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Web 2.0, M&A and ‘World-Changing’ Technologies on CED’s Tech 2006 Agenda
BD, Eaton, Lenovo, Red Hat and RTI Execs to Speak on Oct. 11 Featured Panels
September 14, 2006, Research Triangle Park, NC – The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) today announced featured panel topics and speakers for Tech 2006. CED’s 16th annual conference is scheduled for Oct. 11 at North Carolina State University’s McKimmon Center in Raleigh. Pre-conference sessions and a networking reception are also being planned on October 10 at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in the RTP.
Executives from BD Technologies, Eaton Corporation, Lenovo, Red Hat and RTI are among the featured panelists at Tech 2006 on October 11. Panel topics and speakers include the following:
Web 2.0: Technology, Sociology and Business Transformation
- Lee Buck, Co-founder & CTO, Near-Time
- Ajit Jaokar, Founder & CEO, futuretext
- Tom Taulli, Founder, InvestorOffering.com
Exits & Innovations: The Next Chapter in Technology M&A’s
- Suzanne Burns, Vice President & General Manager, Eaton Corporation
- David Gardner, Vice President, Compuware Corporation
- Al Lauritano, Director of Business Development, BD Technologies
Technologies That Are Changing the World
- Victoria Haynes, Ph.D., President & CEO, RTI International
- Howard Locker, Director of New Technology, Desktop and Mobile Systems, Lenovo
- Michael Tiemann, Vice President of Open Source Affairs, Red Hat, Inc.
“The Tech 2006 panels will provide entrepreneurs with important information from several esteemed technology thought leaders,” said Monica Doss, President of CED. “Along with the keynote speakers and demo participants, these featured panels will delve into the latest technology innovations and trends in today’s cutting-edge markets.”
In addition to featured panels, Tech 2006 will also showcase demo technologies from across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, as well as four previously announced keynote speakers: Colin Angle, CEO and co-founder of iRobot Corporation; David Bonderman, founding partner of Texas Pacific Group (TPG) and Newbridge Capital; Marc Lautenbach, General Manager of IBM Americas; and Jim Steele, President of Salesforce.com.
Visit www.cednc.org/tech for more details.
About CED: The Council for EntrepreneurialDevelopment (CED) is a private, non-profit organization formed in 1984 to identify, enable and promote high growth, high impact entrepreneurial companies and to accelerate the entrepreneurial culture of the Research Triangle and North Carolina. CED is the largest and oldest entrepreneurial support organization in the nation with more than 4,000 members representing over 1,100 entrepreneurial companies, financiers and professional firms. In July 2005, Wilmington’s Coastal Entrepreneurial Council merged with CED to create CED-Coastal, a divisional office focused on entrepreneurial development in Wilmington and throughout North Carolina’s entire coastal region. CED provides education, mentoring and capital formation resources to new and existing high-growth entrepreneurs through annual conferences, seminars, workshops and programs on entrepreneurial management and finance. www.cednc.org
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