2006 Worldwide Education and Research Conference

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY
Monday, March 6, 2006 - Thursday, March 9, 2006

Monday, March 6
Time Speaker Title of Presentation
12:00 noon - 9:00pm Registration  
6:00pm - 9:00pm Reception & Solutions Pavilion  
Tuesday, March 7
8:30 - 9:15 Kim Jones
VP Global Education & Research, Sun
Education in the Participation Age
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9:15 - 10:00 Joel Klein
Chancellor, New York City Department of Education
Children First: Transforming Public Education
10:00 - 10:30 Break  
10:30 - 11:15 David Swartz, Ph.D.
Vice President and CIO, The George Washington University
Managing the Risks of IT within Higher Education
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11:15 - 12:15 Scott McNealy
Chairman and CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Delivering the Promise of the Participation Age
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12:15 - 1:30 Lunch & Solutions Pavilion  
1:30 - 2:15 Ingrid Van den Hoogen
Sr. Vice President, Brand, Global Communications & Integrated Marketing Sun Microsystems Inc.

Waldemar A. Brett
Ministry of Innovation, Science, Research and Technology of the Federal State of NorthRhine-Westphalia

Viji Murali
Vice President for Information Technology & CIO, Western Michigan University
Software Panel
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2:15 - 3:00 Matthew Goldstein
Chancellor of the City University of New York
Into Thin Air: Scaling the Challenges of Public Higher Education
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3:00 - 3:30 Break  
3:30 - 4:15 Randy Kerns
Vice President, Strategic Planning, Data Management Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Robert A. Cecil, Ph.D.
Network Director of Radiology and Cardiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Management of Data Lifecycles
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4:15 - 5:00 Moderated by John Gage
Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Victor Hugo Estrada de la O
Ministry of the Economy, Mexico

Mr. Hede Nonaka
Vice President Marketing Division, Ricoh U.S./Ricoh
ICT Workforce Development in a Globalizing World 
6:00 Cocktail Reception & Solutions Pavilion - Dinner on Your Own  
Wednesday, March 8
8:30 - 9:15 John Fowler
Executive Vice President, Network Systems, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Innovation With Industry Standard Architectures
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9:15 - 10:00 Dr. Arthur Toga
Professor of Neurology, UCLA
Mapping The Functions of The Human Brain, A Look Ahead
10:00 - 10:30 Break  
10:30 - 11:15 David W. Yen, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Scalable Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Scalable SPARC Systems--Next-Generation Computing
11:15 - 12:15 John Gage
Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Djibril Diallo
Director, United Nations/New York Office of Sport for Development and Peace and Spokesperson of the President of the 59th General Assembly
Fireside chat with Djibril Diallo and John Gage
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch & Solutions Pavilion  
1:30 - 5:00 Breakout Sessions
Identity Management Viji Murali
Jonathan Giltner
Dr. Sam Levy
Vinnie Gupta
Identity Management
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Digital Libraries Kevin Roebuck, Moderator
Dave Price
Laura Debonis
Dave MacCarn
Tom Hickerson
James Simon
The Library of the Future
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Healthcare Heinz J. Schwarz
Lindsy Strait
KODAK Healthcare
Geoff Gordon
Robert A. Cecil
MAK Systems Bloodbank
Vignette Corporation
Enhancing quality of care and reducing cost and complexity with electronic medical records - Sun's approach to compliant digital care flow integration
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Science and Research Computing Bill Labate The UCLA Grid Portal, High Performance Computing For The Rest Of Us
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Science and Research Computing Steve Perrenod, Ph.D. Maximize Cluster and Grid Throughput with Data-activated Processing
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Science and Research Computing James H. Leylek CU Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS): Sun Partnership for HPC Infrastructure
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Sun SPOTS David Simmons
Roger Meike
Randy Smith
SPOTWorld: A Single Tool for Programming, Configuring, Managing and Monitoring Sun SPOTS
Administrative Computing John Camp
Kathy Gates
Nick Tate
Administrative Computing
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OpenSource Software Stuart Sim
Brian Leonard
Nils Nieuwejaar
OpenSource Software
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E-Learning Derek Keats
Julia Minguillon
Deb Whitten
Jeff Merriman
Stuart Sim
Kevin Roebuck
Ho Yeol Kwon
Next-generation Learning Environments
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Primary & Secondary Education (K-12) Art Pasquinelli
Larry Nelson
Phoenix Wang
Ramon Roy
Julia Von Klonowski
David Beagle
Using Open Computing Technologies for Primary and Secondary Education
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7:00 Gala Dinner  
Thursday, March 9
8:30 - 9:15 James Gosling
Vice President and Sun Fellow, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Building the Connected World
9:15 - 10:00 James Burke
Science Historian, Author, TV Host/Writer/Producer
Columbus and the Avatar, The Past and Future of Knowledge
10:00 - 10:30 Break  
10:30 - 11:15 Greg Papadopoulos
Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Innovation in the Participation Age
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11:15 - 12:00 Jimmy Wales
Founder & President, Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia, Open Standards in Education
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12:00 - 12:15 Kim Jones  

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