FASTforward '07

Featured Speaker

Ray Lane, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; former COO of Oracle
Ray Lane is focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling, and managing growth. Read More...

Speakers & Moderators

Chris Anderson, Editor-in-chief of Wired magazine
Chris Anderson is one of the most knowledgeable and articulate voices at the center of the new economy. Read More...

John Battelle, An entrepreneur, journalist, professor, and author
John Battelle is currently founder and chairman of Federated Media Publishing, he is also a founder and executive producer of conferences in the media, technology, communications, and entertainment industries and “band manager” with BoingBoing.net. Read More...

Jeanette Borzo, Contributing Editor, Economist Intelligence Unit
Jeanette Borzo has been reporting on business and technology -- in markets from Silicon Valley to Paris to Moscow -- for nearly two decades for a host of publications including The New York Times, Time magazine, the International Herald Tribune and France's Les Echos. Read More...

Matthew Brown, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research
Matthew Brown is a senior analyst with Forrester Research, focusing on how companies enhance the impact of their workforces using knowledge management practices and technologies such as portals, enterprise search, expertise location, collaboration, and related software. Read More...

Dr. Jacques Bughin, Partner, McKinsey & Company
Jacques Bughin is a Partner at the Brussels office of McKinsey & Company. Since joining by end 1992, he has worked for various offices, mostly on projects related to media, telecom and technology. Read More...

William Inmon, Published author and universally recognized as the father of the data warehouse
William Inmon, is recognized as the “father of the data warehouse” and co-creator of the “Corporate Information Factory.” Read More...

John M. Lervik, Founder and CEO, FAST
John M. Lervik, Ph.D., serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and is a co-founder of FAST. Dr. Lervik served as the Company's Chief Technology Officer from 1997 to September 2001 overlooking all of the company research and product development activities. Read More...

Andrew P. McAfee, Associate Professor, Harvard Business School
Andrew McAfee joined the faculty of the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School in 1998. His research investigates how managers can most effectively select, implement, and use Information Technology (IT) to achieve business goals. Read More...

Bjørn Olstad, CTO, FAST
Bjørn Olstad, Ph.D., serves as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Before joining the Company, Dr. Olstad held key positions within General Electric Medical Systems, including Director of Research and Development for Cardiac Ultrasound. Read More...

Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, and an activist for open standards. Read More...

Michael Schrage, co-director of the MIT Media Lab's E-Markets Initiative and a senior adviser to MIT's Security Studies Program
Michael Schrage is one of the world's leading experts on the economics of innovation. Read More...

Henry Birdseye Weil, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management
Henry Weil was president and CEO of Cambridge-based management consulting firm Pugh-Roberts Associates before bringing his considerable knowledge of corporate strategy in technology industries to MIT Sloan. Read More...

Chris Weitz, Managing Director, BearingPoint, Inc.
Mr. Weitz is a Managing Director at BearingPoint in the Global Technology Solutions group, based in Silicon Valley, CA. He has over twenty-five years of experience in IT, working with a wide range of organizations, from Fortune 500 companies to technology startups.Read More...

Zia Zaman, SVP, Strategic Market Development, FAST
Zia Zaman serves as Senior Vice President, Strategic Market Development, responsible for identifying key vertical and horizontal solution opportunities and spearheading the pursuit of these opportunities. Read More...