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. |
Kickoff - The New World of Work Tyler Bryson, Microsoft Corporation | Whitepaper Slide deck | 300kbps | 500k | Event keynote Geoffrey Moore, TCG Advisors | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Microsoft keynote Todd Holmdahl, Microsoft Corporation | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Industry keynote Janelle Monney, Freescale Semiconductor | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Industry keynote Stuart Pann, Intel Corporation | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Visioning Presentation Michael Burkett, AMR Research | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Case Study Pete Thompson, Microsoft Corporation | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Case Study Herman Harwell, Applied Materials | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Visioning Presentation Julio Hernandez, Accenture | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Case Study James Cates, Altera | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Case Study Michael Beach, Compellent Technologies | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Case Study Lionel Menchaca, Dell, Inc. | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Visioning Presentation Dr. Hau Lee, Stanford University | Slide deck | 300kbps | Case Study Catherine Carey, Texas Instruments | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Case Study Linda Pfost, Intel Corporation | Slide deck | - | Case Study Herbert Brecheis - ABB | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Visioning Presentation Colin Masson, AMR Research | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Case Study Giri Chodavarapu, Finisar and Rob Rudder, Camstar | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Case Study Kim Hammonds, Dell, Inc. | Slide deck | 300kbps | 500kbps | Case Study Dev Pillai, Intel Corporation | - | 300kbps | 500kbps |
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