Keynote - Mike Angiulo

With the world of work changing due to increasing competition as well as global, financial and economic risks, enterprises need to manage their project portfolios efficiently. Organizations need to evolve from pure project management thinking to ‘work management’ based scenarios that span organizational boundaries and maturity levels, enabling project managers and information workers to manage vast amounts of data, information, and work in meaningful ways. In this keynote, Michael Angiulo, General Manager of the Project Business at Microsoft, will discuss the power and possibilities of the 2007 Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution. Michael will demonstrate how companies worldwide are leveraging end-to-end collaborative project and portfolio management capabilities of 2007 Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Solution along with deployment best practices and solutions developed by Microsoft solution partners to significantly increase their operational efficiencies. In addition, Michael will also articulate Microsoft’s broader vision for the future of Project and Portfolio Management, and how current investments in Project 2007 can help individuals and enterprises prepare for the next wave of innovation and business productivity.

Mike Angiulo
General Manager, Microsoft Office Project Business Unit, Microsoft Corporation

As General Manager of the Microsoft Project Business Unit, Michael Angiulo is responsible for the product development and strategic direction of the Microsoft Project business. While building on the strong foundation of Project on the desktop, he is currently investing in the Enterprise Project Management solution, powered by Project Server and the recently acquired Project Portfolio Server. Prior to this role, Michael was the Group Product Planner for the Information Worker division, leading the worldwide research and strategy teams for the Office System and Real Time Communications groups. Michael has been with Microsoft for over twelve years and has previously held program management roles in Microsoft Research as well as on the Excel, FrontPage and core Office product teams, and has been awarded seven patents. He earned an undergraduate engineering degree from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington, where he has been a repeat guest lecturer on Axiomatic Design as applied to software development.