OutsourceWorld: Business Strategies - Profitable Partnerships
Metropolitan Pavilion
October 17 - 18
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OutsourceWorld
OutsourceWorld



Conference Program

18th-19th October 2005, New York

Day One - Tuesday 18th October

 
OutsourceWorld Breakfast Forum

9:00-10:00
The Euromoney Outsourcing Handbook Roundtable - What's next in global outsourcing practices?
Roundtable Chairman - Amit Gupta,
Booz Allen Hamilton

Robert E. Zahler, Partner,
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Wendy Watson, Managing Director,
State Street Investment Manager Solutions

Peter Watkins,
Head of US Financial Services, EDS

Roanak Desai/Mohit Thukral,
Corporate Consultants, Gecis

Dr. Shailendra Palvia, Managing Director,
Center for Global Outsourcing

Ravi Varadachari, Practice Leader
Risk Management, i-flex solutions


www.euromoney-yearbooks.com/handbooks

OutsourceWorld Breakfast Forum

10:00 - 11:00
Outsourcing to China with I.T. UNITED :
Structuring of Successful Projects

Cyrill Eltschinger, CEO, I.T.UNITED
www.ituc.com

11:00 - 11:10
Opening Remarks by Conference Chairman
Curtiss Montgomery, Director,
Outsourcing Services, CTG
www.ctg.com

Curtiss Montgomery

11:10 - 11:45 - Keynote
The Restructuring of the Outsourcing Industry
Peter Bendor-Samuel,
CEO, Everest Group
www.everestgrp.com





11:45 - 12:15
Outsourcing/Offshoring - What are the limits?
Allen Weinberg, Principal & North American Leader of Outsourcing and Offshoring Practice,
McKinsey & Company
www.mckinsey.com

12:15 - 12:45
Dynamic Outsourcing and the
Importance of Good Governance

Joe Schechter, VP of Financial Services, CSC
www.csc.com

Madhav Mohan
12:45 - 1:00 - Break

1:00 - 1:30 - Lunch slot
Growth in Caribbean Call Centers: Special emphasis on Barbados
Glen Braverman, BIDC/NCO
Partner & Executive V.P. International Market Access

1:30 - 2:00
Best Practices for BPO/KPO
Andrew Adelson, Evalueserve
www.evalueserve.com

2:00 - 2:30
Successful Habits of Highly Effective Outsourcing Firms
Atul Vashistha, Chairman & CEO, neoIT
www.neoIT.com

2:30 - 3:00
BPO Comes to Payments: A Case History on How Payment Electronification Creates Offshore Opportunity for Financial Institutions
Denny Carreker, CEO, Carretek, LLC
www.carretek.com

3:00 - 3:30
Romania, European Outsourcing Tiger
Florin Vrejoiu, Executive Vice-President, Romanian Association for Electronic and Software Industry, ARIES

3:30 - 4:00
What You Don’t Know About Offshoring
and Other Hot Outsourcing Topics

Tom Weakland, Managing Partner – Global Sourcing Practice, DiamondCluster International
www.diamondcluster.com

4:00 - 4:30
Overcoming Capability, Security and
Communication Challenges in China

Eric Rongley, CEO, Bleum
www.bleum.com

John Ottman

4:30 - 5:00
Human Resource Outsourcing:
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Heather Gatley, Executive Vice-President of Human Resource Services and General Counsel, AlphaStaff Inc
www.alphastaff.com

5:00 - 5:30
Argentina, a place of innovation
Pablo Guana, Government Team,
SCREI, Argentina

5:30 - 6:00
Nearshoring:
The Benefits of Offshore Outsourcing Closer to Home

Madhav Murti, Vice President,
Advisory Service - Performance Improvement, PWC Canada
www.pwc.com

6:00 - 6:15
Closing Remarks by Conference Chairman

Curtiss Montgomery, Chairman, CTG
www.ctg.com

Curtiss Montgomery

6:30 - 8:30
Exclusive Scotch Tasting Reception
Proceeds to the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America

www.ccfa.org

 

 

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Day Two - Wednesday 19th October

09:30 - 09:45
Opening Remarks
Curtiss Montgomery, Director, Outsourcing Services, CTG
www.ctg.com

Curtiss Montgomery

09:45 - 10:15
Managing Global Application Development - How to Achieve Visibility, Accountability, and Performance Goals
Mark Wesker, Co-founder and CEO, Artifact

10:30 - 11:00
Global Sourcing: How to Best Leverage a Global Knowledge Supply Chain
Gabriel Rozman, President, TCS Iberoamerica
www.tcs.com

11:00 - 11:30
PANEL - Have Your Cake and Eat It Too:
Quality and Value in At-Home Contact Center Services

Sandy Ward,
Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Alpine Access
www.alpineaccess.com

Julian Carter,
Director of Operations and Strategic Partnerships.
Office Depot, Inc

Lou Orsi, Director,
Vendor Relations and Strategic Projects.
www.1800flowers.com

11:30 - 12:00
The Future State of Legal Compliance and Regulation in Outsourcing
Bill Bierce, President, Bierce & Kenerson &
Editor in chief, Outsourcing-Law.com
www.biercekenerson.com/

12:00 - 12:30
Bulgaria: Eastern Europe’s Newest Hot Spot?

Pavel Ezekiev, Executive Director,
InvestBulgaria Agency
www.investbg.government.bg

Joel H. Morse,
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of C3i.
www.c3i-inc.com

12:30 - 13:15 Lunch Panel
China as the New Outsource Tiger:
New -Providers, New Services

Cyrill Eltschinger, CEO I.T. UNITED
www.ituc.com

Mushin Dadarkar

Tom Gong, Senior Investment Advisor, 
Dalian HighTech Zone

Mushin Dadarkar

Eric Rongley, CEO, Bleum,
www.bleum.com

1:15 - 2:00
Panel: Outsourcing In the Real World
Michael Corbett, Executive Director, International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) - Chair
David Barrett, Partner, Simmons & Simmons
Joann Martin, Vice President, Pitney Bowes
Atul Vashistha, CEO, neoIT

Topics:

  • What is the real state of outsourcing today? 
  • What are the most significant barriers to success that customers face? 
  • What are the most significant barriers to success that providers face?
  • What topics- both opportunities and challenges - are just over the horizon?

www.outsourcingprofessional.org




2:00 - 2:30
Latin America: The New Frontier, An Emerging Location for Outsourcing, Offshoring, and BPO - The Case Study of Chile
Marcelo Vásquez,
VP ICT Business Developer, Fundación Chile
www.fundacionchile.cl
Claudio Maggi, Head of Investments, Chilean Economic Development Agency-CORFO


2:30 - 3:00
BPO Powered by SAP: Why Technology Matters After All and First of All
Jens Weitzel, Director, BPO Market Development & Consulting, SAP AG
www.sap.com

3:00 - 3:20
Philippine ICT Advantage
Ms. Karen V. Batungbacal, Director,
Business Processing Association of the Philippines,
President Asia-Pacific Division of ICT Group

3:20 - 3:30
Philippine ICT Infrastructure
Mr. Ernesto R. Alberto, SVP - Corporate Business Group, Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT)

3:30 - 4:00
China's Opportunities and Strategies
of Being a Global Offshore ITO & BPO Center

Mr. Dai Yulin, Vice Mayor of Dalian, China.
Dalian Software Park,
Dalian Municipal People's Government, China.
www.dlsp.com.cn

4:00 - 4:10
Closing Remarks by Conference Chairman
Curtiss Montgomery, Chairman, CTG
www.ctg.com

Curtiss Montgomery

 

 
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