Microsoft Global High Tech Summit 2007

2007 Summit Recap

The 2nd Annual Microsoft Global High Tech Summit brought together over 350 senior executives from high tech and electronics companies around the world to discuss the issues driving the industry and to learn from their peer executives about how they are improving their business performance and solving industry challenges through the use of solutions from Microsoft and its partners.

Here is what our attendees said about the 2nd Annual Microsoft Global High Tech Summit:

"Excellent Summit. Well organized. Good speakers, it was time well spent. Thank you Microsoft. It was much better than last year. The bar has been raised for the next year."

"Excellent summit, excellent theme, excellent speakers."

"The summit was great - met my expectations. Breakout sessions were relevant too. Will be back again next year!!"

"Great conference. Excellent Content. Great Messaging."

Download the complete journal of the 2007 event: PDF format | XPS format

The 48-page document includes:

Four keynote session articles summarizing presentations from senior executives at Intel, Freescale Semiconductor, Microsoft’s XBOX group, and noted High Tech author and consultant Geoffrey Moore.

Four breakout session articles, one for each of our sessions aligned to the four manufacturing solutions pillars (Driving for Continuous Innovation, Building Customer Relationships, Strengthening Value Chain Partnerships, and Driving Operational Excellence - remember ISC?). These articles cover the breakout session vision presentation and the case studies presented directly by our customers.

Six supply chain oriented articles summarizing presentations given at CompTIAs EIDX (Electronic Industry Data eXchange) Fall Summit held the day before the summit sponsored by Microsoft.

Advertisements from Microsoft and some of our key High Tech partners.

Solution Spotlights for each article that highlight Microsoft products and solutions that help customers address challenges presented in the articles.

The 2007 event program is also available for download in PDFand XPS formats.

2007 Event Highlights
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Keynotes  

Kickoff - The New World of Work
Tyler Bryson, Microsoft Corporation

Whitepaper
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Event keynote
Geoffrey Moore, TCG Advisors

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Microsoft keynote
Todd Holmdahl, Microsoft Corporation

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Industry keynote
Janelle Monney, Freescale Semiconductor

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Industry keynote
Stuart Pann, Intel Corporation

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Breakout session - Driving for continuous innovation  

Visioning Presentation
Michael Burkett, AMR Research

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Case Study
Pete Thompson, Microsoft Corporation

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Case Study
Herman Harwell, Applied Materials

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Breakout session - Building customer relationships  

Visioning Presentation
Julio Hernandez, Accenture

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Case Study
James Cates, Altera

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Case Study
Michael Beach, Compellent Technologies

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Case Study
Lionel Menchaca, Dell, Inc.

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Breakout session - Strengthening value chain partnerships  

Visioning Presentation
Dr. Hau Lee, Stanford University

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Case Study
Catherine Carey, Texas Instruments

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Case Study
Linda Pfost, Intel Corporation

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Case Study
Herbert Brecheis - ABB

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Breakout session - Driving operational excellence  

Visioning Presentation
Colin Masson, AMR Research

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Case Study
Giri Chodavarapu, Finisar and Rob Rudder, Camstar

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Kim Hammonds, Dell, Inc.

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Case Study
Dev Pillai, Intel Corporation

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