TechMaine Announces Andrew McAfee to Keynote the 2010 Annual Conference
PORTLAND, ME — November 11, 2010 — TechMaine: The Technology Association of Maine announces that Andrew McAfee the Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Digital Business will keynote the 18th annual Technology Conference, taking place on December 7-8, 2010 at the Clarion Hotel in Portland, ME.
The 2010 TechMaine Annual Conference focuses on new technologies, cloud-based services, social networking, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, and business intelligence. The Conference brings together leading analysts, an internationally renowned keynote presenter, and industry experts for 12 in-depth sessions that take on these turbulent topics head-on, examining how Maine businesses can improve their ability to use information and tools to drive innovation.
Andrew McAfee was recognized by the editors of the technical publishing house Ziff-Davis as number 38 in their list of the “100 Most Influential People in IT.” He was also recently recognized by Baseline magazine as one of 50 most influential people in business IT. McAfee coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. McAfee’s eagerly anticipated book, Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization’s Toughest Challenges, was published in November 2009 by Harvard Business School Press. His blog, http://andrewmcafee.org/blog/, is widely read, becoming at times one of the 10,000 most popular in the world (according to Technorati).
McAfee is the author or co-author of more than fifteen scholarly articles and ninety case studies and other materials for students and teachers of technology. This work has convinced him that modern information technology is the most powerful tool available to business leaders, yet also the most misunderstood and under-appreciated resource at their disposal. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition itself – the struggle among rivals for dominance and survival within an industry.
An engaging and provocative speaker, he presents frequently to both academic and industry audiences, and has taught in executive education programs around the world. Andrew McAfee joined the faculty of the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School in 1998. He is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a fellow at the Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.
