strategic imperatives in a Post-IT world

strategic imperatives
in a Post-I.T. world
navigating the post-I.T. world users create
understanding how the Big Data-driven economy
is provoking unexpected connections and outcomes
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March 20-22, 2012, Silicon Valley
Orange Institute
Participant Event Digest
Orange Institute
Silicon Valley
March 20-22, 2012
San Francisco, CA
05 Introduction
06 Palo Alto and Environs
Founded in September, 2009, the Orange Institute seeks to understand
how society, the economy and enterprises are transformed in this new
age of networks. The discovery happens through conversations among a
multi-disciplinary community of thinkers, makers, educators, designers, and
executives from all parts of the world.
After the success of previous sessions in Silicon Valley, Tokyo,
Beijing, Madrid, Tel Aviv and Paris, Orange Institute returned to Silicon Valley
in March 2012 to examine massive disruptions in the information technology
(I.T.) landscape. Startups, platforms, and incumbents are all caught up in these
changes, which we branded as the “Post-I.T. Era” and explored with faculty
ranging from IBM and Adobe, to startups such as Uber and MapR, to platforms like Google and Facebook. We came away energized and excited about
these changes, which include Big Data, Cloud, and open source hardware.
It seems this revolution will leave nothing untouched, as we heard about use
cases involving not just financial services and healthcare, but everything from
social games and even automobiles. These pages hopefully convey some of
the excitement we felt in those three days as the Orange Institute community
connected with the visionaries who are building the future.
session 1 session 2
session 3
evening | day 1
expect the unexpected:
how software + network is changing innovation
big data in the real world
content-centric networks
‘where did I.T. go?’ launch event
15 San Francisco
session 1
session 2
debrief
18 East Bay
session 1
| day 2 Post-I.T. up close: cloud, big data, and the new I.T. stack
talent, data and algorithms
participant take-aways
| day 3
RIP RFP, new models in sourcing
for the 21st century data center
20 Faculty, Participants, and the Institute Team
29 Selected Tweets
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introduction
The journey to the Post-I.T. era, which all of you have taken with us for three
exciting days in Silicon Valley this past March 2012, began with a question:
“what if the IT industry has reached the end of its existing model?” For Orange
Institute, questions like this are core to our mission of learning and making
new connections. As Stephane Richard, CEO of Orange, reminded us in
his welcome video, understanding the implications of these questions often
entails “new tools” and “cultural changes.”
Orange Institute members at
Stanford Research Institute (SRI).
Brady Forrest (O’Reilly), Georges
Nahon (Orange), Elie Girard (Orange),
and Mark Plakias (Orange) at the OSV
launch of “Where Did I.T. Go?”
“Big Data In The Real World”
session at the Stanford Faculty Club.
I am especially gratified that this latest session, our eighth overall and
our third in Silicon Valley, was an occasion to reconnect with virtually all of our
core membership, and welcome new members as well. The fact that in this
session we were able to gain admittance to the two pillars of innovation in the
valley • SRI and PARC • truly raised the bar in terms of understanding the
roots and directions for the next Big Thing.
That it will involve Big Data was abundantly clear by the time we
reached the Facebook talk on Day 3, and the original premise that IT is
changing was fundamentally validated by Facebook in that final talk. Not only
at the software level, but also at the hardware level. The transparency and
willingness to share that was so evident, not just in Facebook’s talk but in
many others, exemplifies the ethos of Silicon Valley, and why it remains so
high in our pantheon.
This was truly a case of exploring both what we know and what we
don’t know, and expanding our range of unknowns in unexpected ways. In
that spirit, we welcome your input and prize your feedback into new research
directions for Orange Institute • your commitment to the spirit of inquiry, of
questioning, and of sharing is what makes this community so fascinating to
our faculty, and so unique.
On behalf of the entire Orange Institute team, I want to express our
continued appreciation and admiration for your engagement, your curiosity,
and willingness to explore along with us.
There is still much to learn together. Stay tuned.
Georges Nahon,
President,
Orange Institute
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expect the unexpected:
how software + network
is changing innovation
session1
Day 1 SRI Ventures, Elevation Partners
Future of search
is not search, it’s a
conversation with
someone you trust.
#oinstitute
sri international Menlo Park
We start in the middle of the future • already underway at SRI for the past
50 years. The pace is set by SRI VP Norman Winarsky, who promises us
a sneak peek at new developments and companies still in stealth, with a
discipline yielding 6 spin-offs annually, starting with hard problems funded
initallly as government contracts. Roger McNamee from Elevation Partners
takes the pace even higher, with a whirlwind presentation involving the decline
of Microsoft and Google, and the emergence of a new paradigm based on
HTML5. Truly, we hit the ground running.
ƒƒ New companies are spun out of
SRI at the rate of 6-9 per year,
those who don’t clear the hurdle
generate licensing revenues
ƒƒ As the first major Virtual Personal
Assistant (VPA), Siri is positioned
by SRI as a natural languagebased “do engine” with a secret
AI sauce that understands intent,
and how to compose responses.
ƒƒ The roadmap for VPA’s includes
TV control, many vertical apps
such as travel, education, and
robots, and will incorporate
Augmented Reality and facial and
emotion detection.
ƒƒ McNamee’s ecosystem analysis
is comprehensive and wastes no
words: Microsoft and Google are
both bodies across the tracks,
with Skype as MS’s savior and
Android as Google’s albatross.
ƒƒ For McNamee, Apple beats Android
precisely because it is not open
source, not long-tail, not commoditized • in the consumer market
tight integration is everything.
ƒƒ HTML5 makes every publisher
able to directly monetize on-site,
shifting from impressions units to
percentage of sales or leadsbased ad unit pricing.
Clockwise from top: The Future
of Virtual Personal Assistants
by Norman Winarsky; Orange
Institute participants François
LaBurthe (Amadeus), Christian
Forthomme (Real Change); Ariel
Messas (Viadeo), and Catherine
Lucet (Editions Nathan); Technology
Investing by Roger McNamee.
Norman Winarksy
on the origins of Siri.
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session 2
Day 1 Sims, Uber, Waze, O’Reilly, Oblong
Future “urban dashboards” based on
ubiquitous city data
will determine a lot
of what we do in daily
life #oinstitute
big data in the real world
stanford Palo Alto
Big Data in the Real World turns out to love games, and games love it back,
generating lots of contextual data about us, the players. From Will Wright’s
sweeping overview of how games and data impact each other, to Bradley
Voytek’s fascinating look (literally) into the how the human mind processes
data, to Di-Ann Eisnor’s crowd-sourcing of realtime traffic all over the world,
it is a drive-thru of powerful new concepts. Mary Ann Norris shows us the
power steering for this new world, a gestural approach to UI.
ƒƒ The amount of time we are
investing in the virtual world versus
the atomic world is expanding. In
game-space we are filling a landscape with possibilities.
ƒƒ Social games are much more
data-driven; Zynga starts with a
small simple game and releases
it to a small group of people, then
starts adjusting the game based
on the daily or even hourly results
they observe.
ƒƒ Smartphones are the new Star
Trek Tricorder • we now have
much more data about the real
world to create models that are
based on our actual experience.
These models are expressed as
either Play or Story.
ƒƒ Bradley Voytek speaks as both a
neuroscientist and a data developer
about the gap between advanced
data visualization in industry, and
the poverty of data handling in
academic medical research.
ƒƒ The standard procedure for
medical research, including
psychology and neuroscience,
is based on very small samples.
Big data gives much higher
samples, such as Lumos Labs’
million+ brain training database.
ƒƒ In the US each year we spend
about 4 billion hours stuck in
traffic. What if all those cars stuck
there could talk to each other?
This is the inspiration behind
Waze. This app now connects
about 14 million drivers around
the world.
Panel Discussion with Brady
Forrest (O’Reilly), Brad Voytek (Uber),
and Di-Ann Eisnor (Waze).
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Clockwise from top:
Orange Institute
participants Frederic Maire
(Renault) and Kristen
Badgely (HBSA/NC) with
Georges Nahon (Orange)
and Pascale Diaine
(Orange); Bruno Aidan
(Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs),
Séverine Legrix De La Salle
(Orange); Will Wright on The
Sims and game elements.
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session 3
Seems like the
Content Centric
Network has a dual
narrative: Namespace
and Ntwk congestion relief @PARCinc
#oinstitute
content-centric networks
xerox parc Palo Alto
At PARC, the sun is shining down on a legendary home for innovation with a
focus on what’s next. In this case, John Tripier’s focus is on nothing less than
a reimagined Internet, and the lights over our head. With a new approach to
namespaces on the Net, PARC’s conception has game-changing implications for everything from how networks route content to how we control lights.
A walk through the archives of its prior accomplishments shows us they might
just pull it off.
ƒƒ Current TCP network model
needs to know ‘where’ and
ignores the ‘what’, but in the real
world we focus on ‘what’.
ƒƒ By sending content only where
there is interest we reduce
network transit, in some cases we
can just “keep it in the building.”
ƒƒ There are two narratives involved
here: reducing network congestion, but also using a new ‘named’
approach for the ‘what’ (see:
named-data.net)
Day 1 Xerox PARC
ƒƒ PARC has its origins deep in the
concept of the Office of the Future
• some of us remember this past.
ƒƒ PARC’s focus is tripartite:
Tech, Business Models, &
Human Behavior.
ƒƒ PARC’s Content-Centric Network
(CCN) vision is for a world where 100
million people will look at the same
piece of content - radical change in
the read/write ratios we know.
“welcome to the Post-I.T. world”
launch event
evening
Cloud, social
networks, new
devices, cloud
computing, new
networks : this is
a post PC and post
IT era. #oinstitute
#postitera
Day 1 Where did I.T. go?
orange silicon valley SF
A launch event for new research on the Post-I.T. Era from Orange Silicon
Valley. A premiere of a new video on the subject from Orange and GigaOm. A
panel discussion on what the new world means for organizations and operators specifically. Another panel entitled “Can Big Data Make You Healthy” with
Genentech, UCSF, and Medgle. Yes, the night is all of these things and more
• it is a gathering of Orange Institute members and the Bay Area’s most active
and engaged thinkers and doers.
Clockwise from top:
Brady Forrest (O’Reilly),
Georges Nahon (Orange),
and Elie Girard (Orange)
on a panel on the Post-I.T.
era; Francois Hisquin
(Octo) and Gilles Fontaine
(Challenges) in the
audience for the launch
event for “Where Did I.T.
Go?” at OSV.
Learning about the ContentCentric Network (CCN) at PARC.
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Top from left: Brady Forrest (O’Reilly),
Brad Voytek (Uber), Ash Damle (Medgle),
James Musick (Genentech); Elie Girard (Orange),
Séverine Legrix De La Salle (Orange), Georges
Nahon (Orange), and Beatrice Mandine (Orange).
Middle from left: Xavier Perret (Orange) and
Claude Soula (Nouvel Obs), François LaBurthe
(Amadeus), Sander Duivestein (Sogeti), Michiel
Boreel (Sogeti), Henri Verdier (Cap Digital).
Docpal Demo with Orange’s Adam Odessky and
McKinsey’s Michael Chui. Bottom from left:
Georges Nahon (Orange), John Hagel (Deloitte),
Pierre Aussure (Ivy), and Beatrice Mandine
(Orange); Jean-Pierre DiCostanzo (Orange);
and Denis Cohen-Tannoudji (Essilor ).
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Day 2 McKinsey, MapR, Opera Solutions, Adobe, Orange
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session 1
For a lot of
companies
the data
center is
the factory
#oinstitute
Post-I.T. up close: cloud,
big data, and the new I.T. stack
adobe San Francisco
At the ultra-cool offices of Adobe in SF’s famed SOMA district, we embrace
the brave new world of Big Data: Senior Fellow Michael Chui from McKinsey
Global provides the overview: covering continents, industries, and value shifts
with command. Then Orange SV’s Shishir Garg provides a technical overview,
showing us the new Post-I.T. ‘stack.’ With this in hand, MapR • a Hadoop
startup with veteran scientist Ted Dunning • takes us through the kinds of
massive customer engagements and disruptive ROIs that make the Big in Big
Data very big indeed. Rising up through the stack we turn next to the analytics
layer with Opera Solutions, and then up to the presentation layer with Adobe’s
HTML5 evangelist Arno Gourdol.
ƒƒ There is a preview of later discussions about skills, Chui quotes
Hal Varian’s claim that “the sexy
jobs for the next 10 years will
be in statistics”, and projects a
shortfall of 1.5 million jobs in next
5 years looking for Big Data-savvy
employees.
ƒƒ Ted Dunning from MapR quickly
takes us deeper after observing
that the “Small [think smartphones] is getting bigger and Big
is getting bigger faster.”
ƒƒ Where Chui has identified
industries that are data-centric,
Dunning takes us up close to
selected unidentified customer
cases, showing how requirements
can involve 100,000 servers, and
scale up from current 10 billion
files to 200 billion • the numbers
are staggering
ƒƒ And where do operators fit in?
Dunning notes that “telcos don’t
have more data but they have
‘cool data’ • data about something real, something human.”
ƒƒ Expanding on Roger McNamee’s
HTML5 analysis, Adobe’s Gourdol
shows up-to-the-minute survey
data suggesting it will be a hybridized browser world, with almost
two-thirds of mobile apps being a
mix of HTML5 and native phone
app technology.
ƒƒ HTML5 has a low learning curve
and is designer-friendly, playing
into the general trend of designers
wanting to code, and coders
wanting to design.
Facing page: Arno Gourdol
(Adobe) on HTML5; Michael
Chui (McKinsey Global) on
the disruptions of Big Data;
Clockwise from top: Ted
Dunning (MapR) on Big Data
and Small Devices; Shishir
Garg (Orange) on the new
Post I.T. stack; Henri Verdier
(Cap Digital), Pierre Aussure
(Ivy), & Catherine Lucet
(Editions Nathan).
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session 2
Day 2 IBM, Deloitte, Aurasma, Google, NY Times
Peter Norvig:
“The whole notion
of a job is threatened” #oinstitute
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talent, data, and algorithms
orange silicon valley SF
The Post-I.T. Era is crowned by a layer more powerful than software • the
human layer. Increasingly, that layer needs to understand mathematics and
statistics as well as computer code • and it is finding disruptive ways to
transmit that knowledge. Over the afternoon we hear from IBM’s Anjul Bhambri
on the new ‘data scientist’ role, with illustrations from energy, health, and
smart cities. Then, after an amazing demo from Aurasma on big-data-meetsaugmented-reality, the day closes with an extended conversation between
two veterans of Silicon Valley. John Markoff, the New York Times correspondent, interviews famed Google Research Director Peter Norvig, who is also
teaching a free online course on Artifical Intelligence to 160,000 enrollees. The
conversation covers everything from cars that drive themselevs, to the Turing
test, to the prospects for a truly conscious computer.
ƒƒ The discussion about human
capital continues with IBM’s Anjul
Bhambri, who speaks at length
about the need for data scientists
and what skills that involves.
ƒƒ Your company needs somebody
who is willing and hungry to look at
a lot of data, and who is not satisfied that they are seeing enough.
ƒƒ Yes there is some connection
with traditional BI (business
intelligence), but the difference
is knowing what you want to
know (BI) and not knowing what’s
available from the data • and the
ability to keep everything makes
those ‘unknowns’ more likely to
pop up.
ƒƒ This data retention capability
is new, and it creating breakthroughs such as ‘smart babies’ •
a newborn infant generates 1000
pieces of data per second.
ƒƒ John Hagel from Deloitte Center
for the Edge also recognizes the
power of Data, but he calls for the
‘dark side’ of Big Data to be better
understood if we are to move
ahead aggressively.
ƒƒ This dark side includes intensified
competition and commodification.
As for data science skills, he calls
that ‘the tip of the iceberg’ and
points to the corporation’s deeper
structure and systems (as in
incentives). The way toward meaningful change involves Financial
and Political challenges.
ƒƒ John Markoff has a long list of
fascinating questions for Peter
Norvig, ranging from his online
course on AI, to machine-generated news, to cars that drive
themselves. The time flies by as
Norvig effortlessly but thoughtfully
shuttles from one topic to another.
ƒƒ Norvig is measured and no blueeyed optimist: “we don’t know
how to design systems that are
completely safe,” so it seems
Google is not infallible.
Facing page: Georges
Nahon (Orange), Peter
Norvig (Google), and John
Markoff (New York Times);
Clockwise from top:
Peter Norvig (Google),
John Markoff (New York
Times); John Hagel on data
flows, organization models,
and passion; Anjul Bhambri
(IBM) on data scientists
in organizations; Michael
Chui (McKinsey Global).
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session 1
#oinstitute final stop
at #Hyvesolutions for
#ocp amazing from
Fremont, CA
RIP RFP, new models in sourcing
for the 21st century data center
synnex Fremont
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ƒƒ Synnex is a $10 billion company
of ‘mystery men’ – it is the #1
packager of Intel CPU chips. They
ship 150 million hard drives every
three months.
ƒƒ The story at Synnex is exciting, it’s
about a transformational customer
–Facebook–turning the company
into a direct vendor of technology
to customers, transcending its
former middleman role.
ƒƒ Frank Frankovsky wears two hats,
one is the Director of Technical
Operations for Facebook, the
other is the Chairman of the Open
Compute Project (OCP) for open
source hardware. In that role,
he has learned the lesson that
successful open source leadership involves saying “no.”
ƒƒ Facebook’s decision to share
its revolutionary computer rack
designs and data center configurations via OCP is based on a
recognition that infrastructure
is not the differentiatior for its
participant
take-aways
ƒƒ Big Data is even bigger than we thought. We all need to face
the data challenge.
ƒƒ Big inflection point for the car in terms of incorporating
multiple technologies.
ƒƒ Big Data is a young topic, no one can claim 15 years of experience.
ƒƒ Big Data – limitation is lack of competent talent.
ƒƒ Phone assistant is becoming a reality, no longer a butler but a personal
expression of yourself. Conversations are the basis for interactions with
assistants. Gives hope for telco industry.
business. There is a sense that
energy-saving hardware is a social
good and should be shared.
ƒƒ The revolutionary open source
hardware Open Compute Project
was started with 3 engineers, now
it has expanded to 12, but the
principle of teams not larger than
“feed with one pizza” remains.
ƒƒ Efficiency and flexibility is
everything at Facebook: the
admin-to-server ratio is 1:12,500.
Racks from Synnex trucks are
rolled off the truck, pushed into
place, plugged in, and boot up.
Everything is serviced from the
front of the rack.
ƒƒ Massive energy savings are
gained from using open-air
cooling – there is no air conditioning. The first Facebook data
center built this way is in a highdesert plateau in Oregon. The
next one will be not far from the
Artic circle in Sweden.
ƒƒ 2 years ago the problem was storage & data
management. Today it’s about new knowledge &
intelligence, & analysis.
ƒƒ Economics reality of Big Data – new jobs and things becoming real,
in terms of video storage for example.
ƒƒ Statement by MacNamee –
“content will still be important.”
ƒƒ Many examples regarding marketing and the power of Big Data
for marketing schemes, CRM, and other systems.
ƒƒ Big Data & education. It’s going to be possible to
have big progress in pedagogy by following how
pupils learn and use pedagogical resources to
improve teaching and learning.
ƒƒ Data is a currency.
ƒƒ The past is always small, the future is huge.
ƒƒ Passion is not predictable.
Photograph by Alan Brand
Day 3 Hyve/Synnex, Facebook
For a morning we become another commuter bus in Silicon Valley. We are on
the way to Fremont in the East Bay, where tens of thousands of servers are
assembled and tested based on an open source design available to anybody
for one very big customer • Facebook. Thanks to Orange SV’s research
team, we are connected to the $10 billion company you never heard of who is
committed to supplying Facebook’s insatiable need for computing infrastructure, one that is evolving in a wholly new fashion, freed from the constraints
of traditional vendors. Facebook’s Frank Frankovsky takes us through the
company’s thinking about giving its design to the world, and takes us through
what life is like inside some of the largest data centers on the planet.
debrief
ƒƒ Data is the factor for competitive advandtage.
Availability of data is increasing competition.
ƒƒ Norvig on self-driving cars & artificial intelligence:
“be more humanlike by using big data.”
ƒƒ Statistics has always been a basic knowledge for
economists, computer science people, biologists, etc.
But now Statistics will be a core competency that we
don’t have at our company. This has concrete consequences to HR.
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faculty
Anjul Bhambhri, VP, Big Data Products, IBM
Anjul Bhambhri was previously the Director of IBM Optim application and data life cycle management tools. She is a seasoned
professional with over twenty-two years in the database industry.
Anjul has held various engineering and management positions at
IBM, Informix and Sybase. Prior to her assignment in tools, Anjul
spearheaded the development of XML capabilities in IBM’s DB2
database server. She is a recipient of the YWCA of Silicon Valley’s
Tribute to Women in Technology award for 2009. Anjul holds a
degree in Electrical Engineering.
Brady Forrest, Technical Evangelist, O'Reilly
Brady Forrest is Chair of O'Reilly's Where 2.0 and Emerging
Technology conferences. Additionally, he co-Chairs Web 2.0
Expo in San Francisco, Berlin and NYC. Brady writes for O'Reilly
Radar tracking changes in technology. He previously worked at
Microsoft on Live Search (he came to Microsoft when it acquired
MongoMusic). Brady lives in Seattle, where he builds cars for
Burning Man and runs Ignite. You can track his web travels at
Truffle Honey.
Michael Chui, VP, McKinsey Global
Michael Chui is a Senior Global Fellow of the McKinsey Global
Institute (MGI), where he leads research on the impact of information technologies on business, the economy, and society. Michael
has led McKinsey research in such areas as long-term technologyenabled business trends, Web 2.0 and collaboration technologies,
emerging markets innovators, and data-driven management. His
research has been cited globally in publications such as the Wall
Street Journal, New York Times, Fast Company, Forbes, The
Times of London, and Les Échos. Michael holds a B.S. in symbolic
systems from Stanford University and earned a Ph.D. in computer
science and cognitive science, and a M.S. in computer science,
from Indiana University.
Frank Frankovsky, Director of Technical Operations, Facebook
Frank Frankovsky’s day job as Facebook Director of Technical
Operations has led him to chair the Open Compute Project,
which is taking an open source community approach to expand
Facebook’s customized hardware used in its internal data centers.
Ted Dunning, PhD, Chief Architect, MapR Technologies
Dr. Dunning is responsible for building the most advanced identity
theft detection system on the planet, as well as one of the largest
peer-assisted video distribution systems and ground-breaking
music and video recommendations systems. Mr. Dunning serves
as Chief Scientist of SiteTuners.com, Inc. Prior to this, Ted served
as the Principal Investigator and Co-Founder of the New Mexico
State University Computing Research Laboratory. He held Chief
Scientist positions at ID Analytics and at MusicMatch, (now Yahoo
Music). He was a co-founder of Veoh Networks, Inc. Dr. Dunning is
the author of numerous patents and publications.
Di-Ann Eisnor, VP of Platforms & Parnerships, Waze
Di-Ann Eisnor runs US operations and is crafting the cartography
of “live mapping” for the crowd-sourced navigation and real-time
traffic start-up, Waze. Diann is also founder and chairman of Platial,
and founded Eisnor Interactive which was bought by Omnicom in
2001. She is a neogeography pioneer and serial entrepreneur.
Diann has spoken at BigThink, SXSW, TEDxSiliconValley, LeWeb,
GeoLoco, SocioLoco, MWC, Signal, AppNation, State of the Map,
Web 2.0, Where 2.0, MIT, Columbia University, Stanford University,
and others.
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Shishir Garg, Director, Platforms, Orange Silicon Valley
Shishir leads a team focused on emerging IT and infrastructure
technologies including Cloud computing, HPC, big data, and
application/service delivery platforms. He has 14 years of experience in Internet middleware and technologies and was involved
in SOA and Web services evangelization and standardization at
W3C, OASIS, and WS-I since joining Orange Labs (formerly France
Telecom R&D) in 2001. He has worked globally at early stage startups as well as large multinational organizations, and holds a B.S.
in Computer Science from University of Pune, India.
Arno Gourdol, Senior Director, Adobe
Arno Gourdol is an Apple and Adobe veteran with 18 years of experience building software products. With fifteen patents granted,
Arno designed, developed and published educational math software for Mac and began interning for Apple in 1992. He became
the lead engineer for Apple’s Human Interface team and worked
with product and project management to define the schedule,
processes and features of Mac OS 7.6, Arno is responsible for the
development of XMP, Adobe’s XML-based metadata platform and
the Adobe Bridge CS2 and CS3. Since 2007, he was the Director
of Engineering for Adobe AIR.
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faculty
John Hagel III, Principal, Deloitte Center for the Edge
John Hagel III is a recognized thought leader on the intersection of
technology and strategy. He has influenced corporate strategies
as a management consultant, author, speaker and entrepreneur.
Since 2001, he has been an independent consultant and writer.
He held significant positions at leading consulting firms and public
and private companies. From 1984 to 2000, he was a principal at
McKinsey & Co., where he was a leader of the Strategy Practice.
He has also served as chief strategy officer of 12 Entrepreneuring,
Inc. and senior VP of strategic planning at Atari, Inc. He was a
consultant at Boston Consulting Group and founded Sequoia
Group, Inc.
Steve Ichinaga, VP and General Manager, Hyve/Synnex
Mr. Ichinaga joined SYNNEX in 1984 and has held a variety of
Sales and Product Management positions within the company.
In October, 1999, Mr. Ichinaga was promoted to Vice President
of Business Development, focusing on manufacturing and
outsourcing relationships and was promoted in 2001 to Senior
Vice President, Systems Integration focusing on our System
Builder and OEM customer segment. In 2006, Mr. Ichinaga was
promoted to Senior Vice President and General Manager, System.
Mr. Ichinaga manages the Product Management, Marketing,
Sales, and Design and Integration departments for this division.
Mr. Ichinaga received a B.S. in Managerial Economics from the
University of California - Davis.
John Markoff, Senior Writer, New York Times
John Markoff, West Coast Correspondent, New York Times;
Lecturer, Stanford University covers technology and the computer
industry for the New York Times, and has coauthored numerous
books on tech culture, most recently What the Dormouse Said:
How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer.
Roger McNamee, Partner, Elevation Partners
Roger McNamee began his career in 1982 at T. Rowe Price
Associates, where he managed the top-ranked Science &
Technology Fund and co-managed the New Horizons Fund.
In 1991, he launched Integral Capital Partners. In 1999, Roger
co-founded Silver Lake Partners, the first private equity fund
focused on technology businesses. In 2004, Roger and his
partners launched Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and entertainment
content and consumer technology. Roger holds a B.A. from Yale
University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business
at Dartmouth College.
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Mary Ann de Lares Norris, COO, Oblong
Mary Ann oversees Oblong's company operations. Previously,
she was the head of the European division of Oblong, based in
Barcelona. Prior roles include Chief Operating Officer of a Parisian
interactive television company, Director of Strategic Planning at
Mattel, Executive Producer at Sony Electronic Publishing, and
Producer at The Voyager Company. Mary Ann holds an MS from
the Media Lab at MIT and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa
Cum Laude from UC Santa Cruz.
Peter Norvig, Research Director, Google
Peter Norvig was Director of Search Quality at Google Inc, responsible for the core web search algorithms from 2002-2005, and
has been Director of Research from 2005 on. Previously he was
the head of the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames
Research Center. He has served as an assistant professor at the
University of Southern California and a research faculty member
at the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science
Department, from which he received a Ph.D. in 1986. He has
over fifty publications in Computer Science, concentrating on
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Software
Engineering, including Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
(the leading textbook in the field), Paradigms of AI Programming:
Case Studies in Common Lisp.
Lauren Offers, Director of Marketing`, Aurasma
Lauren Offers is the Director of Marketing for Aurasma. Prior to
this, she worked as an Event Sales Manager at The St. Regis San
Francisco and as a Special Events Manager at the Morgans Hotel
Group– Clift. Earlier in her career, she taught Business English for
Inlingua. She received her B.A. from Dartmouth University.
Jacob Spoelstra, EVP R&D, Opera Solutions
Jacob has more than 19 years experience in machine learning,
focusing in particular on neural networks. He headed up the Opera
team that, as part of "The Ensemble," ended up "first equals" in
the prestigious Netflix data mining competition, beating out over
41,000 other entrants. Previously, Jacob led a custom fraud
analytics consulting team at Fair Isaac. He has also held analytics
leadership positions at SAS, ID Analytics, and boutique consulting
company BasePoint. Jacob holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Pretoria, and a PhD in Computer
Science from the University of Southern California.
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Brad Voytek,
Data Evangelist, Uber; Neuroscience PhD, UCSF
Brad is an NIH-funded neuroscience researcher making use
of big data, mapping, and mathematics to figure out cognition.
He is the Data Evangelist at Uber. His research has appeared in
peer-reviewed scientific publications such as PNAS, Neuron, the
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and others. His research has
been featured in The Washington Post, Wired, and The New York
Times. His writing has been featured in Forbes, The New Yorker,
The Guardian, The Atlantic, Scientific American. In 2006 he split
the Time Person of the Year Award.
participants
faculty
John Tripier, Director of Business Development, PARC
PARC Director of Business Development John Tripier has over 15
years experience working with Global 2000 companies, specializing in carefully analyzing and understanding target markets
and defining collaboration roadmaps. Domains include big data,
health and wellness and networking. Tripier’s previous expertise
encompasses software and high-tech solutions. At ILOG (an IBM
company), he helped lead the company into the business-process
management market. Before that, Tripier managed business
development for the voice and data convergence market at Nortel.
Tripier has also served as sales manager at Europe-based DCI (a
network infrastructure system integrator). Tripier received his MBA
from Dauphine University in Paris, France.
Bruno Aidan
Pierre Aussure
Kristen Badgley
David Barroux
Michiel Boreel
Hans Peter Brondmo
Denis Cohen-Tannoudji
Jean-Pierre Dicostanzo
Regional Director
of France Telecom Paris,
Orange – France Telecom Group
Sander Duivestein
R&D Disruptive Director, Essilor
Gaelle Duvet
Gilles Fontaine
Head of Research on Applications,
Alcatel – Lucent Bell Labs
Companies News Editor in Chief,
Les Echos
Founder, Ivy
Group Chief Technology Officer, Sogeti
Board Member, HBSA/NC
Head of Concepting and Innovation,
Nokia
Norman Winarsky, VP, SRI Ventures
Norman Winarsky leads SRI Ventures, which includes SRI's venture
and license development, SRI's Commercialization Board, and
nVention — SRI's partnership with the venture capital community.
Norman works with SRI's business units to identify and develop
SRI's highest-value commercial market opportunities from initial
concept through commercialization as a license or venture. Prior
to joining SRI, Winarsky was Vice President of Ventures at Sarnoff
Corporation, an SRI subsidiary. He is also a Visiting Scholar at
Stanford University.
Will Wright, Game Designer, The SIMs
A technical virtuoso with boundless imagination, Will Wright has
created a style of computer gaming unlike any that came before,
emphasizing learning more than losing, invention more than sport.
With his hit game SimCity, he spurred players to make predictions,
take risks, and sometimes fail miserably, as they built their own
virtual urban worlds. With follow-up hit The Sims, he encouraged
the same creativity toward building a household, while preserving
the addictive fun of ordinary video games. In 2009, he left publisher
Electronic Arts to form his own think tank for the future of games,
toys and entertainment, the Stupid Fun Club.
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CEO, Neomarketing
Deputy Editor in Chief,
Challenges
Senior Analyst Sogeti
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CEO, Real Change
François Hisquin
Georges Nahon
Mark Plakias
President of Orange
Institute, CEO of
Orange Silicon Valley
Vice-President of Strategy,
Orange Silicon Valley
Catherine Lucet
Pashu Christensen
Romeo Machado
Pascale Diaine
Ariel Messas
Natalie Quizon
Hizuru Cruz
Jeoffrey Batangan
Executive VP, Group
Strategy and Development,
Orange–France Telecom Group
CEO, Octo Technology
François Laburthe
Séverine Legrix De La Salle
Frederic Maire
Beatrice Mandine
Director, Renault Innovation Silicon
Valley (FR) [(Automotive Systems)]
Head of Press Office,
Orange – France Telecom Group
Claude Soula
Henri Verdier
Director of Operational Research &
Innovation, Amadeus
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Elie Girard
Journalist, Nouvel Obs
Vice President Brand, Image
and Partnerships, Orange–France
Telecom Group
Chairman, Cap Digital
institute team
participants
Christian Forthomme
President of Nathan and Sejer,
Editions Nathan
CIO, Founder, Viadeo
Coordinator,
Orange Silicon Valley
User Experience
and Content Lead,
Orange Silicon Valley
Business Development
Manager, Orange Institute
Design Intern,
Orange Silicon Valley
Evangelist/Knowledge
Transfer, Orange Silicon Valley
Design Intern,
Orange Silicon Valley
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dig deeper
further reading and
viewing on the Post-I.T. era
As a parallel activity to the Orange Institute examination of massive disruptions in the IT industry, the Orange Silicon Valley center published and
released a combined report and video covering the ‘Post-I.T. era’ entitled
Where Did I.T. Go? Navigating the Post-I.T. World Users Create. This report,
which is available for download, along with the accompanying video, at
http://www.orange.com/postitera, features excerpts of interviews with ten
visionaries from Silicon Valley, conducted by enterprise analyst Jo Maitland
of GigaOm Pro. Highlights of these far-ranging and insightful interviews are
the focus of the video. This work is designed to encourage dialog and fresh
thinking about data, its increasing value, and its changing infrastructure, and
is shared in the spirit of ecosystem contribution.
“Data is the key
factor for competitive
advantage” #oinstitute
Using #bigdata effectively
will require large-scale
organizational change.
That’s hard. #oinstitute
selected
tweets
“the rack is
the new blade”
#oinstitute
When beginning
transformational
change at the edge,
find resources
externally
#oinstitute
We lose 12 milliseconds of
neural response time every
year we age Brad Voytek
#oinstitute
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The Post-I.T.
world is about
liberating
pixels.
#oinstitute
Passion is a requirement for
radical, lasting performance
improvements. #oinstitute
You can take
any technology
& extend it to a
body part. Games
are imagination
amplifiers.
#willwright
#oinstitute
Winarsky:
Virtual Personal
Assistants will
be everywhere
& much more
specialized
#oinstitute
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(big) thanks
how to get involved
Like the Post-I.T. stack discussed in our coverage of Big Data, there are
multiple layers of inputs to the tapestry of the most recent Institute session
in Silicon Valley. One of the most important was the feedback from members
who attended the 2010 Silicon Valley immersion, where we included a session
on Big Data that was enthusiastically received. That was the beginning.
The journey since then has included collaboration with GigaOm Pro, perhaps
the leading analyst firm in the domain, who ably interviewed ten visionaries in
the changing IT landscape for the supporting research study Where did I.T.
Go? Navigating the Post-I.T. World Users Create. Several of the faculty at this
immersion, notably Ted Dunning, Frank Frankovsky, and Steve Ichinaga are
in the report and video*.
We are fortunate to have corporate governance for Orange Institute by Elie
Girard, EVP Group Strategy. The welcome video by Stephane Richard, CEO
and Chairman of France Telecom speaks for itself in terms of the Group’s
commitment to our activity.
Orange Institute benefits from the deep knowledge of the platform domain
experts at the Orange Silicon Valley facility, led by Shishir Garg and his
talented team, as well as Santhana Krishnasamy, Satya Mallya, and Amit
Goswami, under the direction of Gabriel Sidhom. Their suggestions for faculty
members and topics to cover was fundamental in shaping the agenda.
The book you are holding, as well as the accompanying report we released, along
with the communications, emails, and program materials that guided us, were
made by our creative interns, Jeoffrey Batangan and Hizuru Cruz. We can attest to
the fact the words “no” or “can’t” do not appear to be in their vocabulary.
Finally, our deepest appreciation to our member companies who support
Orange Institute with their active participation. The fact that we had so
many of our original members, who first joined us three years ago, as well
as exciting and experienced new participants at this session helped build
this atmosphere of collective appreciation and comprehension. Learning as a
group in this fashion, rather than as isolated individuals, is so much richer, and
because it is social learning, more enjoyable. We are smarter as a group, and
stronger as individuals as a result of that collective learning.
Georges Nahon, Mark Plakias,
President, Vice President,
Orange Institute
Orange Silicon Valley
Orange Institute was formed to support multidisciplinary continuous learning about the
changes wrought on society and business by
an increasingly connected world. In the past
three years we have connected to 100 faculty
members drawn from global innovation centers
across academia, startups, large private and
public-sector organizations. With every session
we gather more momentum and collective
knowledge. If you are reading this document
and have not been part of the Orange Institute
experience, it is because someone you know
has attended, and thought you may benefit from
participation as well. The experience of Orange
Institute immersions cannot be conveyed
through any website or brochure: talk to us.
Contact Romeo Machado for a conversation
about joining the next session in Fall, 2012 at:
orange.institute@orange.com
romeo.machado@orange.com
+33 1 44 44 04 17
*www.orange.com/postitera for soft copies and streams of the video.
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