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4th June 2008 -IVI's Second Annual Summer Session

Following the outstanding success of last year’s event, NUI, Maynooth hosted the Innovation Value Institute’s second annual Summer Session Open Day on 4th June. The event, titled “Winning with IT Enabled Business Innovation”, consisted of engaging presentations offering key insights and strategies from leading IT business value practitioners and academics.

The keynote topics centred around how to achieve sustainable economic value from IT and quantify and understand the true business value of strategic IT investments. Among the keynote speakers were Professor Piero Formica, Dean, International Entrepreneurship Academy and Professor of Economics, International Business School, Jönköping University, Gregg Wyant, Intel’s Chief Architect and General Manager of Strategy, Architecture, and Innovation and Laurent Allard, AXA Technology services Chief Information Officer. The event was attended by executives and senior IT managers from both the public sector and a broad range of Irish and global multinational companies.

Pictured are (l-r); Front Row: Martin Curley (Global Director, IT Innovation, Intel),
Karalee Close (Principal, BCG), Natalie Stone (Director of Business Strategy, Northrop Grumman), Laurent Allard, (CIO, AXA Technology Services), Stephen Brown (Director, IVI)

Back Row: Patrick Reid (AstraZeneca), Richard Straub (Advisor to the Chairman, IBM),
Prof. Piero Formica (Dean, International Entrepreneurship Academy, Jönköping University), Uwe Herrold (CIO, SAP), Gene Meiran (Intel Fellow), Frank Fitzmaurice (Vice President, NUI, Maynooth)