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
- Panel I
- Business Services Overview - Offerings for Today and Tomorrow
- Coffee Break & Tabletop Exhibits
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- 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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