International Software Development Outsourcing Conference

Nearsoft is proud to be a sponsor of this exclusive event for CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, VPs of Software Development. During this conference, participants will meet in a vendor-free environment to discuss the hot issues of the day in IT/Software development outsourcing and offshoring/nearshoring.

After the conference, attendees will have the opportunity to meet with experts and outsourcing services vendors from all over the world.

All proceeds from this conference will go towards support of children in orphanages in developing countries.

Keynote

Tony Wasserman, Director of the Software Management MS program at Carnegie Mellon West and Executive Director of its Center for Open SourceInvestigation (COSI).

Dr. Wasserman has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a BS in Mathematics and Physics from UC Berkeley. He has been selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). He was the recipient of the first Stevens Award for his contributions to software development methods.

Distinguished Speaker

Thomas Frey, Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute, and currently Google's top-rated futurist speaker.

Before launching the DaVinci Institute, Tom spent 15 years at IBM as an engineer and designer where he received over 270 awards, more than any other IBM engineer.

Panels

• Is outsourcing right for start-ups?
• How to choose outsourcing partner?
• How to make outsourcing and offshoring work?
• Captive vs outsourced models?

Agenda

When?

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
8:00 AM to 10:00 PM PDT

Where?

Computer History Museum
1401 N Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA 94043

Registration

Please, go to this page to register for this program.

For more detail and the latest information, please go to the conference site.