CED’s 15th Annual INFOTECH 05 Conference

Featured Speakers:

Morning Keynote: Walter S. Mossberg

Personal Technology Columnist
The Wall Street Journal

Lunch Keynote: Kristina Johnson, Ph.D.
Professor and Dean, Pratt School of Engineering
Duke University

Panel Session Speakers:

Hear from industry experts who will discuss the latest technological developments and trends, while offering valuable insight into the future of the region's technology community.

• Gary Ban, CEO, Summus, Inc.
• Tiffany Barnes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UNC-Charlotte
• Randall Bennett, President & CEO, Secure Enterprise Computing
• Frank Boosman, Chief Operating Officer, 3Dsolve
• Sam Byassee, Attorney, Maupin Taylor, P.A.
• Richard Caira, Jr., Senior Associate, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC
• Marianna Partrick Clampett, Vice President of U.S. Government, Latin America, Education and Canada (GLAECO), SAS
• Dov Cohn, Vice President of Market Solutions Development, Motricity
• CJ Cornell, Senior Vice President of Programming, Ruckus Network
• Tripp Davis, Vice President, DecisionPoint International
• Andrew DiMeo, Executive Director, North Carolina Medical Device Organization
• David Dowse, CEO, WiMAX Systems
• Michael Eason, Director of Information Technology, VIF Program
• Phil Emer, Chief Technology Officer, Orange Broadband
• Paul Enquist, Ph.D., Founder and Vice President of Research and Development, Ziptronix, Inc.
• Ping Fu, President & CEO, Raindrop Geomagic, Inc.
• Robert Glass, Ph.D., Vice President, Materials and Optoelectronics, Cree
• John Glushik, Partner, Intersouth Partners
• Sonny Gupta, President, Maintec
• Jon Mark Hancock, Applications Engineer for Power Semiconductors, Infineon Technologies NA
• Jerry Heneghan, Founder and CEO, Virtual Heroes
• Karen LeVert, Co-founder and President, Southeast TechInventures, Inc.
• Richard Lindenmuth, Interim CEO, AMCAST Corporation
• Arvind Malhotra, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
• Jeff Martini, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, SciQuest, Inc.
• Lawrence Mays, Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science, Director, Bioinformatics Program, UNC-Charlotte
• Dave McLean, General Partner, Sevin Rosen Funds
• Robert McMahan, Ph.D., Senior Advisor to the Governor for Science & Technology and Executive Director, NC Board of Science and Technology
• Ajit Pendse, President & CEO, Trinity Convergence
• David Reed, CEO and Founder, Bright View Technologies, Inc.
• John Richert, Vice President of the Business and Technology Development, North Carolina Biotechnology Center
• David Rizzo, President & CEO, NC IDEA
• Greg Rollet, Vice President & General Manager, Peak 10, Inc.
• Jeffrey Shealy, Ph.D., Vice-President, Infrastructure Product Group, RF Micro Devices
• Glen Shelton, VP Engineering, TapRoot Systems Inc.
• David Spitz, President & CEO, TxFS, Inc.
• Carter Steg, Vice President of Business Operations, Capitol Infrastructure, LLC
• Frank Suggs, President, Advanced Process Solutions, Inc.
• David Sung, Managing Director, H.I.G. Ventures
• Bob Thomas, Vice President, Americas Sales, Bitfone Corporation
• Carmen Thorpe, Delivery Project Executive, IBM Global Services - Global AMS Delivery
• Patrick Vaughn, Managing Director, Triarch Capital Partners
• Mark Webbink, Deputy General Counsel, Intellectual Property and Public Policy, Red Hat, Inc.
• Richard West, CEO, Advanced Liquid Logic
• Randy J. Whitehead, EVP Global Operations, Arsenal Digital Solutions WW, Inc.
• Stephen Wiehe, President and Chief Executive Officer, SciQuest, Inc.
• Lin Wu, Ph.D., Dean, BioNetwork Capstone Learning Center, Wake Tech Community College
• Michael Young, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Carolina State University