Distinguished Chair of the Accelerator & Principal/CEO
Stimson Center & LeadDoAdapt Ventures
Dr. David A. Bray is a Distinguished Fellow and Chair of the Accelerator with the Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council at the non-partisan Henry L. Stimson Center. He is also a non-resident Distinguished Fellow with the Business Executives for National Security, and a CEO and transformation leader for different “under the radar” tech and data ventures seeking to get started in novel situations. He is Principal at LeadDoAdapt Ventures and has served in a variety of leadership roles in turbulent environments, including bioterrorism preparedness and response from 2000-2005. Dr. Bray previously was the Executive Director for a bipartisan National Commission on Research and Development, provided non-partisan leadership as a federal agency Senior Executive, worked with the U.S. Navy and Marines…...
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Cindy Zhou is a practicing CMO.
Prviously, she was Vice President and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research covering Digital Marketing Transformation and Sales Effectiveness. With over 18 years of practitioner experience in corporate marketing, product marketing, product management, and sales operations, Zhou has spearheaded marketing transformation at multiple technology companies. She advised Constellation’s clients on strategies to light-up demand generation, prove revenue contribution, and maximize sales productivity.
Prior to joining Constellation, Zhou was Global Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales Operations at BackOffice Associates, a global provider of data quality and information governance solutions to the Fortune 1000 and SAP SolEx partner. Before…...
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Former Vice President and Principal Analyst
Constellation Research
Doug Henschen is former Vice President and Principal Analyst where he focused on data-driven decision making. Henschen’s Data-to-Decisions research examines how organizations employ data analysis to reimagine their business models and gain a deeper understanding of their customers. Henschen's research acknowledges the fact that innovative applications of data analysis requires a multi-disciplinary approach starting with information and orchestration technologies, continuing through business intelligence, data-visualization, and analytics, and moving into NoSQL and big-data analysis, third-party data enrichment, and decision-management technologies.
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Aubrey (Levinstone) Coggins manages Constellation's marketing and communications programs and is the producer of DisrupTV, a weekly Web series on innovation and the enterprise.
She previously served as a senior manager of corporate communications at Egnyte and held account roles at Access Communications and The Hoffman Agency. Born and raised in Texas, she received a bachelor's degree in Public Relations from The University of Texas at Austin – Hook ‘em!
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What does the future of the Internet look like? Is it a force for good?
In early 2019, half of the world will be online. This inflection point marks an extremely important moment for examining the unfinished work of the Internet and discussing the community norms, human rights and social contracts required in this exponential digital era.
On December 10, on the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights, Internet and technology pioneers Vint Cerf, Wendy Hall and Tim Berners-Lee, along with key visionaries and positive change agents, will convene to reflect on the past three decades and pave the path for the future of the Internet, determining what it means for connected societies and those yet to be connected. These are some of the smartest minds of the past and future getting together in one room to make a stand on what our future holds!
“We have watched the Internet evolve over 35 years of operation and now have a unique opportunity to apply what we’ve learned to frame the next thirty years of the Internet arc,” said Vint Cerf, chair of the People-Centered Internet coalition. “We must help the next generation assure that the Internet remains an accessible, affordable and inclusive infrastructure for good.”
The event is called “Our People-Centered Digital Future.” Check out the conversation already taking place - #OurDigitalFuture.
Some of the topics will include:
How historic notions of human rights translate to the digital world
How identity and personal data transcend national boundaries
How to avoid the threat of digitally enabled tyrannies
How to work toward more people-centered societies
How to create a benevolent distribution of power in a digitally connected world
This event aligns with the mission of the People-Centered Internet coalition (PCI), which aims to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods, and the WebFoundation, which works for a world where everyone has the same rights and opportunities online.
Portions of the event will be globally live streamed through YouTube. The day will close out with a special VIP gala celebrating the launch of the PCI Challenges, which looks to recognize those groups and communities working to build a more benevolent digital future.
Intereted in attending and being part of this historic event? Want to sponsor or be involved? Reach out to us!
Vice President & Principal Analyst
Constellation Research
Alan Lepofsky - VP and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research. With almost two decades of experience in the collaboration software industry, Lepofsky helps organizations improve the way their employees work together to get their jobs done. Lepofsky’s primary research area The Future of Work, focuses on: integrating collaboration and business processes (Purposeful Collaboration), structuring work via Social Task Management, leveraging analytics and digital assistants to work more productively, the strategic impact of mobile computing on business transformation, and measuring workforce culture based on Digital Proficiency instead of age.
Twitter: @alanlepoLinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alanlepo
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On Oct 10th IBM announced the release of IBM Notes and Domino v10. Get it, v10 on 10/10? Nice how that works in either MM/DD or DD/MM format. Anyway, as you probably know I started my technology career at IBM as a Lotus Notes administrator and developer using v2 back in 1994. So being part of the v10 launch event in Frankfurt Germany had personal meaning to me both as an analyst and as an ex-Lotus employee. You can read more about the release in this blog post from IBM GM Bob Schultz.
Notes/Domino has had a challenging journey to get to v10. Back in the early 2000s Microsoft made a huge push with Outlook/Exchange and SharePoint to migrate customers, and that took a large toll on IBM’s customer base. At the same time, IBM itself inflicted some wounds, rebranding the product several times, causing confusion on the technology side between Domino and WebSphere, and being unclear on commitment and vision between Domino and other platforms like IBM Connections.
Fast-forward to 2018, and things are more positive around Notes/Domino than they have been in many years. Around the end of 2017 IBM and HCL announced a partnership where the two organizations will share various responsibilities for the future development, marketing and sales of Notes/Domino and its associated products. The momentum for v10 began at IBM Think in earlier 2018, and the partnership seems to be working quite well, as in less than a year HCL has delivered v10 with several features that appeal to end-users, application developers, and system administrators. Similarly, IBM and HCL have continued to engage with customers, business partners and prospects in several ways including:
A lot of social media branded originally under #Domino2025 and now the #DominoForever hashtag
MyPOV
With V10, IBM is refocusing on what made Lotus Notes a valuable business tool in the first place, rapid application development (RAD). While the market has evolved the term RAD to the more trendy "low-code platforms” the value proposition remains the same today as it was decades ago; enabling organizations to develop, test and deploy applications quickly with minimal involvement from IT services. With V10 IBM has announced that Notes applications will be able to run on mobile devices such as iPads, and that web developers will be able to use modern programming frameworks like node.js.
In the video below I provide an overview of several of the new features, discuss the target audiences, as share my thoughts around the challenges and opportunities IBM has with Domino v10.
I'd like end this blog post by calling attention to one of the more interesting customer stories I've ever heard. While at the launch event I met with members of the Polish Medical Air Rescue organization. This group uses helicopters to transport people in dire medical conditions. They use a Domino application in their command centre to manage the process, so as they said: "Domino is used here to help us save lives." They are excited about v10 because they believe the new application development features will allow them to speed up their process by 30 seconds, which translates to a helicopter being 3km closer to the patient. That's amazing. I look forward to hearing an update from them next year.
