+ Changing Role of Intel Clients in the Services Landscape, Web 2.0, and SaaSIncreasing adoption of service oriented technology such as Web 2.0/SOA, new Delivery models including SaaS, and innovative business models around advertisements are creating a new type of software ecosystem. The role of Intel clients is evolving. Together we’ll explore how these trends will fundamentally shape the PC and change its evolution in coming years.

+ Data Center of the Future This session will begin by reflecting on the progress of data center topics from last year. We will review emerging management challenges in different types of data centers that serve millions of consumers, provide utility computing services, or incorporate SaaS within traditional enterprises. Together, we will explore underlying technology requirements and discuss an action plan to address these challenges.

+ Operating System Trends, Directions, and Implications Heterogeneous operating system environments are becoming a reality on standard Intel® hardware platforms. Coexistence of diverse operating systems in the data center and across corporate desktops exists today. What are some of the challenges this presents to the industry? What opportunities may exist to reach new customers and markets?

+ Intel^® Architecture Devices: Software Opportunities and Implications Intel is investigating a path leading to the deployment of Intel Architecture handheld and mobile devices. Join us as we kick off a concentrated evaluation of the software opportunity on small form factor and mobile devices running Windows- and Linux-operating systems. In this session, we will identify the business and technical obstacles, discuss potential areas of innovation, and articulate a path for successful collaboration between you and Intel in this exciting category.

+ Multi-Core and the Move to Parallelism in Client Software (updated 4/26/07) The industry is rapidly moving to multi-core. Many ISVs planning to take advantage of multi-core need help in getting there, as well as in understanding the benefits. This session will focus on Intel's long-term multi-core roadmap, possible software innovations enabled by multi-core in games, multimedia, creativity, and graphics, software as a service, productivity applications, and more. Join us as we discuss business opportunities for the increased performance of multi-core platforms, as well as the tools needed to help the industry through the transition.

+ Changing Role of Intel Clients in the Services Landscape, Web 2.0, and SaaS Increasing adoption of service oriented technology such as Web 2.0/SOA, new Delivery models including SaaS, and innovative business models around advertisements are creating a new type of software ecosystem. The role of Intel clients is evolving. Together we’ll explore how these trends will fundamentally shape the PC and change its evolution in coming years.

+ Data Center of the Future This session will begin by reflecting on the progress of data center topics from last year. We will review emerging management challenges in different types of data centers that serve millions of consumers, provide utility computing services, or incorporate SaaS within traditional enterprises. Together, we will explore underlying technology requirements and discuss an action plan to address these challenges.

+ Operating System Trends, Directions, and Implications Heterogeneous operating system environments are becoming a reality on standard Intel® hardware platforms. Coexistence of diverse operating systems in the data center and across corporate desktops exists today. What are some of the challenges this presents to the industry? What opportunities may exist to reach new customers and markets?

+ Intel^® Architecture Devices: Software Opportunities and Implications Intel is investigating a path leading to the deployment of Intel Architecture handheld and mobile devices. Join us as we kick off a concentrated evaluation of the software opportunity on small form factor and mobile devices running Windows- and Linux-operating systems. In this session, we will identify the business and technical obstacles, discuss potential areas of innovation, and articulate a path for successful collaboration between you and Intel in this exciting category.

+ Innovations in Graphics and Visual Computing (updated 4/26/07) What happens when CPU and GPU worlds collide? What is the impact for the software industry? GPUs and the languages used to program them are becoming increasingly general purpose. CPUs, with their SIMD instructions and multiple cores per die, are becoming increasingly parallel. How will developers take advantage of extreme parallelism on the CPU and increasing generality of the GPU? What part of the workload goes where, in order to get maximum overall performance? What tools do developers need to help them meet the challenges? Join us as we discuss how developers can innovate in this dynamic, changing environment.

Wednesday, June 20: Vertical Tracks (Session #3 and Session #4)

+ Improving Enterprise Computing Security Security remains one of the top topics today in the enterprise computing arena—across server, desktop, mobile, and handhelds. Intel, along with the rest of the industry, is making huge investments in this space. This session will examine some of Intel’s key strategic security investments, and provide a forum to discuss opportunities for us to work together as an industry to build next-generation solutions.

+ Power Management Power and thermal issues are among the most important challenges in the enterprise today. This session summarizes specific power management challenges facing enterprise clients and servers; and discusses how existing and potential future capabilities can enable the enterprise to operate at the highest energy efficiency level while delivering to compute output Service Level Agreements. Discussion will focus on the business and technical hurdles to realizing the rack- and enterprise-level power management vision. Topics will include compute platform power management capabilities, implications to the enterprise management model, and the impact of software architecture on power savings.

+ Application Accelerators Hardware accelerators are one solution to address performance needs for specific applications. Current hardware acceleration alternatives lock the ISV into a hardware implementation and programming interface. This session will discuss which application segments will need acceleration in the future and the requirements for software agility. Intel will lay out its abstraction layer strategy, and we will jointly identify any hurdles to moving software between acceleration models.

+ Industry Panel: Emerging Consumer Software and Service Business Models (updated 4/26/07) Industry participants constantly seek the next big disruptive technology or business model, to defend MSS and grow revenues. This session will focus on innovations in content distribution in the digital home, content monetization, and online communities. Join us as we discuss the implications these innovations may have on software and service business models, along with upcoming Intel^® platform technologies that can enable further innovation.

+ Clustering Technical computing on clusters is moving from academia/labs to industrial users. This session explores the main total cost of ownership drivers beyond price/performance that are behind the growth of clusters. Intel will share its plans to pave the way for volume and high-end clusters, and together we will discuss any challenges to capitalizing on this opportunity in one of the fastest-growing server segments. Topics will include a systems/solutions view of clusters, as well as business concerns such as software licensing.

+ Lowering Total Cost of Ownership on Next-Generation Clients Manageability concerns continue to grow in the corporate IT environment. As an industry we need to continue to evolve hardware technology and software solutions to keep pace and to scale to the demands of corporate IT. The emergence of computing models such as application streaming and the use of virtual appliances are just a few of the mechanisms that IT managers are evaluating to improve the security, manageability, and reliability of the corporate client. Given these ramps, what are the issues that we as an industry must solve to ensure the maximal levels of interoperability and deployment ability? What are the solutions that we can implement to smooth this transition?

+ Next-Generation Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Search Dramatic increases in computing power on the client platform will provide huge improvements in how we manage and analyze data. Intel has a portfolio of technology that will impact this market and improve solutions for our mutual customers. In this session, we’ll discuss how we can work together as a team to offer hardware and software solutions that advance business intelligence, search, and context-aware computing throughout the enterprise.

+ Driving Game Innovation with the PC Gaming Platform (updated 4/26/07) While consoles have attracted mainstream consumers to gaming, the PC is still where innovation in gaming is created, tested, and refined, with online PC game revenues predicted to approach USD 7 billion by 2009. Due to its flexibility, upgradeability, and ubiquitous connectivity, the PC takes advantage of the best technology to drive game play innovation. Join us in this discussion, as we evaluate a number of game industry specific technologies and programs Intel is pursuing in our high-performance graphics product roadmap, and explore with us future opportunities for technology innovation in the PC games industry.

+ The Rise of the Home Media Server (updated 4/26/07) Home Servers are poised to ramp in 2007. OEMs are delivering product at mainstream price-points, and the content is there. Still, application and service vendors are concerned about quality, interoperability, security, and digital rights management. This discussion will focus on what Intel and other industry leaders are doing to innovate and better deliver manageability and premium digital content to the home through home servers.