Programme
Get Set-up: Forecasting & Planning Excellence
12.30-13.30 |
Summit Registration & Coffee |
13.30 |
Summit Begins Chairman: VP, Terra Technology |
13.30 |
Lead a Transformation of Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting Process Rich Valenstein, Vice President, Finance, Toyota |
14.00 |
Market Alerts: The Ability to be Pro-Active in a Dynamic World Economy Steve Lawrence, Director Financial Planning & Analysis, T-Mobile |
14.30 |
Taking Down Vegas - How the Geneva Forecasting Expert System Beat the Vegas Casinos Rudolph Pizzano, CEO, RoadMap Technologies |
15.00 |
Have your cake and eat it too! Accelerate Forecasting Balancing Methodologies & Technologies Thomas Tileston, Vice President, Warner Bros Home Entertainment |
15.30 |
Coffee Break |
16.00 |
Real-Time Sales and Operation Plan across the Enterprise Guy Yehiav, Vice President, Oracle |
16.30 |
Think About a Green Supply Chain Ron Burnette, Product Director, Logility |
17.00 |
Market Alerts: The Ability to be Pro-Active in a Dynamic World Economy Joe Gatto, Managing Director, International Planning & Research Corp |
17.30 |
Business Planning in New Markets Created by Emerging Technologies & Services Seema Butt, Head of Strategy, O2 Telefonica |
18.00-19.30 |
Networking Party |
08.30 |
Light Breakfast & Coffee |
09.00 |
Summit Begins Chairman: David Jacoby, President, Boston Strategies International |
09.00 |
Supply & Demand Forecasting in a Globally Integrated Supply Chain Jayne, Vice President, Global Operations & Delivery Excellence, IBM |
09.30 |
Large Scale Forecasting at the Dow Chemical Company Cathy Budd, Director Demand Driven Business Operations, Dow Chemical Company |
10.00 |
Improve Forecast Accuracy in the Volatile High Tech Industry Brett Whitmire, Vice President SCM, Texas Instruments |
10.30 |
Coffee Break |
11.00 |
Discover how Planning & Fulfillment Strategy Impact Motorola's Networks Business Anil Barot, Director of Strategy & Portfolio Management, Motorola, Inc. |
11.30 |
Strategies & Approaches for Forecasting New Sales Channel Opportunities Chris Cowger, Vice President, Planning, DELL |
12.00 |
Move to a Collaborative E2E Material Planning & Execution Process Roger Bhalla, Director, Worldwide Notebook Supply Chain Strategy |
12.30 |
Lunch |
13.45 |
Demand Driven Defense - Give the Supply Chain a Chance Lee Doherty, Vice President, Rolls Royce |
14.15 |
Practical Ways of Improving Demand Plan Accuracy Timm Reiher, Demand Manager, ATMI |
14.45 |
Create Dynamic, Interactive Excel Models with Graphical user Interfaces Ann Matthews, Head of Business Modeling, BT Group |
15.15 |
Coffee Break |
16.00 |
Bridging the Gap; Sales Vs. Forecast Kareen Smoke, Operations Director, Starbucks |
16.30 |
Business Planning in the Fluidity of the Online Unknown Nathalie Criou, Business Product Manager, Google Inc |
17.00 |
Consider a Forecasting System along side SAP APO Robert Carbone, CEO, Futurion |
17.30 |
Future Planning: Too Much Information, Not Enough Insight Ben Lewis, Head of Strategy, Thomson-Reuters |
| 18:00- 19:30 | Networking party |
08.30 |
Light Breakfast & Coffee |
09.00 |
Summit Begins |
09.00 |
Fundamentals of a Sound Forecasting Operation: A case study in Departmental Restructuring Mark Temkin, Director of Estimating, Avon Products |
09.30 |
SAP TBC |
10.00 |
How to Forecast the Uptake of New Products and Services: an ICT Case Study Mohsen Hamouda, Head of Strategic Marketing, Orange |
10.30 |
Coffee Break |
11.00 |
One-Number Forecasting Sara Park, Sr. Manager, Forecasting & Demand Planning, Heinz North America |
11.30 |
Build & Manage a New Product Forecasting Function Farong Li, Executive Director of Forecasting, Amgen Inc |
12.00 |
Advances in Data Mining for Automated Forecasting Dan Steinberg, CEO, Salford Systems |
12.30 |
Lunch |
13.30 |
Simple but profound: Key takeaways form implementing Advanced Service Parts Planning & Forecasting Solutions Deepak Bhatia, Manager Service Parts Planning, Research & Strategy, Applied Materials |
14.00 |
Innovation sales forecasting: Making customer input the cornerstone of a reliable and adaptable system Blake Burrus, Sr. Vice President, Global Verticals, BASES The Nielsen Company |
14.30 |
Coffee Break |
15.15 |
Managing Bias in Demand Forecasting Jay Hopman, IT Innovation, Intel |
16.00 |
Use Prediction Markets to Top Employee Wisdom Matt Fogerty, Managing Partner, Xpree |






































