Business Leadership Forum 2007 – Part 2
The entire forum had a very global feel to it — not just the venue but the participants. Americans were a small minority. The speakers and panelists for the rest of the day focused on the innovation theme of the forum and drilled down to the next level. To cap off the day, my friend […]
Business Leadership Forum 2007 – Part 1
The 2007 Business Leadership Forum, the five such event hosted by IBM, took place in St. Petersburg, Russia and included two days of discussion about innovation and the challenges facing businesses and government in the 21st century. IBM Chairman, President and CEO Sam Palmisano welcomed the 450 invited guests representing more than 75 countries to […]
Business Leadership Forum 2007 — Speakers
Speakers at the Business Leadership Forum included Fujio Cho, Chairman, Toyota Motor Corporation, Ginni Rometty, Senior Vice President for Global Business Services at IBM. She was followed by Carlota Perez, Professor of Technology and Development at the University of Tallinn in Estonia, Henry Chow, Chairman, Greater China Group of IBM kicked things off and introduced […]
St. Petersburg’s Most Beautiful
The flight from Frankfurt, Germany arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia right on time and there was an hour to spare before the opening reception of the Business Leadership Forum at The State Hermitage Museum. I couldn’t resist a walk to "St. Petersburg’s Most Beautiful", a virtual geocache. A virtual cache is a cache that exists […]
IBM Happenings: May 2007
The month of May at IBM was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. One of the biggies is that IBM has allocated $1 billion for green technology. Called “Project Big Green,” IBM’s initiative targets corporate data centers where energy constraints and costs can limit their ability to […]
