SIM NJ 2012 MarchMeeting
Panel Discussion: CIO Mobile Strategies to be Prepared for a Mobile First World with JP Finnell
March 8, 2012
Program Description:
Panel Discussion:
CIO Mobile Strategies to be Prepared for a Mobile-First World
It's the two year anniversary of Google adopting a mobile first design philosophy when CEO Eric Schmidt advised, "The simple guidance is whatever you are doing - do mobile first." In that short span of time, CIO's are beginning to adopt mobile strategies that co-opt consumer innovation and apply it to their enterprise boosting end user productivity and satisfaction. Moderated by Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic founder and Head of Mobile Strategy for SAP Services, JP Finnell will be leading a panel discussion covering such Enterprise Mobility innovation strategies as: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), Enterprise App Stores, and Business-to-Business-to-Consumer Apps.
Panel Facilitator:
JP Finnell, Head of Mobile Strategy, SAP America Services
Panel:
Bob Egan - Vice President, Mobile Strategy, Mobiquity, Inc.
Chuck Sacco - President of Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic, Vice President of Client Strategy at Movitas and Adjunct Faculty at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.
Vinod Kachroo - Senior Information Technology Executive
Dean Guida - President and CEO - Infragistics
Date:
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Time/Schedule:
5:00P Network Social Hour
5:45P Buffet Dinner/Networking
6:15P Chapter Business
6:45P Panel Discussion, Presentation and Q&A
7:45P Networking till 9pm
7:45P Members in Transition Networking
Location:
Madison Hotel, One Convent Rd., Morristown, NJ 07960 | 800.526.0729 | Local: 973.285.8000 |
Registration:
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Cost:
SIM NJ Members $65.00, non-member guests $100.00 payable in advance.
All attendees must be pre-registered and prepaid. Non-member guests must be accompanied by a member.
Biographies:
JP Finnell, Head of Mobile Strategy, SAP America Services
JP Finnell is Head of Mobile Strategy, SAP America Services. Previously, JP consulted to enterprise, technology, and carrier clients as Managing Partner of Mobility Partners and as General Manager of Mobility Professional Services at Nokia. Residing in Philadelphia, JP played a founding role in Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic, one of 100+ chapters in the world’s leading mobile community. JP’s research on collaboration and enterprise mobility has been published by GigaOM Pro including a pioneering series on The Consumer Influence on Enterprise Mobility. Finnell is a conference speaker at Mobilize, Net:Work, Mobile Enterprise Summit, CTIA, Gartner, Society for Information Management (SIM), Mobile Monday, RCR Wireless, and BizTech@Wharton. JP was a Fellow at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies, where he received an MA from the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a BS from the Georgetown University. www.twitter.com/JPFinnell
Bob Egan, Vice President, Mobile Strategy, Mobiquity, Inc.
For more than 20 years, Egan’s insights, analysis and predictions have served as early-warning indicators—calls to action—for CEOs, product vendors, mobile operators and device manufacturers. At Mobiquity, Egan is focusing on enterprise deployment and business-benefit strategies, competitive insights and product architecture. As vice president of the Gartner Group, Egan received the prestigious “Thought Leadership Achievement Award.” Wireless Review called him the “Market Maker” and Adweek Magazine’s Technology Marketing group named him one of the six most influential industry analysts. A pioneer in Wi-Fi, he was a member of the first release of the IEEE 802.11 WLAN standard.
Egan is the founding chairman of SourceMedia’s Mobile Banking and Emerging Applications Summit, the WiMAX Forum Congress and Gartner’s Enterprise Mobility Conference. His commentaries have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, Businessweek and Fortune. He also writes two blogs, "Things Mobile" on Forbes.com and "The Mobile Strategist" at SepharimGroup.com, which focuses on the impact of mobility on global economies and consumer spending.
www.twitter.com/BobEgan
Chuck Sacco - President of Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic, Vice President of Client Strategy at Movitas and Adjunct Faculty at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.
Chuck is an entrepreneur with a few company launches in the enterprise software and mobile technology industries, including PhindMe Mobile which he co-founded and later helped merge with Movitas to create a unique mobile technology offering for the hospitality and travel industries. Chuck is deeply involved with Philly-area entrepreneurship initiatives such as Startup Corps, Startup Weekend and Open Access Philly.
Chuck speaks, writes and teaches about mobile and entrepreneurship, and was trained in entrepreneurship education at Price-Babson College. He recently was profiled by Fortune in an article about mid-career entrepreneurship. Chuck can be reached at www.chucksacco.com.
www.twitter.com/ChuckSacco
Vinod Kachroo
Vinod Kachroo is a Senior Information Technology Executive holding roles in Metlife, Prudential and AIG. In Vinod’s latest assignment at Metlife, he drove operational excellence with infrastructure consolidation and virtualization with savings of over $100MM a year. Vinod led end user computing, unified communication & collaboration, mobility and cloud computing technology innovations to help MetLife scale to support 100MM customers. The customers ranged from fortune 500 companies to those with 100K+ retail sales distribution, and a global workforce of approximately 100K. Vinod defined a strategy and executed on consolidating applications across various franchises (MetLife, GenAm, NEF, MLI, etc.) into a shared application portfolio to drive both bottom line and top line growth. While at Prudential Vinod drove many key business strategies across institutional e-business and retirement services.
Dean Guida - President and CEO - Infragistics
Leader with over 25 years experience in the technology industry, Dean oversees all aspects of Infragistics’ business operations and corporate direction. Most recently, Dean lead his team in the acquisition of SouthLabs, developers of SharePlus, the mobile SharePoint app.
Prior to co-founding Infragistics, which now employs 350 people worldwide and serves 500,00 customers, Dean was a freelance consultant writing software for IBM, GE and numerous Wall Street firms. Dean holds Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of Miami.
