On January 5, 2009, Avaya announced that Kevin Kennedy would join the company from JDS Uniphase Corporation, where he was CEO. Kennedy has also served as Chief Operating Officer of Openwave Systems, Inc. He spent eight years at Cisco Systems, Inc., most recently as Senior Vice President of the Service Provider Line of Business and Software Technologies Division. Kennedy spent 17 years with AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1987, he was a congressional fellow to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Kennedy is a member of the board of directors of KLA-Tencor Corporation and JDS Uniphase Corporation, and a member of the Board of Regents of Loyola Marymount University.
Padmasree Warrior joined Cisco as chief technology officer (CTO) in December 2007. Padmasree comes to Cisco from Motorola where she was executive vice president and chief technology officer. As CTO,Warrior plays a key leadership role in the continued development and communication of Cisco's technology strategy and vision. Padmasree works closely with Cisco's management team and chief development officer to drive innovation and explore new business and technology directions. She was named Motorola's CTO in 2003 and held numerous positions at the company over her 23 year career, including corporate vice president and general manager of Motorola's energy systems group and corporate vice president and chief technology officer for Motorola's Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS).
1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Keynotes
Enterprise Executives Keynote (Location: Osceola C)
Speaker - Thomas Behnke, Global Network Services Manager and Architect, Kraft Foods
Tom Behnke is the Manager of Global Managed Network Services Architecture and Strategy for Kraft Foods, one of the largest food and beverage companies in the world. Tom is responsible for the development of the Kraft Foods voice and data communication strategy and provides business process outsourcing oversight. In addition, Tom is one of the company's foremost leaders in enterprise transformation and has demonstrated significant experience in leading initiatives designed to further the use of technology as a means of increasing business efficiencies. Most recently Tom's innovation has been integral in developing the company's "Office of the Future" Initiative with Avaya, that will provide an open standards platform to untether Kraft Foods employees while providing them with the flexibility to determine which tools they use to improve their productivity. Prior to Kraft, Tom spent 9 years at Abbott Laboratories as Senior Project Manager for their international division, and oversaw strategic projects outside of the USA. Tom holds a B.S. in Physics from Loyola University Chicago and will be completing his MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in June 2009
Speaker - Angel Wingate, Assistant Vice President, Office of Information Technology, Duke University
Angel Wingate is assistant vice president for Duke University's Office of Information Technology. She has oversight responsibility for Communications Infrastructure, Data Center and Computer Lab Services, and IT Facilities Planning and Construction. She is responsible for guiding the operational directors/senior directors over such services as networking, telecommunications, data center operations and construction, ePrint services and centralized desktop support. Angel has worked at Duke for over 22 years, and has significant experience in leading initiatives designed to further the use of technology as a means of increasing business efficiencies. She has led OIT's finance, business strategy and administration operations since 1995 and, during that time, has shaped OIT policies relating to finance, administration and human resources, negotiated contracts for services, developed business strategies for central IT services, performed operational and strategic assessments and audited OIT processes and units to optimize departmental efficiency. Additionally, she has served in various interim operational oversight roles spanning telecommunications and networking functions. Most recently, she has overseen the construction of a new tier-three data center on Duke's campus, as well as the migration of critical enterprise IT systems from various facilities to the new location. She led the renegotiation of cellular service contracts that resulted in significant savings to the institution, and she provides senior leadership and oversight for the two-year campus and health system migration of 29K lines from legacy systems to the Cisco VoIP platform. Angel holds a BA in Public Policy Studies and an MBA from Duke University, and she is a certified public accountant.
Gurdeep Singh Pall is the corporate vice president in the Unified Communications Group at Microsoft Corp. He is responsible for vision, product strategy and R&D for Microsoft's Unified Communications including voice over Internet protocol (VoIP). Pall joined Microsoft in January 1990 as a software design engineer, and he has worked on many breakthrough products in his tenure. He started with LAN Manager Remote Access Service, and was part of the Windows NT® development team working all the way through Windows® XP in 2001 as general manager of Windows Networking. During his work on Windows, he led design and implementation of award-winning technologies such as PPP, TCP/IP, VPNs, routing and Wi-Fi. He co-authored the first VPN protocol in the industry — Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) — which received the prestigious Innovation of the Year award from PC Magazine in 1996. He also authored several documents and standards in the networking area in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards body in the mid-1990s. Pall was appointed general manager of Windows Real-Time Communications efforts in January 2002 and helped develop a broad RTC strategy that led to the formation of the Real Time Collaboration division and acquisition of PlaceWare Inc. (now called Microsoft Office Live Meeting). Since then Pall has led acquisitions of Media-Streams and Parlano and key industry partnerships. Pall was named one of the "15 Innovators & Influencers Who Will Make A Difference In 2008" by Information Week. Pall has more than 20 patents (filed or approved) in networking, compression and collaboration areas. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Oregon and an undergraduate degree in computer engineering from Birla Institute of Technology in India.
10:30 am–11:30 am
Keynotes
Keynote Presentation: IBM (Location: Osceola C)
Speaker - Bob Picciano, General Manager, IBM Software
As general manager for Lotus software, Bob Picciano has oversight for an extensive portfolio of collaboration tools designed to empower people to be more effective, responsive and innovative within the context of the work they do. It includes email, calendar, instant messaging, electronic forms,web conferencing, portals, team paces, business dashboards, document management, and social software. He is also amember of IBM's Integration and Values team—a select group of executives who provide guidance across IBM on various business and strategic issues. Prior to becoming General Manager, Mr. Picciano was vice president, worldwide sales, Information Management, SoftwareGroup. He was responsible for sales and operations for the Information Management portfolio, a multi-billion dollar product set that is sold in over 130 countries. Bob had previously been vice president for Data Servers, responsible for business line performance of IBM's highly successful database portfolio of software products including DB2, Informix IDS, Cloudscape, RedBrick, and XPS. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Picciano led the worldwide development and support of DB2 Linux, Windows and UNIX platforms as vice president of Database Technology while on international assignment at the IBM Toronto Software Development Lab in Markham, Canada. Over the course of his twenty year career at IBM, Mr. Picciano has held numerous management and executive positions including Technical Assistant to IBM Chairman and CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. and IMS Family Product Manager, where he also managed the Santa Teresa laboratory development technologies team, providing centralized development, test and product packaging services to the lab's development teams.
1:00 pm–2:00 pm
Keynotes
Keynote Presentation: Siemens (Location: Osceola C)
Speaker - James O'Neill, CEO, Siemens Enterprise Communications
James R. O'Neill, a 30-year technology industry veteran is a native of Ireland who became an American citizen in 1976. O'Neill has extensive international executive management experience with an emphasis on networks and electronics as well as large system integration, communications and computer technology. O'Neill's priorities include merging the Siemens Enterprise Communications business with two portfolio companies: Enterasys, a network equipment and security solutions provider and SER Solutions, a call center software company. The combination of these three entities will create a more complete enterprise communications and data networking offering featuring world-class products, solutions and services for the unified communications market, all based on the company's Open Communications positioning. O'Neill received a bachelor's degree from St. Anselm College, New Hampshire, and has attended executive management programs worldwide. He served as the 2008 chairman of the Professional Services Council and Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Northern Virginia Technology Council. O'Neill also sits on the board of the Technology Council of Maryland and the American Heart Association. He was named 2006 Government Contractor Executive of the Year by the Northern Virginia GovCon Council, Professional Services Council and Washington Technology.
