Tech Expo Speakers - May 11, Riverside, CA

9:30 am - Keynote:

Craig Hinkley - Cisco on Cisco
Craig Hinkley joined Cisco in June, 2007, as Vice President for IT's Architecture and Technology Organization. He brings expertise and a proven track record in creating strategies that bridge business services with technology, and is a recognized technical expert in a wide-range of data communications, computer network technologies, network protocols, services and applications.

With over 14 years of experience in the communications and networking industry, Craig most recently was the Architect and Project Executive for the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) project, aimed at developing 180,000 IP Phones within the U.S. for Bank of America.

2:00 pm Schedule:

Track A - CEO Forum Panel - Economic Downturn & Innovation

CEO Forum Panel Members

Rajan Kasetty, Moderator - Terrafore, Inc.
Rajan Kasetty is the President and CEO of Terrafore, Inc. a technology development and consulting company in the areas of alternative energy and energy efficiency. Mr. Kasetty has been an entrepreneur since 1976 in the fields of power systems, industrial controls, automation, manufacturing and consulting. Prior to starting Terrafore, he was the President and CEO of Infotech Enterprises America, Inc., part of a 5,500 people group of companies with 22 global locations providing engineering, GIS and IT services. He is been involved in several trade and industry organizations and serves on the board of SmartRiverside. Mr. Kasetty is also a member of the Riverside Technology CEO Forum.

Don Dye - Acorn Technology Corporation
Don Dye has served as President & CEO of Acorn Technology Corporation since 2003. Acorn Technology Corporation is a provider of out-sourced IT services for small to medium sized businesses in southern California and, under its DBA MarquisNet Riverside, is the owner of a Tier 4, 23,000 square feet data center available for co-location; disaster recovery and managed IT services. Mr. Dye is a member of the Board of Directors for the UCR Foundation; a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of Redlands, former Dean for the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCR; founding Director, and former General Counsel, Vice Chairman, COO and CEO of Callaway Golf Company.

Rick Risner - Elite Systems Integrators, Inc.
Rick Risner is has served as Chairman, CEO, and President of Elite Systems Integrators, Inc., since its inception in 2003. ESI is a premiere global IT systems integration firm and a recognized leader in Advanced Infrastructure, Business Intelligence, and Information Worker systems with a focus in the hospitality, manufacturing, and medical market sectors. Mr. Risner retired as a Chief Warrant Officer Four from the United States Marine Corps after 21 years of honorable service. Mr. Risner is a member of the Riverside Technology CEO Forum.

Brian Hawley - Luminex
Brian N. Hawley is Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Luminex. In addition to being actively involved with various city and community organizations, he has participated in industry standards committees, including the DIS/IEC 13346 and DIS/IES 13490 which addresses industry formats for optical and multi-session CD-Recording. Mr. Hawley is one of the founders and past Chairman of the Riverside Technology CEO Forum.

Sundip R. Doshi - Surado Solutions
Sundip R. Doshi is Chairman & CEO of Surado Solutions, the creators of Surado CRM software solutions. Mr. Doshi was one of the founders and also serves as the Chairman of the Riverside Technology CEO Forum, Vice President of SmartRiverside, and sits on numerous other Boards in the Inland Empire. In addition, Mr. Doshi teaches at CSUSB and UCR in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Business Management, and Customer Relationship Management.

Drew Jorgenson - OmniPlatform
Drew Jorgenson is the founder and CEO of OmniPlatform, which develops enterprise software solutions for a growing client base in the United States and internationally. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Los Angeles, the company recently expanded into Riverside to take advantage of local talent and to prepare for additional growth. Since the expansion Mr. Jorgenson has become a member of the Riverside Technology CEO Forum and serves on the SmartRiverside Board of Directors

Track B - Ginger Neal - The “How To’s” of Next Generation Marketing
Vice President Multimedia & General manger Niche Publications The Press Enterprise.
For the past two and a half years Ginger has lead the Multimedia division at the Press Enterprise Company. Responsible for market & business development, product extension, partnership development and assessing emerging opportunities. Neal has also held various positions at other companies including COO information Management Resources a technology services company, General Manager Automotive Information Channel a subsidiary of Autobytel and CEO of MyOC.com and Modestyle.com a subsidiary of Freedom Communications.
Track C - Nate Johnson - Understanding Customers & Constituents
Nate Johnson, Regional Manager, CA/HI/NV ) ESRI, provides an overview of how ESRI's ArcGIS technology, the leading GIS software, and Microsoft's Virtual Earth, SQL Server 2008 and SharePoint and can be leveraged to help government and business understand their customers, manage resources and assets, plan and design more effectively, provide better information to mobile and knowledge workers and gain better overall situational and operational awareness with examples of solutions for public safety, public works, public health and business.
Track D - Ken Biba - Municipal Broadband 2.0
Ken Biba, CEO, Novarum, Inc., has over 30 years' experience in the network information systems industry bringing a unique background of general management with a strong product and marketing focus in network systems and information security. Mr. Biba was an early engineer of the Internet in 1975. He has co-founded and managed four notable networking companies: Sytek, which was focused on cable TV-based local and metropolitan data networks; Agilis which was focused on wireless handheld computers; Xircom, which developed local area network client products for mobile computing; and Vivato, which was focused on scaling Wi-Fi infrastructure to campuses and metropolitan areas.

3:15 pm Schedule:

Track A - Tom Harkenrider - Convergence of IT and Facilities Systems for Cost Savings
Presentation - Handout 1 - Handout 2
Tom Harkenrider was appointed as Soka University of America, Aliso Viejo's Chief of Operations in July 2000. His responsibilities include the general management of all buildings operations, energy management, design standards, and owner's representative to design and construction professionals. Harkenrider received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from California State University at Long Beach and attended the masters program in business administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of Arizona specializing in organizational management. Harkenrider is the author of a number of professional publications and is a regularly invited speaker on the subject of construction and maintenance contracting, strategic planning, and organizational performance to audiences that include APPA and the United States Marine Corp.
Track B - Amro Albanna - Growth via Merger & Acquisition
As founder of two startup technology companies, Amro Albanna has many years of experience managing and growing public and private companies. With a keen ability to turn concepts into well capitalized ventures, his first startup was acquired by a NASDAQ-listed company in 2000 and was later involved in a reverse merger transaction on the American Stock Exchange. Current Chairman & CEO of Acting Corporation, Albanna directed the development of active motion video game controllers for the Microsoft Xbox and Sony Playstation consoles. He is also a business consultant specializing in capital formation, growth via M&A and joint ventures, strategic planning, global sales and marketing, and business development in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Track C - Beki Picus - ITIL
Beki Picus is the AVP of Service Management and Audit Compliance for Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) Commercial Solutions, a global IT services corporation based in Dallas, Texas. She directed ACS’ successful effort to become the first corporation in the US to achieve a multi-national, multi-site ISO 20000 certification, including implementation at 14 domestic and international locations. Ms. Picus has led numerous Quality Systems auditing discussions with both large and small groups. With over 20 years of professional quality management experience, certifications include Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Service Manager, Lead Auditor Certification, and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.

Track D - Peter Hambuch - Public Safety Interoperability
Peter Hambuch is a Solutions Architect for Motorola’s State and Local Government Division. He has been in the telecommunications industry for 22 years leveraging technologies that deliver true end-to-end solutions to the operational and business challenges within the Public Safety environment. His prior position was Director of Engineering for the Western Region in the U.S. He has a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering.