Business Forecasting & Planning Excellence

8 -10 September, 2008, MGM Grand – Las Vegas

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Day 1 - September 8

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

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Day 2 - September 9

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
Mahesh Rajasekharan, Vice President, i2 Technologies

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
Colleen Crum, Managing Principal, Over Wight Americas

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

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Day 3 – September 10

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

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Speakers:

  • Fox Media
  • Amgen
  • Orange
  • Dow chemical company
  • BT global
  • Dell
  • Heinz
  • Motorola
  • Applied Materials
  • T-Mobile USA
  • Google
  • AVON
  • Telefonica
  • Toyota
  • O2
  • IBM
  • Rolls Royce
  • Starbucks
  • Hewlett-Packard
  • Intel
  • Warner Bros
  • Texas Instruments
  • Thomson-Reuters
  • ATMI

Sponsors:

  • I2
  • Futurion
  • Oliver Wight
  • Forecast Pro
  • Road Map Technologies
  • Logility
  • International Planning & Research
  • Salford Systems
  • SAP
  • TERRA
  • Oracle
  • Nielsen
  • Xpree
  • John Galt
  • Boston Strategies

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