Speakers
Sandy Carter
Vice President, IBM Software Group Channels
Sandy Carter is Vice President, Software Group Channels, 1 of 3 major growth engines for the Software Group business. IBM invests $2.5 billion here.
Fast Company named Ms. Carter one of the most influential women in technology.
Everything Channels CRN magazine named Ms. Carter as one of the most powerful 100 women in channels.
Previous Role: VP, SOA, BPM and WebSphere Strategy, Channels and Marketing.
Grew business to 70% market share for SOA.
Other:
Best selling author of two books, “The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0”, which won the Platinum MarCom Award in 2008, and “The New Language of Marketing 2.0: Social Media”, which won the Silver MarketingSherpa award in 2009.
She is on the board of the Forrester CMO Council, WITI (Women in Technology International) Executive Advisory Council, and the Corporate Board of the International Child Art Foundation.
Both in 2005, 2008 she was AIT United Nations Member of the Year award for helping developing countries in the area of technology
She holds a patent for developing a methodology and tool to help customers create a technology deployment path in automation of their IT processes.
Visit her best rated blog at:
http://socialmediasandy.wordpress.com/
and Twitter - http://twitter.com/sandy_carter