Face To Face with a CIO October 7, 2008

RSVPs: http://itexec.meetup.com/32/calendar/8619514/
Info: ceo@ict-eu.com or 1-650-9418464

Discussions Topic:

With much ado about Software-as-a-Service delivery model, it is but another step in adaptation of human tools to the changing business habitats. As we structure our business ideas and practices around our ever-changing environment, we need to continually evolve our 21st century instruments to adapt them to our new behaviors. Let's talk about the world beyond SaaS: as the Internet cloud expands, how do our expectations change and what are the next steps in evolution of software? How do we give the customer more control? Keeping in mind that "it is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change" (Charles Darwin) we will discuss building software that is adaptable to its environment.

Our Speaker:

Lila Tretikov is responsible for Information Technology, Operations, IA and R&D at SugarCRM including growing and scaling Sugar On-Demand and SugarCRM services infrastructure. Lila has a rich background in enterprise software spanning multiple verticals from financial to bioengineering to high-tech. She focuses on building robust, redundant, top-performance, high-availability networks and software.
Prior to coming to Sugar, Lila led development of solutions for the telecommunications space in a 24/7 high-availability geographically redundant environments for numerous fortune 500 customers. She was responsible for development of network applications for enterprise partners such as VeriSign and Sprint/Nextel. Lila has been delivering distributed enterprise software for large customers such as Bank of America and Sun Microsystems as well as led product design, development and deployment at start-up companies.
Lila has a research background in Computer Science and Mathematics. She studied computer science and design at University of California at Berkeley and Lomonosov Moscow State University.

$20.

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