You just missed the Service Industry Executive Summit  which was held March 2,3,4, 2003 in Las Vegas NV.

Service Industry Association & AFSMI Joint Event Mar 2,3,4, 2003
A Summit for cLevel Executives; Chairmen, CEO's, CFO's, CIO's

Topics:

  • State of the Industry, Future Trends, Changes, Vision
  • Technology issues driving service & impacting bottom line
  • A Summit of top executives with their vision, Business Strategies for a Challenging Market
  • cLevel Interactive Panel with interactive audience participation
  • Information Superhighway & Other Legal Landmines - Website Protection, Social Security Protection Act, Identity Theft, HIPPA, Section 508
  • Roundtable Discussions by Special Interest Groups


Conference Agenda

Challenges & Opportunities in the Service Industry - A c-Level Executive Summit presented by Service Industry Association and AFSMI


March 2,2003 Sunday

12:00 Noon Annual Golf Tournament SIA and AFSMI - John Rinas, Northrop Grumman Chairman
6:30 P.M. Welcome Reception with Exhibitors


March 3,2003 Monday (Morning Session Strategic, Afternoon Execution)

7:00 A.M. Continental Breakfast with Tabletop Exhibitors
8:00 A.M. Welcome - SIA and AFSMI
8:30 A.M. Keynote Address
Challenges and Opportunities in the Service Industry -
William Steenburgh, Sr. Vice President Xerox North American Solutions Group
9:15 A.M. Summit Panel of lndustry Leaders - A view from the Bridge
State of the Industry & Future Trends, Changes, Vision, Historical value -
Panel:  Eric Rocco, The Gartner Group gives overview of Industry;
Ken Siegel, PhD., Panel Moderator - Author & advisor to the Services Industry

(Questions to be gathered at Break for part two)

Speakers:  ISO - Hugh Taylor President Northrop Grumman IT CIS
ISO - Bill Beaumont, Sr. V.P. Strategic Planning DecisionOne
ISO - Frank D'Alessio, President Maintech
OEM - William Steenburgh, Sr. V.P Xerox
OEM - Frank M. DiOrio, Gen'l Mgr. & V.P. Eastman Kodak Company
10:15 A.M. Break
10:30 A.M. Resume Panel in an Interactive cLevel Roundtable discussion with audience Participation. Questions will be gathered from Break plus moderator will have Key questions to stimulate the discussion
11:30 A.M. Joint promo from each Association Leader-Each provides brief overview of benefits of their association
12:00 A.M. Lunch
1:00 P.M. Service Orientation Profitability - A case history
(Lessons learned from his execution of a Service Profitability Strategy, ups and downs)
2:00 P.M. Major Consumers - Service Strategists - Service Strategy from a Customer's view, Decision tree to include total costs of ownership with service and equipment -
(1)  Keith Glennan, Northrop Grumman NGIT CIO to review how they choose their partners -
(2)  Ed French, Sr. V.P. Universal Health Systems to review his decision strategy
3:20 P.M. Break
3:35 P.M. Managing Change in the Service Industry      David Abney, CEO UPS
4:30 P.M. Summit Interactive Wrap-Up - all Speakers of the day will answer
Questions with a final chance at getting answers to questions presented during the day 
6:30 P.M. Reception with Exhibitors - close of Joint Sessions


March 4.2003 Tuesday SIA annual meeting

7:00 A.M. Continental with Exhibitors
8:00 A.M. State of the Industry- John Walker & Vote results for slate of officers
8:30 A.M.
(A)  Recap previous day discussions Don Blumberg, Pres. D. F. Blumberg & Assoc.
(B)  New Emerging Opportunities in the third party and multivendor Eqpt. Service
(complete handout provided)
9:15 AM. Assessing the Challenging Market- OEM's Thrust into Independent Service
Eric Rocco, The Gartner Group, Moderator
John Rinas, Executive Director Service Delivery Northrop Grumman
John Walker, President & CEO TFE Technology Holdings LLC
Malcolm Ridgway, PhD., Sr. V.P. Masterplan
Jim Graham, President & CEO Kinetic Biomedical
10:15 A.M. Break
10:30 A.M. Optimizing Service Delivery through Technology - Case study in Service Delivery Tools including Wireless options -CRM tools - Field Force Automation Jim Leake, Director Business Strategy & Planning, Getronics
11:15 A.M. Customer Sat Survey - Walt Gasparovic, President The Gasparovic Group
11:45 A.M. Legal & Legislative Update - Ron Katz
Information Superhighway & Other Legal Landmines - Website protection, patent & logo infringement, identity theft on the web
12:45 P.M. Lunch
2:00 P.M. Breakouts of Special Groups: Medical, IT
Roundtable discussions including "ISO's under attack,"
Medical and IT SIA Board will facilitate - Task forces and Executive Committees Formed to address specific subjects. (Drawings at end of sessions)
6:30 P.M. Grand Finale - AFSMI participants will be invited -
(A fee will be charged as an add-on to cover the costs of the event)

 

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