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Executive Retreat

Thursday, October 26th
  8:00am - 8:45am: Continental Breakfast

  8:45am - 9:00am:  Introductions 

  9:00am - 10:00am: The Psychology of Adoption: How New Technologies Get Absorbed -- or Rejected -- Within Organizations

Speakers:
Charlie Brenner, SVP, Fidelity Investments
Pete Conway, VP, Symmetrix Business and Product Operations, EMC
Anna Ewing, CIO and EVP of Operations and Technology, The Nasdaq Stock Market
Louis Gutierrez, CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Barry Morris, Chairman and CEO, Streambase Systems
Jit Saxena, CEO, Netezza

Moderator:
Scott Kirsner, Contributing writer at Wired and Fast Company; Editor of cinematech.blogspot.com

10:00am - 10:20am: Networking Break

10:20am - 11:20am: A Fireside Chat with Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian: Integrating, Securing, and Managing Open Source in the Corporate Environment

Moderator:
John Landry, Chairman and CTO, Adesso Systems

11:20am - 11:40am: Networking Break

11:40am - 12:40pm: Compliance and Technology: Navigating The Global Uncharted Waters

Speakers:
William Clegg, Executive Director, Ethics and Compliance, Textron 
Charles Gray, VP & General Counsel, Sonus Networks
Jo Hoppe, VP & CIO, Pegasystems
Roger Louis, Chief Compliance Officer, Vice President Healthcare and Regulatory Counsel, Genzyme 
William Wise, Chief Compliance and Business Ethics Officer, Analog Devices

Moderator:
Scott Cohen, Editor & Publisher, Compliance Week

12:40pm - 2:00pm: Lunch (Tupper Hall Estate)

Maverick Innovators
Speaker:
Bill Taylor, Bill Taylor, Author, "Mavericks at Work"; Founding editor, Fast Company

  2:00pm - 3:00pm: The Distributed Enterprise: Managing the Challenges of Mobile Employees, Far-Flung Outposts, and Home Workers 

Speakers:
Carol Campbell Beggs, VP, Technology, Sonesta International Hotels Corporation
Rick Broughton
, Director of IT Strategy, Dunkin' Brands
Joseph Ferra, Chief Wireless Officer, Fidelity e Business
Maribel Lopez, Vice President, Forrester Research
Roy Russell, Founding CTO, Zipcar

Moderator:
Gary Beach, Publisher, CIO Magazine

  3:00pm - 3:20pm: Networking Break

  3:20pm - 4:20pm: Demo Session: Five New Technologies from New England Start-ups

Speakers:
Yonald Chery, CEO, Calenova
Steven Kokinos, President and CEO, Thinking Phones
Rob Poor, PhD, CEO, Adozu 
Stephen Randall, CEO, LocaModa 
David Rose, CEO, Ambient Devices 

Moderator
Michael Greeley, Managing General Partner, IDG Ventures

For more information about topics or speaker suggestions, please e-mail scott@futureforward.com.