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Premier Sponsor

Microsoft® delivers a secure, robust and scalable collaboration platform and tools to support manufacturing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). With industry-leading software solutions and tools for personal and organizational productivity, enterprise project management, business process mapping, and business process integration, and complementary solutions from partners, manufacturers can tackle key challenges in the product development process, reduce their time to market, improve the success rate of new products and thus grow their market share and revenues. For more information, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/plm

Platinum Sponsor

Artemis International Solutions Corporation is the world’s leading provider of investment planning and control solutions that help organizations execute strategy through effective portfolio and project management. With almost 600,000 users worldwide, and a global network covering 44 countries, Artemis has helped thousands of companies to improve their business performance through better alignment of strategy, investment planning and project execution. Commercialization Track Sponsor

Gold Sponsors

IDe® is the leading provider of software solutions for integrated product development. IDe's IDweb® software automates gated processes, such as PACE® and Stage-Gate, and integrates business decision-making to align corporate and business strategy, program execution, and operational excellence for best-in-class companies worldwide. Sopheon is an international provider of software and services that help organizations improve the business impact of innovation and product development. Sopheon's Accolade solution enables product portfolio management for improved prioritization of innovation and product development investments, and automates gated product development processes providing greater process efficiency and improved time to market. Sopheon serves client companies in high tech, consumer goods and chemical-related markets. Among them are global industry leaders such as Revlon, Wellman Chemical, Glatfelter, Vodafone, GlaxoSmithKline and Aventis. SAP® xApp Product Definition (SAP xPD) is the only integrating solution to really drive product definition processes. It will help to manage ideas and requirements from all touch points, collaboratively define and evaluate product concepts leveraging complete multi-disciplinary information, and help to evaluate new product designs. SAP xPD will help you ensure effective products AND at an accelerated pace. Discovery Track Sponsor A.T. Kearney is a leading global management consulting firm with a broad range of capabilities and expertise in all major industries and services, including strategy, operations, transformation, technology and executive search. With a keen focus on CEO-agenda concerns - issues such as growth, operations excellence, merger integration, supply chain management, technology strategy and more, we help Global 1000 clients as well as large and mid-size companies solve business problems, transform their operations and support them through implementation. Our strategic approach and strong heritage of client collaboration has helped clients gain significant results as well as competitive advantage for nearly 78 years. Development Track Sponsor UGS, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with more than 3.1 million licensed seats and 42,000 clients worldwide. The company promotes openness and standardization and works collaboratively with its clients in creating enterprise solutions enabling them to transform their process of innovation and thus begin to capture the value of PLM. For more information on UGS products and services, visit www.ugs.com. Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's largest enterprise software company, providing enterprise software to the world's largest and most successful businesses. With annual revenues of more than $9.5 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Oracle is the first software company to develop and deploy 100 percent Internet-enabled enterprise software across its entire product line: database, server, enterprise business applications, and application development, and decision support tools. For more information about Oracle visit our website at http://www.oracle.com/plm

Sponsors

IBM Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Dassault Systèmes help manufacturers increase shareholder value by expanding to markets centered on new, innovative products, while reducing development, manufacturing and warranty costs. These solutions enable companies conceptualizing, designing, building and supporting products to operate as a single entity with suppliers and customers, sharing common business processes and product knowledge from initial concept to product retirement. This high degree of collaboration throughout the value chain helps these companies to deliver superior products and to attract and keep loyal customers. Proven by more than 30,000 successful PLM implementations, the most comprehensive and integrated solution portfolio and recognized e-business leadership, IBM has unmatched capability to implement the right PLM solution for your business--to ensure you stay ahead of your competition. www.ibm.com/solutions/plm or www.3ds.com

Exhibitors

Agile Software helps companies drive profits, accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and ensure regulatory compliance throughout the product lifecycle. With a broad suite of enterprise-class PLM solutions, time-to-value focused implementations, and a unique Guaranteed Business Results program, Agile helps companies get the most from their products. Join companies like Join companies like Alcatel, Boeing, Dell, Flextronics, Hitachi, Leapfrog, Lockheed Martin, Playtex, Siemens and QUALCOMM and realize significant business results with Agile PLM. Applied Marketing Science's "Voice of the Customer" research helps clients understand customer wants and needs and translate those needs into superior new product and service designs. Blackwell Publishing is a proud partner of the PDMA, the publisher of Journal of Product Innovation Management and a leading publisher of books and journals in the fields of business, management and technology. Centercode is a leading provider of beta test management software and services. Centercode's solutions focus on flexibility to meet the varying and unique needs of each company and each product while delivering the results to enhance product quality and maximize market opportunities. For more information about Centercode, please visit. Deloitte, one of the nation’s leading professional services firms, provides audit, tax, financial advisory services and consulting through nearly 30,000 people in more than 80 U.S. cities. Known as an employer of choice for innovative human resources programs, the firm is dedicated to helping its clients and its people excel. “Deloitte” refers to the associated partnerships of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP (Deloitte & Touche LLP and Deloitte Consulting LLP) and affiliated entities. Deloitte is the US member firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. For more information, please visit Deloitte’s web site at www.deloitte.com/us. Diagnostics Plus is a full-service survey research firm providing global customer and market research with expertise in business-to-business research and research for new product development in the tech sector. Located in State College, PA, Diagnostics Plus has close ties with Penn State University and provides global research services for more than 500 companies. Framework Technologies Corporation (“FTC”), sells highly flexible, cost-effective Product Lifecycle Management (“PLM”) software solutions that enable customers to realize the benefits of a PLM investment at a fraction of the ordinary time, cost and complexity of conventional PLM solutions. Product Centric companies from Automotive, Aerospace, Industrial Components, Pharmaceutical and Consumer Goods industries use FTC solutions to substantially reduce the time, errors and complexity associated with selecting and managing projects (i.e. product development/introduction, cost reduction, six sigma) across geographic and proprietary IT boundaries. Gateway Group offers a broad range of professional services for the design and deployment of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions and related information technologies, architectures and delivery processes. Our focus on medical device manufacturing and other highly regulated industries, has establish Gateway as a leader in the delivery of technologies and strategies for global design, engineering and manufacturing. We deliver competitive advantage through better business processes. The Institute for International Research (IIR) is one of the largest international conference and seminar organizations, producing events in more than 36 countries, successfully holding close to 5,000 events per year. During the year, we work with the PDMA and put on events such as The Voice of the Customer, Strategic & Operational Portfolio Management, and The Front End of Innovation. Ideas To Go is a creative process consulting firm that specializes in using the voice of the customer to drive new product development, product naming, promotions and communications projects. Using our Concentrated Concept Development® process, we significantly accelerate concept development with articulate Creative Consumers® associates and cutting-edge technology such as e-deation® services. Imaginatik is the leading provider of Idea Management software and processes, with global clients in consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, finance, chemicals, manufacturing and government. We deliver high quality products and services, developed through an ongoing commitment to research in innovation. Innovation Focus Inc. is in service to help develop deep customer understanding and create meaningful innovation through a full line of market research, innovation and process consulting services. Clients include Yahoo, Johnson & Johnson, 3M, IBM and many others. THE IDEA IS GROWTH Knowledge Roundtable is a unique knowledge service comprised of product development practitioners around the world. Its mission is to advance innovation and collaboration through peer-based exchange of insights and opportunities. Offered by Management Roundtable and Knowledge Futures, Knowledge Roundtable is a comprehensive, unbiased resource for companies that seek competitive advantage without excessive time, cost or travel investment. For details: www.knowledge-roundtable.com The Master of Product Development program is designed for professionals eager to master the concepts and tools of product design and development. Learn about managing creativity and design, management and metrics, project management, customer-focused innovation, research, and financial issues. This two-year graduate program meets only one day a week, on alternating Friday's and Saturday's at Northwestern University's Evanston campus. Superb faculty, hands-on curriculum, and convenient course schedules all come together to make this the premier program in product development. Orasi Software provides technology and services that enable organizations to fully understand and utilize their customers' ideas, needs and preferences to drive successful product development and management initiatives. IdeaScope, Orasi’s web-based software application, enables the proactive elicitation, prioritization and central management of feedback that represents the collective Voice of the Customer. Planisware provides the enterprise Project and Portfolio Management software solution OPX2. Our software, OPX2, has assisted organizations to achieve increased productivity by providing timely project and portfolio information throughout the enterprise. OPX2 integrates scheduling, resource, cost and Portfolio Management into a comprehensive system. This allows initiatives to be identified, prioritized and decisions communicated efficiently throughout the entire lifecycle in the New Product Development organization. PRTM: Management consulting firm PRTM works with leading companies worldwide to achieve breakthrough business resultsÚfast. For over 25 years, we‚ve delivered measurable value to our clients, earning one of the highest rates of repeat business in the management consulting industry. Our proven frameworks and methodologies, including Product And Cycle-time Excellence® (PACE®), have become the industry gold standard. QualiSci is a leading provider of powerful, new product development and commercialization solutions, which assist companies in bringing better products to market, faster, and at a lower cost. QualiSci's solutions automate processes for stage gate new product development, product/project portfolio analysis, resource allocation, predictive statistical modeling, Six Sigma project management, product/process performance optimization, and Ideation-TRIZ based rapid idea generation. Realization Technologies: provides Project Flow software. Based on critical chain and the theory of constraints, Realization's software is used by a wide range of organizations to increase and streamline their project flow. Some of Realization's customers are DaimlerChrysler, Hamilton Beach/Proctor-Silex, Johnson Controls, LSI Logic, Lucent Technologies, Medtronic, NASA, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy. Sequent Learning Networks: Learn how to create, develop, launch, and manage products. Sequent Learning Networks conducts seminars covering product management, product marketing, new product development, product life cycle management, and portfolio management. SmartOrg software systems bring people, process and analytics together to create exceptional value from R&D, New Product Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategic Planning, and Capital Investment. Decision Advisor® creates risk-adjusted economic models in real-time. Portfolio Navigator? focuses on creating and managing high value portfolios. Tote Bag Sponsor Stage-Gate, Inc., co-founded by Drs. Robert Cooper and Scott Edgett, the world's foremost experts in the field of product innovation, is dedicated to developing and delivering best-in-class products and services to help companies realize their strategic business goals for growth through New Product Innovation. Stage-Gate, Inc. specializes exclusively in product innovation, including; the authentic Stage-Gate® Process, Portfolio Management, and Product Innovation and Technology Strategy, all the components of an effective Innovation Program. Systemation: is a results-driven project management training company that helps large organizations achieve desired project, portfolio and business results by transforming the way people perform. We offer a broad range of immediately usable performance improvement learning solutions with a personal touch, including individual and organizational assessments, workshops, certificate programs and coaching. TRUEreq by ProductSoft:is a web-based tool for managing projects and product development. Enhancing your team with the power of TRUEreq eliminates unnecessary meetings, repetitive emails, and costly product mistakes and delays. This seamless, open systems application allows teams to focus on delivering the right products at the right time for profitability and success. Wiley: is a global publisher of professional, consumer, scientific and technical books, journals, textbooks and education materials. Wiley publishes many product development titles, including our best-selling title The PDMA ToolBook1 for New Product Development and The PDMA Handbook. To see more about these and our other imprints, visit Wiley at www.wiley.com. WinOvationsSM NBD system: encompasses significant breakthroughs in several areas: 1. Personnel selection, (utilizing the Rainmaker-IndexSM) 2. Training & coaching 3. The early-stages of WinOvations’ NBD Process, features a non-linear approach that Morphs starting ideas into winners. Used at the organizational level, we have quantified how to quickly change a corporate culture into a more innovative, effective and profitable organization.

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BENEFITS OF SPONSORING

WHY PARTNER WITH PDMA?

The PDMA International Conference 2004 provides our partnering companies with an exclusive opportunity to market and sell their products and services to product lifecycle management professionals and decision makers. This is a unique opportunity for one-on-one exposure to a highly focused and often otherwise inaccessible audience. Our goal in partnering with leading solution providers is to further increase their market presence and assist them in reaching their marketing/sales objectives through meeting and networking with senior executives who are specifically seeking to purchase technologies and services in the area of product development.

KEY BENEFITS

• Showcase your unique product line.
• Dedicated exhibition hours
• Increase your position as a market leader
• Meet one-on-one with clients explicitly focused on product development and generate sales leads
• Demonstrate your cutting-edge technology to a focused audience
• Improve your competitive edge through education, research and a up-to-date understanding of your marketplace
• Brand and market your organization with a professional association focused on product development management with over 2500 members in over 30 countries.

CONTACT

For Sponsor Program opportunities, please contact David Mleczko at 203 431 8950 ext. 603. dmleczko@globalexec.com.

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