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.
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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