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Neelie Kroes - European Commission
Neelie Kroes is Vice President of the European Commission and European Digital Agenda Commissioner. Her political career started on the Rotterdam Municipal Council, and in 1971 she was elected as a Member of the Dutch Parliament for the liberal VVD party. From 1982-1989 she served as Minister for Transport, Public Works and Telecommunication in the Netherlands. After politics Neelie was appointed President of Nyenrode University from 1991-2000, and served on various company boards, including Lucent Technologies, Volvo, P&O Nedlloyd. Prior to serving as European Commissioner for Competition from 2004-2009, her charity work included advising the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and World Cancer Research Fund, and she have an ongoing interest in mental health issues. more
Peter Weill - CISR, MIT Sloan
Peter Weill is the Chairman of the Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) at MIT Sloan and MIT Sloan Senior Research Scientist. His work centers on the role, value, and governance of digitization in enterprises. Peter focuses on globalizing the center’s research and delivery. In 2008, Ziff Davis recognized Peter as #24 of “The Top 100 Most Influential People in IT,” and the highest ranked academic. Peter has written award-winning books, journal articles, and case studies. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and The Wall Street Journal. more
Wu Choy Peng - CIO of Neptune Orient Lines, Singapore
Ms. Wu Choy Peng is Group Chief Information Officer of the Neptune Orient Lines Group an integrated transport solutions company in Singapore. Her responsibilities include overseeing strategy development, design and implementation for the Company’s wide range of information systems and processes, and ensuring that day-to-day business processes for the Group’s customers worldwide are streamlined and standardised.
Before joining NOL, Ms Wu was the Singapore Government’s Chief Information Officer for six years, also holding the position of Deputy Chief Executive (Industry) of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.
Choy Peng was conferred the CIO of the Year Award, under the IDC Enterprise Innovation Awards 2011. In March 2012, she was conferred the IT Leader of the Year Award, under the IT Leaders Awards 2012 organised by the Singapore Computer Society and supported by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. Choy Peng holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. more
Paul Redmond - Liverpool University
Dr Paul Redmond is Head of Careers & Employability at Liverpool University and one of the UK’s leading experts on generational theory and the graduate labour market. An experienced writer and speaker, Paul has presented at numerous events and conferences both in the UK and overseas. His research into the future of work, ‘Generation Y’ and the rise of ‘helicopter parents’ is currently attracting considerable attention among both graduate recruiters and the media. more
Pascal Matzke - Forrester Research
Pascal Matzke co-leads Forrester's Business Technology Futures team, which serves CIOs and their business partners by predicting the long-term business impact of information technology. His research focus is on as-a-service business models and tech-driven business transformation, analyzing the shifting and consolidating IT services and outsourcing market, as well as underlying tech market dynamics. His research also examines new constituencies of buyers and suppliers that are currently reshaping and recasting the business technology landscape. more
Nils Fonstad - eLab, INSEAD
Nils Fonstad is the Associate Director at eLab, a global research center within INSEAD focused on how public and private institutions create value from the digital economy. He joined eLab in November 2008. Before then, he worked as a research scientist at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR). Dr Fonstad earned his PhD degree in Information Technology and Organization Studies from MIT Sloan School of Management; an MS from the MIT Technology and Policy Program; and a BS in Mechanical Engineering and BA in Film Studies from Cornell University. more
Martin Mocker - MIT Sloan, CISR
Martin Mocker is a Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research. In addition to research on IT strategy, architecture, and related issues, Martin works with European sponsors. Before joining academia, Martin was an Engagement Manager and consultant at McKinsey & Company. There he worked with senior executives on issues related to IT and strategy, governance, organization, outsourcing, and cost management. His clients were from the banking, media, retail, and energy trading industries, as well as from the public sector. more
Tom Kok - Cool Group
Tom Kok has been chairman of Internet Society Netherlands for 7 years since 2003. During 2009 and 2010 het was director oat the ministry of Internal Affairs, responsible for the 60 mln euro project Digitale Werkomgeving Rijksdienst. In daily life he runs his own company CoolGroup, providing high level consultancy and masterclasses for goverments, not-for-profit organisations and businesses inspiring leadership. Before starting his own company he led various financial and ICT-related enterprises, such as Scaramea, FBTO Verzekeringen and LeCard (part of AMRO Bank). He was chairman of the board of AVRO, a large public broadcasting organisation in The Netherlands and member of the General Board of VNO-NCW, the national association of employers in The Netherlands. He is an active member of D66, a Netherlands political party which he served as president of the board for several years. more
Adam Fields - Comedian
Adam Fields studied, worked, lived and now does stand-up comedy. A Londoner now resident in Amsterdam, Adam brings laughter to international audiences with his animated style and British humour. With a background in improvisational comedy, his stand-up performances are peppered with spontaneous wit and schizophrenic leaps into other personalities. A lively and visual performer with broad material ranging from the political to the plain stupid. more
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Peter Weill
Chairman, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)
MIT Sloan Senior Research Scientist
Peter’s work centers on the role, value, and governance of digitization in enterprises. Peter joined the Sloan faculty in 2000 to become director of MIT Sloan’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR). MIT CISR is funded by 80 corporate sponsors and patrons, and undertakes practical research on how firms generate business value from IT. Peter is now Chairman of MIT CISR and focuses on globalizing MIT CISR research and delivery.
In 2008, Ziff Davis recognized Peter as #24 of “The Top 100 Most Influential People in IT,” and the highest ranked academic. Peter has written award-winning books, journal articles, and case studies. His work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and The Wall Street Journal.
Peter has co-authored best-selling books published by Harvard Business School Press, including IT Savvy: What Top Executives Must Know to Go from Pain to Gain (2009), Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution (2006), IT Governance: How Top Performers Manage IT Decision Rights for Superior Results (2004), and Leveraging the New Infrastructure: How Market Leaders Capitalize on Information Technology (1998). Peter’s co-authored book Place to Space: Migrating to eBusiness Models (2001) was named by Library Journal as one of the best business books of the year, and was reviewed by The New York Times. Peter presents executive and MBA programs on the business value of IT, and in 2007 Peter received an MIT Sloan Outstanding Teacher Award.
Peter works regularly on IT issues with corporations and governments, including Aetna, ANZ, BCG, BT, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, France Telecom, IBM, McKinsey, Microsoft, Origin Energy, PwC, Raytheon, State Street Corporation, TCS, Unibanco, Woolworths, and World Bank. Peter has conducted workshops at Microsoft and at Bill Gates’ CEO Summit; SAP’s CEO Summit; and for the boards or executive committees of companies including: Banco do Brasil, CBA, Principal Financial Group, Schneider Electric, Unibanco, and Woolworths.
Before joining Sloan, Peter was Foundation Professor and Chair of Management (Information Systems) and a member of the Board of Directors of Melbourne Business. Peter continues his association as an MBS Professorial Fellow.
Web Site: http://cisr.mit.edu
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Wu Choy Peng
Group Chief Information Officer
Neptune Orient Lines, Singapore
Ms Wu Choy Peng is the Group Chief Information Officer of the Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) Group, an integrated transport solutions company. The Group’s core businesses each specialises in different aspects of transportation and logistics. APL is a global top-10 container transportation company, providing services to more than 140 countries through a network combining world-class intermodal operations with leading-edge IT and e-commerce. APL Logistics provides international end-to-end logistics services for global customers employing the latest IT and data connectivity for maximum supply chain visibility and control.
As the Group CIO, Choy Peng’s responsibilities include overseeing strategy development, design and implementation for the Company’s wide range of information systems and processes, and ensuring that day-to-day business processes for the Group’s customers worldwide are streamlined and standardised.
Before joining NOL, Ms Wu was the Singapore Government’s Chief Information Officer for six years, also holding the position of Deputy Chief Executive (Industry) of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore. As the Deputy Chief Executive (Industry) and Government Chief Information Officer, Choy Peng supervised the ICT industry development function, the Government Chief Information Office (GCIO), and the CIO function for the private sector.
From 2000 to 2006, as the Government CIO for Singapore, she put Singapore Government on the world map as the leading e-Government in the world. She had a deep understanding of the structures, processes and personalities of the Singapore Government, built strong IT technical and project management expertise within her team in IDA, developed partnerships with the IT industry to accelerate systems development and implementation for government agencies, and managed a very competent, trusted and strategic Government CIO function for the Singapore Government.
From 1997 to 1999, Choy Peng was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Ministry of Education (MOE). She was posted to MOE in 1997 specifically to provide the technical and project management leadership to ensure that MOE’s ambitious Masterplan for IT in Education could be successfully implemented. As the CIO of MOE, she was in charge of the IT Branch and the Masterplan Project Office.
From 1995 to 1997, Choy Peng was the Cluster Chief of the Public Services Cluster in NCB. As the Cluster Chief, she led the conceptualisation phase of the Integrated Call Centre pilot project. She also led the conceptualisation of eCitizen – a virtual one-stop centre for the delivery of public services. This proof-of-concept laid the foundation for eCitizen and the Public Service Infrastructure (PSi), both of which won many international awards and put Singapore on the world map as a leading eGovernment. The PSi was one of the first large-scale J2EE implementation, at a time when J2EE was relatively new in the market.
From 1987 to 1995, Choy Peng was primarily working on the digital transformation of the private sector. She worked closely with the industry, trade and professional associations in the medical and financial sectors to help companies in these sectors adopt technologies to improve their competitive advantage.
Choy Peng was conferred the Asia Pacific CIO of the Year Award, under the IDC Enterprise Innovation Awards 2011. IDA, or International Data Corporation, is a global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications and consumer technology markets.
In March 2012, she was conferred the IT Leader of the Year Award, under the IT Leaders Awards 2012 organised by the Singapore Computer Society and supported by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.
Choy Peng graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Communication Science, and Mathematics. She also obtained her Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from the same university.
Web Site: http://www.nol.com.sg
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Paul Redmond
Dr Paul Redmond is Head of Careers & Employability at Liverpool University and one of the country’s leading experts on generational theory and the graduate labour market. An experienced writer and speaker, Paul has presented at numerous events and conferences both in the UK and overseas.
In addition to writing regularly for The Guardian, his research has featured in most leading UK newspapers and in recent months he has been a guest on programmes including Breakfast on BBC1, BBC London, Granada Reports on ITV and The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2.
Paul’s work brings him into contact with a range of national and international organisations. His research into the future of work, ‘Generation Y’ and the rise of ‘helicopter parents’ is currently attracting considerable attention among both graduate recruiters and the media.
Paul is Vice-President of the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His new book, The Graduate Careers Formula was published by Trotman in May 2010.
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Pascal Matzke
VP & Research Director, Business Technology Futures - Forrester Research
Pascal co-leads Forrester's Business Technology Futures team, which serves CIOs and their business partners by predicting the long-term business impact of information technology. His research focus is on as-a-service business models and tech-driven business transformation, analyzing the shifting and consolidating IT services and outsourcing market, as well as underlying tech market dynamics. His research also examines new constituencies of buyers and suppliers that are currently reshaping and recasting the business technology landscape. Pascal is a frequent public speaker and is regularly quoted by leading business newspapers and IT magazines, such as CIO Magazine, Computing, The Economist, the Financial Times, Handelsblatt, InformationWeek, and the International Herald Tribune.
Pascal joined Forrester in 2005 from META Group, where he was a European lead analyst and consulting director responsible for IT services and vendor strategy issues. Previously, Pascal came from Giga Information Group, where he was a senior analyst and solution program manager covering IT services and outsourcing topics, as well as the relevant vendor evaluation methodologies. Prior to joining Giga Information Group in 1997, Pascal was involved in management consulting projects at a Munich-based consulting company, mainly in the telecommunications and IT services area.
Pascal earned an M.A. in political science, economics, and modern history from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.
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Nils Olaya Fonstad, Associate Director, eLab - INSEAD
Nils Olaya Fonstad is the Associate Director at eLab, a global research center within INSEAD focused on how public and private institutions create value from the digital economy.
Dr Fonstad investigates how organizations re-structure themselves to both achieve greater synergies across business units and enhance local responsiveness. He developed the “IT engagement model” to describe how organizations effectively link IT projects to organization-wide objectives and to IT infrastructure services. He has found that firms with effective IT engagement models use projects to achieve both local and global objectives. Dr Fonstad draws on both qualitative (e.g., in-depth case studies) and quantitative methods (e.g., surveys) to develop his findings. He has extended this research to examine how organizations effectively govern outsourcing relationships.
Dr Fonstad joined eLab in November 2008. Before then, he worked as a research scientist at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR). Dr Fonstad earned his PhD degree in Information Technology and Organization Studies from MIT Sloan School of Management; an MS from the MIT Technology and Policy Program; and a BS in Mechanical Engineering and BA in Film Studies from Cornell University.
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Martin Mocker
Research Scientist
Center for Information Systems Research
MIT Sloan School of Management
Martin Mocker is a Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (MIT Sloan CISR). His research focuses on IT management and strategy, the role of IT in dealing with business complexity, building IT platforms as well as the impact of consumerization of technology on organizations. In addition, Martin manages MIT Sloan CISR’s European member relationships.
Martin is currently on leave from ESB Business School, Reutlingen University, Germany, where he is a professor of business administration and information systems. Previously, he held faculty positions at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, in the Netherlands and Hult International Business School in London. Before joining academia, Martin was an Engagement Manager and consultant at McKinsey & Company. There he worked with senior executives on issues related to IT and strategy, governance, organisation, outsourcing as well as cost management. His clients were from the banking, media, retail, energy trading industries as well as from the public sector.
Martin holds a doctoral degree from the University of Muenster and a degree in computer science and business administration from the University of Dortmund, Germany.
Fields of Expertise and Interest:
• Business Value from Information Technology
• Information Technology Management and Strategy
• Business Complexity Management and IT
• Chief Information Officer (CIO)
• Consumerization of IT, Bring your Own Device (BYOD) Policies
• IT Cost Management
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Neelie Kroes (born July 19, 1941) is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). She served as a Member of the House of Representatives from August 3, 1971 until December 28, 1977 when she became State Secretary for Transport, Public Works and Water Management from December 28, 1977 until September 11, 1981, in the Cabinet Van Agt I. And again a Member of the House of Representatives from August 27, 1981 until November 4, 1982, when she became Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management from November 4, 1982 until November 7, 1989, in the Cabinets Lubbers I and II.
After a long period of working on the board of commissioners of several multinational corporations she returned to active politics when she became the European Commissioner for Competition for the Barroso Commission. And continued to serve in the second term in the Barroso Commission as the new European Commissioner for Digital Agenda and became one of several Vice-Presidents of the European Commission.
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Tom Kok, Director, Cool Group
Born in 1957 on the Island of Curacao in the Antilles, Tom Kok spent the main part of his youth in this subtropical part of The Netherlands. He has a strong bond with Curacao. The island is the origin of his preference for the unusual.
Kok's family moved to The Netherlands in 1968. His father was a school director, his mother officer in the air force. In 1976 Kok finished Gymnasium and went to study International Law in the city of Leiden. During his studies Kok was treasurer of the International Student and Youth Movement for the United Nations (ISMUN) in Geneva. A boardmembership that gave him new insights in contrast and harmony amongst peoples and organisations. Also Kok earned his lifehood during his studies by working in a bar for six years, which kept him with both feet on the ground. He graduated in 1982 in International Law.
Kok's professional life started with a two years term in the army as an officer in the marine, teaching international law to cadets at the Royal Naval Institute. Specially his colleges on the Conventions of Geneva (human rights and ethics) and sense and nonsense of Peacekeeping forces caused intense discussions amongst the students.
After military service Kok started a career in finances. At Abnamro Bank (then Amro) he got a full scholing as banker. Het became secretary of the Dutch Board of Amro in 1985, director of the creditcompany FinataBank in 1987 and director of Creditcard company LeCard in 1990. In 1992 Kok moved to insurances, when he became ceo of FBTO Insurances (550 employees). Here Kok stayed for six years and built up the company. In 1998 Kok was promoted to director of strategy of the Achmea insurance group, the second biggest insurance group in The Netherlands.
During the time of his career in finances, Kok also became active in politics within the political party D66, a party mostly referred to as The Democrats. This party has strong visions on the renewal of democracy, non discrimination, environment and international coöperation and is mostly considered to be left of the middle in the political spectrum. Since 1966 the democrats have been part of the Cabinet for 16 years, mainly under the leadership of Hans van Mierlo. From 1984 till 1988 Kok was treasurer of the national board. In 1996 he was elected chairman of the party, which position he held till 1999. As a person Kok is highly motivated in the fields of excellent education, disarmament and international solidarity.
In 1999 Kok's term in D66 ended and at the same time he left his job at Achmea Group, to start his own companies Krite in Sneek and CoolCapital in Amsterdam. Krite managed projects in the field of public-private cooperation. CoolCapital specialised in change management with the use of new media. In 2001 Kok transformed his companies into the CoolGroup, Bureau for Governance and Management, specialising in inspiring leadership. Coolgroup offers masterclasses in inspiring leadership and inspiring chairmanship. Kok frequently acts as chairman and speaker in conferences. Kok was president of the Dutch American Football Association, chairman of the Dutch Internet Society, chairman of the board of AVRO, a major broadcaster in The Netherlands and chairman of the Dutch Dialogue Marketing Association. From 2009 till the end of 2010 Kok was director of the project ‘Digitale Werkomgeving Rijksdienst’ at the ministry of Internal Affaires of the Dutch Government, which project aimed at uniforming the office ict of all ministries. The project ended 3 months before the deadline and six million within budget.
Nowadays Kok lives on the island Curaçao in the Carribean.
Some typical statements of Kok:
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Never doubt the ability of a small group of dedicated people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever did.
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Strategy is reacting with small changes to small changes, all in the same direction.
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If you keep both feet on the ground, you can't move forward.
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Paradise is now.
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Adam Fields
Adam Fields studied, worked, lived and now does stand-up comedy. A Londoner now resident in Amsterdam, Adam brings laughter to international audiences with his animated style and British humour. With a background in improvisational comedy, his stand-up performances are peppered with spontaneous wit and schizophrenic leaps into other personalities. A lively and visual performer with broad material ranging from the political to the plain stupid.
Adam has performed in Britain, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, USA, Monaco, Switzerland, Malta, Italy, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and South Africa. Whether as an act, MC or headliner Adam manages to charm every crowd true to his comic mantra 'no gig too far, no crowd too tough, no fee too big'.
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