Software 2006 started today and, for a lot of reasons, I'm quite disappointed to not be there in person (the trials and tribulations of having end-of-quarter commitments as an East Coast fund manager). With the software industry getting healthier at the margin, M.R. Rangaswami's conference is arguably the industry's most influential 48 hours and the 2006 lineup is dynamite:
- Shai Agassi, President of the Product and Technology Group and Executive Board member, SAP AG
- Mark Bregman, Chief Technology Officer, Symantec
- David DeWalt, President, EMC Software Group, EMC Corporation
- Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President, Development, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Corporation
- Ray Lane, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
- C.K. Prahalad, Distinguished University Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
- S. Ramadorai, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director,
Tata Consultancy Services Limited
- Simon Witts, Corporate Vice President, Enterprise and Partner Group, Microsoft
- Vanessa Colella, Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company
- Con Goedman, Head Business Information, Shell International
- David Green, Project Impact
- Erik Keller, Principal, Wapiti
- Andreas Kluth, San Francisco Correspondent, The Economist
- Dennis Kneale, Managing Editor, Forbes
- James L. Koch, Founding Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society, Santa Clara University
- Adam Lashinsky, Senior Writer, FORTUNE
- Ashwin Rangan, CIO, Walmart.com
- Toby E. Redshaw, Corporate Vice President, Corporate IT
Strategy, eBusiness & Business Development, Motorola
- Bruce Richardson, Senior VP, AMR Research
- Richard G. Sherlund, Senior Analyst, Goldman Sachs
- Peter Sobiloff, Insight Venture Partners
- John Wood, Founder and CEO, Room to Read
I'm counting on others, like Jeff, Niel, Zoli, Charles and Vinnie to keep me updated on the event, step by step (and also let me know how breakfast was!). Thus far, reports have rolled in from:
- Zoli Erdos -- Software 2006: from 1.0 to 2.0
- Dan Farber -- Software 2006: The Changing Landscape
- Ross Mayfield -- Ray Lane on the Inter-Personal Enterprise
- Jeff Nolan -- Software 2006: Ray Lane
Sandhill, in conjunction with McKinsey, has also released a 2006 State of the Industry Report, which paints a rosy picture of improving execution, surging private equity investment and changing paradigms.
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