Issues & Answers Keynotes
Co-Chairman Addresses
The Year 2000: The Project That Cannot Be Late
- Peter de Jager, Speaker and Consultant, de Jager & Company
Too Late for the Year 2000: What Do We Do Now?
- Ken Orr, President, The Ken Orr Institute
The Year 2000 Crisis: Solving the Problem in a Global Distributed Company
- Lou Marcoccio, Year 2000 Program Manager, Information Services, Digital Equipment Corporation
The Eve of the New Millennium
- Colleen Arnold, Vice President, Global Year 2000 Services, IBM Corporation
1. The Year 2000: The Project That Cannot Be Late
Peter de Jager, Speaker and Consultant
de Jager & Company
Tuesday, 9:00-10:50 am
As we mobilize the IT community towards the task of fixing the Year 2000 problem, we will move towards completion in less than an orderly fashion. This session kicks off DCI’s Year 2000 Issues & Answers Conference by providing a global overview of how we are preparing both the Private and Public sectors. The focus is on what still needs attention, in particular, how we are handling and communicating honestly the risks involved in "The Project That Cannot Be Late."
{This session is sponsored by Data Dimensions}
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2. Too Late for the Year 2000: What Do We Do Now?
Ken Orr, President
The Ken Orr Institute
Tuesday, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 pm
By the time all the bills are in, solving the "Year 2000 Problem" will be the largest, most expensive project that the IT industry has ever taken on. With less than three years to go, the IT industry is attempting to understand how
to help technology-dependent organizations throughout the world make it into the 21st Century. Current estimates are that solving the Year 2000 problem will cost anywhere from $200 billion to $1.5 trillion dollars! Most experts believe that it is already too late for most organizations to save all of their computer applications. What has been a case of management denial is rapidly turning into management panic. This presentation discusses the scope and implications of the Year 2000 problem and which organizations (industries) will be most affected.
- How Much? (Understanding the Problem)
- My Organization Doesn’t Think This Is a Problem? (The Psychology of Denial/The Psychology of Panic)
- What About Tools, Outsourcing, Software Factories? (Betting On Men in Blue Jumpsuits With Red Capes?)
- What Can/Should We Do? (Serious Year 2000 Strategies)
- Who Will Be the Winners and Losers? (Where Is the Money Going to Come From?)
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3. The Year 2000 Crisis: Solving the Problem in a Global Distributed Company
Lou Marcoccio, Year 2000 Program Manager, Information Services
Digital Equipment Corporation
Wednesday, 4:00 p.m.
Digital Equipment Corporation is a highly distributed global company, doing business in 105 countries and 600 sites worldwide. We have more than 2000 applications, 100,000 nodes, 70,000 telephones, and several new leading-edge business solutions and distributed email services. Our internal platforms use OpenVMS, UNIX, and Windows. This presentation focuses on Digital’s Information Services (IT) internal efforts - methodologies, tools, and structure — to resolve the Year 2000 problems with our internal systems and for our external customers.. We’ll also provide an overview of Digital’s Enterprise efforts and how we are making certain our products are problem free.
- From Digital’s Early Success, Leading-Edge Methods, Strategies,
- and Structure
- What a Global, Widely Distributed, Company Needs to Address
- How Digital is Going About the Process of Compliancy
- Why Legal, Purchasing, Finance, IT, BUs, Executives, etc., All Need to Participate in a Global Year 2000 effort
- Digital’s Vendor Compliancy Program and Efforts
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4. The Eve of the New Millennium
Colleen Arnold, Vice President, Global Year 2000 Services
IBM Corporation
Tuesday, 8:30 a.m.
The eve of the new millennium — when 1999 becomes the Year 2000 — presents a significant challenge to users of computer systems and applications using two digits to represent the year. If this issue is not addressed quickly, the date change could affect calculations, comparisons and data sorting in applications ranging from the desktop on up to the largest server. IBM is tackling the Year 2000 challenge, internally with its own systems and applications, and with customers through a five point strategy that includes awareness, planning and support, delivery of Year 2000 "ready" IBM products, tools and services. Colleen Arnold outlines IBM’s strategy, shares some insights concerning customer experiences and sets the record straight on just how important this issue is to you and to your business.
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