BETHESDA, MD (June 15, 2007) - Three in-depth educational track sessions on the hot industry issues of IT outsourcing, data management and eMarketing will be offered during the first day of the 2007 Aftermarket eForum, July 16 through 18 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Chicago. All three sessions will run concurrently from 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, July 16.
Is information systems (IS) outsourcing right for your company? That's the major question that will be answered during the 2007 eForum track session titled "IS Outsourcing for Manufacturers." The session will be facilitated by David Caruso, principal, David Caruso & Associates, and will feature Fred Dingraudo, CIO, Affinia Group and Bill Haser, CIO, Tenneco.
"Pursuing Excellence in Data Management" will be led by Doug Derrick, partner, supply chain management, Accenture. It will look at better data management and synchronization. Panel members include Ed Rammel, vice president, marketing, Dayco Products LLC, and Ed Heon, president, DATAgility. This session will look at industry success stories, as well as a data synchronization study conducted for the Food Marketing Institute that showed greater-than-expected benefits.
The third track session, "eMarketing 2.0," will look in-depth at localized eMarketing, social network sites and bookmarking sites. The session is being facilitated by Dan Jondron of Advanced Digital Strategies and Alan Dicker of SEMA. Panelists include Luanne Brown of eTool Developers, Steve Frazier of Amazon.com and Gigi Ho of Digital Performance.
(Source: AAIA)
