Agenda

Keynote Speakers

Shahid Osmani

Practice Head, Process Improvement & Management

Shahid Osmani is a SAP Certified and Six Sigma Green Belt consultant. He has extensive experience of implementing complex ERP systems across manufacturing and retail industries. During the past 21 years he has worked in various capacities of the Information Technology industry; as a Business Process Re-engineering / Improvement (BPR / BPI) and Business Process Management (BPM) specialist, a Senior Project Manager, an MIS Manager and a Financial Analyst. Shahid Osmani is specialized in ERP implementation and Business Process Management roundtrip methodology development. He is now Practice Head of Process Improvement & Management at Dubai World, a holding company that operates a highly diversified spectrum of industrial segments and plays a major role in the emirate's rapid economic growth. Dubai World's investment spans four strategic growth areas of 21st Century commerce namely, Transport & Logistics, Drydocks & Maritime, Urban Development and Investment & Financial Services.


Connie Moore

Vice President, Research Director

Connie is a vice president and research director, concentrating on business process management (BPM) and workflow software, information and knowledge management, and all aspects of enterprise content management (ECM). This includes Web content management, document management, and knowledge management. Connie came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. She has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry and had been with Giga since it began in 1995. Prior to joining Giga, Connie worked with BIS Strategic Decisions' European IT Consulting Group, TDC (now part of BancTec), a manufacturer of high-end document capture systems, Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Connie has chaired 10 Business Process and Workflow conferences in Europe and the United States during the past six years, was co-chair of the Leveraging Knowledge conference, and has served as a director of AIIM International, the premier association for the document management industry. She has also been the lead judge in Giga's Excellence Award program for document management, workflow, and knowledge management, and she has contributed chapters to several of the Excellence in Practice books on workflow software implementations. Connie holds a B.A. in political science and history from East Carolina University and an M.B.A. in information systems from George Washington University.


Rashid Khan

Co-Founder & Chief Technical Officer

Rashid Khan leveraged his entrepreneurial prowess to build Ultimus into a successful global enterprise. In 1983, without any outside capital, Khan founded SINTECH, Inc., a start-up that pioneered the use of application software for mechanical testing automation. After a successful run in which he turned the company into an industry leader, he sold SINTECH, Inc. to MTS Systems Corporation. In 1994, Khan founded Ultimus, providing the start-up finances on his own to allow the company to pursue a long-term vision unencumbered by short-term financial objectives. Currently, Ultimus employs 320 people in 16 offices across the globe. Khan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley, and a B.S. in Computer Science from M.I.T.


Customers

CEA
The CEA is the French Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l'énergie atomique). It is a public body established in October 1945 by General de Gaulle. A leader in research, development and innovation, the CEA mission statement has two main objectives : To become the leading technological research organization in Europe and to ensure that the nuclear deterrent remains effective in the future.

The CEA is active in three main fields : Energy, information and health technologies, and defense and national security. In each of these fields, the CEA maintains a cross-disciplinary culture of engineers and researchers, building on the synergies between fundamental and technological research.

Crea
CREA is a consulting firm focused comprehensively on business process management, secure e-business and related technologies.

Through the synergy of extensive experience and knowledge of highly qualified leading experts from various fields, CREA enables organizations to achieve greater efficiency of their business processes and easy transition to secure e-business.

CREA's business partners can achieve more ambitious business goals and improve their competitiveness through improvement of their ability to quickly adapt to new business situations and implement business innovation.

Many of leading organizations have turned to CREA for assistance. CREA's consulting services and solutions help organizations to address current business challenges in a variety of industries. CREA's client list includes numerous organizations in telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, energy and government.

Daimler
Daimler can look back on a tradition that stretches back over more than a hundred years and is marked by the pioneering achievements of automotive engineering. Today, the company is a leading supplier of premium passenger cars as well as the world‘s largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles. With its strong brands and its comprehensive portfolio of automobiles from compact cars to heavy-duty engine trucks which are completed by tailor-made services along the automotive value chain, Daimler is active in nearly all countries in the world.

Sony
Sony Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. Its music, motion picture, television, computer entertainment, and online businesses make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc., and a 50% interest in Sony BMG Music Entertainment, one of the largest recorded music companies in the world. Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $70.3 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007, and it employs 163,000 people worldwide. Sony's consolidated sales in the U.S. for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007 were $18.9 billion.

TI Automotive
TI Automotive is the world’s leading supplier of fluid storage, transfer and delivery systems, including brake, fuel and air conditioning applications. With headquarter locations in Warren, Mich., and Oxford, England, the company employs more than 16,000 people at more than 100 facilities in 27 countries on six continents. Annual sales in 2006 totaled approximately $2.9 billion.