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Welcome to CAISS!
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The Chinese American Information Storage Society (CAISS) is a non-profit organization founded by the Chinese American professionals from the data storage industry in 1995. Our mission is to provide education and fellowship to facilitate members' career and professional development goals through conferences, seminars, and social activities.
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News and Events
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CAISS 2009 Annual Conferece on January 17, 2010 at Embassy Suite Milpitas. Keynote Speaker: Senior Vice President Richard Rutledge on data storage business and technology at Western Digital.
Richard E. Rutledge is a well-known industry veteran and long-time member of the Western Digital executive team, currently serving as senior vice president of marketing. His role focuses on driving consistent and profitable growth by aligning and optimizing the WD business model to market opportunities.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Rutledge served in a variety of vice president and general manager roles, producing business results across WD's desktop, notebook, enterprise, CE and retail segments. His career with WD crosses a wide variety of products lines, channels, regions and technologies.
Previous to WD, Rich worked for Computer Stop, a pioneering PC retailer and peripheral manufacturer from the PC era infancy. Rich holds BSEE and MBA degrees from UCLA.
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2009 Dinner Seminar Schedule:
January 22nd, 2009 (Thursday)
Dr. Steven R. Hetzler, IBM Fellow, Manager Storage Architecture Research
Tilte:
The Storage Chasm: Implications for the Future of HDD and Solid State Storage
March 19th, 2009 (Thursday)
Mr. Mark Geenen, President and CEO, Trendfocus
Tilte:
Implications of current economic downturn on digital data storage industry
April, 2009 (Thursday)
Professor Lambertus Hesselink, Professor at Stanford on optics and optical storage, as well as founder/CEO for WD's recent purchase -- MioNet
Tilte:
Nano-apertures and surface plasmons for use in nano photonics, with applications in both optical and magnetic data storage
July 23, 2009 (Thursday)
Dr. Jianming Fu, CTO in Sierra Solar Power, Inc.
Tilte:
Solar Cell Technologies Outlook and Business Landscape
October 23, 2009 (Thursday)
Tom Chang, President, CTI Consulting
Tilte:
MEMS Technology and Market in Mobile Device Applications
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2008 Annual meeting keynote speaker:
Charles Pope , Executive Vice President
Seagate Technology
Topic:Strategic Planning and Corporate Development
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2007 Annual meeting keynote speaker:
John F Coyne, President and CEO
Western Digital Corporation
Topic: Nanometers to Terabytes: Enabling the Digital Lifestyle
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