ITHS 2008 Annual Meeting
ITHS session at the 2007 annual
meeting of the Society for the
History of Technology.
On October 22, 2008, the IT History Society will hold its Second
Annual Conference.
The title of this year's conference is "Leveraging Yesterday:
Using History to Create Value Today and Tomorrow in the High-Tech
Company." Three companies that have successfully used history
for company purposes - Agilent, IBM, and Symantec - will present
their experiences. A panel of Silicon Valley lawyers will discuss
legal and other issues relating to making a company's history
available internally and externally.
The meeting is being held at:
Applied Materials
Building 1, AGU/Lobby
2
3050 Bowers Ave.
Santa Clara, CA 95054
Attendees
will have a chance to view the Applied Materials Heritage Exhibit.
Registration is free, but we ask that attendees register in
advance since seating is limited.
SCHEDULE OF CONFERENCE EVENTS
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Noon - Doors open
Applied Materials heritage exhibit open for viewing
1:00 PM - Opening remarks
- Welcome from Applied Materials
- Introduction to the Applied Materials heritage exhibit
- Welcome from Jeffery Stein, Chairman of the Board, IT History
Society
1:30 PM - Session I: Case Studies of Using History
in Today's High-Tech Company
Henry Lowood, Stanford University (moderator)
Genevieve Haldeman, Vice President, Corporate
Communications, Symantec Corp.
Karen Lewis, Director of Media Communications
and Archives, Agilent Technologies
Paul Lasewicz, IBM Corporate Archivist, IBM
Corp.
This session includes presentations by three companies about
their experiences with integrating history into ongoing company
activities, followed by an open discussion session with questions
and comments welcomed from the audience.
3:00 PM- Refreshments
3:30 PM - Session II: Opportunities and Challenges
to Using History
William Aspray, University of Texas at Austin
(moderator)
David S. Bloch, Winston & Strawn LLP
Edward Davis, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
LLP
David Kirsch, School of Business University
of Maryland
This session includes two attorneys discussing legal and
other issues relating to making a company's history available
internally and externally, and a discussion by a business scholar
identifying the larger societal value of company records and
arguing that legal restraints on record access are too strict. These
remarks will be followed by an open discussion session with
questions and comments welcomed from the audience.
5:00 - 6:00 PM - Reception
REGISTRATION FORM
Registration is free, but we ask that attendees
register in advance since seating is limited.
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