Think Out of the (In)box: Team-intensive collaboration solutions from an MBA perspective February 6, 2007

Overview:
Join MBA alumni and faculty members for a panel-lead discussion on the topic of new trends in team collaboration technologies. Leading Bay Area academics and industry experts will lead a discussion on state of the art collaboration solutions and social trends that support knowledge-intensive team projects from an MBA perspective.

Panelists:
Well-balanced panel of professionals, academics and analysts on team collaboration. Panelists include:

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  Dr. Homa Bahrami and Sara Beckman (Haas, UC Berkeley),
  


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  Micah Siegel (Consulting Professor in Stanford and Managing Partner C2C),
  


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  Dave Hornik (General Partner at August Capital),
  


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  David Coleman (Collaborative Strategies), an industry specialist in the field of collaboration (moderator).
  

Program:

6:00 > Open doors
6:30 > Welcome by Swissnex and Collanos Software and Panel Discussion
8:00-9:00 > Networking and Finger Food
9:30 > Doors close

RSVP:
Free event, please RSVP in advance at:

http://swissnex.org/our-actions/events/collanos/view.

Suggestion: For those who are planning to attend the event, we highly recommend downloading and installing Collanos Workplace as this will give you a better idea of how simple it is to Think Out of the (In)box and be more effective on team projects.

Panelists' Profiles:

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  Dr. Homa Bahrami is a Senior Lecturer at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Dr. Bahrami's research focuses on trends in organizational design and governance, and approaches for leading and engaging multi-cultural knowledge workers. Her new book Super-Flexibility For Knowledge Enterprises, (co-authored with Stuart Evans), focuses on leading knowledge enterprises in turbulent, global markets.
  
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  Sara Beckman is a Senior Lecturer at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. She teaches new product development and manufacturing and operations management. In over ten years, she developed, institutionalized, and directed the school's Management of Technology Program, initiated new courses on design, entrepreneurship in biotechnology, and new product development.
  
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  Micah Siegel is a Consulting Professor at Stanford University in the Department of Electrical Engineering, where he co-teaches a graduate course on Business Management for Electrical Engineers and Computer Scientists. Through C2C, Micah is a co-founder of Affinity Circles, Adapt Technologies, and Kuvera Investments. These companies have raised over $30M in seed-stage venture capital.
  
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  Dave Hornik is a General Partner at August Capital where he invests in early stage software, infrastructure and Internet related companies. Prior to joining August Capital, David was a corporate and licensing attorney who represented and advised numerous Internet and enterprise software startups. David works with or has worked with such companies as Yahoo, Six Apart, Evite, Tickle, PayCycle, Ofoto, When.com, WhoWhere?, DoneRight and Sonique. See Dave's Blog.
  
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  David Coleman is the Founder and Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies (CS) and has been involved with groupware, collaborative technologies, and knowledge management (KM) since 1989. He is a frequent public speaker, an industry analyst, and author of books and magazine articles on electronic collaboration and knowledge management. See David's Blog.
  

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