Details:

Date: Mar 23, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Spaces

Address: 124 Herengracht
  Amsterdam,  1078
  Netherlands

Fee: $10.00

Agenda:

18:00 Start
18:30 Tom's presentation
19:15 Q&A
19:45 Networking starts
21:00 End of Event

Description:

Learn from the CIO of the Decade - Tom Trainer

Tom will share from his experience as a CIO at many large corporations about what you can do to sell your technology to these global companies.

How do they select their suppliers?
What to do to get on the Preferred Supplier list?
How to combat the IBMs of this world and gain a piece of the corporations budget for your product.

Use the Q&A section of the session to ask questions. We're looking forward for a lively debate.

 

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Keynote Speaker: Tom Trainer - BIOGRAPHY

Throughout the course of his 36-year IT career, he has helped bring the likes of Citigroup, Eli Lilly and Company, Reebok International, and Joseph E. Seagram and Sons to the forefront of their respective industries. His long list of credentials include receipt of InformationWeek's CIO of the Year award for his IT stewardship of Reebok's global business process redesign, a tribute in CIO magazine's 10th anniversary issue as "Quintessential CIO" for his vision and leadership, and inclusion as a select member of specialized government task forces such as the President's Council for "United States Strategic Infrastructure in 21st Century" and the Institute for Strategic International Studies.

Mr. Trainer has served on customer advisory boards of Fortune 500 companies, aiding industry giants such as NCR Corporation and Computer Associates. In addition, he has helped found the Working Council for CIOs of the Advisory Board and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association CIO Forum.

Mr. Trainer lectures internationally on business and technology issues, having shared the agenda of 1998's "World Congress of Information Technology" with globally prominent leaders such as Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, Steve Forbes, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, and Scott McNealy. He is often featured in top business and trade publications including, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune, The Financial Times, CIO Magazine and InformationWeek, and has also been profiled on CBS's "American Edition" and CNBC's "Technology Edge" television broadcast programs.

 

Panel Member - Sebastian Kuntz:  Entrepreneur, turn around manager and (Advisory) Board member

Sebastian is the CEO of Facet Vision, a fast-growing company in the field of Video Conferencing, Intuitive Information, Communication and Entertainment . Sebastian is also Advisory Board member of several companies including Tripolis (Leading e-mail marketing software and delivery) and Koster Engineering (GIPS compliancy).

In his life before Facet Vision, Sebastian was CEO of NetEconomy which he sold in March 2007, following an earlier MBO. Before this, Bas was involved in various B2B and E-Commerce Companies, mostly in the Telco and IT industries.

 

Panel Member – Shahrooz Safarghandi:
 
During his study, Shahrooz started his first own IT company. Right now he is the CEO and director of IT Solution Partners (ITSP). He started this company when he was 25 years old. ITSP is a young and ambitious company since 2001 and offers a full range of IT Services to customers throughout the Netherlands. From managed and hosted services to training and consulting. The mission statement of ITSP is “Business supported by ICT”. In a few years the company will expand internationally. Right now the company exists of 110 employees

 

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