EXPERT PANELISTS:

Broadcom | Ken Venner | Vice President and CIO
Ken Venner joined Broadcom in August 2000 as Chief Information Officer. Supporting a business composed primarily of engineers that is doubling in size every year creates unique challenges for an IT organization in terms of design, deployment and support. Venner’s organization is challenged to design and deploy capabilities that are available with 99.9% up time (planned and unplanned). Prior to Broadcom, Venner was VP of Product Management and CIO for Rockwell Electronic Commerce from 1997-2000. In those positions he focused on delivering technologies and solutions that could be rapidly implemented allowing customers to focus on increasing revenues and reducing costs. Before joining Rockwell, Venner worked at Lucent Technologies/AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1986-1997.

Alliance Imaging | John Buccola | VP, Information Technology
John Buccola leads the information technology function for Alliance Imaging, the largest diagnostic imaging provider in the United States. Publicly traded, Alliance operates over 500 systems at large university hospitals, community medical centers, and free-standing imaging centers across 44 states. Alliance also operates a transportation fleet consisting of approximately 270 tractors and 300 drivers. Mr. Buccola is responsible for IT development, operations, support, and telecom infrastructure for nearly 2,500 users. He has over twelve years of IT experience, spanning management, software development, and data center operations, including IT roles at Nissan Motor Corp., Nextel Communications, Coldwell Banker, and The Centris Group.

Aviana Global Technologies | Avijit Datta | President
Avijit is the President of Aviana Global Technologies - a Business Intelligence consulting company based in Orange county. Avijit has been the CIO of two companies in the hotel industry and has served on the board of a number of technology associations in the past notably TiE - one of the largest association for entrepreneurs in the country and SIM - an association of CIOs and senior IT personnel in Southern California.