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Golden Opportunities
New Product Ideas with High Likelihood of Success
How do you find new product ideas that are likely to succeed? Large software companies
are increasingly relying on fostering communities and nurture business ecosystems
to be successful. Such ecosystems create business opportunities for entrepreneurs
to innovate and be part of the value chain. Join TechBiz Connection and two experts
from Sage and Salesforce.com to learn more about the ecosystems and how to play
in an established company ecosystem.
Panelists
Alok Tyagi | Vice President
of R&D | Sage Software
Alok Tyagi is an accomplished leader in the enterprise software industry. He brings
more than 17 years of product development experience leading technology vision,
strategy and successful execution in the industry. Just a product guy, Alok has
built a distinguished career introducing successful global enterprise products to
the market. He actively serves on various architecture boards helping with the strategic
product direction/technology plan. Alok brings deep insight in the software industry
and provides a unique blend of technical/functional and business understanding.
He is an expert in the wide range of technology arena and has grown various “enterprise-ready”
product development organizations.
Tyagi is an MBA from Colorado University and a Computer Engineering graduate from
Regional Engineering College in India. Previously,
Alok has filled senior management positions for industry-leading companies such
as Oracle, PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards Abalon, HCL, and Network Limited.Currently he
is a Vice President of R&D at Sage Software responsible for the enterprise products
in North America. His product portfolio includes Peachtree, MAS 90/200, MAS 500
and Providex. He also serves on the board of advisor of start-up companies and mentor
local entrepreneurs.
Pat Morrissey | VP,
Strategic Alliances | Salesforce.com
Mr. Morrissey is responsible for building go to market strategy and programs with
strategic partners of Salesforce.com. Prior to joining Salesforce.com, Morrissey
was the Senior Vice President of marketing and business development for Savvion,
a leader in Business Process Management (BPM) Software, where he helped grow the
company 100% year over year. Prior to Savvion, Morrissey was Vice President of Marketing
for enterprise performance management (EPM) at Business Objects. Mr. Morrissey is
a frequent speaker at industry conferences including Gartner, Computer World, IDC
and Forrester and he has appeared on CNN, CNBC and in the Wall Street Journal. Mr.
Morrissey holds a bachelors degree from Iowa State University.
Moderator
Jack Bicer | CEO |
Septium Corporation
Jack is the founder of Septium, a hybrid-offshore custom software development company,
combining offshore cost savings with US management expertise. Prior to Septium,
Jack held several CTO roles in Internet companies since the early days of the Internet.
A 29-year software industry veteran, Jack is an industry expert in SaaS/web software,
new product development, off-shoring and Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Known
as the “Father of Uninstall”, he invented the uninstall concept and wrote the first
uninstaller. He is also credited with inventing the "Automated Software Updates".
In 2003, Jack founded TechBiz Connection, a non-profit technology management association
in Southern California, and currently serves as its Chairman and President. Jack
holds a Bachelors in Communication Engineering from University of Kent, followed
by a Masters in Computer Science from George Washington University and attended
the MBA program at Pepperdine University.
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