Center for International Business Education and Research

Co-Chairs and Other Speakers

Conference Co-Chairs

	Dr. Vinod K. Jain Director, Center for International Business Education and Research Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
	Dr. P.K. Kannan Harvey Sanders Associate Professor, Department of Marketing Director, Center for Excellence in Service Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

Keynote Speakers

	Mr. Lemuel Lasher Chief Innovation Officer President, Global Business Solutions & Services Computer Sciences Corporation
	Mr. Egils Milbergs Founder and President Center for Accelerating Innovation
	Mr. Harvey Seifter Director Arts and Business Council
	Mr. Tom Venable Executive Vice President Innocentive, LLC (An Eli Lilly company)

Other Confirmed Speakers

	Dr. Ritu Agarwal Professor & Robert H. Smith Chair in Information Systems Robert H. Smith School of Business
	Dr. G. â€œAnandâ€ Anandalingam Senior Associate Dean Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science Robert H. Smith School of Business
	Dr. Joseph Bailey Research Associate Professor of Decision & Information Technologies Robert H. Smith School of Business
	Mr. Rakesh Bhatia VP, Global Development Centers BearingPoint
	Mr. Madan Birla Formerly, Managing Director, FedEx Long-Range Operations & MRP and FedEx Leadership Institute Author, FedEx Delivers: How the World's Leading Shipping Company Keeps Innovating and Outperforming the Competition, Wiley, 2005
	Mr. Bhaskar Chakravorti Partner McKinsey & Company
	Dr. Michael C. Diem Principal SR One Limited (A GlaxoSmithKlein company)
	Dr. Shari Garmise Vice President International Economic Development Council
	Mr. Mark G. Heesen President National Venture Capital Association
	Mr. Anurag Khaitan General Manager Sprint Nextel Ventures
	Mr. Kei Koizumi Director, R&D Budget and Policy Program American Association for the Advancement of Science
	Dr. David McQueeney Vice President, Technology and Strategy Chief Technology Officer IBM Federal Business
	Dr. Satish Nambisan Associate Professor, Innovation Management, IT, Business Policy and Strategy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Co-author, The Global Brain: Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World, Wharton School Publishing, November 2007
	Dr. Rhonda Reger Associate Professor and Co-Chair Department of Management and Organization Robert H. Smith School of Business
	Dr. Debra Shapiro Clarice Smith Professor of Management & Organization Robert H. Smith School of Business
	Dr. Sujai Shivakumar Senior Program Officer Board of Science, Technology and Economic Policy Policy and Global Affairs The National Academies
	Mr. James Throckmorton Co-founder IP2Biz LLC
	Mr. Vandy Van Wagener Principal & Co-founder Evergreen IP