Past Events

Date Speaker Topic
March 23 , 2007 Masakatsu Kojima, Director of Product & Engineering, HTC Global Trends in Mobile Technology
Feb 15, 2007 Eugene Saburi / Managing Executive Officer, General Manager, Business & Marketing, Microsoft Co., Ltd. Taking Business to a New Level
Jan 16, 2007 ICA Special Networking Event Shinnenkai New Year Party


Date Speaker Topic
Dec. 6 , 2006 Bonenkai
Nov. 30, 2006 Neeraj Jhanji
CEO of ImaHima
Managing An Office 2.0 Company
Oct. 19, 2006 Brent Jacobs
Group Manager, Windows Live Operations - Microsoft
Deploying and Managing Large-Scale Online Services at Microsoft
Sept. 21, 2006 Andrew Perons
Manager, Risk & Compliance, Strata Works K.K.
Corporate Governance – The Changing Regulations and Implications
July 20 , 2006 Naotaka Nakase
Vice President of Marketing, SalesForce.com
The Future of Software
June 15 , 2006 Robert Burnside
President and Chief Communicator of Empowr
Improving Communication and Presentation Skills
May 18 , 2006 Hideki Shimizu & Tetsuya Nakamura
Mobile Solution Product Development Division, KDDI
Mobilizing your Enterprise - Successful Case Studies
April 20 , 2006 Jim Weisser
President of Weisser Consulting and Director of PBXL
IP Telephony, the Future is NOW
March 22, 2006 Brian Mitchell The Rapid Consolidation and Evolution of the Global Software Industry
Feb 16, 2006 Yosuke Itoh
Director, CSP and Media Industry Services
Japan’s Mobile Commerce Boom!
A Driver for Marketing Loyalty Program Consolidation
Jan 17, 2006 ICA Special Networking Event Infotech Shinnenkai New Year Party


Date Speaker Topic
Nov 17, 2005 Greg Tarr The Next Threat : W-CDMA / EVDO Mobile Security
Oct 20, 2005 Gary Blankenship The Next Generation of Internet Protocol - Opportunities and Challenges For Enterprises in Japan.
Sept 15, 2005 Daniel Lintz Security Threats in Japan: Changing Attitudes, the Legal Framework, and Credit Card Industry Countermeasures
July, 2005 James Ryland, Lyle Andrews, Andrew Bishop A round-table discussion with industry specialists from Microsoft, Goldman Sachs & Hartford Life
June, 2005 Crissman Loomis Vendors, Technology and Japan
May 27, 2005 Digital Eve Networking event
May 19, 2005 Scott Neville of ValueCommerce Driving Ecommerce through Affiliate & Search-Engine Marketing
April, 2005 Sig Yamada, General Motors Inc.;
Sed Saad, Waseda University;
Kevin Meyerson, Founder Rainbow Japan Inc. (Moderator)
Round Table on 3G Mobile Technology & Telematics with Mobile Intelligence Tour reps
March, 2005 Peter Thompson, Asia Pacific Regional Director of Datacore Enterprise Storage for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises--Low Cost Disaster Recovery
Feb, 2005 John Kirch, Regional Director for Ubiquity Software Corporation VoIP & SIP are the Future of Telecommunications


Date Speaker Topic
Dec, 2004   Xmas party with Digital Eve
Nov, 2004 Philip Parker,   CEO of P. J. Parker & Co. Opportunities for Foreign Vendors in the Japanese Telecoms Market
Oct, 2004 Makoto Hoketsu, client representative at Acxiom Corporation Japan office Data Quality - Its Role in Effective CRM in Japan
Sept, 2004 Erez Schwartz of Sorun-Comsec Information Security in the New Millennium
July, 2004 Ken Koike of Red Hat The state of Linux from the Enterprise IT standpoint
June, 2004 Greg Ascolese & Jenny Sutton of Abeam Consulting Consulting Case Studies and Approaches for Implementing Customer Analytics & Extending the Life of Legacy System
May, 2004 John Linehan, Director, Sales Promotion Initiatives, Oracle Corporation Japan IT Solution Approaches for the New Global Regulatory Environment.
April, 2004 Jan Michel Hess, Michael Alfant, Tomo Morohashi, Mike Benner, Sandra Baron, Walter Adamson Joint Mobile Intelligence Round Table
March, 2004 Francois Cartier of e-Modelers Dimensions of an Enterprise, & Data Modeling.
Feb, 2004 C. Nakabayashi of Cisco-Linksys Wireless Home Networking and Next-Generation Consumer Electronic Products
Jan, 2004 Jeff Funk of Hitotsubashi University Key Technologies, Applications, and Strategies for the Mobile Internet


Date Speaker Topic
Nov, 2003 Stefan Hanna of Nippon Ericsson New Business Services for Mobile Phones
Oct, 2003 Scott Prina of Creo Japan The Challenge, for a Global Hi-Tech Company, of Growing Market Share in Japan
Sept, 2003 Eric McNeil - IBM Tivoli Software Authoritative Data as Foundation for Enterprise Security
June, 2003 Jim (Coach) Hunter, Senior Partner - PMP-Japan. Managing Process Improvement Projects
May, 2003 Ted Matsumoto of Qualcomm and Daniel Scuka of Wireless Watch Japan Mobile Technology Roundtable
March, 2003 Brad Hall, Director Global Executive and Organizational Capability IBM Asia Pacific Building Leadership Excellence
Feb, 2003 Sebastian Doose, COO - TUV Rheinland Japan IT Outsourcing, Software Development in India" side bar
Feb, 2003 Nik Frengle i-Mode, A Primer
Jan, 2003 Albert Bunshaft-Vice President Grid Computing Sales and Business Development, IBM Corporation How will e-business on demand change your enterprise?


Date Speaker Topic
Nov, 2002 Rod Talbot - President, JDA Software Japan Ltd Driving Change in Japan's Retail/Supply Chain Through Integrated Software and Services
Oct, 2002 John Y. Sasaki, Partner - Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP Hajime Tanahashi, Partner - Mori Sogo Law Offices Can the Silicon Valley Model Really Work in Japan?
Sept, 2002 Warren Muir, Representative Director of Eclipse Computing Practical Applications of Technologies for Profit & Growth
July, 2002 Jim Pitchford, Vice President Cable & Wireless Asia What happened to the promise of the Internet
June, 2002 Tim Romero; Executive Technology Officer, Digital Garage The Sum of Its Parts: Japanese M&A and Integration
May 21, 2002 ICA - Japan-America Society Mobile Communications roundtable
Apr. 18, 2002 Robert Veres,Datacraft Japan System Security
Mar. 20, 2002 Leo Keeley, Witness Systems Boom in Call Centers hits Japan
Feb 21, 2002 Scott Nevile, Spike Technologies Online marketing Techniques
Jan. 17, 2002 Punnamas Vichitkulwongsa, CEO - Arriya Solutions, Ted Matsumoto -President - Qualcomm Japan, Miki Alfant - President - Building 2, Giles Richter - CEO, Mobile Media Japan K.K. Future of Mobile Data Communications II


Date Speaker Topic
Dec 5, 2001 Code-J, ICA, International Women in Communication, Tokyo PC Users Group. Xmas Party
Sept 20, 2001 Darshaun Nadeau, President of Japan Registry Japan's domain market
July 19, 2001 Steve Lin Goldman Sachs IT Private Equity & Investment Deals
June 27, 2001 Product ShowCase www.salesforce.com and www.eproject.com
June 21,2001 Andreas Voyiadzakis, Managing Director Starcom Worldwide Intricacies of the Japanese media scene
May 24, 2001 Frank McMurtrey President eProject Project Management and Project Collaboration
May 15, 2001 Leo Keeley, President & CEO, Derek Schneideman, President, CTR Ventures, Michael Alfant, President, Building2 Networking and business development roundtable event
April 19, 2001 Dr. Kuan-Tsae Huang, Chairman -TaskCo B2B Applications - An Asia Pacific Viewpoint
March 15, 2001 Mr. Mark Latchford - Vice President Tivoli Asia Pacific Role of middleware, including management tools
Feb. 15, 2001 Mr. John A. Antone, President, Intel K.K. (Japan) Intel's Role In The New Internet Economy
Jan. 18, 2001 Mahendra Negi, COO/CFO, ipTrend Inc Bridging the digital divide with appliances.


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