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Ken Sharma, Chair
Service Delivery Director Symantec Corporation
Raj A. Patel, COP, Co-chair
Senior Manager
Oracle America, Inc.
Rajib Arjun, COP, Co-chair Advisor PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
| | Executive Committee | | Nipun Sehgal CEO Enlighta Inc
Thomas Schramm
Managing Director EquaTerra
Anurag Sood V.P. Americas Sales Aegis Communications Group Inc
n | | Primary Purpose | | The purpose of the Global Technology Industry Chapter of IAOP, is to provide a common forum for Technology Industry customers, providers and advisors/academia to share and learn about the various aspects of the outsourcing and offshoring lifecycle. a With our focus on Technology customers, it will allow us to identify opportunities and circumstances that we may encounter, and share best practices to achieve success. | | Meeting Frequency | | Quarterly | | Meeting Type | | Web-based, teleconference, face-to-face | | Guest Speakers | | Emerging Market Development Experts, Global Outsourcing Professionals, Outsourcing Security Experts, Academics with expertise in outsourcing and Organizational Change Management professionals with expertise in outsourcing environments. a | | Non-Solicitation Policy | | All IAOP Chapters adhere to the non-solicitation policy. Click here to view the policy. n | IAOP Chapter: Global Technology Industry
Next meeting to be held on April 21, 2010
The next meeting of the IAOP Global Technology Industry Chapter co-chaired by Symantec, Oracle America, Inc. and PricewaterhouseCoopers will be held on Wednesday, April 21, 2010 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm PST. The meeting format will be a combination of on-site at the Symantec Campus located at 350 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA 94043; and available to guests worldwide through the IAOP webinar network.
The meeting will feature the presentations “Savings from Multi-vendor Cloud-based Delivery” by Andy Nallappan, Director, Global IT, at Avago Technologies and “Outsourcing through Cloud Computing” by Subra Kumarswamy, OnDemand Security Service Architect, at Oracle America, Inc..
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Meeting held on January 21, 2010
This meeting of the IAOP Technology Industry Chapter co-chaired by Symantec, Sun/Oracle and PricewaterhouseCoopers was held on Thursday, January 21, 2010 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm PST. The meeting format was a combination of on-site at the Symantec Campus located at 350 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA 94043; and available to guests worldwide through the IAOP webinar network.
Agenda:
3:30-3:40 pm: Chapter Opening: Chapter purpose, Chapter leadership team, Agenda for the day Ken Sharma, Chapter Chair, Symantec
3:40-4:00 pm: “Search for Global Talent in Outsourcing Processes”
Chance Curtiss, Vice President, Neo Group
4:00 pm-4:15 pm: Q&A on “Search for Global Talent in Outsourcing Process”
4:15 pm-4:20 pm: Break
4:20-4:55 pm: Panel Discussion: “Emerging Outsourcing Destinations”
Panelists include: Rajib Arjun, COP, Advisor, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Thomas Schramm, Managing Director, EquaTerra
4:55-5:00 pm: Closing announcements
Ken Sharma, Chapter Chair
5:00-6:00 pm: Evening networking
Inaugural meeting held!
The inaugural meeting of the IAOP Technology Industry Chapter co-chaired by Symantec, Sun/Oracle and PricewaterhouseCoopers was held on Thursday, October 8, 2009 from 3:30 pm to 5:30 pm PST. The meeting format was a combination of on-site at the Symantec Campus located at 466 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA 94043; and available to guests worldwide through the IAOP webinar network.
In addition to formal launch of the chapter and introduction of the chapter Governance Council and chapter charter, the meeting included a panel discussion on “The Science of Multi Provider Governance” led by Rajib Arjun of PWC. Panelists included Leslie Lambert of Sun Microsystems, Michelle Charpentier of Symantec and Michael Giannini of NetApp. We also had a discussion on “Secured Outsourcing per ISO 27002 - Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) standards” led by Raj Patel of Sun Microsystems. Finally, Dr. Gu of Tsinghua University presented “China’s Outsourcing Industry – A Perspective”, a unique perspective on services outsourcing in China.
A reception followed the meeting for local attendees from the Silicon Valley area.
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