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7:30-8:00 AM Networking & Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:30 AM Presentation

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Our economy is at the onset of the first economic expansion of the 21st century. After a long pause, the corporate America will start re-investing in IT. Which “Hot” technology trend will accelerate the demand and growth for the IT industry?

Something is always being promoted as the next "hot" technology trend. Some of the latest trends are wireless, web-services, XML, RFID, etc., etc., etc. But what is REALLY going to be hot and what isn't? No one knows for sure, but our panel of three of the finest Southern California experts is certainly going to give it their best try.

Join the leading CIO, Venture Capitalist, and Industry Analyst, for an entertaining, highly interactive and fact-filled morning organized by the Software Business SIG of the Software Council of Southern California.

Panelists:

• Ashwin Rangan, Sr. Vice President and CIO of Conexant Systems, Inc.
• Eric M. Berg, Analyst, PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Technology Centre
  
• To be announced, Venture Capitalist.

Moderator:

Anjay Bajaj, President of StraITegy Solutions, Inc.

About the Panel

Eric M. Berg, Analyst, PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Technology Centre
Eric M. Berg is a technology analyst on the staff of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Technology Centre in Menlo Park, California, where he has worked since 1988.

From 1999 to April of 2003, Eric was Managing Director of Technology Forecast Publications. In this role, he had overall responsibility for the firm's annual Technology Forecast, an overview of trends in information technology that was distributed to as many as 40,000 PwC clients and other individuals worldwide. During his tenure as editor-in-chief, the Technology Forecast provided in-depth coverage of trends in computing and communications, emphasizing key developments such as the emergence of new computing platforms (2000), the prospects for the mobile Internet (2001), the future of software (2002), emerging patterns of Internet computing (2002), and the intelligent real-time enterprise (2003). Each of these Technology Forecast volumes also included a series of interviews that Eric conducted with key IT industry figures, including the CEOs of Ericsson, NTT DoCoMo, Openwave Systems, Packet Design, and TIBCO Software; senior executives at Vodafone and Siebel Software; technology visionaries such as Bill Joy, Peter Cochrane, Ray Ozzie, Rick Rashid, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Dave Farber, and Len Kleinrock; and venture capitalists such as Roger McNamee and Ann Winblad.

Prior to 1999, Eric served as a contributing editor and chief technical reviewer of the Technology Forecast. He played a significant role in the publication of the Technology Forecast beginning in 1990, during which time he helped to define the PricewaterhouseCoopers perspective on the future of information technology.

Eric frequently presents briefings on technology trends to a variety of groups around the world, including audiences from the high technology vendor community and the IT leadership at major PricewaterhouseCoopers clients. Prior to joining PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1988, Eric worked as a programmer/analyst at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Earlier in his career, he taught economics for several years to undergraduates and MBA candidates at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. Eric holds a masters degree in economics from Stanford University.