Bob joined ADP in September 2002 and is responsible for the development of all Payroll, HR, Benefits and Time & Labor Management products for the $5B ADP Employer Services Division. He leads a department of 1200+ IT associates with an annual budget of $125M. At ADP he has significantly improved the reliability of ADP’s Internet product suite reducing downtime 92% over a two year period. He has also introduced the use of a Service Orientated Architecture to enable integration across the many disparate Human Resource applications that are sold by ADP.

Prior to that Bob spent twelve years at United Airlines where he worked with business units to develop an overall strategy and project plan on how new technologies should be used in the future airport environment. While at United he pioneered the use of Parallel Processing technology in areas of yield management and crew scheduling.

Bob holds both a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and System Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Larry Bossidy, is one of the most respected executives in recent history. Larry shares the tested, concrete lessons of his exemplary career, advice that has made his book Execution a BusinessWeek Bestseller for nearly two years. Larry’s most recent book, Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right, promises to be as indispensable to leaders at all levels of the corporation as its predecessor has been.

Larry Bossidy is the former CEO of Honeywell. Larry’s bestselling Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done is a hard-nosed guide to the practical necessities of successful leadership in a competitive global economy. Proving that execution is a learnable discipline, Bossidy warns that it often involves grunt work and it’s often ignored or delegated by senior leaders—yet it’s a leader’s primary job. Effective execution requires relentless questioning, analyzing, following-through, and problem solving—and it demands that you face reality. Where Execution was about how to get things done, Larry’s next book will be about defining what needs to be done in the face of today’s sweeping changes. Confronting Reality addresses a company’s basic business model for making money, providing managers with a big-picture view of the structural changes affecting business and with strategic tools for confronting this reality effectively.

Larry learned the art of execution through his decades s a successful leader in two of our premier organizations. In his stellar 34-year career at General Electric, he rose to vice chairman and brought the company back to double-digit growth. He turned Allied Signal into one of the world’s most admired companies in his nine years as CEO, highlighted by 31 consecutive quarters of earnings-per share growth of 13% or more and an eight-fold appreciation of the company’s share price. He shepherded Allied Signal and Honeywell through their historic merger and other crises with similar success until his retirement. Larry Bossidy now serves on the boards of directors of several major corporations and works with CEOs and other senior executives to improve their company’s execution and performance.

Robert B. (Rob) Carter is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at FedEx Corporation. In his role as CIO, Carter is responsible for the corporations’ key applications and technology infrastructure. FedEx applications, advanced networks and data centers provide around-the-clock and around-the-globe support for the information intensive transportation and logistics product offerings of FedEx Corporation. Carter joined FedEx in 1993 and has more than 20 years of systems development and implementation experience utilizing a wide variety of technology. Carter earned his bachelor's degree in Computer and Information Science from the University of Florida and his MBA from the University of South Florida.

Tom Davenport holds the President's Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College and is responsible for the overall management of the Institute for Process Management. He also co-manages the Working Knowledge program with Larry Prusak.

In 2003 Tom was named one of the Top 25 consultants in the world by Consulting magazine.

Tom is also an Accenture Fellow, and in 2003 was the the Academic Director of the Information Work Productivity Council, a research consortium of seven technology firms.

He's directed research centers at Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Company, and CSC Index, and most recently, what used to be called the Accenture Institute of Strategic Change.

He's written, co-authored or edited ten books, including the first books on business process reengineering, knowledge management, and the business use of enterprise systems.

He's also written hundreds of articles and columns for such publications as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Optimize, California Management Review, Financial Times, InformationWeek, CIO and many others.

Ray Frigo, as Chief Information Officer for Capital One's Global Financial Services division, Ray Frigo is responsible for technology strategy and delivery for Capital One’s Europe, Canada, Small Business, Savings, and Healthcare Finance businesses. Frigo is also responsible for establishing and implementing the technology solutions for Capital One acquisitions and new business ventures.

Prior to joining Capital One in 2002, Frigo held a variety of technology, operations, strategy, and general management roles. His range of experiences include positions with Gemini Consulting (part of Capgemini), a technology-based startup backed by Houston-based Reliant Energy, Compaq Computer, and Amoco (now part of British Petroluem).

Frigo has an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Economics and Computer Science from Macalester College. He also completed a General Course Study at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Keith Glennan is the chief technology officer for Northrop Grumman’s internal IT organization. Mr. Glennan is responsible for Northrop Grumman’s internal information technology architecture and strategy. He is also responsible for leading IT transformation to ensure maximum realization of business value from Northrop Grumman’s IT investments.

Mr. Glennan has a keen interest in, and leadership accountability for, IT enabling processes and technologies, including portfolio management, enterprise architecture, identity management and federation, and business intelligence.

Previously, Mr. Glennan served as chief information officer for Northrop Grumman’s Information Technology sector. His background at Northrop Grumman has also included responsibility for e-business infrastructure strategy and architecture for the entire corporation. He ensured that e-business issues and opportunities were identified, prioritized and implemented effectively to deliver value for the company and its shareholders.

Mr. Glennan represents Northrop Grumman in government and industry forums related to information technology issues issues, and is a recognized authority on the linkage between IT and business value.

Mr. Glennan earned a bachelor's degree in economics/mathematics from Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa., a master's degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and completed comprehensive requirements for a doctorate in economics at UCLA. .

Peter Johnson has worked in strategic technology at Mellon Bank for more than ten years. As part of Mellon’s corporate IT organization, Johnson works with directly key line-of-business executives throughout the corporation to resolve strategic technology and architectural issues. Johnson has also played a central role in introducing new technologies at Mellon including Wireless, Groupware, Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Client/Server Middleware, and various Internet architectures. His group is responsible for tracking emerging technologies, managing corporate architectural standards, leading software engineering/project management practices, and developing enterprise technology strategy.

Prior to joining Mellon, Johnson served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cognitive Systems Inc (CSI), a small, publicly-held artificial intelligence company specializing in natural language processing, expert systems, case-based reasoning, and data mining. CSI was founded by several members of the Yale University faculty in 1981, where Johnson completed his MS in computer science. His publications range from academic journals in cognitive science to “how to” chapters in books and trade journals on data discovery in databases. On a personal note, he is an accomplished long-distance dog musher, having successfully completed the 1150- mile Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska.

Shravan K. Kotha is SVP, Enterprise Business Intelligence, CRM Group for KeyCorp, where he is responsible for developing the processes and business intelligence models for all lines of businesses and support groups. Kotha leads the construction, business interpretation and validation of data models and reports using ETL tools, Cognos, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, SAS and other predictive tools for Customer Relationship Management business intelligence solutions. Kotha has held a variety of positions at KeyCorp since coming on board in 1982. Kotha holds an MS and MBA from Case Western Reserve. He speaks at many industry events and has been featured in a number of publications including Bank Systems & Technology.

Mike Kronenwetter is Vice President of Technology Management within the Information Services Group (ISG) at Highmark, reporting to the CIO. In this capacity, Mr. Kronenwetter is accountable for leading the ISG by defining and deploying enterprise wide technology and application architectures that enable Highmark to achieve strategic business objectives. Prior to his current position, Mr. Kronenwetter held various management and programming positions in the applications development area. Mr. Kronenwetter has been with Highmark for over 22 years.

Mr. Kronenwetter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Computer Information Systems from Clarion State College in Pennsylvania and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business.

Kenneth A. Lehman is the group director of Shared Services Operations in Internal Information Services, a business group and IT shared services organization within Northrop Grumman’s Information Technology (IT) sector. In this role, Lehman directs an organization that supports Northrop Grumman’s IT infrastructure and service delivery. His responsibilities include enterprise-wide IT computing infrastructure and initiatives, and providing all company locations with network and telecommunication design engineering, software and systems engineering, and platform engineering. Ken’s organization leads enterprise projects, technology insertion, standards development, video design, network architecture and operations management. In addition, this organization facilitates design, engineering and implementation of all major sector and enterprise platform projects, and sets hardware and software standards.

Lehman also provides overall leadership and IT project management direction across Northrop Grumman. This includes oversight of enterprise solution initiatives, including an enterprise portal, enterprise application integration, and integrated information security management.

Prior to joining Northrop Grumman, Lehman held several executive-level positions responsible for building, organizing and directing large research and development (R&D) organizations to deliver and support high-quality enterprise and consumer products.

Lehman is a graduate of Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.

Jason Maynard is a Software Analyst for Credit Suisse with coverage responsibility for the applications, infrastructure, and systems management segments. In addition to direct coverage responsibility, he serves as group head for the global software research team.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse in 2005, Maynard was the Global Software Coordinator and Senior Software Analyst for Merrill Lynch. In February 2004, Maynard launched the On Demand Index to track and measure the rise of On Demand business models and the trend of Software as a Service.

Before moving into investment research, his professional experience includes product marketing and business development for two software start-ups in the Customer Relationship Management and Java development space. Maynard was a co-founder of Verix Software and played a key role in selling the company to Inference Corporation in 1998. Maynard earned a Master of Business Administration in Information Technology from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California in 1998 while working full-time, and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from California State University at Sacramento in 1993.

James McGovern is an industry thought leader and has co-authored multiple books on various information technology subjects including the bestselling books: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Prentice Hall) and Enterprise Service Oriented Architectures (Springer Verlag). He is currently employed as an Enterprise Architect for The Hartford currently serving in the role of Chief Security Architect for Property and Casualty Division.

James frequently speaks at multiple industry conferences throughout the year attended by CIO’s, Enterprise Architect’s and other IT executives. He is also a highly respected industry thought blogger and writes frequently on topics such as enterprise architecture, technology innovation, open source, SOA and the human aspects of technology.

J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., is one of leading scientists of the 21st century for his visionary contributions in genomic research. He is founder and president of the J. Craig Venter Institute and the J. Craig Venter Science Foundation.

The Venter Institute conducts basic research that advances the science of genomics; specializes in high volume genome sequencing, and explores the ethical and policy implications of genomic discoveries and advances. The J. Craig Venter Science Foundation supports both the Venter Institute and The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), an affiliated research organization led by Claire M. Fraser, Ph.D. Dr. Venter founded TIGR in 1992.

While on faculty at the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Venter developed expressed sequence tags or EST’s, a revolutionary new strategy for discovering genes. In 1992, he founded The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR). There, he and his team decoded the genome of the first free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, pioneering the new whole genome shotgun technique. In 1998, Dr. Venter became the first president of Celera Genomics where he sequenced the human genome using the whole genome shotgun technique, new mathematical algorithms, and new automated DNA sequencing machines. The completed sequence of the human genome was published in February 2001 in the journal, Science. In addition to the human genome, Dr. Venter and his team at Celera sequenced the fruit fly, mouse, and rat genomes. In 2003, Dr. Venter launched a global expedition to obtain and study microbes from environments ranging from the world’s oceans to urban centers. This mission, now in progress, is yielding insights into genes that make up the vast realm of microbial life.

James K. Watson Jr., Ph.D., is CEO and founder of Doculabs, Inc. Under Watson's direction, Doculabs has firmly established its market position by pioneering unbiased, real-world product assessments - an unrivaled offering in the consulting community. The company's nonpartisan view of technology products and services enables Doculabs to provide both technology end users and vendors with objective feedback for developing technology strategies and optimizing IT investments.

Watson has served as a director on the boards of EDSF and AIIM and was the chair of AIIM's Emerging Technology Advisory Group (EMTAG). In 2000, he was recognized as one of Crain's Chicago Business' "40 Under 40", highlighting his achievements in the Midwest business community. Watson earned his Bachelors degree from the University of Colorado, his Masters degree from the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Ricky Kalmon redefines the art of hypnosis! You will be amazed at how quickly Kalmon hypnotizes volunteers from the audience and puts them under a hypnotic state of mind. Kalmon’s performance promises to be a unique experience, breaking from traditional hypnosis shows. 

Over the course of his professional career, Kalmon has hypnotized thousands of people as an aid to their self-improvement. In his work with Fortune 500 companies, Kalmon has shown executives and employees at all levels how to help themselves break through the negative barriers affecting their lives and bring out the best in themselves.

Eric Chabrow's current beats include intellectual property, economics, and emerging technologies. Since returning to InformationWeek nine years ago as editor of special projects, Eric edited the 2000 InformationWeek 500, the largest one ever published. At InformationWeek, he also has covered government IT, business management, and employment, and developed an exclusive IT employment index based on government data that's published quarterly. Eric is a prolific contributor to The News Show, and serves as backup anchor for the daily video webcast. He's the only current InformationWeek staffer to have written for the premiere issue of the magazine in 1985. Eric is a former daily newspaper reporter and editor, and was on the team in the early 1980s that developed Time Inc.'s teletext service, a precursor to today's news websites.

John Foley, as a 10-year InformationWeek veteran, John has spent about half that time as an editorial manager and half as a reporter and writer. He was the founding editor of InformationWeek's Windows Enterprise newsletter and is an active blogger on InformationWeek.com. As Editor of InformationWeek, John works closely with the magazine's reporting staff and editors to deliver news, analysis, and insight to a community of more than one million readers.

Brian Gillooly is Editor-in-Chief, Events, InformationWeek, and Editor-in-Chief, Optimize. If there's one thing that Gillooly has learned in more than a decade of following the industry, it's that the answers to business technology's critical questions never present themselves overtly. The task is to constantly dig for new ideas that lead to actions that deliver results. Gillooly brings that insight to Optimize as editor-in-chief, where he has been responsible for the strategic editorial direction and positioning of the publication since its founding in November 2001.

For more than eight of the 16 years that he has worked for CMP Media LLC, he's been involved with the InformationWeek brand. As a brand manager, he's also editor-in-chief of InformationWeek Events, where he is responsible for editorial development and strategic direction for live events. Gillooly served as the editor of InformationWeek magazine from January 1998 to August 1999.

With nearly two decades of management experience in technology journalism, Preston also serves as the Vice President and Editorial Director for the Business Technology Group (BTG) which includes InformationWeek, Network Computing, Intelligent Enterprise, Optimize and several other business technology media brands. He ensures consistency of editorial quality and approach across all BTG brands, maintains the editorial differentiation among all of its products, and is responsible for growing and evolving each brand into multiple media.

Stephanie Stahl is Editor-in-Chief of streaming media initiatives for CMP Media's Web team where she is responsible for building a portfolio of rich-media products, including video/IPTV, webcasts, video blogs, podcasts an other new content types. Previously, she served as InformationWeek's Editor-in-Chief, during which time the magazine retained its No. 1 position and the brand became the market leader in e-mail newsletters, blogs, podcasts, and online video. She's a correspondent for The News Show, a fun and informative daily video show on informationweek.com. Stahl joined InformationWeek in 1992 as an associate editor and covered numerous business technology beats. In 1997, she became senior managing editor and was responsible for news coverage for the magazine and its Web site. In 1998 she became executive editor and helped oversee InformationWeek's cross-brand strategy. In 1999 she was named Editor of InformationWeek. She has been named twice by Adweek as one of the most influential technology journalists.

Rick Whiting has worked at InformationWeek since December 1998 and has been a news editor at the magazine since September, 2004. He also covers business intelligence technology and the use of IT in the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to InformationWeek, Rick held a number of editorial positions at such publications as Software Magazine, Digital News & Review, Electronic Business, and Computer Systems News. Before working for IT publications, Rick was a reporter at The Daily Transcript newspaper in Dedham, Mass. He has a bachelor of arts degree in English and political science and an MBA degree from Babson College.