FASTforward '07

Agenda

FASTforward '07 was 2 1/2 days packed with thought-provoking, visionary yet pragmatic content. Each day included Keynote Addresses, General Sessions, Business and Technical Breakout Sessions, and Networking Breaks.

Wednesday, February 7th
5:00 PM	Welcome - FAST Forward Kick-Off John Markus Lervik, CEO, FAST
5:15 PM	The "Inter" Personal Enterprise Ray Lane, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM	Welcome Reception

Thursday, February 8th
7:30 AM	Breakfast & Partner Pavilion
8:30 AM	Welcome - Day 2 Kick-Off Michael Tupanjanin , EVP, Worldwide Sales
8:45 AM	Search 2.0: The Future of Search John Markus Lervik, CEO, FAST
9:00 AM	Web 2.0: Powered by Search John Battelle, Founder and Chairman, Federated Media Publishing
9:20 AM	Enterprise 2.0: The Next Disrupter Andrew McAfee, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
9:50 AM	Business Intelligence: Transformation 2.0 William Inmon, VP, Published Author and Universally Recognized as the "father of the data warehouse" Stephen Gallagher, Sr. Director, Accenture Information Management Services, Europe Bill Laberis, VP, Custom Content Strategy, Computerworld Davor Peter Sutija, VP, Strategic Market Development, FAST
10:20 AM	Web 2.0 Survey: The Economist Intelligence Unit Jeanette Borzo, Contributing Editor, Economist Intelligence Unit
10:30 AM	Break & Partner Pavilion
11:00 AM	Putting it All Together: The Vision is Reality Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc. Stephen R. Baker, CEO, RB Search, Reed Business Perry Solomon, VP, Business Development, FAST
11:30 AM	Search Technology: The New Frontier Michael Schrage, Co-Director of the MIT Media Lab's E-Markets Initiative Matt Brown, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research Bjørn Olstad, CTO, FAST
12:00 PM	Innovate, Accelerate, Dominate! Zia Zaman, Senior VP, Strategic Marketing, FAST
12:30 PM	Lunch & Partner Pavilion
	Breakout Sessions
	Business I	Business II	Technical I	Technical Workshop	Specialized Solutions
1:30 PM	Back Office 2.0 Davor Peter Sutija, VP, Strategic Market Development, FAST	New Business Models in Video Distribution Dr. Jacques Bughin, Partner, McKinsey & Company	FAST Technology - Solutions for the Connected World John Felahi, VP, Product Management, FAST Nate Treloar, Senior VP, Knowledge Services, FAST		Metrics: Enabling the Agile Enterprise Mike Oliver, Senior VP, Thomas Group
2:00 PM	Extreme Data Quality Mikal Rohde, CEO, Schibsted	Building Stronger Communities Sudhakar Gorti, VP, Enterprise Architecture, NBC Universal Stephen R. Baker, CEO RB Search, Reed Business	The Future of Search and Information Access Matt Brown, Sr. Analyst, Forrester Research		Mobile Web 2.0 Tony Fish, CEO, AMF Ventures
2:30 PM	Is The Database Dead? Edward Longo, VP, Information Technology, Retirement Services, ING	Engaging with Your Multi-Platform Audience Dorothea Herrey, Director - Franchise Development and Partnership, Dow Jones Consumer Media Group Michael Buschmann, Senior Manager - Search, Deutsche Telekom Alex Withers, Director - Marketing, ESPN New Media	FAST Beyond 2007: Technology Direction Sven Arne Gylterud, SVP, Product Management & Product Marketing, FAST		Search Meets Blogs and Wikis Greg Lloyd, President and Co-Founder, Traction Software
3:00 PM	Break & Partner Pavilion
3:30 PM	Search Powered Enterprise 2.0 Zia Zaman, SVP, Strategic Marketing, FAST	Innovation Monetization - Search as a Profit Center Charles Talbot, GM - Search, 24.com Peter Hutto, VP, Business Development & Sales, Local.com Brendan Benzing, VP, Mobile Search, Platforms and Ad Solutions, Infospace	Search is the Portal Suresh Thumma, Research Technology, Merrill Lynch Dan Halsey, Site Manager, BestBuy.com Hadley Reynolds, VP, Centre for Search Innovation, FAST Joe Lichtman, Director, Product Management, FAST	Search Enabling Your Desktop Application with PSP Rick Ahlander, Sr. Software Engineer, FAST	On Demand and eCommerce: How the SAAS Model Can Simplify Life for Online Retailers Butch Langlois, CEO, Truition
4:00 PM	Information Discovery: Lifting the Fog in Your Organization Dan Thomas, Program Director, Metropolitan Washington Fusion Center	Changing the Game: Using Search to Build New Business Models Dr. Joubine Dustzadeh, Co-Founder and CTO, Divvio Pavel Roytberg, Product Development Department, MTS Steven Schwartz, CTO, Accoona	Search as the Service Delivery Platform Petter Karal, CEO, Ezmo Tore Skaug, Director, Product Management, FAST Stein Danielsen, Director, Product Development, FAST	Beyond Relevance: Leveraging XML Scope Search Stephen DiMarco, Senior Principal, JSOC	GeoSpatial Mobile Telephony Search Ted Villalba, Managing Partner, eSR Consulting
4:30 PM	Business Transformation Through Search Geoff Beckworth, Telstra Technology, Innovation & Product Lead Architect - Knowledge Management, Telstra	Winning Strategies in Vertical Search Chris Shillum, VP, Product Technology, Elsevier Svein Thore Gran, Publisher, DN.no	Consumption Oriented Architecture John Felahi, VP, Product Management, FAST Mark Pritchard, Senior Manager, SCS, FAST Andrew Bingham,Technical Design Manager, ANZ Jeff Spotts, VP Marketing, Archivas		Retail Domination Through Search David Da Silva, Managing Consultant, Conchango
5:00 PM	Surveillance, Data Fusion, and Information Exchange for Intelligence Applications John McGrath, Sr. Director, Strategic Marketing, FAST Jeff Fried, VP Advanced Solutions, FAST	Domination in Local Search João Pedro Gonçalves, SAPO - Portugal Telecom Mikal Rohde, CEO, Schibsted Reimer Hantke, Sr. Manager, t-info GmbH
7:00 PM	Cocktail Reception & Partner Pavillion
8:00 PM	FAST Innovation Awards 2006 Dinner

Friday, February 9th
7:30 AM	Breakfast & Partner Pavilion
8:30 AM	Welcome - Day 3 Kick-Off Michael Tupanjanin, EVP, Worldwide Sales
8:45 AM	The Long Tail Chris Anderson, Editor-in-chief, Wired Magazine
9:30 AM	Reach the Long Tail Bjørn Olstad, CTO, FAST
10:00 AM	The "Very Long Tail" of the Enterprise: What Role for Search? Chris Weitz, Manager Director, BearingPoint
10:30 AM	Break & Partner Pavilion
	Breakout Sessions
	Business I	Business II	Technical I	Technical Deep Dive	Specialized Solutions
11:00 AM	The User Experience: Innovation at Marriott Richard Corson, Sr. Director, Shared Services Application Technologies, Marriott International Lee Eichelberger, Director, Strategic Consulting, Usability, FAST	Mining the Web for Gold: Structure the Unstructured Ole-Kristian VillabØ, Sr. Consultant, Comperio	FAST Technology Overview Tim McKinnon, Senior Director, Field Services, Americas, FAST Brian Walker, VP, Product Development, FAST	ESP: New Innovation and Developments Jan Helge Sageflåt, Director, Product Management - ESP, FAST Børge Nilsen, VP, Engineering, FAST	Implementing Enterprise Search: METRO Group Networking Simone Schiffner-Backhaus, Project Manager, METRO Group
11:30 AM	The Convergence of Search and BI Mark Smith, CEO & EVP Research, Ventana Research	Mitigating Risk with eDiscovery Solutions: A Panel Discussion Brian Babineau, Analyst, ESG Jim Geronaitis, VP of Marketing and Product Marketing, Permabit Jeff Spotts, VP Marketing, Archivas Bruce Klefer, VP Operations, Catalyst Repository Systems Jeff Webb, Director of Product Development - Client Solutions, LexisNexis Applied Discovery	Search Usability and Result Navigators Laura Arlov, Chief Evangelist, FAST	Secure Search - The Very Idea Fred Schneider, Professor, Cornell	Integrated Search Approach at Siemens Uwe Mirk, Service Manager Search, Entitlement & Web Reporting, Siemens
12:00 AM	Gaining Powerful Insights from Your Data Tim Duree, Manager Project Controls Process & Systems, KBR	Embedded Search: Embedded Value Jim Sweeney, Product Manager, PTC	The Complete Search Development Life-Cycle April Kociolek, Allegis Steinar Storholt, VP, Solution & Customer Services, FAST Helge Storøy, Director, SCS Delivery Enablement, FAST	Integration and Document Processing Torstein Thorsen, VP, Technical Lead, FAST Petter Moe, VP, Content Capture and Refinement, FAST Torgeir Hovden, Senior Director, Product Development, FAST	Web 2.0 Consumer Health Search Tauseef Bashir, CEO, Taumed.com
12:30 PM	Lunch & Partner Pavilion
	Extended Sessions
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Business Intelligence Based on Search
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM	The Future of Media
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Partner Training