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Guest speaker:  Manjula Talreja, VP Consulting Services, Cisco

Table Topic: Innovation as a Service 

Date and Time: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015  @ 3pm – 5pm

Location:  Open Innovation Gateway – Powered by FUJITSU

Address: Fujitsu (Building H), 1240 East Arques Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 

Manjula Talreja is a 25-year IT industry veteran who has spent the majority of her career at Cisco, where her extensive experience in general management, business strategy consulting and operations of large scale IT systems has helped guide Cisco business teams through many inflection points. Manjula is currently Vice President of Global Cloud Business Development for Cisco, where she is playing a pivotal role in creating new business models and partnerships with technology vendors, Service Providers (SPs) and System Integrators (SIs) in the growing cloud market. In addition to her focus on key customers and partners, Manjula is taking an expanded role in helping shape the next phase of Cisco’s enterprise cloud strategy.  Leveraging Cisco’s Internet of Everything (IoE) network of networks connected economy, Cisco believes that new cloud-based IoE platforms and exchanges will be created that will allow enterprises and CIOs to consume vertically tailored solutions delivered as a service.  Manjula’s deep understanding of the cloud business and go to market models is being applied to tap into this next-generation cloud market opportunity.

About the Event:

To coincide with the 80th anniversary of Fujitsu, Fujitsu will announce the opening of the Open Innovation Gateway – Powered by FUJITSU on June 23rd. The San Francisco Bay Area is known as the “Innovation Capital of the World” . The Open Innovation Gateway, located in Sunnyvale, is dedicated to activating innovative practices -faster. In partnership with some of the most talented people and progressive institutions in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Open Innovation Gateway will provide a platform from which ideas can connect, grow, and advance out into the world.

Confirmed Guests:

Mohi Ahmed, Senior Director, Open Innovation Gateway, Fujitsu

Swati Dasgupta, Director of Venture Technology, Siemens Technology-to-Business

Alok Garg, Vice President, Cloud at NTT i3

Mark Hatch, CEO and Co-founder, TechShop

Pradeep Kathail, Chief Technology Officer, Cisco

Duncan Logan, CEO and Founder, Rocketspace

Tango Matsumoto, CTO & CIO, Fujitsu

Mikito Kiname, Corporate Executive Officer, Fujitsu

Desiree Matel-Anderson, CEO at Global Disaster Innovation Group

Steve Myers, Chief Technology Officer, Optum HealthCare

Hiroyuki Sakai, Corporate Executive Officer, EVP, Head of Global Marketing

Todd Schofield, Managing Director, Standard Chartered Bank

Philipp Skogstadd, Senior Director, SAP

Richard Smith, Director, Centre for Digital Media

Amit Varma, Director & Head Strategy & Program Management, HCL

Solomon Darwin, Executive Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation,  Berkeley Haas

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Guest speaker: Dr. Brandon Barnett, Director of Corporate Strategy, Intel

Date and Time: Friday, May 22nd, 2015  @ 12pm – 2pm

Location: Yahoo HQ, Silicon Valley (701 First Ave. Sunnyvale)

 Host: Kenneth A. Goldman, CFO, Yahoo

Table Topic:  Growing Your Business Through Transformational Innovations

Brandon Barnett has spent his career experimenting with strategies to achieve new growth businesses: inventing new technologies, incubating new businesses, and most recently researching fundamentals of new market landscapes. Currently, as Director of Business Innovation in Intel Labs, Brandon is focused on executing research programs in the area of business analytics and external incubation. He combines complex systems theories with ethnographic research, business theory, and predictive markets to develop data-based business frameworks that point to new bases of competition in emerging market landscapes.

Table Topic Description:

Research shows that over 70% of business growth is generated from Transformational Innovations. However, they are often treated as peripheral strategies and lack support and adequate resource allocation. How can companies put their analysis to work and bring these transformational innovations to the center of strategy development? Dr. Barnett leads a discussion about what it means to create strategies through the lens of industry transformation. In this keynote, Dr. Barnett will describe how his team at Intel studies dynamics in the social, economic, business and technology foundations of industries and executes innovation programs that probe the transformation potential (vs market potential) on core business and growth strategies.

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Presentation available upon request.

Confirmed Guests: Dr. Brandon Barnett, Director of Corporate Strategy, Intel Amit Varma, Chief Strategy Officer, HCL America Barbara Holzapfel, Chief Marketing Officer, Addepar Bob Miller, Director of Innovation & Partnerships, Nestle Purina Bob Swan, Chief Financial Officer, Ebay Christine Deakin, Chief Strategy Officer, Wells Fargo Duncan Logan, CEO & Founder, Rocketspace Frank Fu, Director of External Technology, Coca-Cola Jayashree Subrahmonia, VP Development and Delivery, IBM Watson Marion Pyle, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, EMG Digital Media Mark Chandler, Director of International Affairs, City of San Francisco Mohi Ahmed, Director of Open Innovation, Fujitsu Todd Schofield, Managing Director, Standard Chartered Bank Philip Skogstad, Senior Director, SAP Pradeep Kathail, Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Russell Pyle, Co-founder and CEO, EMG Digital Media Shinji Asakura, General Manager Global Reseach, GE Steve Myers, Chief Technology Officer, Optum Healthcare Swati Dasgupta, Director of Venture Technology, Siemens Technology-to-Business Vivek Wadhwa, Vice President of Innovation, Singularity University Ken Goldman, Chief Financial Officer, Yahoo Maria Carkovic, Executive Director, Institute for Business Innovation, Berkeley Haas Jeff Rosenthal, CEO , Center for Executive Education, UC Berkeley Solomon Darwin, Executive Director, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation,  Berkeley Haas

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Date and Time: Friday, March 27th, 2015  @ 12pm – 2pm

Location: Dean’s Suite (S522) at the Haas School of Business

Table Topic:  Knowledge Platforms for Emerging Business Models

Guest speaker: Jim Spohrer, Director of IBM University Programs and Cognitive Institute

IBM Director Global University Programs and Lead of Cognitive Systems Institute. Pioneering the development of a new field known as service science — the study of service systems, value propositions, and governance mechanisms. Service is the application of knowledge for the benefit of another, and service science includes the study of customer-provider interactions aimed at value-cocreation. ISSIP.org founding Board Member. ISSIP (Pronounced I-ZIP) links professional associations that promote service innovations for our interconnected world. ISSIP helps innovators become more T-shaped, and Jim’s primary depth is in Computer Science, Education, USA. Read Blog here Roundtable Slides here Attendees: PK Agarwal, Former CEO; TiE Global, Former CTO, State of California Jerry Bautista, VP and General Manager, New Business Initiatives, Intel John Caldwell, Partner at Grant Thornton International Ltd

Christine Deakin, Chief Strategy Officer, Wells Fargo

Gunso Kim,CIO, Seoul Metropolitan Government

Duncan Logan, Founder and CEO, Rocketspace J. Christopher Moran, Corp VP, Business Systems & Analytics Group, Applied Materials

Omkaram (Om) Nalamasu, CTO, Applied Materials

Pravin Raj, COO at Cisco Consulting Services

Sunil Kripalani, Vice President, Cisco ; Former CTO, CallMe Corp.

Ikhlaq Sidhu, Founding Director, UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology,

Julienne Gherardi, Table Host, UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education

Solomon Darwin, Table Chair, Berkeley Haas

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Date and Time: January 23rd, 2015  @ 12pm – 2pm

Location:  Autodesk’s Pier 9 – The 3-D Printing Work Space and Museum

Table Topic:  The Future of Making Things

Guest speaker: Brian Mathews, CTO, Autodesk

 As Autodesk vice president of reality capture, Brian Mathews heads the development of technology to enable designers, engineers, and digital artists to incorporate the physical world into digital models and simulations.  The growing reality capture market is being driven by advances in 3D laser scanning, augmented reality, photogrammetry, computer vision, reverse engineering, and a variety of other world-sampling sensor techniques. Previously, Mathews was vice president of Autodesk Labs, an organization charged with developing and sharing new technology prototypes with a vibrant community of design-technology early-adopters.  He also held Software Architecture and Engineering Management positions for design collaboration solutions, data publishing, and the computer graphics engines used in AutoCAD, 3D Studio MAX, and multiple CAD viewers. Prior to Autodesk, Mathews was the chief architect at Buzzsaw.com, the largest online collaboration tool for the construction industry, and held technical positions at Sun Microsystems and Ithaca Software.  Brian has a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and holds a variety of patents covering data compression, computer graphics, software as a service, printing, and design collaboration.

Read blog entry here Confirmed Guests: Brice Achkir, Cisco Distinguished Engineer,  Cisco Systems inc Brandon Barnett, Director of Business Innovation, Intel

Michael Bell, VP and General Manager of New Devices at Intel

Amanda Chiu, Vice President, Fidelity Investments

Paul Hofmann, CTO, Space-Time Insight

Robert Locke, VP & Managing Director, Tyco Ventures

Arnie Lund, Experience Technology Leader, GE Global Research

Omkaram (Om) Nalamasu, CTO, Applied Materials

Jay Nath, Chief Innovation Officer, City of San Francisco

Redg Snodgrass, CEO, Wearable World

Chris Vein, Chief Innovation Officer, World Bank

James Wall, Vice Chair at Financial Executives Research Foundation

Kristina Susac, Table Host, Berkeley-Haas

Solomon Darwin, Table Chair, Berkeley Haas

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Date and Time: December 12th, 2014  @ 12pm – 2pm

Location:  Dean’s suite (S522) at the Haas School of Business

Table Topic:  The Future of Healthcare Business Models

Guest speaker: Steve Myers, CTO, Optum/United Healthcare

Steve Myers has 12 years of experience providing direct information technology (IT) solutions to public sector behavioral health and medical programs in multiple states, including the country’s largest public behavioral health contract in Maricopa County, Arizona. His focus is on behavioral health IT operations and implementations. His prior experience includes additional consulting work in the design of IT systems in the public sector environment.

Attendees: Steve Myers, CTO, Optum/United Healthcare Group Dr. Jim Spohrer, Global Director of Univ. Programs, IBM Dr. Mohi Ahmed, Director of  Open Innovation, Fujitsu Arnie Lund, Connected Experience Technology Leader, GE Global Research Dharmesh Dubey, J&J, Director of Medical Devices Alok Garg, Vice President, Cloud at NTT i3 Dr. Chenyang Xu, General Manager (TTB) at Siemens Kristina Susac, Table Host, Berkeley-Haas Solomon Darwin, Table Chair, Berkeley Haas

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Date and Time: October 24, 2014  @ 12pm – 2pm

Location:  Dean’s suite (S522) at the Haas School of Business

Table Topic: “Cloud Technology Ecosystems, Trends and Challenges”

Guest speaker: Manjula Talreja, Head of Cloud Business Development for Cisco

Manjula Talreja is a 25-year IT industry veteran who has spent the majority of her career at Cisco, where her extensive experience in general management, business strategy consulting and operations of large scale IT systems has helped guide Cisco business teams through many inflection points. Manjula is currently Vice President of Global Cloud Business Development for Cisco, where she is playing a pivotal role in creating new business models and partnerships with technology vendors, Service Providers (SPs) and System Integrators (SIs) in the growing cloud market. In addition to her focus on key customers and partners, Manjula is taking an expanded role in helping shape the next phase of Cisco’s enterprise cloud strategy.  Leveraging Cisco’s Internet of Everything (IoE) network of networks connected economy, Cisco believes that new cloud-based IoE platforms and exchanges will be created that will allow enterprises and CIOs to consume vertically tailored solutions delivered as a service.  Manjula’s deep understanding of the cloud business and go to market models is being applied to tap into this next-generation cloud market opportunity. Attendees: Steve Myers, CTO, Optum/United Healthcare Group Nitin Narkhede, CTO, Wipro Technologies Shantanu Baruah, CTO, HCL America Dr. Girish Nallur, Marketing Principal/ Open Innovation & IP Management, FedEx Manjula Talreja, Chief Guest, VP, Cisco Todd Schofield, Managing Director, Standard Chartered Bank, Studios, LLC Solomon Darwin, Table Chair, Berkeley Haas Kristina Susac, Table Host, Berkeley Haas