NEDA CONFERENCE PREVIEW LooKWho'S tALKinG
Speakers fromindustry, government and academia will explore the impact of technology as it shapes our industry, economy and environment
The 2010 NEDA executive conference, Competing for the future: are you ready today for tomorrow?will feature presentations focused on critical industry issues and opportunities. The 2010 conferencewill introduce a distinguished array of leaders fromindustry, government and academiawhowill explore the impact of technology as it continues to shape our industry, the economy and the environment. This up-to-the-minute information is expected to provide a distinct advantage in formulating awinning company strategy.
Speaker roster:
Dave Anderson is an executive advisor with the sales practice at the Corporate Executive Board, a company with themission of increasing the effectiveness of executives and their enterprises. In his presentation, Anderson will unpack the findings of a large scale study and identify three skills that differentiate high performing sales people fromthe average and discuss the implications for recruiting, training and coaching.
Francois Calvarin is CEO of Souriau, a leading supplier to the military and aerospacemarkets. Calvarin will speak about his vision of global world economy trends and their impact on these specializedmarkets. He will also share insight on the future of electronic content in both arenas.
Glenn Derene is the senior technology editor at PopularMechanics magazine and as such, has covered consumer electronics, cyber- security and the culture of technology formore than fifteen years. Derenewill discuss the 'era of pervasive computing' and a futurewhere intelligence is embedded in everythingwe use.
John Engel, president and CEO ofWesco International, will address the nature and trends of the overlap between the electrical and electronic componentmarkets and the ways in which electrical distributors, likeWesco and their subsidiary companies, are responding.
Robin B. Gray, Jr., NEDA executive vice president will talk about the industry issues the association is tackling as well as the impendingmerger with the Electronics Components Association.
Lloyd Kaplan of iSuppli is a long-time electronics industry veteran. The company monitors the status of the industry value chain and tracks industry performance to provide accurate forecast information. Discover howhis projections fromthe 2009 conferencemeasured up to the realities of 2010. Lloyd returns to the conference to discuss iSuppli’s assessment of newtechnologies on the horizon and the opportunities for growth in areas such as smart grid, power and bandwidth.
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Paul Kasriel, senior vice president and chief economist of the Northern Trust Company,will followup his highly rated presentation fromthe 2009 conference by sharing his outlook for the US economy. He is set to provide an update on issues such as the financial-sector restraint on growth, fiscal challenges and the prospects for inflation.
Stephen Kaufman is the senior lecturer of business administration at the Harvard Business School and the retired chairman
and chief executive officer of ArrowElectronics.With his unique perspective of over 25 years in the electronics industry, Stevewill explore the differences in the challenges facing electronics industry executives in the second decade of the 21st century comparedwith those faced by his generation in the last decades of the 20th century.
Dr. F. Barry Lawrence is the Leonard and Valerie Bruce endowed chair professor in industrial distribution program, programdirector of the industrial distribution program, the Thomas and Joan Read Center and the supply chain systems laboratory at Texas A&M University. Dr. Lawrence will talk about the council for research on distributor best practices – a unique collaboration of 20 distributors fromvarious lines of trade, working together to develop practical methodologies and tools to improve effectiveness of their sales and marketing strategies. Learn the results of this latest research that links the sales andmarketing process to shareholder value and customer service.
JohnMcDonald, P.E., director of technical strategy and policy development for GE Digital Energy, will address the 'smart grid' and explain its ramifications for our industry and the world.Much of America knows that power companies, engineers and government experts are focused on building something called the smart grid—but not everyone understands what it is. Learn fromone of the world's leading smart grid experts.
Ali Sebt is the vice president of the consumer and
industrial business unit at Renesas Electronics America. In his presentation 'electronics – changing the world we live and work in,' he will discuss how decisions about technology, channel strategy,market focus and corporate social responsibility are impacting the innovation that is changing our world.
BradWhitworth, senior communications executive for Cisco Systems, will talk about how Cisco and other companies have put socialmedia to work in his presentation: 'socialmedia:marketing cure-all or internet quackery?'
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