Business Technology

Webcast - Using ICT (Information & Communications Technology) to Create a ...

By Sarah Sorensen

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Sustainability is not a catch phrase or a flash-in-the pan endeavor; it is a guiding principle that drives a business's value creation. It ensures that an organization is able to sustain long-term...

[Publish Date: February 08, 2010]

Business Matchmaking 2.0: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by ...

By Julie Ruvolo

Throw away everything you think you know about who you should hire and how big your team is. We're going to explore how 2.0 technology is democratizing what kinds of people you can build your business with and making it affordable for you to work with a 10 or 20 person team - for the cost of one full-time hire.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

Speaker: Michael J. Wolf: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Michael J. Wolf is founder and managing director of ACTIVATE, a technology and strategy consulting firm which helps media, technology and communications businesses position their companies for growth. Previously, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of MTV Networks, where he was responsible for leading all of the global business and technology operations of the $7bn cable programming and Internet company. Prior to joining MTVN in 2005, he was the Managing Partner of McKinsey & Company’s global Media, Entertainment & Information Practice, and served as the top strategist to the CEOs and senior executives. Before that, Wolf was a Senior Partner and member of the Executive Committee of Booz Allen Hamilton, where he led the firm’s Communications, Media & Technology Practice. Wolf is a board member of Slide.com, the largest developer of third-party applications for Facebook; iAmplify.com, a digital marketplace for expert-generated video; Entercom; and the Educational...

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

Speaker: Vinod Khosla: Web 2.0 Summit 2010 - Co-produced by UBM TechWeb & ...

Vinod grew up dreaming of being an entrepreneur, despite growing up in an Indian Army household with no business or technology connections. Since the age of 16, when he first heard about Intel starting up, he dreamt of starting his own technology company. Upon graduating with a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Vinod failed, at age 20, to start a soy milk company to service the many people in India who did not have refrigerators. He came instead to the U.S. and got his master's in biomedical engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University. His start-up dreams attracted him to Silicon Valley, where he got an MBA at Stanford University in 1980.

[Publish Date: November 15, 2010]

Speaker: Bill Gurley: Web 2.0 Summit 2010 - Co-produced by UBM TechWeb & ...

Bill Gurley joined Benchmark Capital in 1999 after spending two years as a partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Before entering the venture capital business, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston focusing on the personal computer hardware and software business. His research coverage included such companies as Dell, Compaq, and Microsoft, and he was the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO. In both 1995 and 1996, Bill was a member of the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team. Prior to his investment career, Bill was a design engineer at Compaq Computer, where he worked on products such as the 486/50 and Compaq’s initial multi-processor server. Before Compaq, he served in the technical marketing group of Advanced Micro Devices embedded processor division. For the past seven years, Bill has also authored the Above the Crowd newsletter, which focuses on the evolution and economics of high...

[Publish Date: November 15, 2010]

Speaker: Andy Jassy: Web 2.0 Summit 2010 - Co-produced by UBM TechWeb & ...

Andy Jassy leads the Amazon Web Services business (AWS) and the Technology Infrastructure organization for Amazon.com. AWS is a subsidiary of Amazon.com that provides software developers and businesses with cloud-based infrastructure services that are inexpensive, reliable, scalable, comprehensive and flexible. AWS has grown tremendously since its inception in 2006 and is now the underlying infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world from start-ups to enterprises to government agencies.

[Publish Date: November 15, 2010]

Speaker: Ted Schadler: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by TechWeb ...

With 22 years of experience in the software industry, Ted advises Forrester clients in a wide variety of industries on collaboration tools and strategy assessment, telepresence and videoconferencing, instant messaging and Web conferencing, cloud-based email and collaboration, collaboration on smartphones, the consumerization of IT, and surveying and segmenting information workers. In 2009, Ted spearheaded the launch of Forrester's Workforce Technographics®, the industry's first benchmark survey of workforce technology adoption. Ted is also the co-author of the new Forrester book, Empowered: Unleash Your Employees, Energize Your Customers, and Transform Your Business, (Harvard Business Press, September 2010). This management book helps CIOs and IT organizations implement strategies for supporting workforce "HEROes" – highly empowered and resourceful operatives – who harness social technology, mobile devices, video, and cloud services to solve customer problems. Ted has appeared as...

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

Local Technology, Global Startups: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced ...

By Jalak Jobanputra

While the US remains a hub of innovation and creation, many emerging markets (as well as more established markets) provide opportunities for pilots or expansion. This session will explore startups that have tapped into some of these markets.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]

Speaker: Leila Chirayath Janah: Web 2.0 Summit 2010 - Co-produced by UBM ...

Leila Chirayath Janah is the founder of Samasource, a social business that connects over 550 women, youth, and refugees living in poverty to microwork — small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. Samasource was a winner in the Stanford Social Enterprise Challenge in 2008 and is a current grantee of the Rockefeller Foundation. In recognition of her work, Leila received the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship and has been invited to serve as a TED and Social Enterprise Institute Fellow. Janah is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship, technology, and international development at institutions including MIT, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Harvard. Her work has been profiled by CBS, CNN, The New York Times, The New Scientist, and GOOD, and she is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Social Edge.

[Publish Date: November 15, 2010]

Speaker: Leila Chirayath Janah: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2010 - Co-produced by ...

Leila Chirayath Janah is the founder of Samasource, a social business that connects over 550 women, youth, and refugees living in poverty to microwork — small, computer-based tasks that build skills and generate life-changing income. Samasource was a winner in the Stanford Social Enterprise Challenge in 2008 and is a current grantee of the Rockefeller Foundation. In recognition of her work, Leila received the Rainer Arnhold Fellowship and has been invited to serve as a TED and Social Enterprise Institute Fellow. Janah is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship, technology, and international development at institutions including MIT, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Harvard. Her work has been profiled by CBS, CNN, The New York Times, The New Scientist, and GOOD, and she is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and Social Edge.

[Publish Date: September 27, 2010]