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Overview

The annual SIIA Software Strategy Summit conference provides a strategic look at key issues and trends for executives across ISVs, platform vendors and systems integrators responsible for corporate planning and development; making deals and overseeing strategic partnerships, alliances, channels, and business development; software development; financial planning and accounting; marketing and sales; investment and operations planning; and legal, regulation and governance. Analysts, investors, bankers and press also attend.

This year's conference will address the following trends:

• From Desktop to Webtop
• Enterprise 2.0
• OpenSource
• Software as a Service
• Globalization

To increase your business opportunities, the Software Strategy Summit conference is co-located with the SIIA's other leading conferences, the Content Forum and the Ed Tech Industry Summit.

Register now to attend the SIIA Software Strategy Summit & Codie Awards, San Francisco, CA.

About SIIA

The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 800 software and information companies. Get information on how you and your company can benefit from the SIIA Software Division.

SIIA Software Strategy Summit Steering Committee

• Ken Boasso, Keychain Logic
  
• Kevin Bury, Quick Arrow
  
• Bob Clark, IBM
  
• Tim Clark, The Factpoint Group
  
• Rivhard Dym, OpSource
  
• Karen Greene, Internet Capital Group
  
• John Gunn, Aladdin Knowledge Systems
  
• Conor Haplin, Lecayla
  
• Audrey Hitchings, Deloitte Services LP
  
• Chris Hoffmann, Triple-Tree
  
• David Inbar, Pervasive Software
  
• John Jerrehian, Clickability
  
• Robert Jurkowski, Intacct
  
• Pravin Kumar, Ketera
  
• Jamie Lagarde, Finetooth
  
• Rob Lancaster, FAST
  
• Karen Leavitt, WebEx Communications
  
• Doug Levin, Black Duck Software
  
• Bruce Lowry, Novell
  
• Mike Mansbach, Citrix
  
• Frances Moscoe, Aria Systems
  
• Erick Mott, Nokia Enterprise Solutions
  
• Morris Panner, OpenAir
  
• Sean Parry, St. Bernard Software
  
• Cliff Reeves, Microsoft
  
• Lisa Schuder, Deloitte Services LP
  
• Clara Shih, Salesforce.com
  
• Jeff Smith, Instill Corporation
  
• David Thomas, SIIA

Register now to attend the SIIA Software Strategy Summit & Codie Awards, San Francisco, CA.

Past Attendees

Below is a list of the 250 ISVs, platform vendors, systems integrators, investors, bankers, analysts, bloggers, press and other software industry influencers who attended the 2006 SIIA Software Strategy Summit conference.

We expect more than 300 industry leaders will participate in the SIIA Software Strategy Summit conference in 2007.

Register now to attend the SIIA Software Strategy Summit & Codie Awards, San Francisco, CA.

Software Strategy Summit 2006 Attendees:

Alf Abuhajleh, Marketing and Public Relations Manager Wayne Adams, Senior VP, Sales & Member Services, INPUT Doug Alexander, Managing Director, Internet Capital Group Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, WIRED Betsy Andrews, Manager, Global Software Asset Management, Barclays Global Investors Brent Arslaner, Vice President, Marketing, Unisfair, Inc. Kristen S. Badgley, Senior Manager, Accenture Derek Ball, IT Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Sheryl Barnes, Program Director, Strategy and Planning, IBM Corporation Tony Bates, Chief Operating Officer, Partner, Payment Software Company (PSC) Alison Biggan, Director, Americas Marketing, Business Objects S.A. Mikael Blaisdell, Director, Mikael Blaisdell & Associates, Inc. Nick Blozan, VP,Worldwide Sales, APTARE, Inc Neil Blumenfield, VP, Business Development, Above All Software Prashanth Boccasam, Chief Executive Officer, Approva Corporation J. Bonasia, Staff Writer, Investor's Business Daily Nick Bonfiglio, Vice President, Operations, CollabNet Seth Boro, , Thoma Cressey/Equity Partners Mike Bradley, President, Wonderware Corporation Jennifer Brecheen, , Deloitte Services LP - Technology, Media and Telecommunications Practice (TMT) Andrew Briney, Publisher, TechTarget, Inc. Gordon Brooks, President & Chief Executive Officer, Symphony Services Veronique Buenos, David Carpini, Vice President, Sales, Symphony Services Patrick Castleberry, President, Critical Technologies, Inc. Richard Chow, Vice President, Millennium Technology Ventures Bob H. Clark, Jr., Program Director, IBM Software as Services, IBM Corporation Drew Clark, Director, Strategy Venture Group, IBM Corporation Tim Clark, Partner/Analyst, The FactPoInt Group John Clements, Assurance CIO, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Kristen Conte, Marketing Specialist, Macrovision / eMeta Corporation Daniel Cooperman, SVP, General Counsel & Secretary, Apple Inc. Robert Corace, VP, Strategic Consulting, Symphony Services David Dahl, Chief Technology Officer, SpringCM Heather Dalloul, Director, Business Development, Symphony Services Dave Dalton, Vice President, Programs Marketing, Everdream Corporation Erin Daly, Director, Field Marketing, Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Russ Daniels, Vice President & CTO, Software Global Business Unit, Hewlett Packard - Software Global Business Unit Keith Davidson, Director, ACS Operations, AutoDesk Inc. - Collaborations Solutions Bradley Davis, Chief Operating Officer, Uniloc USA, Inc. Elizabeth Davis, Board Member, QuickArrow Stephen Davis, Principal, Vista Equity Partners Ken DeJarnette, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP Craig Dembeck, Senior VP, Sales & Business Development, iCentera Corporation Katrien Depoorter, , Symphony Services Scott Dietzen, Ph.D., President & CTO, Zimbra Martin Doettling, VP, WorldWide Marketing, CollabNet Stanley Dolberg, , Carriage House Consulting LLC Peter Donnelly, Vice President, WW Pricing & Licensing, Symantec Corporation Craig Downing, Vice President & General Manager, Sage Software Joel Dreyfuss, Editor-in-Chief, Red Hat, Inc. Richard Dym, Chief Marketing Officer, OpSource, Inc. Jennifer England, Director, Marketing, Information Commerce, Macrovision Corporation/eMeta Brett Error, , Omniture, Inc. Joe Espinoza, IPM, Sales & Marketing, Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management Craig Etchegoyen, , Uniloc USA, Inc. Peter Falina, VP, Sales Western Region, Softrax Corporation Bob Fasano, VP, Sales (West & Central Region), OpSource, Inc. Rick Faulk, President & CEO, Mzinga Mike Ferris, Director, Security Initiatives and Solutions, Red Hat, Inc. Regan Fletcher, Regional Sales Manager - Western, KnowledgeStorm, Inc. Justin Floyd, Chairman, Smartfundit.com Ltd. Luke Foley, Major Account Manager, Macrovision / eMeta Corporation Tom Foremski, Blogger, Silicon Valley Watcher Kathryn Frankland, Vice President, Client Services, Spoke Software, Inc. Richard Frederick, President & COO, Autotask Corp. Sacha Freeman, , Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management Steve Freiling, Senior Consultant, Enthiosys John B. Frick, General Partner, Chisholm Private Capital Partners Rochelle Garner, Reporter, Bloomberg Business News Terry Garnett, Managing Director, Garnett & Helfrich Capital David Gee, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Management Software Business, Hewlett Packard - Software Global Business Unit John Geffel, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Sage Software Greg Gianforte, Founder, Chairman & CEO, RightNow Technologies, Inc. Adam Gilberd, Regional VP, West, Macrovision Corporation Mani Gill, Vice President, OnDemand, Business Objects, an SAP Company Ken Goldberg, Senior Vice President, Intervoice Lawrence Goldenhersh, President and CEO, Enviance, Inc. Kevin Green, Managing Partner, TripleTree LLC Michelle Grieshaber, Director, Software as Service and Infrastructure Offerings, IBM Global Services Gregory E. Gronowski, Vice President, Sales - Software DRM, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Ltd. Ramnik Gulati, Product Manager, SW DRM, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Ltd. John Gunn, VP, Global Marketing, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Ltd. Sandip Gupta, Vice President, Business Development, Ensim Corporation Vinnie Gupta, Market Development Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Glen Haley, Senior Director, Sales, Protexis, Inc. June Haley, , Protexis, Inc. Mark Hall, Columnist & Editor at Large, Computerworld Conor Halpin, Senior Vice President, EMEA, OpSource Michael Hamuka, Global Business Development Executive, IBM Corporation Aaron Harris, VP, Engineering, Intacct Corporation Daryl Hatton, Chief Executive Officer, Headwaters Software Jeffrey W. Hausman, Senior Director, Product Management, Symantec Software Karen Henke, Managing Director, Owner, Nimble Press John Henry, Director, Deloitte Services LP - Technology, Media and Telecommunications Practice (TMT) Melik Hernandez, , Softtek Karl Hirsch, President & CEO, Protexis, Inc. Fred Hoch, President, Illinois Information Technology Association Chris Hoffmann, Senior Principal, TripleTree LLC R. Allen Hoke, Senior Director, Global Platform Alliances, Oracle Corporation Sabrina Horn, Founder, President and CEO, Horn Group, Inc. Joe G. Hornberger, VP, Software as a Service, Manhattan Associates (MANH) Terry Howerton, Chief Executive Officer, FastRoot Technologies Kent Hudson, CEO and Co-Founder, SchoolDude.com Deborah Huff, Senior Account Consultant, Intrepid Learning Solutions Brian Jacobs, General Partner, Emergence Capital Partners Ken Jakubowski, Strategic Communications, Uniloc USA, Inc. Sam Jankovich, President, Enterpulse Douglas Johnson, Senior Vice President & CFO, Black Duck Software, Inc. Russell Jones, Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP Robert Jurkowski, Chief Executive Officer Erin Kampf, Manager, Product Marketing, Protexis, Inc. Jeffrey Kaplan, Managing Director, THINKstrategies David Kennedy, Chairman, ServiceSource David J. Kim, Vice President & General Counsel, CyberSource Katie Kimball, Account Executive, KnowledgeStorm, Inc. Gabriel King, Consultant, Accenture Brian Klemenhagen, Senior Principal, TripleTree LLC Mike Kochanik, Vice President for Sales and Strategic Verticals, Federal and SI, CollabNet Chet Kolley, Senior Director, Regional Sales, Intraware, Inc. Frances Kroboth, Vice President, Marketing, Aria Systems, LLC Sarah Lacy, Writer, Business Week Group Steve Langerock, Chief Executive Officer, USA, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Ltd. Cynthia Larose, Esq., Partner, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC

Karen Leavitt, CMO, Mzinga Doug Levin, President & CEO, Black Duck Software, Inc. Danielle Lewis, Inside Sales Representative, OpSource, Inc. Robert Lewis, President & CEO, Wrapped Apps Corporation Sunit Lohtia, Chief Technology Officer, AutoDesk Inc. - Collaborations Solutions Anthony Loredo, Senior Account Executive, Horn Group, Inc. Maia Sisk Lorence, Director, Business Development, IBM Corporation Bruce Lowry, Director, Global Public Relations, Novell, Inc. Steve Lucas, Vice President, Strategic Markets, Business Objects S.A. Mike MacDonald, Founder, Visual Mining, Inc. James Maiocco, Chief Executive Officer, Klir Technologies John Manry, SVP Techology Standards and Process, Sage Software Yida Mao, VP, Technology & Product Development, ParetoLogic Inc. Janet Martin, Director, Voce Communications Cristina Martinez, Marketing Communication Manager, OpSource, Inc. Christine Mason, Board of Directors, SpringCM Jason Maynard, EQRUS Technology Software, Credit Suisse Brian McCarthy, Vice President, Marketing, Centennial Software Krista McCormack, Regional Accounts Manager, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Ltd. Kathleen McDivitt, Senior Executive, Accenture Doug McGregor, VP, M&A, Rational Equity, LLC Mark Mihelitch, Associate Director, Business Division, Nolo - Business Division Michael Miller, Chief Content Officer, Ziff Davis Media Christoper Miranda, Vice President, Sales, Macrovision / eMeta Corporation Dave Mitchell, Program Director, Application Enablement Program, IBM Software Group Larry Mone, Vice President, Development, OpSource EMEA Ed Mueller, Kaiser Mulla-Feroze, Senior Director, Salesforce.com Krishnan Natarajan, Director, Product Marketing, VA Software Craig Nelson, President, iCentera Corporation Kazuo Noguchi, Business Development Manager, Hitachi, Ltd Chris Nuttall, Technology Correspondent, The Financial Times Group Robert O'Connor, President & CEO, Softrax Corporation Jim Obsitnik, Vice President, Product Marketing, Everdream Corporation Garry Olah, Senior Director, Corporate Development Alliance and Developer Programs, Citrix Systems, Inc. Stephen J. O'Leary, Managing Director, Jefferies Broadview Michael Olson, , Oracle Corporation Eric Openshaw, Managing Principal, Deloitte Consulting's Technology, Media and Telecommunications Practice (TMT) Clint Oram, General Manager, SugarCRM, Inc. John Pallatto, News Editor, eWeek Punita Pandey, Chief Executive Officer, NetCustomer Leslie Pannell, Senior Manager, Accenture Morris Panner, Chief Executive Officer, OpenAir, Inc. Lori Pasenelli, Director of Global Marketing, SW DRM, Aladdin Knowledge Systems, Ltd. Paul Pluschkell, President & CEO, HyperFeed Technologies, Inc. Casey Potenzone, Chief Information Officer, Uniloc USA, Inc. Irfhan Rajani, President & CEO, Apparent Networks, Inc. M.R. Rangaswami, Co-Founder, Sand Hill Corp. T.M. Ravi, President & CEO, Mimosa Systems, Inc. Caryn Reddick, VP, Product Management, Spoke Software, Inc. Craig Remy, Director, Marketing, Intacct Corporation Bob Richardson, Executive Vice President, Operations, Primal Solutions, Inc. Holly Ripley-Boyd, Chief Marketing Officer, Bay Colony Corporate Center Michael Robertson, Regional Sales Manager, Intraware, Inc. Nicole Romoli, Director, Marketing, Neocase Software Rob Rose, VP, Sales & Marketing, CrownPeak Technology Loren Russon, Director, Product Management, Novell, Inc. Tara Ryan, Vice President, Marketing, Neocase Software Treb Ryan, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, OpSource, Inc. Greg Sandoval, Senior Writer, CNET News.com Stephen Savignano, Chairman, Ketera Technologies Caryne Say-Prudhomme, Strategic Initiatives Manager, Simdesk Technologies, Inc. Todd Schecter, Regional VP, Western Region, Macrovision Corporation Jeremy Scheffel, Business Dev, Sybase, Inc. Kurt Scherer, , Accenture Chris Schin, Director, Product Development, Symantec Software Tamera Scholz, , Neocase Software, Inc. Lisa Schuder, Senior Manager, Strategic Client Services, Deloitte Services LP - Technology, Media and Telecommunications Practice (TMT) Axel Schultze, President & CEO, Xeequa Corporation Raj Sethi, Chief Executive Officer, Ekartha Inc. John Shaughnessy, Senior Vice President (Retired), Visa USA Peter Sidwell, Regional Sales Director, Wisdomnet, Inc. Francois Silvain, Chief Executive Officer, StoreXperience Joe Simrell, CEO & Chairman, Primal Solutions, Inc. Gurpreet Singh, Chief Strategist, Ekartha Inc. Roger Sippl, Chairman and Founder, Above All Software Albert Sisto, Chairman, President & CEO, Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Jeff Smith, Vice President, Marketing & Corporate Development, Instill Corporation Jerry Smith, Chief Technology Officer, Symphony Services Bill Snyder, Senior Writer, SF Bureau, TheStreet.com Christian Sowul, Associate, Vista Equity Partners Philipp Stauffer, Senior Manager, Strategy Practice, Accenture William Stevens, Partner, Holland & Knight LLC Dawson Stoops, CFO & COO, Express Metrix LLC Jackie Su, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management Jean-Baptiste Su, Co-Founder & US Bureau Chief, The French News Agency Viajaender Takhan, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting Andrew Taylor, Marketing Manager, Sun Microsystems, Inc. John Thompson, Business Development Executive, IBM Corporation Percival Tieng, Chief Technology Officer, Ketera Technologies Peter Tierney, President & CEO, Finaplex, Inc. Vamsee Tirukkala, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Zinnov Felix Tolstov, Vice President, CIT Communications, Media & Entertainment Thanos Triant, Partner, Woodside Group, Inc. Brian Turchin, President, Cape Horn Strategies, Inc. Jon Tyson, Director, Engineering, AutoDesk Inc. - Collaborations Solutions Tien Tzuo, Chief Executive Officer, Zuora, Inc. Zack Urlocker, Executive Vice President, Marketing, MySQL AB Frank Vaculin, President & CEO, Spoke Software, Inc. Kort Van Bronckhorst, , Phoenix Technologies Ltd. Angela Venuk, Vice President, IT Infrastructure, GTESS Corporation Philippe Vincent, Partner, Accenture Sal Visca, Senior Director, Engineering, Business Objects S.A. Jay Visvanathan, Market Development Manager, Higher Education, Sun Microsystems, Inc. Amy Wall, Senior Client Executive, Voce Communications Louis Waters, President & CEO, Simdesk Technologies, Inc. Diana Waterson, Business Partner Marketing Consultant, IBM Corporation Dave Welker, Chief Financial Officer, rPath, Inc. Karen West, VP, Client Services, Intacct Corporation Richard Wexler, Manager Publisher, Regional Account Managers, Macrovision Corporation Rick Wiertz, VP, Sales & Business Development, ParetoLogic Inc. Ann Winblad, Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Dennis Wolf, Chief Financial Officer, MySQL Inc. Ivan Wool, Partner, Wool Law Office, P.C. Timothy Yeaton, Senior Vice President, WW Marketing, Red Hat, Inc.