Keynote Speakers

Eric Billingsley, eBay Labs   [slides (PDF)]

Keynote: Scaling eBay and a Perspective on the Next Generation of eCommerce Applications

Tadao Saito, Toyota Infotechnology Center

Innovation in Everyday Life by IT Culture

Catherine Lasser, IBM    [GIO web page]   [GIO document (PDF)]

Keynote: Global  Innovation, Creating An Innovation Process

Wen-Hann Wang, Intel  [slides (PDF)]

Keynote: Exploiting Platform Technologies for Creating Real-Time Enterprises

Scaling eBay and a Perspective on the Next Generation of
eCommerce Applications

Eric Billingsley

Sr. Director, eBay Labs

This keynote talk will provide an in-depth look at how eBay scaled to become the World's Largest Online Marketplace, highlighting the infrastructure, coding practices, operational practices and security. The talk will also present a perspective on what the toolkit will look like moving forward for commerce developers and how can eBay help to enable them.

 Biography

As Sr. Director of eBay Research Labs, Eric has built a team with the charter of inventing the future of commerce.  The Research Labs differs itself from most research programs by working closely with the business to define and solve interesting problems that lead to interesting and profitable solutions for eBay.

Before joining eBay, Eric began his career as a nuclear engineer.  While in that position, he began using the Internet as a collaboration tool and soon found his true calling.  He began working at AltaVista in 1996 in Advanced Development Group where he developed an understanding of the technology behind scalability and performance.  He used this knowledge to form his own consulting company before embarking on a career at eBay in 2002.  There he was integral in the creation of the eBay search engine, a truly enabling technology for eBay.  He has also contributed  new technologies in the areas of security, monitoring and trust & safety applications.

In the last 6 months, Eric has been given responsibility for the eBay Innovation Program.  This has given him the opportunity to examine the very nature of truly innovative though in one of the most innovative companies in the world.

Innovation in Everyday Life by IT Culture

Tadao SAITO

CTO, Toyota Infotechnology Center

Abstract

Accelerated penetration of information technology is rapidly changing everyday life of people. IT technology is now more and more complex in design and expansion of market to prevail the product to public is essential to cover the development cost. The market penetration will change the life style of the people to IT culture. IT culture is typical in expanded function of mobile terminal and broadband internet. The IT culture is the base for e-commerce, e-government and e-everything. The talk will cover recent IT culture in North Eastern Asia including Japan and Korea, which you will enjoy when you visit CEC 2007 Tokyo.

Biography

Prof. Tadao Saito received the Ph. D degree in electronics from the University of Tokyo in 1968. Since then he was a lecture, an associate professor and a professor of the University of Tokyo, and now he is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo. From 1995 to 2001, he was the director of IT center of the University of Tokyo. Since June 2001, he is a professor of Chou University and the Chief Scientist and CTO of Toyota InfoTechnology Center, where he studies future ubiquitous information services around automobile.

He worked in variety of subjects related to digital communication and computer networks. His study includes variety communication networks and its social applications like ITS. He is also the chairman of Ubiquitous Networking Forum of Japan working for future vision of information society.  He is also the director of the coordination program of all Ubiquitous Network related government funded research projects in Japan. He wrote many books on electronic circuitry, computer, digital communication and multimedia.

Global  Innovation, Creating An Innovation Process

Catherine Lasser
Vice President, Industry Solutions and Emerging Business
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Abstract

Innovation is a word used often today to mean many different things.  To some it is invention to others it is doing something completely new.  We at IBM believe innovation occurs at the intersection of invention and business insight.  Creating an atmosphere and an ecosystem for innovation requires some new ideas and processes.  It is global, it is unpredictable yet it can be encouraged and supported for success. 

The Global Innovation Outlook, or GIO, is a process that IBM has used for the past couple of years to create an innovation ecosystem.    The journey for activity is as interesting as the results.    I will discuss the process and what we’ve learned about the process as well as the specific results and outcomes from the first GIO and second GIO.  The topics include:  healthcare, transportation and the future enterprise.

Biography

Cathy was appointed Vice President, Industry Solutions and Emerging Business for the Research division in September 2004.  She is responsible for connecting research with industries to focus innovation on the application of technology to real-world problems.  Her mission is to create a tight linkage between the research community and our sales organization and to create and manage new emerging businesses. Prior to this position, Cathy was Vice President of Global productivity and Employee IT advocate in the CIO organization.  Her focus was on, improving and expanding the IT services, support and function to our employees.  She provided a single point of contact for managing contracts, operations and measurements with service providers such as those with the IBM Global Account, AT&T, and others around the world.    

Cathy joined IBM in 1978 as a programmer supporting Test Engineering in Endicott, New York.  Within a year, she moved to the New York tri-state area where she has held various programming and team lead positions.  In 1982, Cathy joined the IBM Credit Corporation where she developed and managed the information center and advanced technology development departments.  She then moved to the corporate common financial systems organization as a development manager.  In 1993, Cathy joined the PC Company where her organization was responsible for executive information systems, decision support systems and manufacturing process support.  She then went to IBM Research in 1996 as Executive Assistant to the Senior Vice President of Research.  In 1997, Cathy was appointed as the CIO for the Research Division.  Cathy joined the CIO organization in 2001 as Vice President of B2B Initiatives.  Cathy had worldwide responsibility for enabling IBM as a world class participant in the B2B environment.  

Cathy holds a BS in Mathematics/Computer Science from SUNY Binghamton and an MBA in Finance from Iona College.  In addition to her IBM responsibilities, Cathy’s activities have included:  Secretary, Board of Education, Brookfield, CT School District; Chair Curriculum Committee, Brookfield, CT School District; Member of National Science Foundation Business and Operations Committee; National Academy of Engineering committee on diversity in the technical work force; Smith College, Advisory Board for school of engineering; Justice of the Peace, State of Connecticut.

Wen-Hann Wang

General Manager of Middleware Products Division of

Intel Software and Solution Group (SSG)

            Abstract

Information is power. Speed is king. Real-Time Enterprise presents critical winning edges for modern companies to thrive in the 21^st century new economy. While building Real-Time Enterprise capabilities can be a daunting, time-consuming, and resource-draining task, leveraging emerging platform technologies will shorten the learning curve and lead to speedier, more cost efficient, deployments. In this presentation I will introduce leading platform technologies, including virtualization, manageability, security, and networking, and discuss how they are being used to lower data center cost, provide faster provisioning, improve management quality and performance, simplify development cycle, and deliver affordable business continuity. The excitements brought forth by platform technologies are being felt in the software industry, encouraging a paradigm shift toward component-based development and deployment with standard interfaces. I will close by presenting the vast opportunities, and engineering excitements, that this paradigm shift may bring along. 

            Biography

Dr. Wen-Hann Wang is General Manager of Middleware Products Division of Intel Software and Solution Group (SSG). He joined Intel in 1991 as P6 (PentiumPro) Platform Architect and has since held various engineering, research, and management, positions around the globe.

Wen-Hann was a first-place winner of the first Intel Microprocessor Innovators Contest in 1993 and received the Award of Innovation from a judging committee chaired by Dr. Gordon Moore. Wen-Hann was granted 13 patents and received the first Influential Paper Award at 2003 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Computer Architectures. He also won the Best Paper Award at the ACM SIGMETRICS conference in 1990 for his early work on cache memory simulation methodology.

Wen-Hann has worked and studied in three continents. He received his BSEE from the National Taiwan University, his MSEE from the Philips International Institute of Technological Studies, in the Netherlands, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington in Seattle. He was Adjunct Professor of Peking University 2003-2005, and of Chinese Academy of Sciences 2002-2005. Prior to joining Intel, Wen-Hann was a Research Staff Member at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.