2010 Marco Island - Tracks and Sessions overview

 
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Presentation title Date & Track Schedule

Monday  (Day 1)  General Session
Main Conference Hall
Welcome and Introductions - Rick Smethers 8:30 AM
President's Address - New Horizons and Focusing on Members - Don Cochran 8:45 AM
Keynote - Configuration - The Game Changer - Mike Shields 9:15 AM

Morning Break
Customer Story - Product Configuration and Quote Lifecycle Management - Clive Parkman, George Apostolakis & Stephen Redding 10:30 AM
Customer Story - "We're back and we're live" - A follow up on Baldor's Custom Generator solution  - Scott Perdue 11:15 AM
Lunch and networking
(1st time attendees lunch in the Herron Rooms)
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Best Practices - High Level Architecture Overview of IBM's IPC custom development implementation - Bill Dorow and Rob Morgan 1:30 PM
SAP Update - SAP Configuration – Overview, Planned Innovations, Future Topics - Harald Vogel 2:15 PM

Afternoon Break
SAP - IPC Development Update and Sneak Preview - Michael Zarges 3:30 PM
CWG - Chapter Update and direction - Don Cochran, Scott Perdue, Kevin Meyer, Phil Martin, etc. 4:00 PM
Day-2 Multi-Track Highlights - All Presenters - Various 4:30 PM
CWG Sandbox - Update and new capabilities - Daniel Naus and Marin Ukalovic 4:45 PM
SAP - Customer Reference Program - Marin Ukalovic  5:00 PM
Tuesday  (Day 2)
 

TRACK 1 - SAP Usability Testing - Ballroom A
Influencing SAP - Usability Testing - Web Channel Usability Testing - Michael Zarges 8:30 - 10:00 AM
Influencing SAP - Usability Testing - Web Channel Usability Testing - Michael Zarges 10:30 - 12:00 PM

Lunch and networking
Open - attend other presentations 1:30  - 2:15 PM
CWG - Special Interest Group - Round Table Discussion - Bill Dorow, et al 2:15 - 3:00 PM

Afternoon Break and Networking
CWG - Special Interest Group - Round Table Discussion - Bill Dorow, et al 3:30 - 4:15 PM
Open - attend other presentations 4:15 - 5:00 PM
 

TRACK 2 - SAP Updates and Influencing - Ballroom B
SAP - Extending SAP Configuration - Interfaces and Architecture - Harald Vogel 8:30 AM
SAP Innovation - Innovations in PLM 7.01: Product Modeling, Graphical Modeling of Dependencies - Karlheinz Agsteiner 9:15 AM

Morning Break and Networking
SAP - Packaged Solution for VC Analytics - including iPad VC Analytics Demo - Harald Vogel 10:30 AM
SAP - Configuration integration scenarios in small sales subsidiaries or dealers/resellers - Harald Vogel 11:15 AM

Lunch and networking
SAP Tools - Requirements for a VC Model Check Tool - Karlheinz Agsteiner 1:30 PM
Best Practices - Material determination, configuring the unconfigurable - Bruce Jones 2:15 PM

Afternoon Break and Networking
Customer - IPC Configuration Session Memory Usage/Size Challenges with IBM Models - Details about the Pattern Matching System (PSM) - Doug Ewing and Henk Meeter 3:30 PM
SAP - Product Packages with SAP CRM - Michael Zarges, Bernhard Telscher and Daniel Naus 4:15 PM
 

TRACK 3 - Best Practices - Ballroom C
Model Management - Rolling Out Multiple Plants and How To Support >250 Models - Bruce Knobbe, Shrinivas Hake  and Deepak Bundela 8:30 AM
Pricing - Pricing with SAP IPC - Daniel Naus 9:15 AM

Morning Break and Networking
Tools - Product Model Health Check - Daniel Naus 10:30 AM
Model Management - VC Project Implementation Organization - Bruce Knobbe, Sanja Mulu, and Alok Shrivastava 11:15 AM

Lunch and networking
Best Practices - IPC Configuration Session Memory Usage/Size Challenges with IBM Models - An Overview - Bill Dorow and Doug Ewing 1:30 PM
Best Practices - Pricing in SAP: Basics and Best Practices  - Kevin Meyer 2:15 PM

Afternoon Break and Networking
 
Tips - Ovrerview of the Variant Configurator - Barry Walton 3:30 PM
Round Table - Customer Question Driven Roundtable - Barry Walton 4:15 PM
   

TRACK 4 - Partner Solutions - Ballroom D
Best Practices - Transforming Product Models - including Migrating 3rd Party Configurators to SAP VC - David Silverman 8:30 AM
Analytics - Market Watch - 2010 is a very different view - Don Cochran 9:15 AM

Morning Break and Networking
Tools - Testing configuration models with a twist: Sybit Model Tester - Markus Jaeckle 10:30 AM
Tools - Baldor's Bulk Testing and Data Extraction Tool - Scott Perdue and Daniel Naus 11:15 AM

Lunch and networking
Tools - Cool offline quoting for your SAP on your laptop - Lars Hoegsted 1:30 PM
Guided Selling - Enhancing KMATs to support guided selling - Henrik Reif Andersen 2:15 PM

Afternoon Break and Networking
Industry Solution - Building a solution for an industry rather than a customer - Home Building - Phil Martin 3:30 PM
 
Tips and Tricks - Configuration of Class Type 300 for Engineering Change Mgmt - Chip Holder 4:15 PM
 

Wednesday (Day 3) General Session
Presenter Thank you - Robert Eramo 8:00 AM
Model Management - How Much is that Model in the Window? - Steve Schneider 8:30 AM
Customer Story - Engineer to Order for Dimensional Products - Brian Koslowski 9:15 AM

Morning Break and Networking
SAP - Predicting demand for configurable products - Helmut Linde 10:30 AM
Customer Story - Effective Implementation of selling Configurable products for a Capital Equipment Company - David Fletcher, Derek Maak & Dinesh Prabakar 11:15 AM

Lunch and networking
Round Table - Four of My Favorite VC Modeling Challenges - Lawrence Matusek 1:30 PM
Project Configurator - Combine IPC and home grown configurators - Riecke/Wascischeck 2:15 PM

Afternoon Break and Networking
Ask the Experts - Open Discussion 3:30 PM

Conference End