BT. Bringing it all together
Facilitator:
Esther Dyson
Host:
Tim Smart – President, BT Global Services, UK
Panellist:
Eric Schmidt – CEO, Google
Fellow participants:
David Burden – CIO Royal Mail;
Dean James – COO, Dept of Work & Pensions;
Andrew Vorster – CIO, Visa EMEA
Event:
Live broadcast from Palo Alto, CA. Online participation across global virtual panel
Date:
Monday, 25th September, 2006
Duration:
1 hour
Overview
Google intrigues everyone – users, advertisers, investors, competitors, watchdog groups and government alike. With seemingly
little effort, this modern-day miracle has grown from two guys in a dorm room into a business behemoth.
Google faces many challenges, from the groups it intrigues: Consumers love its search service, but they are not quick to use its other
offerings, e.g. Froogle. Advertisers, particularly advertising agencies mistrust its power and fear the transparency it fosters.
Competitors lose not just business but also employees to its growing mass. Governments want to control it. And investors wonder
just how long its success can last.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, is carefully managing his business through these shoals. How can industry leaders take what he's learned
and apply it to their own companies? And in what way will his business affect theirs? Eric Schmidt will explain his strategy and tactics
to a private panel discussion, engaging the other panellists in a broad discussion of survival and prosperity in the digital networked
economy.
After you have watched this edition of BT's Big Thinkers join the discussion online. [Click here]
Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson (born in Zurich, Switzerland) is a noted expert and philosopher in the field of emerging digital technology. Esther specialises in analysing the impact of emerging technologies and markets on the economy and society.
Tim Smart, President, BT Global Services, UK
Tim Smart is President of BT Global Services UK, and is accountable for all services provided by BT to Government and large business in the UK. His particular focus is on the flawless execution of large contracts, and he is most proud of the part that BT is playing in Connecting for Health, the World's largest civilian IT project. Having been instrumental in winning that business for BT, Tim is accountable to the BT Board and to the NHS for BT's performance.
Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google
Eric Schmidt was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog. In 1983 Eric joined Sun Microsystems as software manager. At Sun he led the development of Java, Sun's platform-independent programming technology, and defined Sun's Internet software strategy. He later became chief technology officer and corporate executive officer.
