Keynote Speakers

Monday, September 22, 2008
Peter Williams CTO, Big Green Innovations IBM View Bio	Climate Change - Threat or Opportunity? Many people regard climate change as a threat to business, as in many ways it is - a threat to existing assumptions and business models, and a major source of potential reputational, regulatory and operational risk. However, it is also an enormous business opportunity. Dr Williams will draw on his experience of IBM's Big Green Innovations environmental incubator to show how IBM has saved enormous sums of money while developing new businesses in his company, to illustrate the opportunity that climate change, and green in your company generally, can present.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Jan Baan Executive Chairman & CEO Cordys Founder The Baan Company View Bio	Delivering on Corporate Strategic Initiatives: Leveraging New Processes and Technologies to Enable Change and Plant-to-Enterprise Improvement In his keynote presentation, Mr. Baan will address the question – how can manufacturing and manufacturing IT teams best deliver on corporate strategic initiatives, such as lean, quality and regulatory compliance? He will discuss what manufacturers can learn from the application of Business Process Management (BPM) and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) in the enterprise layer – and how to achieve the same impressive benefits using new technologies and processes in the manufacturing / industrial environment to drive corporate initiatives.