General Session Speakers

"Broadening Our Horizons: Technology, Services, Information"
Celebrating 25 Years of Leadership
December 3-6, 1996
San Francisco, California

Featured Speakers

Larry Tesler
Vice President, Internet Platforms & Chief Scientist, Apple Computer.
"Network Computing-Technology Directions"

If the PC was the steam engine of the Information Revolution, the Internet is its railroad. Where will it take us?
Internet technologies have moved into mission critical information systems. Internet standards and protocols are now a major driver of commercial software development. Forces now emerging will transform the Internet from a producer-consumer network to a collaboration-rich platform for creating and sustaining new communities.

Margaret Wheatley
Author
"Self Organizing Systems: Creating the Capacity for Continuous Change."

Margaret Wheatley, author of the award-winning book Leadership and the New Science, and A Simpler Way (August, 1996), will present "Self Organizing Systems: Creating the Capacity for Continuous Change." Wheatley will apply to higher education her vision of dynamic, organizational change based upon revolutionary discoveries in science.

Patricia Battin, Retired President of the Commission on Preservation and Access, and Brian Hawkins, Vice President of Academic Planning and Administration at Brown University, will take part in a point-counterpoint dialogue exploring how the roles of librarian and technologist have more and more common elements in the networked campus environment, in "The Changing Role of the Information Resources Professional."

"Based on their mutual conviction that information professionals must assume active leadership in higher education's transforming environment, Hawkins and Battin, in a lively no-punches-pulled discussion from differing perspectives, will explore both the mythology and reality of the cultural issues that separate librarians and information technology professionals and inhibit enlightened leadership as their roles in higher education converge."

Michael J. Emmi
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, SCT
"Today is Tomorrow"

This presentation will highlight SCT's exciting new technology concept and dynamic new product – Banner2000. Mike Emmi will take you through a discussion of tomorrow's technology for higher education, with demonstrations of the latest "net-centric" products available today from SCT. SCT clients will explain how the application of new technology and best practices is working for them on their campuses. Mr. Emmi will also outline SCT's visionary approach as it incorporates object technology into its current and future products.