET CENTER CEO SPEAKS AT SDFORUM'S INTERNATIONAL SIG
MEETING: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2004 Please join our CEO and co-founder, Dr. Susan J. Duggan, at the Software Development Forum's International SIG for a review of the challenges and rewards of supporting a model for collaborative innovation in the Internet space around the world. In its ninth year in the Silicon Valley, the World Internet Center now looks to its next iteration as a model for networking knowledge at other sites around the world. Beijing? Melbourne? Bangalore? Come join Dr. Duggan for a discussion about the merits of different sites for fostering a collaborative innovation environment, while recognizing the challenges of "coopetition" in the 21st century. PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT WILL BE HELD AT SILICON VALLEY BANK, 3003 TASMAN DRIVE IN SANTA CLARA. LOOK FOR BUILDING 3, AROUND THE CORNER FROM 5101 PATRICK HENRY DRIVE ENTRANCE. For directions and a map, click Here **************************** THINK TANK SESSION:
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2004 The Silicon Valley World Internet Center is conducting a multi-corporate Think Tank Session to understand business cases for and technology challenges faced by the implementation of RFID technologies in the pharmaceutical industry. The characteristics of the pharmaceutical industry make it particularly attractive for the use of RFID technology. The industry loses millions of dollars yearly from theft, diversion and counterfeiting, and has to be worried about patient safety. This session will delve into the reality of the claimed cost savings for the pharmaceutical industry around the use of RFID in the supply chain. Beyond that, however, looms a technology horizon full of "promises" that may or may not fit the business needs articulated by the pharmaceutical industry. As a first step, this session will address ways to improve inventory management, data management across companies, and general business issues about recalls and counterfeiting. The session will delve into what kinds of tracking technologies will be most suited for and welcomed by the pharmaceutical industry in the near- and medium-term future. This Think Tank Session is being sponsored by SAP Research. The objectives of this session are:
Representatives from several large companies producing software and hardware (i.e., tracking technologies, primarily RFID) along with representatives of the pharmaceutical industry are being invited to participate in this 20-person, six-hour, invitation-only Think Tank Session. **************************** SUMMARY: WEDNESDAY,
SEPTEMBER 29, 2004 To access Richard Probst's Power Pub presentation on the Center's Web site:
On September 29, the World Internet Center hosted over 80 participants from around the Valley to discuss, with the guidance of Pub Master Richard Probst of SAP, the future of analytics. The Power Pub, sponsored by SAP Labs, was indeed full of "power" from hot start up companies to representatives from the big players, including SAP, IBM, Deutsche Telekom, Oracle, Cisco, HP, PARC, McKesson, Genentech, and Adobe. A lively discussion ensued around these three Guiding Questions:
After the Power Pub closed, participants wandered down to the Cabana's salon for several more hours of heated discussions around intellectual capital assets and real-time analytics. Many thanks to Richard Probst who, as Pub Master, ably managed this large group of participants. His presentation on the Future of Analytics is available on the Center's site (see the link above). We extend a special thanks to SAP Labs for sponsoring this exciting and well-attended Power Pub. ABOUT RICHARD PROBST Before joining SAP in 2004, Mr. Probst spent 9 years driving product strategy for three venture-backed startups. Calico Commerce pioneered online product configurators, with Cisco and Dell as customers, leading to a $2 billion IPO in 1999; Calico was later acquired by PeopleSoft. Ejasent invented utility computing for transactional web sites, for Charles Schwab and other surge-prone sites, and was acquired by Veritas for $59 million. Nominum is developing a new generation of name management infrastructure, led by the inventor of DNS. Mr. Probst was founding VP of Marketing for Ejasent and VP of Product Marketing for Nominum. Prior to his startup experience, Mr. Probst was at Sun Microsystems for 10 years. From 1985 to 1990, he managed development of Sun's user interfaces, including SunView, XView, and Open Look. Over the next 5 years, he helped bring CORBA into existence, as program manager for Sun's Project DOE, as business development for Sun NEO products, and as a member of the board of directors of the Object Management Group. In 1991, Mr. Probst coined the acronym "CORBA". Mr. Probst has an MS in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a PhD candidate until he left to join Sun. His undergraduate degree in psychology is from Yale University. ABOUT SAP LABS Headquartered in Silicon Valley and started in 1996, SAP Labs North America (http://www.sap.com) is the company's first development lab established outside of Germany and is designed to take advantage of Silicon Valley's rich culture of innovation and entrepreneurialism-to infuse "start-up" thinking and business practices into a multi-billion dollar global enterprise. The Lab, which pioneered SAP's efforts to globalize development, employs more than 750 tech professionals at its main campus in Palo Alto, Calif., and another 500 via a network of 11 offices located across the United States. Labs' field offices are strategically situated to better learn from and serve the needs of SAP's customers by delivering industry-specific and customized solutions. The alignment of development resources around industry and customer needs is indicative of the unique approach Labs employs to drive innovation where it can have the most impact. SAP Labs is responsible for several major tec! hnology developments, including SAP NetWeaver, the company's core technology platform that now serves as the foundation for SAP's overall enterprise software and services strategy and SAP xApps, a family of packaged, composite applications. **************************** The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Corporate Sponsors and Knowledge Network Partners for their continuing support: CORPORATE
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