The Silicon Valley Challenge Summit BiosAkhtar Badshah
A doctoral graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Badshah serves on the Advisory Board for the Development Gateway Project of the World Bank, World Links India, World Corp., Teachers Without Borders and Datamation Foundation India. He has co-edited "Connected for Development - Information Kiosks for Sustainability," and authored "Our Urban Future: New Paradigms for Equity and Sustainability" and several articles in international journals on megacities and sustainability, urban and community development, and housing. Ned BarnholtChairman Emeritus, Former Chairman, President and CEO, Agilent TechnologiesEdward W. (Ned) Barnholt is chairman emeritus of Agilent Technologies and the company's former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. He was responsible for guiding Agilent through its spin-off from Hewlett-Packard Company in 1999, and helped to shape a corporate culture widely recognized as best in class on a global basis. Mr. Barnholt joined HP in 1966 in the company's former Microwave Division, applying engineering and business expertise to positions that successively included research-and-development engineer, marketing engineer and product manager. In 1973, he became product marketing manager for the Stanford Park Division, and then marketing manager for the Santa Clara Division in 1976. In 1980, he was promoted to general manager of the Spokane, Wash., Division for the Microwave and Communications Group, and then to general manager of the Electronic Instruments Group in 1984. Mr. Barnholt was elected as vice president in 1988, and in 1990 was appointed general manager of the Test and Measurement Organization. His appointments to senior vice president and then executive vice president followed in 1993 and 1996. He was named president and chief executive officer of Agilent Technologies in March 1999 and was announced as the chairman of the Board of Directors in November 2002. Mr. Barnholt retired from his posts on March 1, 2005. Mr. Barnholt received both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is a director of KLA-Tencor Corporation. Barnholt also serves on the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Advisory Committee (LCAC). Craig R. BarrettChairman of the Board, Intel Corporation Craig R. Barrett became Chairman of the Board of Intel Corporation on May 18, 2005. He became Intel’s fourth President in May of 1997 and Chief Executive Officer in 1998. He was elected to Intel’s Board of Directors in 1992 and served as Chief Operating Officer from 1993 to 1997. Dr. Barrett began his tenure at Intel as a Technology Development manager in 1974. Prior to joining Intel, Dr. Barrett was an Associate Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Barrett is a recent appointee to the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations and to the American Health Information Community (AHIC). He is a member of the National Academies Committee on Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century: An Agenda for American Science and Technology co-chairman of the Business Coalition for Excellence in Education, a member of the Board of Trustees for the U.S. Council for International Business and co-chair of the National Innovation Initiative Leadership Council. As chair of the National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Barrett promotes the Academy and its policies to the engineering community and the public. Dr. Barrett is also a member of the Board of Directors for Intel Corporation, the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association, the National Forest Foundation, Achieve, and TechNet. Radha BasuChairman of the Board, SupportSoft
Professionally, she served a 20-year tenure as general manager for Hewlett Packard’s international software division. Radha joined SupportSoft as CEO in July 1999 and is considered a pioneer of the support automation market having built SupportSoft into a global market leader in support automation software, with customers, including GE, Cisco Systems, Bank of America, BellSouth, Procter & Gamble, IBM, Comcast, Verizon, BT and Airtel. In addition to the guidance and inspiration she provides others on a daily basis, Radha has had significant impact on two groups during her career. First is the Indian software industry. In the mid-1980s, she developed HP’s software center in Radha recently retired from her role as CEO and along with her husband Dipak founded the Anudip Foundation to fund humanitarian projects. Their first project - the Radha, and her husband Dipak, have trekked on Geoffrey C. BowkerExecutive Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society and Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor, Santa Clara University Geoffrey C. Bowker is Executive Director, Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor, Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University. He has written with Leigh Star a book on the history and sociology of medical classifications (Sorting Things Out: Classification and Practice - published by MIT Press in September 1999). This book looks at the classification of nursing work, diseases, viruses and race. His recent book, entitled Memory Practices in the Sciences about formal and informal recordkeeping in science over the past two hundred years, which includes extensive discussion of biodiversity informatics, was published by MIT Press in 2006. More information, including a number of publications and links to current research can be found at his website: http://epl.scu.edu/~gbowker. Paul BraundExecutive Director, RiOS Institute Paul Braund is Executive Director and co-founder of RiOS Institute. Currently, he is completing a book, Worlds By Design. He has spent 20 years working in technology research and development in Silicon Valley, and has consulted with startups and MNCs such as Intel, Apple, Motorola, 3M, and ATT, and government agencies such as the EPA and NASA. However, his favorite work is in education, for which he was awarded an Environmental Pathfinder Award. He has a undergraduate honours degree in Industrial Design Engineering and an MA/MPhil from the Royal College, London focusing on HCI (Human-Computer Interaction). His thesis title was Technology Design in the Next Economy. Paul has spent the past five years working on social development and finding appropriate technology transfers for developing countries, particularly in communications technology. He has supported and represented the UN/World Bank at conferences and various fact-finding trips and workshops in developing countries, while maintaining independent work with numerous NGOs, small community groups and academic institutions who are helping to bring more human-centered innovations to development. Eric BrewerProfessor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley Dr. Brewer focuses on all aspects of Internet-based systems, including technology, strategy, and government. As a researcher, he has led projects on scalable servers, search engines, network infrastructure, sensor networks, and security. His current focus in (high) technology for developing regions, with projects in Cambodia, India, Ghana, Mexico, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh (so far), and including communications, health, education, and e-government. In 1996, he co-founded Inktomi Corporation with a Berkeley grad student based on their research prototype, and helped lead it onto the Nasdaq 100 before it was bought by Yahoo! in March 2003. In 2000, he founded the Federal Search Foundation, a 501-3(c) organization focused on improving consumer access to government information. Working with President Clinton, Dr. Brewer helped to create FirstGov.gov, the official portal of the Federal government, which launched in September 2000.He received an MS and Ph.D. in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley. He was named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum, by the Industry Standard as the "most influential person on the architecture of the Internet", by InfoWorld as one of their top ten innovators, by Technology Review as one of the top 100 most influential people for the 21st century (the "TR100"), and by Forbes as one of their 12 "e-mavericks", for which he appeared on the cover. John Seely BrownFormer Chief Scientist and Director, Xerox PARC, CSTS Advisory Board Member John Seely Brown was the Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation until April 2002 and was also the director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) until June 2000-a position he held for twelve years. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, complex adaptive systems, micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) and NANO technology. His personal research interests include digital culture, ubiquitous computing, web service architectures and organizational and individual learning. Dr. Brown is a member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and of AAAS, and a Trustee of Brown University and the MacArthur Foundation. He serves on numerous boards of directors (Corning, Polycom, Varian Medical Systems) and advisory boards. He has published over 100 papers in scientific journals and was awarded the Harvard Business Review's 1991 McKinsey Award for his article, "Research that Reinvents the Corporation" and again in 2002 for his article (with John Hagel) "Your next IT strategy." In 1997 he published the book Seeing Differently: Insights on Innovation (Harvard Business Review Books). He was an executive producer for the award winning film "Art · Lunch · Internet · Dinner," which won a bronze medal at Worldfest 1994, the Charleston International Film Festival. He received the 1998 Industrial Research Institute Medal for outstanding accomplishments in technological innovation and the 1999 Holland Award in recognition of the best paper published in Research Technology Management in 1998. With Paul Duguid he co-authored the acclaimed book The Social Life of Information (HBS Press, 2000) that has been translated into 9 languages with a second addition in April 2002. Manuel Castells
Mr. Castells is the author of 22 books and over 100 articles in academic journals. His seminal trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture, now in its second edition, has been translated into 19 languages. His most recent books are The Internet Galaxy and The Network Society: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.
As a keynote speaker at the Silicon Valley Challenge Summit, Mr. Castells will combine his insights into global technology innovations and social analysis of current development models with his in-depth knowledge of Silicon Valley and the high-tech industry to situate ICT and development in a broader context Bill Coleman
Mr. Coleman has more than 30 years of corporate and entrepreneurial leadership experience. Prior to Cassatt, he founded and was the first chairman and CEO of BEA Systems, the world's leading infrastructure software company. Under his leadership, BEA became the fastest software firm ever to exceed $1 billion in annual revenue. Before BEA, he served as vice president of system software at Sun Microsystems, where his team transformed SunOS into the commercially successful Solaris operating system. While at Sun he also founded Sun's Professional Services Division and co-founded Sun's Federal Division. Earlier he co-founded Dest Systems as head of engineering. Prior to that, he was director of product development at VisiCorp and manager of the high frequency systems group at GTE Sylvania. He began his career in the U.S. Air Force where he served as chief of satellite operations in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force. Mr. Coleman holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from Stanford University. He also has an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado. Mr. Coleman is a member of the boards of directors of Symantec Corporation and Palm, Inc; he is also the Chairman of the Board of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, a Commissioner of the Trilateral Commission, and a member of the advisory board of the Stanford School of Engineering. Bill DavidowFounding Partner, MDV (Mohr Davidow Ventures),Bill Davidow has been a high-technology industry executive and a venture investor for more than 30 years. Mr. Davidow continues as an active advisor to MDV. He is the author of Marketing High Technology and a co-author of Total Customer Service and The Virtual Corporation. While at Intel Corporation, Mr. Davidow served as senior vice president of marketing and sales, vice president of the microcomputer division and vice president of the microcomputer systems division. Prior to Intel Corporation, Mr. Davidow worked in various managerial positions at Hewlett Packard and General Electric. Mr. Davidow's community involvement extends to serving on the boards of California Institute of Technology, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He also sits on the UCSF Medical Center Executive Council and the Santa Fe Institute Board of Trustees. Doug EngelbartFounder and Director, Bootstrap Institute, CSTS Advisory Board Member Doug Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute founder and Director, has an unparalleled 30-year track record in predicting, designing, and implementing the future of organizational computing. From his early vision of turning organizations into augmented knowledge workshops, he went on to pioneer what is now known as collaborative hypermedia, knowledge management, community networking, and organizational transformation. Well-known technological firsts include the mouse, display editing, windows, cross-file editing, outline processing, hypermedia, and groupware. Integrated prototypes were in full operation under the NLS system, as early as 1968. In the last decade of its continued evolution, thousands of users have benefited from its unique team support capabilities. After 20 years directing his own lab at SRI, and 11 years as senior scientist, first at Tymshare, and then at McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Mr. Engelbart founded the Bootstrap Institute, where he is working closely with industry and government stakeholders to launch a collaborative implementation of his work. Engelbart has received numerous awards for outstanding lifetime achievement and ingenuity. His life's work, with his "big-picture" vision and persistent pioneering breakthroughs, has made a significant impact on the past, present, and future of personal, interpersonal, and organizational computing. James R. Fruchterman
S. GopalakrishnanPresident, Chief Operating Officer and Joint Managing Director, Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INFY) S. Gopalakrishnan (called Kris by his colleagues) is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited, a highly respected Consulting, IT services and Business Process Management company operating in the global market. He has played a key role at Infosys in defining the company strategy and in using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership of the industry. Kris obtained M.Sc. (Physics) in 1977 and M. Tech. (Computer Science) in 1979, both from IIT, Madras. He started his career with Patni Computer Systems (PCS), Mumbai as a Software Engineer in 1979 and quickly rose to become an Assistant Project Manager by 1981. His seminal contribution during his stint at PCS was the development of a distributed process control system for controlling the LD converters at Rourkela Steel Plant. In 1981, Kris, along with N.R. Narayana Murthy and five others, founded Infosys Technologies Limited. The initial years of his responsibility at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the US. During 1987-1994 he headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, USA) as Vice President (Technical). In 1994, Kris returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the company. In April 2002 he was appointed as Chief operating officer and since August 2006 is also the President and Joint Managing Director of the Company. His responsibilities include Customer Services, Technology, Investments and Acquisitions. Kris is also the Chairperson of Infosys Consulting, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys Technologies Limited. Kris is currently the Chairman of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and Vice Chairman of the Information Technology Education Standards Board (BITES) set up by Karnataka Government. He is on the board of directors of National Internet Exchange of India. He is also the Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Karnataka Region. He is a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society. Sarbuland KhanExecutive Coordinator, Global Alliance for ICT and Development, United Nations
Sarbuland Khan is the Executive Coordinator of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development. Prior to this assignment Mr. Khan was the Director for the Office for ECOSOC Support and Coordination of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Mr. Khan directed the preparation of the Ministerial meeting of the Economic and Social Council on ICT for development and has been responsible for its follow-up and the establishment of the United Nations Information and Communication Technology Task Force. Among his twenty-four years of professional experience within the United Nations, he has held positions as the Branch Chief for the Policy Coordination and Interagency Affairs, Chief for the Office of the Under-Secretary-General of the Department for International Economic and Social Affairs, and Special Assistant to Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Decolonization. From 1979 to 1981, he served as delegate of Pakistan to the General Assembly of ECOSOC. Prior to joining the United Nations, Mr. Khan was the Director for the Economic Coordination in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, and served in embassies in Morocco, Brussels and The Hague. From 1967 to 1969, Mr. Khan was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics in Punjab University of Lahore and staff Economist at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics in 1966-67. Mr. Khan has a Masters degree in economics, a post-graduate diploma in International Economic Relations from the institute for Social Studies, The Hague. He has authored a number of publications and various articles in economics for books, journals, newspapers and magazines. James L. Koch
He serves on the editorial board for Health Care Management Review. His research and consulting focus on socio-technical systems and high performance organizations. His current work examines information technology and organizational change, social capital, and the psychological sense of community, and the role of technology in improving the quality of life in developing nations. Paul Locatelli, S.J.President and Professor of Accounting, Santa Clara UniversityPaul Locatelli, S.J., president of Santa Clara University since 1988, has written or spoken on topics ranging from service-learning in accounting, Jesuit education in a globalizing world, educating for justice, Catholic education in the 21st century, globalization: integration and solidarity, to the role of the teaching scholar. Currently, he serves on a number of boards including the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, the Council of Presidents of the Association of Governing Boards, and the Society of Jesus International Committee for Jesuit Higher Education. Among his awards are the 1994 Distinguished Professor of the Year by the California Society of CPAs, in 2005, the Distinguished Service award from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Santa Clara Valley, the Exemplary Community Leadership Award from the National Conference of Community and Justice/Silicon Valley chapter, and the Spirit of Silicon Valley Lifetime Achievement Award from the Silicon Valley Leadership Group. Father Locatelli previously served as Academic Vice President and Associate Dean of Business at Santa Clara as well as a member of the Accounting faculty. He received a baccalaureate degree from Santa Clara, Doctorate of Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1971, and a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley in 1974. He became a Jesuit in 1962 and was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1974. Jeffrey A. Miller
James C. MorganChairman, Applied Materials, Inc.
Mr. Morgan is a recipient of the 1996 National Medal of Technology for his industry leadership and for his vision in building Applied Materials into the world's leading semiconductor equipment company, a major exporter and a global technology pioneer which helps enable the Information Age. Awarded by the President of the United States, the Medal of Technology recognizes technological innovators who have made lasting contributions to America's competitiveness and standard of living. Paul MountfordPresident, Emerging Markets, Cisco Systems Ltd. Paul Mountford is President of Emerging Markets for Cisco Systems. Mr. Mountford is responsible for developing and executing the company's go-to-market strategies to drive growth in four regions: Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Africa, and Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Mr. Mountford is well known for his creative solutions to business issues. In fact, as Cisco SVP of Worldwide Channels, from 2001 through 2005, he created an innovative approach to Cisco's go-to-market with its channels, evolving the company's business model to drive partner profitability for mutual success. This team effort resulted in Cisco being designated the best partner program in the IT Industry as voted by channel partners. Prior to taking over WW Channels, Mr. Mountford played a pivotal role in the development and execution of a very successful sales and marketing strategy for EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa ). His accomplishments include being the first to secure a $100-million-month outside the United States, the first to create complementary marketing and channel strategy for his region and the first to develop and implement an extensive Government Affairs Program. Mr. Mountford joined Cisco in 1996 as managing director of the United Kingdom and Ireland where in three years he helped propel the annual revenue run rate from $160 million to $1.4 billion, catapulting this region from Cisco's fifth largest to the largest market outside the United States. In 1998 he was promoted to vice president of the UK and Ireland and was awarded EMEA Vice President of the Year. In 1999 he was again promoted to vice president Service Provider Line of Business EMEA where he more than doubled the service provider infrastructure business. In 2000 he was promoted to Vice President of PTT1 in EMEA. The PTT1 sales team was recognized in 2000 as the top performing sales team in EMEA and in August of 2001 Mr. Mountford was awarded Vice President of the Year for the Service Provider Group. Mr. Mountford brings over 20-years of Information Technology industry experience to Cisco. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Mountford owned a channel development consultancy where he helped US-based companies develop successful channel strategies for successfully entering international markets. Mr. Mountford has also held several key sales positions at Azlan, Retix, Arix Systems and Norsk Data. Djordjija Petkoski
Dr. Petkoski received MPA at Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Zagreb, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at the University of Belgrade. Paul SaffoMr. Saffo is a forecaster and strategist with over two decades experience exploring long-term technological change and its practical impact on business and society. A Director and Roy Amara Fellow at Institute For The Future. Mr.Saffo is Chairman of the Samsung Science Board, and serves on a variety of other boards including the Long Now Foundation, as well as the boards of several public and pre-public companies located the United States and abroad. In 2006, he was appointed a Consulting Associate Professor in the Stanford's School of Engineering and is also a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Mr. Saffo has served as an advisor and Forum Fellow to the World Economic Forum, which in the late 1990s named Mr. Saffo one of its "100 Global Leaders For Tomorrow." Paul's essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Business 2.0, Fortune, The Harvard Business Review, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The New York Times and the Washington Post and Wired. Paul holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. AnnaLee Saxenian
Anke SchwittayDirector of Research, RiOS Institute Anke Schwittay is the co-founder and Director of Research of RiOS Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. Anke has ample research experiences in developing countries, especially in Latin America. Her most recent work examines the participation of multinational high-tech corporations in the ICT+D area, through a multi-year ethnographic study of Hewlett-Packard’s e-Inclusion program in Silicon Valley, Costa Rica and India. Anke has worked as a researcher with the Institute for the Future, a Silicon Valley independent research organization forecasting emerging trends in technology, healthcare and business. She also consulted with the World Bank Institute’s Business, Competitiveness and Development group. In that capacity, she started the group’s India program and organized and implemented several global e-conferences. Dan Shine
Jim SpohrerDirector, IBM Almaden Research CenterJames Spohrer is a research scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he manages the User Experience/Human Computer Interaction Research Group. He received a B.S. degree in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978, and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Yale University in 1987. From 1978 to 1982, he developed speech recognition technology at Verbex, an Exxon Enterprises company. From 1989 to 1998, he led learning technology and authoring tools projects at Apple's Advanced Technology Group (ATG), and received Apple's Distinguished Scientist award. Dr. Spohrer has published broadly in the areas of empirical studies of programmers, artificial intelligence, authoring tools, on-line learning communities, intelligent tutoring systems and student modeling, speech recognition, and new paradigms in using computers. He has also helped to found two nonprofit Web sites: The Educational Object Economy and WorldBoard: A Planetary Infrastructure for Associating Information with Places. Bess StephensVice President & Global Director, Philanthropy and Education, Hewlett-Packard Company Bess Stephens is Vice President of HP Corporate Philanthropy and Executive Director of the HP Company Foundation. She directs more than $45 million worth of giving made by HP and the Foundation to improve communities around the world. HP’s philanthropy and education programs are directed at providing people access to social and economic opportunity through the benefits of technology. Stephens also oversees HP’s employee charitable-giving programs and strategic partnerships. Stephens is a 1996 graduate of the Executive Development Program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. She holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Tuskegee University, as well as a Master of Arts in teaching chemistry and an Education Specialist Degree from Vanderbilt University. In 2005, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science Degree from Tuskegee University. In 2002, Stephens was named one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s Most Influential African-Americans. She received the 1999 Black Engineer of the Year Award for her leadership in Corporate Promotion of Education and is a frequently invited speaker at business, education and philanthropy conferences. |
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