CTXS.....Industry Leading Speakers Slated for Worldwide ASP Conference Set for June 19-21 in New York
PARSIPPANY, N.J., June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The roster of speakers for The Phillips Group's Network Hosted Application Conference (NHAC) 2000 set for June 19-21 in New York City at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, was announced today.
The Phillips Group's June event kicks-off the company's worldwide series of conferences dealing with the high-growth application service provider (ASP) market.
``The Phillips Group is pleased to present this prestigious group of speakers at our ASP conference. The collective knowledge, experience and insight they will share with the conference audience is immeasurable,'' said David Laughland, senior executive officer of The Phillips Group (http://www.thephillipsgroup.net), the world's largest research and consulting firm dealing exclusively in the telecom industry.
The conference speakers will address the latest ASP news, issues, concerns and solutions through a variety of speeches, panel discussions, workshops and case studies, beginning on Tuesday, June 20.
The sessions and featured speakers include:
``Applications in the Network: Possible, Probable, Profitable?'' will be hosted by Teresa M. Vega, vice president, Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU - news). Sample topics will include programmable network vision and market opportunities for network applications.
Tuesday's Keynote address will be presented by Traver Gruen-Kennedy, senior executive officer, Citrix systems, Inc, (Nasdaq: CTXS - news), and chairman of the ASP Consortium. Gruen-Kennedy will speak about demand for applications in the network and the cost effectiveness of these business solutions and infrastructure developments that will enable network applications.
``The Next Generation Broadband Applications'' workshop will be led by John C. Charters, president and CEO of Qwest Cyber.Solutions LLC (NYSE: Q - news). Subjects addressed in this workshop include next generation applications the telecommunications and computing evolution.
``Delivering Future Applications'' panel discussion will be headed by Cameron Chell, chairman & CEO of Chell.com and Founder of FutureLink (Nasdaq: FTRL - news). Participating panelists include Charters, Gruen-Kennedy and Vega.
``The Business of Hosting Network Applications'' workshop will feature industry participants William C. Dering, ASP research analyst from C.E. Unterberg, Towbin, Charles Smith-Semedo, founder chairman & chief executive officer of New Media Technology Corporation and Tom Watts, managing director of Merrill Lynch (Amex: MLN - news), will examine business models and venture capitalists' criteria.
A case study, ``Network hosted Applications LIVE!'' will be hosted by Christopher R. McCleary, chairman & CEO of USinternetworking, Inc (Nasdaq: USIX - news). Sample topics will include business model employed and executed and how ASP's deliver service to its customers.
``What do enterprise Customers Want from Network Applications?'' will be hosted by Leo Massarani, chief technical strategist of IBM Net Generation Business (NYSE: IBM - news). He will analyze guaranteed quality of service to meet enterprise customers demands and roll-out applications to maximize a competitive advantage.
``End-Users Requirements: The Application Blue Print'' will be led by Martin F. McDermott III, executive vice president, marketing services at KMC Telecom. McDermott will discuss how to increase customer satisfaction and extending market reach through application hosting.
``Inventing Next Generation Applications'' will be hosted by Gayle P. Howard, Director, Strategic Development, IP Hosted Applications of Sprint (NYSE: FON - news). This workshop will explore topics including opportunities for wired and wireless networks and the roles for application developers, systems integrators and value added resellers.
A panel discussion, ``Delivering Applications that Meet End Users Needs'' will feature Alice O'Rourke, Executive Director of New York New Media Association (NYNMA), and Monty Sharma, Vice President, Service Provider Networks of Novell (Nasdaq: NOVL - news). Also included on this panel will be Mike Giles, chief technology officer of Portera Systems.
``Next Generation Applications: Opportunities for Network Service Providers'' will be spearheaded by Roger J. Pilc, vice president and general manager, Internet & hosting services of Winstar Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: WCII - news). This discussion will center on the impact of reduced bandwidth costs in next generation networks and how network providers design and implement applications to meet the response times demanded by end-users.
``Deploying Applications in an Existing Network'' with Ed C. Frankenberg, vice president of PSINet Ventures (Nasdaq: PSIX - news), will delve into issues including how enterprises will extend their capacity and introduce new IT functions quickly and cost effectively and potential new (and profitable) revenue streams for global telecom service providers.
The sessions continue on Wednesday, June 21 with:
``The Future Internet Impact Resulting from Network Hosted Applications'' hosted by Richard Mandelbaum, chairman of the board & chief executive officer of AppliedTheory Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHY - news). Mandelbaum will examine the Internet advancing applications and the major applications developed for the Internet.
``Options for Network Architecture'' with Brian C. Noel, vice president North American sales of Level 3 Communications (Nasdaq: LVLT - news), will address standards that affect the development of network hosted applications and the implementation of applications in packet networks, circuit switched networks and Hybrid networks.
Sandford S. Brown, vice president, data and Internet services of AT&T (NYSE: T - news), will lead ``The Networks of the Future for Hosting Applications'' which will look at cable TV networks and how they will host network applications.
``Retail Applications in the Network'' is a case study that will be presented by Mimi Brooks, president and CEO of Logical Design Solutions. Issues examined in this session will include transaction applications requiring seamless operations.
A panel discussion entitled, ``The Long Range Future of Network Hosted Applications'' will be moderated by Anne Thomas Manes, director, software products and platforms business strategy of Sun Microsystems (NYSE: SUNW - news) and will address the network hosted applications industry overall and major network technology advances that will drive application development.
Two recent additions to the speaker list include Robert Verdun, chief executive officer of CFI and Tim Steele of Tundo.
The conference hosted by The Phillips Group will allow participants to exchange information, experience and gain insight into development of network hosted applications for technology providers and telecommunications carriers.
The conference sessions will also include networking opportunity with potential partners, case studies from companies involved in successful networked application deployment and an inside look at how investors evaluate which corporate marriages will make it and which won't.
ASP's are service firms that deploy, host, implement, manage and support applications from a central data center across a wide-area network, such as the Internet or leased lines. End-users access these applications remotely and usually pay for them on a per-month basis. |
