CONFERENCE SPONSORS

 

 

 

 

Meet the Sponsors

Carnegie Mellon West

In 2002, Carnegie Mellon University established its west coast campus at Moffett Field in Mountain View, California to expand the reach of its world-renowned professional programs in software engineering and to perform innovative research that connects it to global software companies.

Carnegie Mellon West offers innovative MS programs in Software Engineering and Software Management to working professionals on a flexible, part-time basis. Both programs are distinguished by pragmatic curricula that combine the technical, business, and organizational skills critical to a student’s career advancement and to fulfilling the demand for leaders in the global software industry.

The School’s world-class faculty members perform innovative research that connects the university to many local, national, and global software organizations. Research areas include the Center for Open Source Investigation, the Center for Innovation in Speech and Language, the Carnegie Mellon Innovation Laboratory, SmartSpaces, and High Dependability Computing.

For more information, visit our website at http://west.cmu.edu.

Contact: Diane Dimeff; Associate Dean for External Relations and Professional Development; diane.dimeff@west.cmu.edu; 650/335-2813

The Fisher IT Center at the U. C. Berkeley Haas School of Business

The Fisher Information Technology Center promotes interaction between corporate executives including CIO-level managers, and U.C. Berkeley faculty and students through the many programs and services within the Haas School of Business and U.C. Berkeley. The Fisher IT Center serves professional and academic communities of interest in information technology by promoting dynamic interactions between corporate practice, research, and instruction, and by encouraging the professional development of participating information technology professionals, students, and faculty.

For more information about opportunities and resources, please see http://fisheritcenter.haas.berkeley.edu.

Contact: Jack Grantham; Executive Director, FisherInformationTechnologyCenter; grantham@haas.berkeley.edu; 510/642-6145

The Services: Science, Management and Engineering (SSME) at U.C. Berkeley

The Services: Science, Management and Engineering (SSME) at U.C. Berkeley is a multi-disciplinary research and teaching program that aims to improve the performance of services, defined as configurations of people and technology that engage in activity that provide value for others. Since services account for the lion's share of most developed and many developing economies, this unique, discipline-based curriculum prepares students to participate in, contribute to, and thrive in a dynamic services world through a theoretical and practical education in the theoretical, technological, management and engineering foundations of services.  

Services research encompasses many topics such as services theory, service architectures, flexible services, adaptation, personalization, scaling of services, and innovation, drawing on work from fields such as political science, management, engineering, information and computer science, operations research, and public health. A variety of domains and industries provide context for these explorations such as business services, information search, and healthcare.  

For more information on the Berkeley SSME program, please visit http://ssme.berkeley.edu.

Contact: Ravi Nemana; Executive Director, Services: Science, Management & Engineering (CITRIS); rnemana@eecs.berkeley.edu; 510/642-1083

Software Industry Center

The Software Industry Center (SWIC) at Carnegie Mellon University is a Sloan industry center investigating emerging trends in the economics, technology and management of the global software industry. SWIC is principally supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Pennsylvania Technology Investment Authority. SWIC’s partnership also includes industry and economic development leaders and teams of faculty from Carnegie Mellon’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, School of Computer Science, and the Tepper School of Business.

Supporting Sponsors

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

SVPMA (Silicon Valley Product Management Association) provides Product Management professionals with networking, training and career acceleration opportunities. Through monthly speaker meetings, quarterly workshops and quarterly networking and social events, SVPMA helps Product Management professionals to be more effective in both day-to-day work as well as managing their overall careers.

SPM Jobs is a job posting service exclusively for software/internet product marketing and management positions ranging from individual contributor to vice president. Job Posters pay a modest fee. Job Seekers are free. There are 5,000 Job Seekers. The service includes a job posting review by experienced product marketing and management executives and detailed feedback on how to hone the posting to attract the best candidates. http://www.spmjobs.com

IT Metrics and Productivity Institute
The IT Metrics and Productivity Institute http://www.itmpi.org is an organization dedicated to the promotion of best practices in the areas of Process, Metrics, Estimation, and IT Governance. To this end, the Institute produces 30 software best practices conferences around the world each year http://www.itmpi.org/events, runs a series of free, bi-monthly webinars http://www.itmpi.org/webinars and publishes a weekly research newsletter http://www.itmpi.org/subscribe.

 

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