Keynote Speakers
At Interop Las Vegas 2009, attendees heard from industry leaders with unique perspectives on business technology. Here are the videos.
Tuesday, May 19th
8:30am — 10:00am
The IT landscape is being transformed at a remarkable pace, and customers who most successfully gain value from their technology investments are the ones who realize that no single company can provide solutions to all their IT needs, and know how to link their IT investment to their business goals.
Ann Livermore and Marius Haas will address market-disrupting factors on the IT horizon and outline their thoughts on the next steps of the industry's evolution.
Ann Livermore
Executive Vice President, Technology Solutions Group
Hewlett-Packard Company
Ann Livermore leads HP's Technology Solutions Group (TSG), an approximately $41B business. TSG encompasses storage and servers, software and services, including EDS, HP's outsourcing business. The products and services from this organization serve HP's business customers of all sizes in more than 170 countries.
For more than two decades, Livermore has been involved with building solutions to help customers manage and transform their technology environments to optimize business outcomes. She joined HP in 1982, and held a variety of management positions in marketing, sales, research and development, and business management before being elected a corporate vice president in 1995. 
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Marius Haas
Senior Vice President and General Manager,
HP ProCurve Networking
Hewlett-Packard Company
Marius Haas is senior vice president and general manager of the ProCurve Networking business. He oversees the group's worldwide operations, with a focus on expanding its position as a leading networking supplier in the market.
Previously, Haas served as senior vice president of strategy and corporate development for HP. In that role, he led initiatives that focused on improving efficiency and driving growth, including the execution and integration of all acquisitions since 2004. He also oversaw the company's strategic planning process, new business incubation and strategic alliances. View more
Dr. Stephen Herrod
CTO
VMware
Virtualization - The Path to Cloud Computing
To break the trend of ever-decreasing flexibility, combined with ever-increasing costs, a new model for IT services is beginning to emerge - cloud computing. The approach is simply to extrapolate applications and information from the complexity of underlying infrastructure, so IT can focus on the support and enablement of business value. To enable this advancement, a new software substrate leveraging the benefits of virtualization is emerging - the cloud operating system. VMware, working in concert with industry leaders, is leading the charge for a more open approach to cloud computing, that bridges today's application needs with tomorrow's.
Bio:
Dr. Stephen Herrod, Chief Technology Officer Stephen Herrod is responsible for VMware's new technologies and technology collaborations with customers, partners and standards groups. View More:
Enterprise Cloud Summit Keynotes
Tuesday, May, 19th
1:00pm — 2:30pm
Russ Daniels
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Services Strategy,
Hewlett-Packard Company
Russ Daniels is vice president and chief technology officer of Cloud Services Strategy at HP. In this role, he sets the overarching business and technology strategies for HP's approach to the cloud.
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Vishal Sikka
Chief Technology Officer,
SAP
Dr. Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of SAP, leads the company’s technology and innovation strategy across its product portfolio. Vishal is responsible for ensuring a clear and harmonized road map for SAP products to deliver ongoing innovation and long-term value to customers worldwide. Furthermore, Vishal leads the company’s forward-thinking efforts around emerging technologies using design thinking to build SAP next generation products. He is responsible for SAP’s global research efforts and is chartered with SAP’s architecture governance and standards.
Prior to his role as CTO, Vishal was the senior vice president of architecture and chief software architect at SAP, responsible for the road map and the direction for the architecture of SAP's products and infrastructure. Before that, he was head of the advanced technology group responsible for strategic innovative projects.
Before joining SAP, Vishal was area vice president for platform technologies at Peregrine Systems (Remedy), responsible for application development and integration technologies and architecture. He joined Peregrine following the acquisition of Bodha, Inc., where he was founder and chairman/CEO. Bodha developed technology for non-invasive, service-based integration of enterprise applications and for semantic information integration.
Vishal holds a doctoral degree in computer science from Stanford University in California, and his experience includes research in automatic programming, information and application integration, and artificial intelligence at Stanford, at Xerox Labs in Palo Alto, and at two startup companies.
Vishal reports to SAP Co-CEO Léo Apotheker and is based in SAP Labs Palo Alto, United States.
Ric Telford
Vice President, IBM Cloud Services
Ric Telford's professional business career highlights 25 years of product and service development experience and is noted for bringing innovative approaches to the design and development of key technologies. During his tenure at IBM, Telford has played a number of key roles in various software and service initiatives for IBM, including e-mail and document management, networking, security software, systems management, and IT infrastructure services.
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Wednesday, May 20th
8:30am — 10:00am
John McAdam
President and Chief Executive Officer
F5 Networks
IT drives competitive advantage. You need an IT infrastructure that delivers agility, empowering you to dynamically adapt to the business and technology changes affecting the applications, data, and people you depend on. John McAdam will elaborate on architecting intelligent points of control within your network to better leverage current resources, reduce costs and optimize IT agility.
Bio:
John McAdam has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of F5 Networks, as well as on the board of directors, since July 2000. Just after his arrival at F5, McAdam successfully navigated the company through the turbulent post-dot-com era, bringing F5 to profitability and positioning it for further growth. During his tenure at F5, McAdam has grown the company's annual revenue from $108.6 million to over $650 million. He has overseen numerous successful acquisitions, guiding F5 into new and adjacent markets that build on the company's Application Delivery Networking solution offerings. Under his leadership, F5 has been named the "Best Company to Work for in Seattle" and identified by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 25 hottest tech stocks. Prior to joining F5, McAdam served as General Manager of the Web server sales business at IBM. From January 1995 until August 1999, he was President and Chief Operating Officer of Sequent Computer Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of high-end open systems, which was sold to IBM in September 1999. McAdam holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Stefan Öberg
GM and VP
Skype for Business
The Future of Modern Business Communications
Just a few years ago, Gartner called the consumerization of IT the “most significant trend” to affect the industry during the next 10 years. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ways in which companies of all sizes and their employees are using communications tools – both in their offices and on the go. Savvy businesses that are looking to save money and time and stay ahead of their competition are increasingly able to derive greater value from consumer-grade technology, especially as these solutions evolve over time to better serve the business market in terms of usability, availability, reliability and manageability.
Bio:
Stefan Öberg is responsible for Skype's Telecom and Desktop products, Skype Hardware and for Usability across all Skype product lines. Skype Desktop products include the flagship Windows product as well as Skype for Mac and Skype for Linux. Skype Hardware includes the development of dedicated Skype devices, such as WiFi-phones and telephone adapter boxes, as well as managing relations with global partners that produce accessories such as headsets and web cameras.. View More:
Reinventing the Data Center
New requirements, new architectures and new constraints are creating a new order inside the data center. Our panel of experts will debate the effects of virtualization and high-speed networking as they describe the shape of things to come and what users need to do to prepare for the next generation of data center solutions.
Moderator:
Art Wittmann
Managing Director
InformationWeek Analytics
Art Wittmann is the Managing Director of InformationWeek Analytics, where he is responsible for the business operations and content strategy of InformationWeek's analyst group. He is also an editor of InformationWeek, and the content director for the Techweb Digital Library, where is responsible for driving content and product strategy.
Prior to joining the InformationWeek team, Art was Editor-in-Chief of Network Computing, and IT Architect.
Art holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
Panelists:
Dr. Mark Stuart Day
Chief Scientist
Riverbed Technology
Mark Day, PhD. came to Riverbed from Cisco Systems, where he was technical lead for content networking product management. Dr. Day was previously Senior Scientist at Sight Path, which was acquired by Cisco in 2000. Earlier, he was a Research Scientist and assistant to the CTO at Lotus/IBM, where his work contributed to the creation of Lotus Sametime (now called Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing). Dr. Day has chaired Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working groups on Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP) and Content Internetworking (CDI). He has three issued patents and multiple pending patents relating to presence, streaming media, content networking, mobile communications, and telephony. His other notable work includes contributions to the programming languages Argus and Theta, and to the distributed object database Thor. Dr. Day has held an adjunct appointment at Harvard University teaching graduate computer science, and received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1995.
Paul McNab
Vice President, Enterprise & Mid Market Solutions Marketing
Cisco
Paul McNab is responsible for developing and executing Cisco System's global Enterprise and Mid-Market Solutions and Technology Marketing strategy. This strategy focuses on providing global marketing programs, messages and content that support Cisco's broad portfolio of Foundation, Advanced and Emerging products and technologies in the Enterprise and Mid-Market segments. Such products and technologies include Routing, Switching, Unified Communications, Security, Mobility, Video and Storage across Campus, Branch, Wide Area and Data Center architectures.
Paul is also responsible for delivering both horizontal reference architectures as well as scalable industry based solutions in support of Cisco's customer's business strategies. View more
Dave Stevens
Chief Technology Officer
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
Dave Stevens brings more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise networking, security, compute, and data storage industries to his current role as Chief Technology Officer for Brocade Communications Systems. In this position, Mr. Stevens is instrumental in driving Brocade's company-wide technology strategy as the company expands its role in the evolving enterprise network market.
Before joining Brocade in 2008, Mr. Stevens was founder and CEO of Palo Alto Networks, a developer of next-generation firewall products. Previously he was a partner at Foundation Capital, and held senior management positions at Atmosphere Networks, Nortel and Microdyne.
Mr. Stevens had also worked with Brocade previously, serving as Vice President and CTO of Brocade Transport Systems from 2003 to 2004. He joined Brocade through its acquisition of Rhapsody Networks, where he was Vice President of Business Development.
Dave Stevens holds bachelor of science and a master of science degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia.
David Yen
Executive Vice President and General Manager,
Data Center Business Group
Juniper Networks
David Yen, Ph.D., serves as the Executive Vice President of the Data Center Business Group (DCBG), for Juniper Networks. Dr. Yen came to Juniper from Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he served in a broad range of executive assignments during his nearly 20-year tenure. In the '90s, his team developed Sun's first- and second-generation multi-CPU SMP servers, which transformed Sun from a workstation company to a leading enterprise server company. After Dr. Yen took over Sun's Microelectronics group in 2001, he turned around Sun's declining SPARC business by focusing on execution and innovation. His group introduced the industry's first 8-core, 32-thread general-purpose processor in 2005 and developed it into a multi-billion dollar business. He also managed Sun's storage business for one year. Prior to joining Sun Microsystems in 1988, Dr. Yen was a cofounder of Cydrome, Inc., a mini-supercomputer start-up. He also served in engineering roles at IBM Research and TRW, Inc. Dr. Yen earned a bachelor's in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1973, and received an MS and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980. He also completed a General Management Program at Stanford Business School in 1993. Dr. Yen holds three U.S. patents.
