SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
The CTO Forum today announced that Vishal Sikka, Chief Technology
Officer, SAP AG, has joined the executive board of the CTO Forum. The
CTO Forum brings together the best minds in the technology industry to
define opportunities and to collaborate in harnessing the
extraordinary potential of technology.
Recent CTO Forums have focused on themes such as innovation,
software and hardware mega-trends, green technology and energy
ingenuity. A core function of the CTO Forum is to be a "Global
Collaboration & Innovation Platform" helping technology leaders
leverage each others unique learnings around innovation as each steers
their respective companies into the future.
Sikka brings a unique perspective to the CTO Forum. Sikka drives
SAP's technology and architecture strategy across its product
portfolio and is responsible for ensuring a clear and harmonized
roadmap for SAP products to deliver new innovations and increasing
value to customers. Because of his knowledge in complex customer
environments and his ability to see future trends, Sikka will be a key
contributor in shaping the CTO Forum agenda.
As CTO, Sikka also leads the company's forward-thinking efforts
around emerging technologies and mapping these to SAP's
next-generation architecture.
Sikka holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Stanford
University and his experience includes research in automatic
programming, information and application integration, and artificial
intelligence at Stanford, Xerox Palo Alto Labs and two startups.
About the CTO Forum
The CTO Forum brings together the best minds in the technology
industry to define opportunities, and to collaborate in harnessing,
the extraordinary potential of technology. The CTO Forum's mission is
to deliver a Global Innovation Platform, where technology leaders
collaborate and co-create the technology and solutions that will be
critical to meeting tomorrow's global opportunities and challenges.
See http://www.thectoforum.net.
About Integnology
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Executive Consulting and Virtualization. These practices are led by
highly capable leaders and teams with extensive industry experience.
In addition, Integnology is the founder and organizer for two
exceptional communities; the CTO Forum and the CIO Council. See
http://integnology.com
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