January 12: David Gantz
Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law; Director, International Trade Law Program; Associate Director, National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade
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January 19: Kamal Bhadada
Mr. Bhadada oversees TCS’ operations on the West Coast. Mr. Bhadada has been with TCS for over 20 years and is part of the senior leadership team for TCS in North America. Under his leadership as Regional Director for the West Coast, TCS operations have grown by more than 200% in just under two years
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January 26: Jennifer Bond
Vice President, International Affairs and Senior Advisor for Global Initiatives, US Council on Competitiveness. The council of competitiveness is the only national organization whose membership is comprised exclusively of CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders and continually benchmarks United States competitiveness in international trade
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February 02: Vivek Shivpuri
CEO, Trinity BPM
Keys to Developing a Global Operating Model |
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February 09: Rick McNeely
Co-Director, Arizona Telemedicine Program & Director, Biomedical Communications. Arizona has become an international leader in the application of telemedicine. This session will describe the development of telemedicine and explore trends in future telehealth |
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February 16: Sham Mysore
Mr.Mysore is the focal manager for Storage Configuration Manager at IBM- an Industry standards based Storage Devices management stack. He directs the day-day engineering development of the development teams based in the US as well global development teams based at IBM development centers in China and India. Mr.Mysore is actively involved in developing global development locations in setting up high performance delivery teams to meet the needs of the business. He has also been an invited speaker on global development both within IBM as well as external organizations.
"Global Sourcing" - A New Paradigm for Systems Development
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February 23: Amit Vikram
Mr. Vikram is the Senior Client Engagement Manager at Wipro Technologies; He has Led multiple discussions, negotiations and agreements to fully implement outsourcing deals in USA and Japan; managed multi-year outsourcing programs with offshore-onsite delivery for multiple clients resulting in 30%-40% cost savings; Led geographically diverse teams to coordinate engagements and delivered results; drove organizational quality initiatives, participated in strategic planning and recruitment and mentoring of new consultants; developed a network of relationships through the industry to explore opportunities for strategic partnering
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March 23 : Prasad Thrikutam
Vice-President and Head of High Tech business, Infosys.
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March 30th : Diju Raha
CEO, Eximsoft International. Mr. Raha is a publicly acclaimed leader in global business, having initiated Nortel Networks’ major international expansion in knowledge work. He conceived and led Nortel’s program to outsource Research & Development to India in 1989, and was instrumental in expanding this capability over the following decade. .
Mr. Raha has been a visiting lecturer at Waterloo University (Ontario, Canada), a United Nations consultant to Brazil’s national telecommunications services company (TeleBras), and has held several executive positions with professional societies and charitable organizations. He was the Executive Director of the United Way of Palm Beach County, served on the Education Committee of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, and the government of Ontario officially recognized him for 10 years of volunteer service to the community.
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April 06 : Suresh Sharma
Executive Director, ICA Institute, Atlanta
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