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Monday, September 29, 2008
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| 8:30AM |
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Registration/Breakfast/ Showcase Exhibits
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| 9:15 AM |
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Welcome Remarks |
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Esther D'Amico, Managing Editor, Chemical Week |
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| 9:20 AM |
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Emerging Tech Trends and Innovation
What are the top trends that IT professionals should keep an eye on? How will they affect IT in the chemical industry? This presentation will explore these trends and give an example of how a chemical company has been innovative in employing IT. |
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Charles Wallace, Chief Executive Director and Chief Technology Architect, Global IT Architecture & Infrastructure, Rohm & Haas |
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| 9:50 AM |
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Intellectual Property Protection
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Michael Boster, CIO, Vertellus Specialties |
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| 10:20 AM |
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Empower Your People to Drive Busines Success
After a decade of reengineering, redesigning, and automating, chemical companies are now looking to their most critical resource – their people – to produce improvements and deliver profits. This session looks at ways chemical companies can innovate off their IT foundation to enable their people to improve operations, drive corporate performance, accelerate innovation, and strengthen customer relationships.
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Brian Willson, Chemical Industry Director, Microsoft |
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| 10:50 AM |
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Networking Refreshments/Showcase Exhibits |
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| 11:10 AM |
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Panel Discussion
Outsourcing: Hot or Not
Chemical companies have a bigger pool to choose from—both domestically and abroad--when it comes to IT outsourcing, from service vendors offering desktop management and network maintenance, to hosted services for sales and other functions. Given so many options, as well as concerns such as security and loss of control, what are the latest chemical industry trends when it comes to outsourcing any part of IT?
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Panelists: Rick Bushnell, VP, Elemica; Kenneth Taormina, Senior VP/Global Manufacturing Solutions, Satyam Computer Services; Vinod Swami, VP/Operations, Cognizant |
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| 11:55 AM |
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Regulatory Compliance
The chemical industry is one of the most heavily regulated industries, and pressure continues to mount. What are the regulatory pressures? How does this impact IT strategies? |
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| Lee Braem, Senior Corporate Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Evonik Degussa Corporation |
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| 12:25 PM |
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Networking Luncheon
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| 2:00 PM |
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Panel Discussion
Pricing Forecast: More Complex Than Ever
Chemical companies have their work cut out for them when it comes to budgeting and forecasting pricing in the current era of extreme volatility and continued climb in energy and commodity prices. What is available to facilitate the planning process in these difficult times?
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Panelists: Maarten Oosten, Senior Director/Science and Research, PROS Pricing; Thomas Young, Director/CRM Customer Value Network, SAP Americas
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| 2:40 PM |
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| Networking Refreshments/Showcase Exhibits |
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| 3:00 PM |
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Knowledge Management
How is IT helping to prioritize information and knowledge management? What are the growing threats to digital IP? What can a company do to better protect itself?
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Andrea Kirk, Manager/Knowledge Center, Rohm & Haas |
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| 3:30 PM |
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Supply Chain Optimization |
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Albert W. Opher, Partner, Supply Chain Management, IBM Global Business Services; Arthur J. Brohinsky, Executive Vice President, SmartOps Corporation |
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| 4:00 PM |
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IT in a World of Globalization and Consolidation
As M&A activity among chemical companies continues, and the industry becomes an increasingly global one, how does a company successfully integrate IT functions across organizations and across borders?
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David Kepler, Executive Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer, CIO, Corporate Director of Shared Services, Dow Chemical |
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| 4:30 PM |
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Chemical Week’s 2008 CIO of the Year Award Reception
The CIO Excellence Award recognizes Chief Information Officers for innovative and creative planning and deployment of their enterprise systems, exemplary leadership and management, and service to his/her organization and the industry. |
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