PDMA's annual International Conference is an unparalleled opportunity for suppliers to showcase their brands, products and services to difficult-to-access leaders and decision makers in the PLM space. Delegates to the 2005 International Conference will be focused on best practices and supplier resources that add value to their global new product initiatives.

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Sponsors & Exhibitors contact: Leonora Valvo leonora@pdma.org 203 431 8950 x 601

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.

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.
	MIT Sloan Executive Education provides executives and managers with the tools and frameworks to transform today's good ideas into tomorrow's successful products and services. Led by world-renowned faculty, our programs in product development, innovation, systems thinking, entrepreneurship, and value chain management are based on pathbreaking research developed at MIT.
	The SAP solution for product innovation management is the industries only solution for front-end, portfolio and resource management pre-integrated to your ERP and other backend systems. Providing full visibility into human and financial resources, it ensures their effective allocation to only the most promising ideas and projects. It is powered by NetWeaver and part of the SAP total solution for new product development and introduction
	GEN3 Partners Inc. is a product innovation consulting firm that dramatically improves the impact, predictability and productivity of corporate innovation processes through a superior approach to identifying their greatest opportunities and solving the technical barriers to achieving them. By evaluating their product innovation opportunities through the "lens" of their growth strategy, GEN3 works with companies to determine the kinds of product and process innovation they need to achieve their growth targets. By using a scientific approach to predicting the evolution of their products (rather than relying on the "voice of the customer"), the firm brings a superior approach to projecting the market for future innovations. Based in Boston and St. Petersburg, Russia, GEN3 works with CEOs, business unit general managers, and heads of marketing, product development, manufacturing and other executives to dramatically improve their return on product innovation. For more information please visit: www.gen3.com

Sponsors
	Oracle's business is information - how to manage it, use it, share it, protect it. For nearly three decades, Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL), the world’s largest enterprise software company, has provided the software and services that let organizations get the most up-to-date and accurate information from their business systems. With annual revenues of more than $10.2 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services to help more governments and businesses around the world become information-driven than any other company. For more information, visit www.oracle.com.
	Enthiosys helps companies deliver innovative software solutions to the markets they serve. Our Innovation Games have been used to develop deeper customer and market understanding. Blending cognitive psychology, organizational behavior and agile development processes along with business and technology acumen, we're well positioned to ensure your success.
	Sopheon is an international provider of software and services that help organizations improve their return on investments in innovation and new product development (NPD). Its leading solution, Sopheon Accolade®, structures and automates the Stage-Gate® process, providing strategic decision-making support for improved portfolio management. Accolade is currently being used in over 45 countries worldwide by such industry leader as Cadbury-Schweppes, Parker Hannifin, BASF, Revlon, and Vodafone.

Exhibitors
	Alignent Software changes the way organizations with complex R & D environments approach innovation and enterprise strategic planning. Providing the vision to roadmap emerging products, technologies and markets over time, Alignent Software helps organizations to visualize the future possibilities for innovation before resources and investments are made.
	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.
	Since 1995 Aurora has helped clients see clearly the risks and rewards ahead with a unique applications portfolio of competitive intelligence services and techniques. Offering product benchmarking, acquisition, and development support services for market, industry, competitor and customer planning, the world's elite companies choose Aurora to overcome their toughest competitive challenges.
	BIT 7 is the "Ultimate Product Development Tool". Under one roof, we have the competencies needed to "Make Your Products Happen" quickly, efficiently, and with extraordinary results. From initial laboratory and user research through engineering, design, and product testing, we'll Increase Your Resources for Innovation and Speed-to-Market. Stop by the booth and find out what sets us apart from the typical design firm.
	Blackwell Publishing is a proud partner of the PDMA, the publisher of the Journal of Product Innovation Management and a leading publisher of books and journals in the fields of business, management and technology.
	California Institute of Technology Industrial Relations Center Attend a course, earn a certificate, or bring our courses to your company. The Caltech Industrial Relations Center is committed to providing exceptional educational programs to solve the business needs of technology-oriented companies. Our courses are designed to provide real solutions to the business problems of technology-based companies. We recognize the value of your time by providing accelerated learning. We employ industry experts and leading academics as your course leaders. Our courses attract a high-level peer group who share experiences and discuss problems from a business perspective. The Industrial Relations Center is located along the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California.
	Celstream is an ISO 9001-2000, SEI CMM Level 4 company with a rich heritage of providing several years of Product Engineering Services to leading global technology firms. Our team of 300 creative people strives to lead in the innovation of high-quality, technology products for our customers. We combine the best software and hardware engineering talent, world-class processes and cutting edge technology expertise to create consistent business value for our customers in flexible, IPR secure engagement models. Leveraging an India-based delivery model, we offer comprehensive Product Engineering Services for technology firms in industries such as Communications, Computers, Electronics and Media. Acting as an extension of our customers' own engineering and development teams, we provide hardware design and complete product life-cycle software development from concept to end-of-life, by leveraging our strengths in Hardware Design, Embedded Systems, Systems Software, Middleware, Networking, UI, Applications Development and Process Engineering.
	Centric Software accelerates innovation and program execution through its family of industry-leading Open PLM™ solutions. Centric's rapidly deployed solutions suite provides innovation, portfolio, and program management capabilities that leverage intellectual capital throughout the value chain. Centric's solutions are used by global enterprises such as Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hamilton Sundstrand, Siemens, SNC-Lavalin, Timex, Volvo, Iowa State University and others to drive top line revenue growth and achieve direct cost reductions. Centric's customers include aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, AEC, pharmaceutical, electronics companies and universities.
	Computer Associates' Clarity solution helps companies streamline New Product Development through unprecedented visibility and insight into their people. Clarity fosters innovation and accelerates time to market with seamlessly integrated portfolio analysis, resource capacity planning, and program management. Clarity, formerly of Niku, is now part of Computer Associates' Business Service Optimization business unit.
	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.
	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.
	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
	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.
	MatrixOne, Inc. (NASDAQ: MONE) is a recognized leader in delivering collaborative Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. We provide flexible solutions that unleash the creative power of global value chains to inspire innovations and speed them to market. MatrixOne's customers include Agilent Technologies, General Electric, Honda, Johnson Controls, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Siemens, and Toshiba.
	MindMatters helps organizations inspire, capture, validate, protect and profit from idea management. The front-end to your Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) process, MindMatters’ patent pending software, Innovator ™, is the only enterprise system specifically designed to protect ideas by aligning with intellectual property processes, including invention disclosures and legal reviews.
	Master of Science in Executive Leadership (MSEL). Delivered through a partnership between The Ken Blanchard Companies and the USD School of Business Administration, the MSEL is an AACSB accredited business leadership degree. Our values-based business degree is a 22-month journey that integrates Ken Blanchard’s time-proven leadership model with core business skills that have transformed leaders and their organizations for over 20 years. The program’s focus on innovative, real-world applications maximizes opportunities for both personal and organizational growth.
	NineSigma facilitates open innovation strategies for Fortune 500 companies seeking to acquire technical innovations developed outside their organization. NineSigma’s clients span a variety of industries including automotive, biomedical, chemical, consumer products, electronics, food, materials, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications among others. Through its proprietary Managed Exchange (M:XTM) process, NineSigma matches technology seekers with unobvious or disruptive innovations that enable companies to drive top-line growth. For more information, visit www.ninesigma.com.
	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.
	Portfolio DecisionWare, based in New York City, helps product development organizations to improve portfolio management operations through the alignment of skilled and non-labor resource inventories with business priorities. PDW Portfolio™ is a high impact resource management application that uses familiar Microsoft® Excel™ views for data input and analysis. As a result, PDW Portfolio™ is easier to learn and requires less administrative overhead than alternative solutions. Portfolio DecisionWare's customers include Motorola, Toyota, Medtronic, HP, Intel, RCI/Cendant, Health-Partners and Itron. To learn more about Portfolio DecisionWare's High Value / Low Risk approach to Portfolio Resource Management, please visit us online at www.pdware.com.
	PRTM: Management consulting firm PRTM works with leading companies worldwide to achieve breakthrough business results - fast. 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.
	For organizations that need to drive growth and profitability, SmartOrg delivers Value-Based Management Systems that identify and track the economic value of projects and portfolios. Unlike conventional project and portfolio management or productivity tools, our systems apply proven business processes that explicitly, and quantitatively, evaluate and manage risk and uncertainty to optimize the value produced by R&D, New Product Development and other business opportunities. SmartOrg services and products include consulting, system configuration, training and technical support. Visit www.smartorg.com.
	SEQUENT LEARNING NETWORKS offers training and advisory services for professionals in the product management and marketing communities who create, manage, and market products and services across all industries around the world. Unlike other training and consulting companies, we have a unique understanding of this critical business function because of our depth of knowledge and our breadth of experience across the entire product life cycle. Trust Sequent Learning Networks, where experience matters!
	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.
	UGS is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with nearly 4 million licensed seats and 46,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, UGS’ vision is to enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate through global innovation networks to deliver world-class products and services while leveraging UGS’ open enterprise solutions, fulfilling the mission of enabling them to transform their process of innovation. For more information on UGS products and services, visit www.ugs.com.
	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.