ITHS 2008 Annual Meeting

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, Executive Director, Agilent Technologies Foundation
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