Nitron Advisors CEO to Speak at the MIT CIO Symposium: Networks for Competitive Advantage

Boston, Massachusetts—May 03, 2007—David Teten, Co-Managing Director, Nitron Circle of Experts, has been invited to speak at the MIT CIO Symposium on May 17 in Boston.

This year’s theme explores how social networks in business can revolutionize the processes by which people, partners and customers work together to create value. Social networks and related technology have gained prominence recently as sources of entertainment. The MIT CIO symposium will bring together 500 senior-level IT decision makers discussing on networking, today’s business and technology issues.

Key speakers at the symposium include the following:

• Dr. Paul Barth, Managing Partner NewVantage Partners LLC
  
• Mr. Gary Beach, Publisher, CIO magazine
  
• Mr. Sean Belka, SVP, Fidelity
  
• Mr. Sheldon Borkin, VP, Technology Progress Software
  
• Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor, MIT Sloan School
  
• Alan Chhabra, Principal, Technical Program Management Team, Egenera
  
• Mr. Peter Cohen, General Manager, Amazon Mechanical Turk
  
• Mr. Rich Corley, CEO, Akorri
  
• Mr. Frank Enfanto, VP, Healthcare Services, Blue Cross/Blue Shield
  
• Mr. Glenn Engler, EVP, Digitas
  
• Mr. Charlie Feld, Senior EVP, Applications Services, EDS
  
• Ms. Mary Finlay, Deputy CIO, Partners Healthcare
  
• Mr. John Gallant, Editorial Director and President, Network World
  
• Prof. John Henderson, Professor, Faculty Director Information Systems Department, Boston University
  
• Ms. Rosalee Hermens, VP & CIO, Timberland
  
• Ms. Jo Hoppe, CIO, Pegasystems
  
• Ms. Maryfran Johnson, Founding Editor in Chief, CIO Decisions Magazine
  
• Mr. Kumud Kalia, CIO, Direct Energy
  
• Mr. Stephen Laster, CIO, Harvard Business School
  
• Prof. Thomas W. Malone, McGovern Professor of Management MIT Sloan School
  
• Mr. Thornton May, Futurist, Executive Director and Dean IT Leadership Academy
  
• Mr. David McFarlane, COO, Nexaweb
  
• Mr. Mark McGinness, VP, Business Development Expedient
  
• Mr. Paul Nielson, SVP, Monster
  
• Mr. Steve Papa, Co-founder & CEO, Endeca
  
• Mr. John Polizzi, SVP & CIO, BJ's Wholesale Club
  
• Mr. JP Rangaswami, CIO, Global Services BT
  
• Mr. Tim Rowe, CEO, Cambridge Innovation Center
  
• Ms. Joyce Salisbury, Manager, Interactive Research Tool Development, GM
  
• Mr. Claudio Silvestri, CIO, Cognos
  
• Mr. Richard Soley, Chairman & CEO, Object Management Group Inc.
  
• Prof. Glen Urban, Professor MIT Sloan School
  
• Prof. Peter Weill, Director, CISR MIT Sloan School
  
• Dr. George Westerman, Research Scientist MIT Center for Information Systems Research
  
• Prof. John Williams, Prof Information Engineering and Director MIT Auto-ID Lab

For more information, visit http://www.mitcio.com/

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