SCHEDULE
SIIA Information Industry Summit
Leading in Challenging Times
Union League Club - New York City - January 28, 2003
7:45 am - 8:30 am
Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:15 am
Welcome Remarks
Ken Wasch
President, SIIA
Opening Keynote Address
Andrew Prozes
Global CEO, LexisNexis Group,
Reed Elsevier
Andrew Prozes serves on the Board of Directors of Reed Elsevier plc, and was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Reed Elsevier's LexisNexis Group in July, 2000. In this capacity, he has responsibility for all of Reed Elsevier's information services and information based solutions to legal and business professionals on a global basis. LexisNexis Group products and services include LexisNexis, Butterworths, Tolley, Juris Classeur, Matthew Bender, Michie, Shepard's, and Martindale-Hubbell.
9:15 am - 10:15 am
Outlook for Capital '03
A panel of experts talk about the information industry's outlook in the financial marketplace. Panelists will discuss:
- The current economic cycle and where it's headed in the coming months?
- The economic signals remain mixed, and there is no consensus among economists regarding near term growth prospects. What influence will this have on our markets?
- How will the recent accounting and corporate governance scandals among high profile companies affect the capital markets?
- What's happening in the venture capital market? Where are they investing and why?
- How are the private equity firms reacting to current market conditions. What are their short and long-term strategies?
Moderator:
Wilma Jordan
CEO, The Jordan Edmiston Group
Panelists:
Mike Bender
Chief Editor, Thomson's International Financing Review
Julie Jalelian
Managing Director, Media and Entertainment, Fleet Boston Financial
Douglas McKibben
Research Director, Gartner/G2 Financial Services
Peter Smith
Managing Director, Wicks Group of Companies
Alan Spoon
Managing General Partner, Polaris Ventures
Marcia Vickers
Associate Editor, Business Week
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Morning Break
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Lessons Learned... Seeing Red or Seeing Black
Hear how these information content companies CEOs/CFOs are not only weathering the economic storm but prospering. Learn how they turned a revenue-challenged environment into a time of revenue gain. These companies prove that it is not just the market, it's the business model that matters.
Moderator:
Renee Citera
Vice President, Enterprise Market Planning, LexisNexis Group
Panelists:
Phil Hadley
Chairman & CEO, FactSet Research Systems, Inc.
Anthea Stratigos
President & CEO, Outsell Inc.
Susan Strausberg
CEO, EDGAR Online
11:30 am - Noon
Networking Reception
Noon - 1:30 pm
Luncheon Address
Tim Berners-Lee
Director of the World Wide Web Consortium
A graduate of Oxford University, England, Tim now holds the 3Com Founders chair at the Laboratory for Computer Science ( LCS)at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He directs the World Wide Web Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations with the mission to lead the Web to its full potential.
1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Content Buyers Meet Content Sellers -
Perspectives from CIOs and CTOs
CTOs play ever-more central role in how vendors
package and deliver their content and applications to customers. At the same time, corporate CIOs and information professionals are exerting more control over how content and applications are being purchased and integrated into their internal networks. In this panel, vendor CTOs and corporate IS counterparts will go head-to-head on such emerging issues as pricing and packaging of content, integration of content and applications, rights management, globalization, and, of course, technology.
Moderator:
Lee Greenhouse
President, Greenhouse Associates
Panelists:
Chris Brune
Vice President, Knowledge Manager, Bates Worldwide
Paul Clayton, PhD
Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Intermountain Healthcare
Jim King
Senior Vice President, Technology & New Media Services, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Jim Pino
VP, Group Head, Enterprise Technology Services, JPMorganChase
Jeff Scott
CTO, Thomson Financial
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Afternoon Break
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Global Content and Distribution Strategies
Players in maturing North American information markets are seeking new growth around the globe. In this panel, internationally-focused information executives will discuss lessons from their own experience, and identify today's biggest challenges to playing successfully on a global scale. International development, operating, and branding Issues will be explored from cultural, legal, technical and business perspectives.
Moderator:
Steven Sieck
Managing Partner, EPS-USA
Panelists:
Clemens Ceipek
SVP Global Strategy & Business Development, LexisNexis Group
Ronald G. Dunn
President & CEO, Academic and International Group, Thomson Learning
Laurence Kaye
Solicitor
Ross Leher
CEO, WAND
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The 30,000 Foot View
A roundtable discussion by CEOs representing the full spectrum of the industry matrix. Topics will include - views on current marketplace, the impact of technology, the competitive environment, barriers to global distribution, and how user expectations change the market.
Moderator:
James Kollegger
CEO, Genesys Partners
Panelists:
Patrick Kenealy
President & CEO, International Data Group (IDG)
Mason Slaine
President & CEO, Information Holdings, Inc. (IHI)
Pat Tierney
Global CEO, Education Group, Reed Elsevier
Paul Wojcik
President & CEO, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA)
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Reception