CONNECTIONS™ Europe Keynotes

Please welcome keynote speaker at CONNECTIONS™ Europe, Paul R. Brody from IBM Electronics Industry Strategy Practice.

Paul R. Brody, Partner, IBM Global Business Services, Global Lead, IBM Electronics Industry Strategy Practice

Paul Brody is a Partner with IBM Global Business Services. He brings a decade of consulting experience to the position as the global leader of the electronics industry strategy practice. Mr. Brody has worked extensively with business strategy, supply chain management and product life cycle management, including planning & scheduling, logistics, and procurement solutions.

His experience includes the full range of activities from value assessment/business case development through business process change, software implementation, and joint software development. Paul’s main industry experience includes discrete manufacturing, high tech electronics, semiconductors, and logistics and healthcare.

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CONNECTIONS™ Europe Keynotes

Please welcome Saul J. Berman from IBM Global Business Services, as a keynote speaker at CONNECTIONS™ Europe

Saul J. Berman, Global Lead Strategy Partner, IBM Media and Entertainment Practice
Global Strategy & Change Services Leader, IBM Global Business Services

Saul J. Berman is the Global Lead Strategy Partner for the Media and Entertainment Practice as well as a Global Strategy & Change Services Leader at IBM Global Business Services (GBS). Prior to joining IBM, Saul was the Global Strategic Change Leader at PwC Consulting. He was also previously with The Boston Consulting Group, and a divisional Vice President with Broadway Department Stores and an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Berman has more than 25 years of consulting experience advising senior management of large corporate and start-up organizations. He has directed engagements addressing issues of strategy, organization, and operations. He has worked extensively on issues of competitive positioning, differentiation, new business plans & strategies, new business models, growth, operational & cost improvement, operations/manufacturing strategy, organizational design and enterprise transformation. His clients have included most of the major media companies as well as internet companies, telecommunication companies, consumer goods manufacturers, retailers and automotive companies in the United States, Japan, Europe and Australia.

Dr. Berman holds a Ph.D. in Management and Information Systems and a MBA in Production Systems and Operations Research from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University in New York. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Economics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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CONNECTIONS™ Europe Keynotes

CONNECTIONS™ Europe is proud to introduce Andreas Mueller-Schubert from Microsoft TV, as a keynote speaker at CONNECTIONS™ Europe.

Andreas Mueller-Schubert, General Manager, Global Solutions, Microsoft TV, Microsoft Corporation

Andreas Mueller-Schubert brings more than 12 years of telecommunications experience to his current role as General Manager of Global Solutions at Microsoft Corporation’s Microsoft TV division. In this position, Mr. Mueller-Schubert is responsible for the deployment of all worldwide customer projects using Microsoft’s TV solutions platform. He is responsible for directing approximately 170 solution experts worldwide and for managing Microsoft TV’s internal and external system integrator partners within their customer deployment sector.

Prior to joining Microsoft TV at the end of 2006, Mr. Mueller-Schubert served in several senior management positions within Siemens’ telecommunications division in Germany and Canada. He is most notably recognized for initiating the Siemens’ telecommunication business in Canada.

Andreas Mueller-Schubert holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering as well as a bachelor of business degree in business administration. He is an active member of VDI Germany, VDE Germany, and the Society of Industry Leaders for Vista Research in New York.
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CONNECTIONS™ Europe Supporting Organization

The Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP) is a supporting organization for CONNECTIONS™ Europe.

The Wireless Industry Partnership (WIP) is the ‘connector’ for the wireless and mobile industry. We give emerging wireless companies an extra edge in getting products and services to market with our information portal, Go2Market programs and partnerships with wireless organizations and developer programs around the world.
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CONNECTIONS™ Europe Supporting Organization

Wi-Fi Alliance is a supporting organization for CONNECTIONS™ Europe.

The Wi-Fi Alliance is a global, non-profit industry association of more than 300 member companies devoted to promoting the growth of wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). With the aim of enhancing the user experience for mobile wireless devices, the Wi-Fi Alliance’s testing and certification programs ensure the interoperability of WLAN products based on the IEEE 802.11 specification. Since the introduction of the Wi-Fi Alliance’s certification program in March 2000, more than 3,000 products have been designated as Wi-Fi CERTIFIED®, encouraging the expanded use of Wi-Fi products and services across the consumer and enterprise markets.
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