Keynotes & Speakers

Keynotes

Rudy Karsan
Chairman and CEO
Kenexa
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Mr. Karsan co-founded Kenexa in 1987 and currently serves as the chairman and chief executive officer. Prior to then, Mr. Karsan headed Marketing Actuarial for the Mercantile & General Insurance Company in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Karsan received a Bachelor of Math degree in actuarial science from the University of Waterloo and is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries.

Dan Roam
Founder, Digital Roam, Inc.,
author of The Back of the Napkin
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Dan Roam is the founder of Digital Roam Inc, a management consulting company that helps business executives solve complex problems through visual thinking. His business book The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures was just published by Penguin Portfolio.

Through consulting projects and lectures, Dan has used his unique visual thinking approach to resolve challenges at Microsoft, Wal-Mart, eBay, Wells Fargo, Infosys Consulting, The Thomson Corporation, Peet's Coffee & Tea, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the US Navy, among many others.

Dan discovered the power of pictures as a business problem-solving tool in the late 1980's when he founded the first marketing communications company in the (then) Soviet Union. With no Russian language skills, Dan quickly realized that his business pictures transcended the language barrier. Ever since that eye-opening experience, Dan has been fine-tuning the visual thinking tools he introduces in The Back of the Napkin.

Dan received two degrees at the University of California, Santa Cruz: one in fine art and the second in biology. This combination of art and science began Dan's cross-disciplinary approach to problem solving that is the backbone of his work and lectures. Dan is also a licensed pilot, a skill that demands constant practice in understanding visual information displays. Dan has applied his business-oriented visual thinking skills while living and working in Switzerland, Russia, Thailand, France, Holland, and the US. He lives in San Francisco.

Dr. Jeremy J. Siegel
Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
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Jeremy Siegel is the Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of three books, including "Stocks for the Long Run" (named by the Washington Post as one of the ten best investment books of all time) and "The Future for Investors: Why the Tried and the True Triumph over the Bold and New," acclaimed as one of the best business books published in 2005 by Business Week, the Financial Times, and Barron's magazine. Siegel has written and lectured extensively about economy and financial markets. His columns and articles have been published in The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, the Financial Times, Kiplinger's, and other national and international media.

Professor Siegel graduated from Columbia University, received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and spent one year as a National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University. He taught at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago before joining the Wharton faculty. In 1994 he received the highest teaching rating in a worldwide ranking of business school professors conducted by BusinessWeek magazine. He served for 15 years as head of economics training at JP Morgan, and is currently the academic director of the U.S. Securities Industry Institute.

Mr. Siegel has received many honors, including the Distinguished Leadership Award from the Securities Industry Association, and the Nicholas Molodovsky Award from the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute, given to "those individuals who have made outstanding contributions of such significance as to change the direction of the profession and to raise it to higher standards of accomplishment."

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Business process improvement is an ethereal subject - even without bringing "cloud" into the equation. Until now, business processes supported by cloud computing have been a "black box," a "Bermuda Triangle," within an organization's end-to-end processes. The use of business process management technologies (BPMTs) by providers of cloud computing makes these hidden processes visible to stakeholders and allows for holistic process optimization. This session looks at the adoption of BPMTs in cloud computing.

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