Breakfast and Presentation – IBM Software Strategy
 
HYSTA DSS will host a breakfast and presentation session on IBM Software Strategy on April 27th, and Alan Ganek, CTO and VP of Strategy and Technology from IBM Software Group will present the vision, strategy and direction of the Big Blue.
 
We will start the event with small group breakfast session with open discussions on the trends, challenges and opportunities in the software world today.
 
Then we will follow with presentation from Alan Ganek about IBM’s global software strategy, and ending with Q&A session
 
This event is open to HYSTA’s EC, GS and VC group members.
 
Date
Tuesday, 04/27/2010
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM: Breakfast (limited to 12 people)
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Presentation and Q&A (Limited to 30 people) 
 
Venue
Room: Courtyard 1F
Law Office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati  
650 Page Mill Road,
Palo Alto, CA
 
Admission
$30 – Breakfast and presentation
$10 – Presentation only
 
About The Speaker
 
Alan Ganek
CTO and VP of Strategy and Technology, Software Group, IBM
 
Alan Ganek is the CTO and VP of Strategy and Technology, Software Group, leading the strategic direction of IBM’s world wide software organization. His responsibilities include advanced development methodologies; incubation of innovative technologies; the transformation, integration, and useability of IBM’s middleware across all software brands; competitive analysis; and open standards and open source software. In addition, Alan provides thought leadership around key IBM initiatives such as Smarter Planet, Cloud computing, and Green computing initiatives for IBM.
 
Before becoming CTO of Software Group, Alan was Chief Technology Officer, IBM Tivoli software. As CTO of Tivoli, Alan was responsible for the technology, architecture, strategy, and planning for IBM's Tivoli software brand, the market leader in delivering products and services that help customers manage their information technology deployments.
 
In 2005, Mr. Ganek received the Albert Einstein Innovation Award from Global Capital Associates for his leadership in establishing the field of Autonomic Computing. He also was recognized as the development leader of an IBM project which received a Technical Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Previously, IBM awarded him Outstanding Innovation Awards for his work on Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 and System/390 Parallel Sysplex Design.
 
Prior to joining IBM Software Group, Mr. Ganek was responsible for the technical strategy and operations of IBM’s Research Division, the largest private research organization in the Information Technology industry, which is focused on research leadership in areas related to information technology as well as exploratory work in science and mathematics. This role entailed developing IBM’s technology outlook for the future as well as the Research division’s strategy, in addition to responsibility for key operational processes such as finance, site management, and information services.
 
Mr. Ganek joined IBM as a software engineer in 1978 in Poughkeepsie, New York where he was involved in operating system design and development, computer addressing architecture, and parallel systems architecture and design. He subsequently held numerous management and executive positions in operating systems, software quality and manufacturing, and the development of solutions for the Telecommunications and Media industries.
 
Mr. Ganek received his M.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers University in 1981. He holds 16 patents.
 
 
About HYSTA
HYSTA (Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association, www.hysta.org) is a leading Chinese professional association in US. Founded in 1999 by a group of successful Chinese entrepreneurs, HYSTA aims at nurturing entrepreneurship and career development among Chinese technology and business professionals and facilitates networking and the exchange of business ideas between Silicon Valley and China.