The Business Implications of Technology 2015
Dr. Glenn Ricart will share his thoughts on the likely state of technology in 2015 and the implications for business competitive advantage.
For as long as many of us have been alive, Moore's Law has provided smaller, faster, and less expensive technology devices every year. More recently Metcalf's Law has presaged social networks and indirectly predicted the rise of mobile network devices.
Technologies are now appearing that will allow for greater integration of our real lives with our virtual lives, and it will be important to mediate and enrich the torrents of information we receive from all sources. Successful businesses will make their information and services compelling and useful in this new environment.
Dr. Glenn Ricart
President and CEO, National LambdaRail
Dr. Glenn Ricart joined National LambdaRail (NLR), the coast-to-coast, high-performance network owned by the U.S. research and education community, as president and CEO in October 2009 after a series of technology and business leadership positions in higher education, research, private industry and government service.
Among Ricart's pioneering Internet accomplishments are managing the first implementation of the Internet protocols for the IBM PC, constructing the first NSFnet regional network, and operating the first Internet interconnection point (the FIX) for the U.S. federal government.
He also served as Novell's chief technology officer under three CEOs including Eric Schmidt who is now CEO of Google.
Ricart comes to NLR from PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Center for Advanced Research (CAR). As Managing Diror, he oversaw all research activities and related budgets for CAR. And as Technology and Development Leader for CAR's Aura project, he directed the visioning and software execution of an electronic performance support system for PwC's global audit practice, the flagship initiative of the firm's Audit Transformation Project which is now being rolled-out globally.
Other experience includes: founder of three technology start-up's; program manager at DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; the military's technology liaison to the Clinton White House; chief computing officer (academic CIO) for the University of Maryland College Park; and co-founder and managing principal investigator of SURAnet, the first internet service provider to provide commercial connections. He currently serves on the board of the Public Interest Registry, the registry for Internet names ending in .org.
Ricart received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Case Western Reserve University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland College Park.
