Introduced by Ms. Ping Chen
Date: Saturday 7/21/2007
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Admission: Free
Location:
Conference Room No. 2, Administration Building
Northwestern Polytechnic University,
47671 Westinghouse Drive, Fremont, CA 94539
Ms.Ping Chen 7/21/2007
- Title
Offshore Outsourcing: Trends and Opportunities
- Abstract
IT and software development outsourcing is currently one of the fastest growing industries. According to the market research firm Gardner, Inc, global corporate spending on the outsourcing of business and technology services will grow to $120 billion in 2009 from $35 billion in 2005 (USA Today, 12/11/06). What are the trends, challenges and opportunities? How can you be better prepared to take advantage of the opportunities? From her personal experience as both the user and service provider of offshore outsourcing, Ms. Chen will share with you the facts and myth from the insider point or view.
-Biography
Ms. Ping Chen is the President & CEO of SinoTech Consulting, Inc., SinoTech Consulting provides world class, cost effective software and IT solutions development services leveraging the best resources in China. She has over 15 years experience in the management of product development and IT service delivery. She served as VP of Engineering for IBsan, VP of eCommerce Solutions at Novation Labs, an on-shore outsourcing company. Her earlier experience includes serving as director or senior manager of RedSwitch (acquired by Agilent), 3COM, Legato and Apple Computer. She has 20 years experience in embedded system, network system, server design and development. She graduated with distinction as a member of Phi Beta Kappa with a Master degree in Computer Science from University of Southern California.
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Topic: How to enter markets where there are strong barriers to entry
Speaker: Mr. Jim Pennella
Date: 7/14/2007, Saturday
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Venue:
Conference #2
NPU Administration Building
47671 Westinghouse Drive, Fremont, CA 94539
- Abstract
How to enter a market in an environment where businesses, such as Coke, have established significant barriers to entry. One strategy to enter markets where existing competitors have established brands that give them power over consumers and suppliers is to establish credibility within a niche market whose needs are not being addressed by the existing competition. This offers the new entrant the opportunity to establish themselves in a market that will not get the attention of existing competitors. After establishing a dominant position within a niche, the new entrant has a basis to back them as they pursue direct competition with the existing competitors.
-Biography
Mr. Pennella is currently a business unit controller at BEA systems. Prior to joining BEA, he held Senior finance positions at Mercury Interactive and NetIQ. Earlier career experience include, PeopleSoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and Mercer. International experience includes developing shared services centers in Ireland, Holland, and Japan. Transaction experience includes acquisitions and divestitures which include Agilent Technologies, Marshal, Web Trends, and Skills Village. He has lead two Significant ERP implementations. He received a bachelor's degree in Economics from Pepperdine University and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Management.
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Topic: Technology Transfer from University to Industry
Speaker: Ms. Katharine Ku
Date: 7/7/2007, Saturday
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Venue:
Conference #2
NPU Administration Building
47671 Westinghouse Drive, Fremont, CA 94539
- Abstract
Technology developed from university research is usually in a very early stage but the effective transfer of these newest innovations to industry can contribute to the public and the economy in very meaningful ways. Universities across the country and throughout the world are encouraging their researchers to participate in the innovation process and work with industry to commercialize their inventions.
-Biography
Katharine Ku is Director of the Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) at Stanford University. OTL is responsible for the licensing of various state-of-the-art university technologies and industry sponsored research agreements and collaborations. In FY2006, Stanford received $61.3M in gross royalty revenue from 463 technologies, with royalties ranging from $12 to $29.0M.
From 1994-98, in addition to her OTL responsibilities, Ms. Ku was responsible for Stanford’s pre-award Sponsored Projects Office. She was Vice President, Business Development at Protein Design Labs, Inc. in Mountain View, California from 1990-1991. Prior to PDL, she spent 12 years at Stanford in various positions, was a researcher at Monsanto and Sigma Chemical, administered a dialysis clinical trial at the University of California, and taught chemistry and basic engineering courses.
Ms. Ku has been active in the Licensing Executive Society (LES), serving as Vice President, Western Region and Trustee of LES and various committee chairs. She also has served as President of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) from 1988-90. She received the AUTM 2001 Bayh-Dole Award for her efforts in university licensing.
Ms. Ku has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering (Cornell University), an M.S. in Chem. Eng. (Washington University in St. Louis) and is a registered patent agent.
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Topic: Bio-inspired Machine Vision
Speaker: Dr. Tai Hsu
Date: 6/30/2007, Saturday
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Venue:
Conference #2
NPU Administration Building
47671 Westinghouse Drive, Fremont, CA 94539
Abstract
Life started on Earth at least 3.5 billion years ago, but vision wasn't developed until ~540 million years ago. Nature itself is a giant computing machine which took many years to figure out a wonderful vision device. By studying and learning from the bio-vision, we can take advantage of the billion-year computational result to save time in designing our own machine version of it. Can an insect use just one of its two compound eyes to see things in 3D? How does it work? Why doesn’t the design require a huge brain? These are interesting questions that can now be partially answered.
Biography
Dr. Hsu's major effort has been in research and development projects. His research areas cover algorithm, artificial intelligence, chemistry, computational biology, cybernetics, robotics, and supercomputing. His work in machine 3D vision won the best paper award (European Meeting in on Cybernetics and Systems Research, 2006). His research in computational biology won the NLM award (National Library of Medicine, of National Institute of Health) in 2001. His work in quantum chemistry won the best paper award (Journal of Chinese Chemical Society, Taiwan, 1988). He was one of the main contributors to the National Science Foundation award (number 9818414, 2002) for the Linux supercomputer cluster of the Computer Science Department of Oregon State University. He was named a distinguished employee (2001) of Providian Financial Corporation for his success in automating presumably automation-impossible jobs. In the past, Dr. Hsu worked as a researcher, R&D application developer, chief engineer, programmer, system administrator, hardware test engineer, and programmer analyst in various organizations.
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Topic: The Political Landscape
Speaker: Mr. Donald McKenna
Date: 6/23/2007, Saturday
Time: 12:45 PM to 1:45 PM
Venue:
Main Conference Room
NPU Administration Building
47671 Westinghouse Drive, Fremont, CA 94539
Abstract
What goals should enterprises pursue?
How may they be constrained by the political environment in which they operate?
How should they respond to such constraints?
Biography
Education:
B.A.: Fordham University, Comparative Politics
M.A.: New York University, Comparative Politics & Middle East Studies
Employment:
U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Labor-Management Standards
Enforcement Program Specialist for the Pacific Region (Western US).
In my 20 years with DOL, I've carried out civil and criminal investigations relating to federal labor law, been a guest speaker at numerous joint DOL/union conferences and conducted labor studies seminars at colleges in California and Hawaii. After a six-year stint managing the Northern California-Nevada district office in the 1990's, my work is now focused on adapting computer technology to enhance OLMS' investigative and managerial effectiveness.
Northwestern Polytechnic University
I've taught several ESL, history and politics courses at NPU over the past 16 years.
Interests:
Given my fascination with exploring issues from a cross-cultural perspective, I enjoy traveling in Asia with my wife, Li Ya.
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