Summit Speakers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michael Hugos is an author, speaker and award-winning CIO. He works with clients to find elegant solutions to complex problems, with a focus on supply chains, business intelligence and new business ventures. He is passionate about agile development methods in IT and business and has mentored managers and development teams in companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks Coffee, Aramark Healthcare and U.S. Navy Medical Logistics Command as well as numerous smaller companies.

Michael has spent six years as CIO of a national distribution organization where he developed a suite of supply chain and e-business systems that transformed the company's operations and revenue model.

For this work he twice won the CIO 100 Award for resourcefulness and boldness, the InformationWeek 500 Award for innovation and the Computerworld Premier 100 Award for career achievement.

 

Michael writes the CIO Magazine blogDoing Business in Real Time and has authored seven books including the popular Essentials of Supply Chain Management, and his latest book, Business in the Cloud: What Every Business Needs to Know about Cloud Computing.

http://michaelhugos.com/

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Patrick, author of Net Attitude and one of the leading Internet visionaries, believes the rapid evolution of the Internet has brought it to adolescence. We haven’t seen anything yet! The Internet will continue to change how we learn, buy, entertain, and communicate, -- and is about to change how we engage in healthcare. John will provide an exciting vision about the power and potential of the mobile Internet, cloud computing, and social media. He will discuss the key opportunities that are just beginning to surface, and the potential limitations that may stand in the way. More importantly, he will offer a visionary glimpse of the future beyond the Internet, as we know it. His presentation will bring to life John’s vision of the technological and societal changes underway and provide examples of how businesses and institutions of all kinds can serve their customers empower their employees to achieve new levels of productivity, satisfaction – and health.

John Patrick is President of Attitude LLC and former vice president of Internet technology at IBM, where he worked for thirty-eight years. During his IBM career, John helped start IBM’s leasing business at IBM Credit Corporation, and was senior marketing executive for the launch of the IBM ThinkPad brand. Starting in the early 1990s, John dedicated his time to fostering Internet technologies. One of the leading Internet visionaries, John is quoted frequently in the global media and speaks at dozens of conferences around the world. Business 2.0 named him as one of the industry’s most intriguing minds, Industry Week named him one of the top 30 people who drive innovation and provide the initial spark to economic growth, and Network World called him one of the 25 most powerful people in networking. John was a founding member of the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT in 1994, a founding member and past chairman of the Global Internet Project, a member of the Internet Society, a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. John has been a business and technology advisor to numerous companies. He is a member of the board of directors of WebMediaBrands Corporation, Knovel Corporation, Danbury Health Systems, Inc., Founders Hall, and OCLC. His book, Net Attitude, paints a vivid picture of the future of the Internet and the attitudes needed to capitalize on it.

http://patrickweb.com/

https://twitter.com/johnrpatrick