IntelligentBPM Conference and Expo Sets the Tone with Dynamic Keynote Speakers

Business Leaders, Industry Luminaries and Practitioners Take the Stage To Discuss the Most Important Business and IT Imperative of the Year: Performance Management

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SAN FRANCISCO
Aug 13, 2003

IntelligentBPM Conference and Expo, the only independent conference focused on providing awareness and education on leading business trends, case studies, and technologies that enable business performance management, today announced its distinguished list of Performance Management experts that will keynote the inaugural conference. The list of keynote speakers includes renowned author and Stanford University Graduate School of Business professor, Robert A. Burgelman; CTO for the Office of Management and Budget, U.S. Federal Government, Norman Lorentz; as well as veteran industry analyst Mark Smith of Ventana Research. Setting the tone for the conference, these leaders will leverage their unique expertise and experience to share with the audience the value, competitive advantage and strategic management framework that Business Performance provides to organizations.

"We are honored to have such a prestigious array of keynote speakers to discuss the impact that Business Performance Management is having today on global enterprises," said David Stodder, Editorial Director of Intelligent Enterprise and co-Chairperson of the IntelligentBPM Conference and Expo. "Given the recent shift and consolidation that is occurring in the Business Intelligence market and the ongoing need for organizations to align their corporate data assets in an effort to maximize business profitability, the IntelligentBPM Conference and Expo will quickly establish itself as one of the industry's premier business forums. Each spokesperson is an expert in their respected fields and will set the stage for the entire conference's four tracks with a combined forty individual breakout sessions."

The conference, being held September 28-30, 2003 at The Fairmont Hotel San Francisco, is designed to address the needs of both senior business and IT managers who must deploy innovative business intelligence, key performance metrics, financial analysis, and other IT solutions to maximize business performance throughout their organizations. Presented by CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise and Ventana Research, IntelligentBPM Conference and Expo will provide attendees from global end-user organizations in-depth educational sessions and networking opportunities to learn business practices and technologies that enable BPM from colleagues and leading BPM vendors. Specifically, top industry analysts and business leaders will discuss innovative best practices from real world implementations that highlight return on investment (ROI), total cost of ownership (TCO), and the future direction of Business Performance Management initiatives and technology. For more information or to register for the event, visit www.IntelligentBPM.com/conference.

IntelligentBPM is excited to showcase its speakers in front of an audience that is eager to learn about maximizing its data assets to streamline business processes. Included below please find additional biographical information on the keynote speakers:

   Robert A. Burgelman, Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management and
   Director of the Stanford Executive Program, Stanford University Graduate
   School of Business

   Burgelman joined the Stanford Business School in 1981 and teaches courses
   in Strategic Management and Strategic Management of Technology and
   Innovation.  Since 1992, he has co-taught a course on "Strategy and
   Action in the Information Processing Industry" (together with the
   Chairman of Intel Corporation).  Before joining Stanford, he was on the
   Faculties of Antwerp University-UFSIA (1970-73)) and New York University
   (1978-81).  Professor Burgelman was also a Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard
   Business School from 1991-92.

   Burgelman is the author of many articles on the strategy-making process,
   internal corporate venturing, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic
   business exit, and technology strategy, which have appeared in leading
   academic journals.  His newest book is entitled Strategy is Destiny: How
   Strategy Making Shapes a Company's Future (Free Press, 2002).  This book
   is based on twelve years of research concerning the role of strategy
   making in Intel Corporation's evolution.


   Norman E. Lorentz, Chief Technology Officer, Office of Management and
   Budget, U.S. Federal Government

   Lorentz, a senior executive with a track record of innovative solutions,
   will discuss how his team at the OMB identifies and develops investments
   in emerging technology opportunities that will improve the government's
   technical, information, and business architectures.

   Prior to joining the Federal Government, Lorentz was Senior Vice
   President and Chief Technology Officer for the IT Career Solutions
   provider, Dice, Inc.  In this capacity, he directed the development of
   technology strategy and infrastructure.  Lorentz was also the firm's
   Chief Quality Officer and a member of the executive committee.


   Mark Smith, CEO & Senior Vice President of Research at Ventana Research

   Smith will layout a blueprint and provide a roadmap for aligning business
   requirements with IT resources and ultimately successfully implementing
   Performance Management that links strategy and execution throughout the
   organization for optimal performance.  As the CEO of Ventana Research,
   the preeminent Performance Management Research and Advisory firm, Smith
   will share his insight into how to manage people, organizations and
   process performance to achieve desired stakeholders goals and objectives.

   An industry veteran with more than 16 years of experience, Smith is a
   frequent speaker at conferences, and authors the Business Performance
   Management column in Intelligent Enterprise magazine. He is also the
   community editor of IntelligentBPM.com, the industry's first independent
   forum for information, news, and discussion about business performance
   management.  Before founding Ventana Research, Smith worked at companies
   including SAP Portals, META Group, Oracle and IRI Software.

  About the IntelligentBPM Conference & Expo

Presented by CMP Media's Intelligent Enterprise Magazine and Ventana Research, IntelligentBPM is the first independent conference dedicated exclusively to the technologies and practices that enable business performance management. Produced expressly for senior business and IT leaders who seek serious, in-depth education and interaction with their peers, IntelligentBPM will demonstrate how information and analytics can maximize the efficiency of organizational decision-making and action. For more information, please visit www.intelligentbpm.com/conference .

About CMP Media

CMP Media LLC (www.cmp.com) is a leading integrated media company providing essential information and marketing services to the entire technology spectrum -- the builders, sellers and users of technology worldwide. Capitalizing on its editorial strength, CMP is uniquely positioned to offer marketers comprehensive, integrated media solutions tailored to meet their individual needs. Its diverse products and services include newspapers, magazines, Internet products, research, direct marketing services, education and training, trade shows and conferences and custom publishing.

  About Ventana Research
  The Preeminent Research and Advisory Services Firm in Performance
   Management

Ventana Research (www.ventanaresearch.com) is the preeminent research and advisory services firm helping organizations maximize stakeholder value with Performance Management. Putting research in a business and IT context, Ventana Research provides insight and education on the best practices and technologies that enable organizations to leverage assets to understand, optimize, and align strategies and processes to meet goals and objectives. Ventana Research conducts quantitative and qualitative research, offers subscription services, and provides strategic consulting.

About Intelligent Enterprise

Intelligent Enterprise is the only publication dedicated exclusively to the strategic business applications that turn information into intelligence. It serves as a technology guidebook and thought leader for more than 80,000 senior business and IT managers who plan and deploy strategic business applications in their organizations. With groundbreaking coverage of business intelligence, collaborative commerce, business performance management, and enabling technologies, Intelligent Enterprise helps readers identify new opportunities for strategic IT investment, and then provides the in-depth analysis and guidance to support IT evaluation, purchase, and deployment.

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   Tara Gibb
   CMP Media LLC
   415-947-6242
   tgibb@cmp.com

   Mark Peterson
   Experience Communications for IntelligentBPM Conference & Expo
   831-649-9900
   mark@experiencecom.com

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