Agenda

New York | Los Angeles | Chicago

8:00 am - 2:30 pm

Registration & Continental Breakfast

Meet and Network with Your Colleagues

Welcome Address

Host: Nan Chen, President, MEF

Keynote Address

The Collaboration Economy and a New Era in Business Communications

Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams (respectively CEO and VP of the New Paradigms think tank) coauthored Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything – described by Tom Peters as "Must read #1, 2007—period. This is a breathtaking piece of work." Don, an enthralling and inspired orator, is an internationally renowned authority on the strategic value and impact of information technology, while Anthony’s seven models of mass collaboration provide a myriad ways to harness external knowledge, resources, and talent for greater competitiveness. How can businesses tap the full potential of the emerging networked economy and what is really needed to exploit the flexibility, cost savings and quality of service that Carrier Ethernet offers?

Case Study I

The Real Business Benefits of Carrier Ethernet

Alla Reznik from Verizon Business will be discussing the current business challenges faced by the enterprise market today and the benefits of using an Ethernet Solution. She will then provide an overview of Verizon Business’s award winning Ethernet Services portfolio. Doug Duquette, EVP/CTO from Trading Technologies, Inc., will be joining Alla to give us an overview of Trading Technologies and how the electronic financial markets are the new “killer app” for Ethernet services.

Alla Reznik is a Senior Manager with Verizon Business responsible for Ethernet services - including Ethernet Access, Global Ethernet and Enterprise EVPL service - for large business customers. In this position, she is responsible for the marketing, strategic positioning, and life cycle management of these products. Ms. Reznik has more than a decade of experience in the telecommunications field. She began her career with MCI (now Verizon Business) eight years ago leading product marketing and development efforts for ISDN, Access, DSL, Secure Gateway, IP VPN, Private Line and Optical services and, most recently, Ethernet and VPLS. Before joining MCI in 1997, Ms. Reznik worked at AT&T International in Washington, DC in the capacity of Business Development manager where she promoted AT&T’s business with foreign governments. Prior to starting her career in telecommunications, Ms. Reznik worked at the World Bank.

Doug Duquette serves as the EVP/CTO of Trading Technologies, Inc (TT). TT is the premier provider of professional electronic trading platforms worldwide. It is estimated that more than 50% of electronic futures volume goes through TT systems on a daily basis. Doug’s responsibilities include serving as head of product design and engineering, global support services, and TT’s premier high performance global hosting solution TTNET. TTNET is the next generation of global electronic trading infrastructure. TTNET consists of globally dispersed regional data centers, connected by multi-gigabit fiber backbones, extended by redundant Ethernet reaching out to end user premises. Although his responsibilities are wide-ranging, he approaches his work with a simple goal: optimize system performance for the trader. Doug is also a veteran electronic trader and developer of software and hardware technologies. He also has vast experience building, optimizing, and maintaining a multi-exchange infrastructure. Doug brings a unique combination of deep technical skills and extensive electronic trading experience to the role, which helps him understand, design and apply technology from the trader’s perspective.

Panel I

Ethernet for Mission-Critical Applications Globally: Enterprise & SP Perspectives

Coffee Break & Tabletop Exhibits

 

Case Study II

The ROI for Carrier Ethernet

Panel II

US & Global Ethernet Services Availability

Case Study III

Carrier Ethernet Migration Strategies

Closing Address

Host: Mike Tighe, Chairman MEF

Lunch and Tabletop Exhibits

Complimentary Lunch is Served and Sponsor Exhibits Open

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