FASTforward '07

2006 Agenda

Day 1 - Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Welcome Reception

Day 2 - Thursday, February 2, 2006

General Session

• The Future of Search: The Game has Changed
  Presenter: Ali I. Riaz, President, FAST
• Changing YOUR Game: Making it Possible
  Presenter: John M. Lervik, CEO and Visionary, FAST
• Changing Face of Information Management
  Presenter: Royce Bell, CEO, Accenture Information Management Services
• Factiva Changes the Game
  Presenter: Clare Hart, President and CEO, Factiva
• Innovation for the Day After Tomorrow
  Presenter: James Burke, Columnist, Author, and Television Producer

Breakout Sessions - Business Track 1

• Reinventing Your Brand to Build a Stronger Audience Community
  Presenter: Robin Haffner, Director of Search, TV Guide Online
• Google at Your Doorstep
  Presenter: Mikal Rohde, CEO, Schibsted
• Track & Outflank Your Competition
  Presenters: Dennis Cahill, VP Technology, Factiva; Mani Shabrang, Ph.D., Leader, Technology Deployment and R&D, Business Intelligence Center, Dow Chemical
• Business Intelligence: Governance, Risk and Compliance
  Presenters: David Stokes, Service Line Leader, Ernst & Young's Innovative 'Knowledge Risk' Service Line, Ernst & Young; Brent Watson, Senior Solutions Architect, Ensco

Breakout Sessions - Business Track 2

• Turning Improved User Experiences into Profit
  Presenter: Julie Schlembach, Program Search Manager, National Instruments
• Personalizing the Search Experience . . . A Mobile Case Study
  Presenter: Susanne Kennedy, Manager, 3G, Singtel Optus
• Convert Leads and Increase Your Revenue Per Customer
  Presenter: Mike Blakemore, Head of Development, Associated New Media
• Next Generation Corporate Search at Siemens AG
  Presenter: Roland Zacher, Sr. Service Manager, Siemens Corporate Search (CIO)

Breakout Sessions - Technical Track

• FAST ESP 5.0 - What it enables
  Presenter: Bjorn Olstad, CTO, FAST
• Contextual Insight Changes the Game from Searching to Knowing
  Presenters: Aleksander Orhn, & Nate Treloar, FAST
• Architecture & Extensibility
  Presenters: Sid Prostein & Will Johnson, FAST
• Extreme Performance
  Presenters: Sven Arne Gylterud & Torgeir Hovden, FAST

Cocktail Reception & Partner Pavilion

Awards Dinner

Day 3 - Friday, February 3, 2006

General Session

• Enterprise Search: Predicting the New Rules
  Presenter: John Battelle, Internet visionary and CEO, and author of The Search
• Changing YOUR Game: Emerging Patterns of Search
  Presenter: Bjorn Olstad, CTO, FAST
• The Future of Search: Industry Perspective
  Presenter: Susan Feldman, VP, Content Technologies, IDC Research
• Search Best Practices: Key Principles & Services
  Presenters: Silvija Seres, Sr. Director of Corporate Development, FAST SBP; Bjorn Are Laukli, SVP, Solution & Customer Services, FAST
• Game Changing: Lessons Learned
  Presenter: Andrew McKay, VP Product Marketing, FAST

Breakout Sessions - Business Track 1

• Helping People Find Places
  Presenter: Jeff Greenwald, Director Product Management, Search, MapQuest
• Changing the Game of Law Enforcement through effective Discovery Solution
  Presenters: Dan Thomas, Director, DCStat Program Office, District of Columbia - Office of the CTO; Marco Trumtrar, Polizei Niedersachsen (PATB)
• Building Strong Vertical Content Sites Around Your Premium Content
  Presenter: Graeme McCracken, Project Director, RB Search, Reed Business
• Online Business Models/Search Advertising: When Does It Make Sense To Launch Your Own Sponsored Listings Programs?
  Presenter: Sloan Gaon, Vice President, Private Label Group, MIVA

Breakout Sessions - Technical Track 1

• Search Management to a Broader Audience
  Presenter: Sid Probstein & Lee Eichelberger, FAST
• Benefiting from the News in ESP 5
  Presenter: Arnt Aske & Virginia Alinsug, FAST
• SEARCH: Greatest Opportunities for 2006 and Beyond ESP Futures
  Presenter: Sven Arne Gylterud & Torgeir Horden, FAST
• CTO Roundtable
  Presenter: Bjorn Olstad, CTO, FAST

Breakout Sessions - Technical Track 2

• ProPublish Overview & Architecture
  Presenter: Eric Zimmerman, FAST

• Developing Custom FAST ProPublish Applications
  Presenter: Eric Zimmerman, FAST
• Roundtable: Unifying and Leveraging FAST Publishing Applications
  Presenter: Jim Mosher, FAST
• Desktop Search and Off-line Publishing
  Presenter: Eric Zimmerman, FAST

Breakout Sessions - Partner Track

• Channel Triangulation: What is it and How Can Partners Use It To Drive Revenue?
  Presenter: Rob Lancaster, FAST
• The Enterprise Search Marketplace: Gorillas and Guerillas
  Presenter: Sandeep Swadia, FAST
• Alliances Roundtable
  Presenter: Chip LeBlanc, FAST
• OEM Product Portfolio: Embedded Solutions for the Masses
  Presenter: John Felahi and Petter Moe, FAST