Sponsors   Flextronics offers the broadest worldwide EMS capabilities, from design resources to end-to-end vertically integrated global supply chain services. Flextronics designs, builds and ships complete packaged products for its OEM customers and provides after-market and field services to support customer end-to-end supply chain requirements. Flextronics provides more value and innovation to customers by leveraging its global economies of scale in manufacturing, logistics, procurement, design, engineering and ODM services across a wide range of products and customer segments. Operating in 30 countries, with a world-class workforce that includes approximately 4,000 design engineers, Flextronics’ pro forma fiscal year revenue following the Solectron acquisition now exceeds US$33.6 billion across seven well-diversified customer market segments and six major business units. Flextronics’ strengthened global presence and increased resources provide enhanced design and engineering solutions that are vertically integrated with manufacturing, logistics, and component technologies to optimize customer operations by lowering costs and reducing time to market. Flextronics has established an extensive network of design, manufacturing, and logistics facilities in the world’s major electronics markets to serve the growing outsourcing needs of both multinational and regional OEMs. Our extensive global network of manufacturing facilities in over 30 countries gives us significant scale and the flexibility to transition customer projects to any of our locations to fulfill customer requirements. The majority of our manufacturing capacity is located in low-cost regions such as Brazil, China, Hungary, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, and Ukraine. This low-cost global network enables us to execute with excellence across a flexible, scalable global system that delivers superior operational performance and optimal results for our customers. www.flextronics.com   Microsoft Corporation engages in the development, manufacture, licensing, and support of software products for various computing devices worldwide. It operates in three divisions: Platforms and Services, Microsoft Business, and Entertainment and Devices. The Platforms and Services division comprises Client, Server and Tools, and Online Services Business segments. Client segment offers operating systems for servers, personal computers (PCs), and intelligent devices. Server and Tools segment offers Windows Server operating systems. Its Windows Server products include the server platform, operations, security, applications, and collaboration software. It also builds software development life cycle tools for software architects, developers, testers, and project managers; and provides consulting, and training and certification services. Online Services Business segment provides personal communications services, such as e-mail and instant messaging; and online information offerings, such as MSN Search, MapPoint, and the MSN portals and channels. The Microsoft Business division includes Microsoft Office system of programs, services, and software solutions. It also provides financial management, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and analytics applications. The Entertainment and Devices division offers the Xbox video game system, such as consoles and accessories, third-party games, and games published under the Microsoft brand, as well as Xbox Live operations, research, and sales and support. It provides PC software games, online games, and other devices; and consumer software and hardware products, such as learning products and services, application software for Macintosh computers, and PC peripherals. The division also develops and markets products that extend the Windows platform to mobile devices and embedded devices. www.microsoft.com   Avaya, Inc. designs, builds and manages communications networks for more than one million businesses worldwide, including over 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500®. Focused on businesses large to small, Avaya is a world leader in providing intelligent business communications solutions and services. The Customer Interaction Suite from Avaya is designed to be truly flexible to address your unique business challenges. Whether you run a large, global organization, or have a smaller business with less complexity, Avaya understands that different companies require different communications strategies. Along with NICE Systems Inc. and IEX Corporation, the goal of our partnership is to provide our customers with the best functionality possible to address the specific needs of each business. www.avaya.com   IBM has led the information technology (IT) industry since it began. Today, IBM engages in services and consultancy, hardware and software, operates an advanced R&D facility, and provides financing services for its customers and business partners. The company enjoys an extensive range of cooperation agreements with companies and business partners that distribute its products, and offer their own solutions based on IBM Hardware and Software infrastructures. IBM employs over 350,000 personnel in some 170 countries and operates as a globally integrated enterprise. IBM Israel employs some 2000 personnel, including at its laboratories in Haifa, which are IBM’s largest laboratories outside the United States. www.ibm.com   Seagate, the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of hard disc drives, recognises that digital video surveillance systems must run 24x7, maximizing the need for storage reliability, capacity and performance. To address these needs, Seagate has developed a portfolio of surveillance-optimised hard drives including SV35 SeriesT, BarracudaR ES and EE25 SeriesT drives. Seagate also provides design and support services matched to the needs of the video surveillance industry. www.seagate.com   www.emc.com   www.wittel.com