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Gaylord National Hotel and Convention Center
Washington, D.C.

November 18-20, 2009

 
 
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WEDNESDAY
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Leadership Session: Samuel Tinsing Mok - Sponsored by Cetova & GL Associates
Mok is the Managing Member of Condor International Advisors, LLC, a Washington DC based management consulting firm. Condor International Advisors provides strategic and innovative relationship management and advisory services to domestic and international clients in both Federal and private sectors.

Mr. Mok served as the Chief Financial Officer of the U.S. Department of Labor from January 2001 to May 2007. After being appointed to the position by President George W. Bush, Mr. Mok was confirmed by the United States Senate in January 2002. He previously serves as Chief Financial Officer and Comptroller of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, appointed by former Treasury Secretary James Baker. Mr. Mok is one of the highest-ranking Asian Americans in George W. Bush Administration and is regarded as a leader of the Chinese-American community.

Prior to his appointment at Labor Department, Mr. Mok served as the Managing Member of Condor Consulting, an international business advisory firm that he established in collaboration with retired U.S. Senator Birch Bayh. Through Condor Consulting, Mr. Mok was an advisor to many U.S.-based companies on China market entrance strategies. He also provided business due deligence information and facilitated the development of key relationships between his clients and senior Asian embassy officials in Washington, DC. In addition to advising U.S.-based businesses, Mr. Mok was frequently called upon to advise Asia-based clients on U.S. market entrance and business partnership strategies.

Mr. Mok’s professional career spans both the American private and public sectors. In the private sector, Mr. Mok began his career as an auditor with Main & Hurdman (now KPMG Peat Marwick) and later a Senior Auditor with Parnell Kerr & Forster. In 1971, he was called to active military duty. As a commissioned officer of United States Army, he served in Okinawa, Japan, as a strategic intelligence officer overseeing reporting and analysis on China, Vietnam, and North Korea. He also served in Army Readiness Region 1, at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

THURSDAY
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Oracle General Session: What’s new out of OpenWorld?
Amit Singh, Group Vice President, Applications Sales Group

If you were not able to make it to Oracle's OpenWorld in October, Amit Singh, Group Vice President of Applications will provide a firsthand look at key company and product announcements.  He will explain the overall Oracle Applications Strategy and include updates for E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Hyperion and Siebel products.  Amit will tell you about Fusion and Exadata and how all these technologies enhance Oracle's Applications Strategy. You will not want to miss this very timely keynote address!

FRIDAY
9:40 AM - 10:40 AM
PeopleSoft Executive Update: Overview of PeopleSoft 9.1 and More
Marc Weintraub, Product Strategy & Development Director, PeopleSoft Enterprise

With the release of PeopleSoft 9.1, Oracle is demonstrating its commitment to enhancing PeopleSoft applications.  Receive an overview on the latest PeopleSoft offerings including release 9.1, new solutions, and integrations with other Oracle solutions.  Learn how these PeopleSoft offerings help increase productivity, improve business operations, and lower costs.

JD Edwards Town Hall
Mark Nix, Sales Consulting Senior Manager

The current JD Edwards philosophy of delivering business solutions involves not only new product releases. Hear the latest on the JD Edwards vision for delivering innovative technologies and applications under Oracle’s Application Unlimited promise and Oracle’s Smart approaches to provide more value for your money with upgrades, best of breed business integrated solutions and Business Intelligence new offerings.  Learn about the latest announcements that were made at Oracle Open World.

eBusiness Suite Town Hall
Russell Pike, Sales Consulting Vice-President

The latest release of Oracle E-Business Suite is specifically targeted at achieving rapid return today.  Very importantly, this release delivers new and updated technology that will have an immediate impact on cost, revenue and service levels without impacting the existing E-Business Suite infrastructure.  And, the point solutions available in Release 12.1 can be deployed immediately alongside your existing 11i10 environment.  In this session you will learn how an Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 project can help jumpstart your organization in today’s challenging economy and understand why this makes sense, how it would work for you, ROI, timing, and key benefits

FRIDAY
NOON - 1:00 PM
Closing General Session & Luncheon with Grand Prize Giveaways
"Getting FITT: Climb Your Everest and Enjoy the Journey"
Motivation Speaker & Experienced Climber, Jake Norton

Getting FITT is based on Jake's experiences on five Everest expeditions. From the historic discovery of pioneer climber George Mallory's remains in 1999 to breathtaking rescues high on the mountain in 2003 to reaching the 29,035 foot summit in 2002 (and again in 2003), Getting FITT takes people out of their seats and onto the slopes of Everest where they learn the keys to success on all of life's mountains:

- Build a vision of the Everest you need or want to climb, and keep the goal in the forefront of your mind. As James Lane Allen said: Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream so you shall one day become.

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FEAR: We must learn to transition fear into focus, and use it's power to break the job at hand into manageable pieces and move forward on our mountains.

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INSTINCT: In a dynamic environment where we do not have the luxury of long-tern analysis of a situation, and must instead make quick and effective decisions, we must learn to trust our instinct or, as Malcolm Gladwell writes in his bestseller, Blink, we must trust our ability to "thin slice" a situation.

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TEAMWORK: The critical key to success on any Everest: None of us have the ability to climb our mountains all alone. Rather, we must rely on a disparate group of people with disparate skills brought to a collective table to pursue a common goal. In other words, a team.

- TENACITY: On the actual Everest and the metaphorical mountains we all climb in life and business, setbacks are as inherent in the journey as are snow and wind. The tenacious ones who can work through a temporary setback and keep climbing the next day will eventually reach their summits.

 
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