On September 6, 2007, the world’s top technology leaders met to discuss the future of information technology at the Coordinated Science Laboratory.
Topics ranged from how to keep the United States competitive in an ever-changing marketplace to whether parallelism is the key to boosting performance. Here’s a look at the day’s events.
Date: Thursday, September 6, 2007
| Program Item | Speaker | Video (Real Player) | |
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| Welcome | Richard Herman, Chancellor, UIUC and Ravi Iyer, Director, CSL | Welcome Video |
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| Keynote Address | Anita Jones, Lawrence R. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia | A. Jones Video |
Jones PDF |
| Panel One – Global Interdisciplinary Research |
Introduction | Panel 1 Intro |
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| Panel One - Speaker 1 | R.R. Shah, Member-Secretary, Government of India Planning Commission | R.R. Shah Video |
Shah PDF |
| Panel One - Speaker 2 | Arvind Krishna, Vice President of Data Servers and Worldwide Information Management Development, IBM | A. Krishna Video |
Krishna PDF |
| Panel One - Speaker 3 | Daniel Atkins, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation | D. Atkins Video |
Atkins PDF |
| Panel One - Speaker 4 | Chong Tow Chong, Executive Director, Science and Engineering Council, A*STAR, Singapore | C.T. Chong Video |
Chong PDF |
| Panel One - Speaker 5 | Malik Ghallab, Chief Executive Officer for Science and Technology, INRIA, France | M. Ghallab Video |
Ghallab PDF |
| Panel One - Speaker 6 | William Wulf, Immediate Past President of the NAE | W. Wulf Video |
Wulf PDF |
| Panel One - Discussion | Panel 1 Members | Panel 1 Discussion |
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| Break |
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| Panel Two – New Horizons in Information Technology |
Introduction | Panel 2 Intro |
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| Panel Two - Speaker 1 | David Yen, Executive Vice President, Microelectronics, Sun Microsystems Inc. | D. Yen Video |
Yen PDF |
| Panel Two - Speaker 2 | David Kirk, Chief Scientist, NVIDIA | D. Kirk Video |
Kirk PDF |
| Panel Two - Speaker 3 | Krishan Sabnani, Senior Vice President, Networking & Network Management Research Lab, Bell Laboratories | K. Sabnani Video |
Sabnani PDF |
| Panel Two - Speaker 4 | Guojie Li, Director of ICT China | G. Li Video |
Li PDF |
| Panel Two - Speaker 5 | Ron Brachman, Vice President of Worldwide Research Operations, Yahoo! | R. Brachman Video |
Brachman PDF |
| Panel Two - Discussion | Panel 2 Members | Panel 2 Discussion |
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| Break 2 | |||
| Panel Three – Global Market Demands |
Introduction | Panel 3 Intro |
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| Panel Three - Speaker 1 | Erich Bloch, Director, The Washington Advisory Group | E. Bloch Video |
Bloch PDF |
| Panel Three - Speaker 2 | Gururaj Deshpande, Co-Founder and Chairman of Sycamore, Inc. | G. Deshpande Video |
N/A |
| Panel Three - Speaker 3 | K. Ananth Krishnan, Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services, India | K. A. Krishnan Video |
Krishnan PDF |
| Panel Three - Speaker 4 | Ram Mynampati, President, Commercial and Healthcare Businesses, Satyam Computer Services Limited, India | R. Mynampati Video |
Mynampati PDF |
| Panel Three - Speaker 5 | Eric Paternoster, Senior Vice President, Insurance, Health Care & Life Sciences, Infosys Technologies, India | E. Paternoster Video |
Paternoster PDF |
| Panel Three - Speaker 6 | Larry Sumney, President and Chief Executive Officer, Semiconductor Research Corporation | L. Sumney Video |
Sumney PDF |
| Panel Three - Discussion | Panel 3 Members | Panel 3 Discussion |
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| Break 3 |
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| Closing Remarks | Linda Katehi, Provost, UIUC | Closing Remarks |

Program Cover for Global Infotech Event 2007