General Sessions Keynote Speakers Monday, September 19, 2005 9:00am - 12:00pm Michael F. Koehler Senior Vice President Teradata, a division of NCR Mike Koehler is Senior Vice President of Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation. Since March 2003, Koehler has led Teradata's award-winning $1.36 billion data warehousing, analytical applications, and consulting services business. Teradata maintains the "dominant lead" in Data Warehouse Database Management Systems (DBMS) for the 5th consecutive year according to Gartner's Application Server Evaluation (ASEM) report, and is positioned in the Leader's Quadrant of Gartner's DBMS Magic Quadrant for "completeness of vision." Koehler began his career with NCR in 1975. Since then, he has held a number of sales and marketing positions that have contributed to the rapid growth of NCR's data warehousing business. From 2000 to 2003, Koehler ran Teradata's global field operations, where he developed a world-class sales force and professional services organization that helped fuel Teradata's 36 percent revenue growth and profitability. From 1997 to 1999, he ran the Americas Retail Division operation, growing revenue by 28 percent. Scott Adams CEO Scott Adams Foods While Scott Adams is best known as the creator of the immensely popular comic strip Dilbert, he also has a unique track record of creating success in a variety of diverse businesses. Dilbert was Adams' first attempt at a comic strip. His first attempt at writing a book, The Dilbert Principle, became a number one New York Times best seller and one of the top selling business books of all time. The Dilbert Zone web site was the first syndicated comic strip site on the web, and one of the first web sites to turn a profit. Adams' vision of an advertiser-supported daily comic on the web became a model for other cartoonists who followed. Adams was co-executive producer of the Dilbert animated television show on the UPN network, a solid hit that ran for two years. Working with United Media, Adams has guided the design of hundreds of licensed Dilbert products, from coffee mugs to dolls to computer games. Dilbert is one of the biggest character licensing phenomena of recent times. In 1998, Adams and a business partner opened the successful restaurant Stacey's Café in Pleasanton, California. Adams' newest business venture, Scott Adams Foods, promises to be the biggest success yet. Adams teamed up with food industry veteran Jack Parker to create the tasty and nutritious DILBERITO©. Adams and Parker plan to raise the bar on health standards for the rest of the food industry. Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:30pm - 5:00pm Marcus Buckingham Motivational Speaker Marcus Buckingham is globally considered one of the leading authorities on employee productivity and the practices of leading and managing. Recognized for his research of the world's best leaders, managers, and workplaces, he spent seventeen years with The Gallup Organization, analyzing the link between people, their performance, and business results. His mission "to create a better marriage between the dreams of workers and the drive of companies to win" led him to produce two best-selling books on the subject matter: First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently (Simon & Schuster, 1999), with coauthor Curt Coffman – and Now, Discover Your Strengths (The Free Press, 2001), with coauthor Donald O. Clifton. While at Gallup, Marcus led an effort to crunch three decades' worth of data on worker attitudes into actionable insights on human performance and productivity. He eventually distilled 12 core issues that represent a simple barometer of the strength of any work unit, as well as five attitude adjustments that redefine the essence of leadership in business. The results of his study led Marcus to believe that a CEO must master psychology in order to "get one more individual to be more productive, more focused, and more fulfilled than he was yesterday." HOME CONTACT US PRIVACY LEGAL REFUND POLICY SITE MAP