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San Jose; June 24-25, 2014 Speakers in order of appearance and Presentations’ summary.
EDIFICE Welcome by Bob Manitz, EDIFICE Vice-Chair
	Bob Manitz is senior B2B Integration Specialist for Hewlett Packard and assigned to HP’s Global Integration Services Organization .My current responsibility focus is directed toward logistic and supply chain integration flow implementations, integration flow design & quality review and approval team member, functional lead for partner self-testing initiatives, deep support provider and contributor to overall integration process improvement efforts
Keynote: Internet of Things: Business Rules Management by KC Wu of Cisco The business environment is changing at a faster and faster pace than ever. How does IT keep pace with the velocity of change and remain Business relevant and continue to deliver top line growth and bottom line productivity? Learn how Cisco IT built an adaptive enterprise driving transformation through business architecture, providing global consistency and scale, local relevancy, with connected unified experience.
	KC Wu, VP Cisco Value Chain IT Kin-Ching (KC) Wu joined Cisco in January 1994. In her role as Vice President of Cisco Value Chain IT,she connects people, processes, policies and systems to deliver data services and business capabilities.Her team is responsible for transactional systems which enable business capabilities from Quote to Order, Supply Chain Logistics, Financial and Employee Services. In addition, her team manages the Enterprise Data Services to deliver insight to the business.KC has held several different leadership positions at Cisco. Prior to her current role, she led teams within supply-chain management, business architecture and process transformation. She also held program management positions in external factories setup, acquisition integration, order fulfillment systems and production process optimization.
Research Findings: B2B Integration—Business Value and Adoption Trends by Rochelle Cohen of OpenText \| GXS This session will provide an overview of the research results and findings of 3 independent research studies conducted by leading industry analysts at Stanford University, Supply Chain Insights and IDC. Ms. Cohen will discuss key metrics, along with the corresponding analysis of these research studies which focused on global best practices of EDI and XML solutions in the supply chain and the adoption of B2B integration and e-commerce solutions at companies of different sizes, across various industries around the globe.
	A true B2B enthusiast, Rochelle Cohen has spent nearly 30 years in the EDI industry in various management roles at OpenText\|GXS. Throughout her career, she has followed the trends and developments as the industry has matured and evolved. This allowed her to develop extensive expertise and insights into the challenges of all types of B2B e-commerce rollout programs and the keys to successfully meeting these challenges. Most recently Rochelle authored a new book, “EDI Basics: How Successful Businesses Connect, Communicate and Collaborate Around the World.” In her book, she looks at the high level of visibility EDI provides and demonstrates the critical advantage it offers for business success. You can read Rochelle’s Blog “Putting B2B To Work” here.
Trends and Evolution of B2B Standards by Jan Fuchs of EDIFICE Jan will present the results of a consultation among EDIFICE members and partners regarding the current and planned use of B2B standards. The findings will trigger interesting discussions and will provide an idea on where the industry is going in terms of Standards usage.
	Over the past 10 years, Jan Fuchs has been active as independant Supply Chain and B2B Integration Management Consultant. During this period Jan has sucessfully managed several supply chain re-engineering and B2B partner integration projects for customers like IBM, Motorola & Godiva.Prior to this, Jan worked for AMD as Global B2B Integration Director and for GE Information Services (currently GXS) as EDI specialist for Europe supporting the emerging EDI activities in various industry verticals (High Tech, Automotive, Retail & Chemicals)In EDIFICE, Jan is one of the driving forces behind the enliteB2B program.As enliteB2B Architect, Jan produced both the rules and data models of the enliteB2B messages.
*B2B in Advanced Services by Jaideep Das of Cisco* With the growth of cloud services and the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), we are in a more and more complex operating environment with a hybrid mix of devices, services and vendors. In this hyper-connected world, managing service inter-dependencies and vendor relationships is becoming a complex challenge. An ecosystem based model enabled by specialized tools can effectively scale to deal with such complexity. This keynote will provide a fascinating insight into the emerging Internet of Things paradigm and its associated challenges. The speaker will showcase an approach to address the vendor complexity in supply chain management, procurement, commerce and other domains. Find out how organizations can embrace IoT through real-time vendor and SLA management across large, complex and ever changing partner ecosystems.
	Jaideep Das has ~20 years of IT industry experience. Worked in IT infrastructure management, data centers, ITSM Consulting.Jaideep joined Mercury Interactive in 2003, (acquired by HP in 2006) where he was responsible for Service Delivery and Professional services for the ITSM practice, working very closely with fortune 100 customers and providing leadership to ITIL adoption and implementation.He joined SolveDirect in 2010; where he led the services and presales organization, enabling large ecosphere customers adopt ServiceGrid (cloud based B2B Integration platform for ITSM). SolveDirect was acquired by Cisco in 2013.Currently at Cisco, Jaideep continues to run the Services practice and focusses on customer successes with ServiceGrid
Cisco’s B2B Capabilities and Road Map by Brian Clarke of Cisco
	Brian Clarke leads Cisco’s global customer facing B2B organization. His mandate includes all system-to-system integration with Cisco’s customers, channel partners, and distributors. This mandate is executed by his team in the US, UK, Netherlands, Japan, China, Australia, and India. Mr. Clarke has been with Cisco since 2006. He was previously at Nortel, where he led teams in manufacturing, supply chain, and marketing, and IT.
*Security issues & Challenges with the use of open source applications John Radko of OpenText \| GXS*IT Security is always challenging, but B2B integration and e-commerce is especially difficult, as many security technologies are at odds with a major goal of B2B technology – ease of implementation. In addition, it is exceedingly difficult to standardize B2B technology across all partners, and many solutions (especially proprietary solutions) that work well internally are challenging to use in B2B. This session will examine different security challenges, and highlight some approaches to addressing them.
	John Radko, Chief Architect of OpenText’s Information Exchange Division (which recently acquired GXS), leads the Enterprise Architecture team, coordinating the development and implementation of Information Exchange’s technology strategy across development, services, and operation. As a member of the OpenText IX leadership team, he advises on technology, coordinates and encourages technology advancement in companies.John’s current projects include governing the architecture of the OpenText Trading Grid, driving the use of shared services and a consistent architecture, and working with colleagues to accelerate the use of cloud computing technology and web services within the OpenText Trading Grid.John joined GXS from the University of Maryland, and has held a variety of positions within engineering, including project lead, build manager and engineering manager, before joining the Engineering Staff first as Chief Architect, then as GXS’s Chief Technology Strategist. John assumed his current role when GXS was acquired by OpenText in January of 2014.John has been a contributor to the advent and advancement of ‘software-as-a-service’ in B2B integration. He has advised dozens of companies on how best to deploy and leverage hosted supply chain automation solutions and how to achieve true B2B integration on a global scale.
Global Consolidation Challenges by Georgette Wilds of Freescale Many Customers and Suppliers are implementing new ERP systems and/or Business Processes, which are intended to “Globalize” a particular business activity. Everything from Supply Management to Order Management to Cash Management (“Financial Supply Chain Management”). Freescale will present 6 examples encountered in the past 10 months, identifying and sharing the specific challenges of each.
	Georgette Wilds, B2B Developer and Business Analyst at Freescale SemiconductorGeorgette has extensive experience in the world of Ecommerce as a B2B Developer, Production Support Specialist, and Business Analyst.Her focus is getting deeply involved with the Customers and their needs, and providing solutions to problems before they exist. It’s a complicated world, and success can depend on seeing the complete ecosystem. So her motto: Ask Questions and get the conversation started!
Evolving Catalogs: From a Static Push to a Dynamic Pull by Kai Guiland of CiscoSustaining a large-scale catalog solution to meet multiple partner, vendor and 3^rd party needs can be challenging. Leveraging tried and true integrated services like XML PIP 2A1 and Bootstrap (flat file) processes, while effective, may not always align with the agility and self-sufficiency required in today’s markets. Enabling ‘on demand’ catalog delivery models, such as lightweight API’s would allow for greater personalization of data to a consumer and better enable scalability for their catalog solutions.
	Kai Guiland Program Manager IT Cisco CommerceHas been at Cisco for 14+ years in varied roles, supporting teams from Customer Service, Cisco Services andCisco Commerce.For the last 7 years he’s been working to expand B2B & integration services within Cisco’s quote to order capabilities, primarily configuration features and recently leading a new Commerce Catalog Solution Team.
*World-Wide e-Invoicing developments* by Christiaan van der Valk, President @ TrustWeaver *Specific developments in Latin America* by Sergio Chaverri, CMO at Signature South Consulting Many countries in the world that have previously prohibited e-invoicing now mandate it. In addition, these emerging economies have overhauled invoicing processes to use information technologies for maximizing tax collection through so-called ‘clearance’ mechanisms. The ‘old world’ for now maintains traditional paper process assumptions for e-invoicing, but growing VAT gaps are putting strain on these ‘ex post’ systems. In this session you will learn more about regulatory developments in the world of e-invoicing.

	Christiaan van der Valk, President TrustWeaver, focuses on leading the company’s strategic development. Formerly Deputy Director of Policy and Business Practices at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Christiaan has been an advisor on e-business strategy, legal, policy, best practice and commercial issues to leading companies and international organizations. He was elected a World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Leader for Tomorrow in 2000. Serves as Vice Chair to EDIFICE, the European network for B2B integration in high tech industries. Co-Chair of the ICC EBITT Commission’s Task Force on Security and Authentication and Chairman of Digital Trust and Compliance Europe (DTCE); member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Public Policy Working Group of the European E-Invoicing Service Providers’ Association (EESPA). Member of the Supervisory Board, .nl domain registry foundation (SIDN). Dutch and French nationality. Law degree from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
	Sergio Chaverri is Chief Marketing Officer of “Signature South Consulting”, responsible for the company´s strategic business development in Latin America. One of his main objectives in Signature is the revolution of the technology industry that the electronic invoice is starting to create. This by the development and leverage of solutions which come from the millions of electronic invoices that are daily generated in the world. Co-Founder of Gosocket Corp, a a B2b networking platform that allows companies of all sizes and types to exchange electronic invoices at no cost, improving their business relationships. Sergio’s area of expertise is marketing and sales. He has an Industrial Engineer degree that allows him to afront the challenges the market demands to reach his companies goals.