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Agenda (Last updated Mar. 16, 2004): Work in the era of the global, extensible enterprise

Wednesday, March 24, 2004 - Almaden Research Center
8:00	Continental Breakfast
8:50	Welcome	Paul Horn (IBM)
	Session 1: The transformation of work practices
9:30	The Future of Work	Thomas Malone (MIT Sloan School)
10:15	Changing Ways of Working?	Graham Button (Xerox Research Centre)
11:00	Break
	Session 2: Global dimensions of work
11:30	Strategic Issues Linking US and India-based IT Workforces	Rafiq Dossani (Stanford University)
12:15	Empowering the World's Poor Through IT	Mohamed Muhsin (World Bank Group)
1:00	Discussion groups/Lunch -- by assignment
	(A list of discussion group topics and leaders is available for review.)

	Session 3: Extended work teams
3:00	Cross-cultural Issues in Global Software Outsourcing	Geoff Walsham (Judge Institute of Management, Cambridge)
3:45	The Geopolitics of Shared Cognition in Globally Distributed Teams	Marietta Baba (Michigan State University)
	Session 4: The on demand enterprise
4:30	The On Demand World	Irving Wladawsky-Berger (IBM)
5:30	Wine and cheese; discussion group poster review
6:30	Dinner and speaker "How New Entertainment Media Will Transform The Future of Work"	Andrea Saveri (Director, Institute for the Future)
8:00	Conference close