2007 MASSIVE OUTSOURCING PANEL

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What: This panel's purpose is to discuss the growing issue of outsourcing that has developed over the past years in North America. Time: 2:20-3:20pm Date: March 28, 2007 Room: Conference Room 9, Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre Note: You must purchase an All Access Pass to attend this panel
AGENDA 2:20-2:25: Cindy Pearson, Opening Remarks 2:25-2:35: Kevin Penstock, Offshore outsourcing 2:35-2:45: Amyn Rajan, Nearshore outsourcing 2:45-2:55: Wayne Gudbranson, Canada's role in outsourcing 2:55-3:15: Cindy Pearson, Q&A 3:15-3:20: Cindy Pearson, Closing
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	MODERATOR Cindy Pearson, Vice President, BCTIA Cindy Pearson is a seasoned business manager with a track record for building profile and revenue for prominent industry associations. Currently, Ms. Pearson is Vice President of the BC Technology Industry Association (www.bctia.org), the largest technology association representing companies across BC. Her primary responsibilities include directing the day to day operations, finance, business development and marketing, communications and public relations and stakeholder development. Prior to joining BCTIA, Ms. Pearson held senior level positions with SMART Toronto Technology Alliance -- where she was President and CEO -- Communitech Technology Association and Mondex Canada Association. Prior to her business experience, Ms. Pearson worked on the political front as Special Assistant Premiers Initiatives for the Honourable Mike Harris, Premier of Ontario. She also served as Chief of Staff for the Minister of Environment and Energy. With an educational background in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Cindy has also successfully run an entrepreneurial enterprise. She has participated on the BC E-waste Advisory Board, NSERC-Pacific Advisory Board, Canadian E-Business Advisory Roundtable and the Ontario Provincial Technology Advisory Committee.
	PANELIST Wayne Gudbranson, President and CEO, Branham Group Inc. J. Wayne Gudbranson is President and CEO of Branham Group Inc. Established in 1990 in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada), Branham Group Inc. (www.branhamgroup.com) is an international marketing and management consulting firm providing custom planning, marketing and partnering consulting services to established and emerging companies in the global ICT sector. In addition to its custom consulting services, Branham annually delivers a series of multi-client research reports on key areas of market opportunity such as Healthcare, Wireless and Outsourcing. In late Fall 2006 Branham released its report entitled US Outsourcing Market and Nearshore Opportunities (www.branhamgroup.com/outsourcing). This report is the most up-to-date review of current and planned outsourcing expenditures by top US corporations. The report acknowledges the solidification and continued growth of the global services delivery model. It also addresses the nearshore outsourcing opportunities for Canada. Position on Outsourcing: Wayne is a passionate promoter of Canada's IT industry and has been invited to speak about Canadian IT capability in more than 25 countries. Fourteen years ago, he launched an ambitious initiative to raise the visibility of Canadian IT companies with the Branham300 project. The Branham300 is highly regarded as the most comprehensive database of privately held and publicly traded Canadian IT companies ranked on total revenues (www.branham300.com). The report entitled US Outsourcing Market and Nearshore Opportunities found that Canada's share of the expenditures of the top 1,000 companies in the United States only represents 2.2% - a disappointing share of the market. With Canada's geographic proximity and long standing economic relationship with the United States, this small share of the US outsourcing market for Canada needs to be dramatically increased. This will require an understanding of how Canada's will position itself in the global service deliveray model and with outsourcing juggernauts in the global industry such as India.
	PANELIST Kevin Penstock, Chairman & CEO, Goa - Canada Mr. Penstock is a co-founder of Goa Strategies Corporation (www.goastrategies.com) and brings 15 years of extensive business and technical experience in information technology, software development, product management and R&D in key industry domains such as telecom, transportation logistics, and e-commerce. The most recent seven years developing technology exclusively in India. Mr. Penstock is the author of Goa's "Offshore Productivity Model", a next generation methodology and framework of Global Service Delivery Models (GSD). The model forms Goa's extensive advisory capabilities supporting global service delivery and Goa's unique "blended team" strategy of near-shore/offshore engagements. Position on Outsourcing: Canada is facing a critical shortage of skilled workers specifically in Technology. Finding innovative ways to help Canadian companies access vast talent pools of skilled workers in countries such as India is key to building a successful Technology Industry.
	PANELIST Amyn Rajan, President and CEO of Orbital Technologies Inc. Amyn Rajan is the President and CEO of Orbital Technologies Inc. (www.orbitaltech.com), a leading Vancouver-based software development services firm. With more than 14 years experience in the custom software development market, Amyn has positioned Orbital as a premium provider of custom outsourced software solutions to many of the world's leading software and technology companies. Amyn began his career with Hong Kong Bank of Canada, developing global electronic banking software and serving a portion of his tenure therein based in Hong Kong. Returning to North America, he then worked as a software consultant to Microsoft Corporation and Adobe Systems in Seattle, before founding Orbital Technologies Inc. in Vancouver in 1997. Amyn holds a Bachelor of Science degree (First Class Honours) in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University. From Orbital's inception, Amyn's experience and guidance has been core to the company's specialization in developing software for other software and technology companies. Under Amyn's leadership, Orbital successfully competes globally, winning repeat business and innovative software projects from many of the world's software giants. Position on Outsourcing: As Founder, President and CEO of Orbital Technologies Inc., a Vancouver-based near shore software outsourcing firm, Amyn Rajan has gained great insight into developing software for some of the world's software and technology giants. Amyn has led Orbital since its inception in 1997, providing software development services to companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Broderbund, Business Objects and many others. Amyn will share his insight on selecting the right outsourcing partner, matching needs with deliverables, and what pitfalls to avoid. He'll present software outsourcing from a near shore perspective, stating the case and benefits for near shore outsourcing compared with completing work in-house or outsourcing overseas.