Summer Institute 2007

Building Effective Virtual Teams: Tools, Techniques, Best Practices,
and 'Gotchas' for Creating and Leading Distributed Teams

August 1st - August 3rd
Wallenberg Hall, Bldg 160
Stanford University

This intensive workshop focuses on distributed teams in multiple locations, especially off-shored or outsourced teams. New tools and methodologies as well as key research conclusions will be covered for what works and what has been awkward, difficult, or even disastrous. Participants will be expected to share their own approaches, results, and current concerns.

Agenda:

August 1, Connecting Groups

8:30	Registration, Continental Breakfast
9:00	Introductions	Chuck House, Executive Director, Media X at Stanford University
	Expectations, Overview
9:20	Backbone Conferencing
	Lecture Capture, Room Control, and Collaboration	Larry Rowe, PhD, President, FX Palo Alto Research Laboratories
	Alkit Confero Software	Mathias Johansoon, PhD, Alkit Communication
	Distance Learning at Lulea University	Magnus Löfstrand, PhD, Lulea Tekniska Universitet
10:15	Break and Wallenberg Hall Walk-Around	Eric Grant, Stanford University Dan Gilbert, Stanford University
10:45	“War-Room” Visualization for Decision Support	Shui-Ping Hsu, PhD, Director, Futures Lab, Northrop Grumman
11:30	Let's Make Micro-Mobile Teams (Net)work	Patrick A. J. Punte, PhD, MSc, TNO Defense, Security, and Safety
12:15	Lunch and Bus Departs for SUMMIT Tour
12:30	Tour of the facilities and programs developed by SUMMIT at Stanford, and in collaboration with other groups inside and outside of Stanford.	W. Paul Brown, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine Parvati Dev, PhD, Director, SUMMIT, Stanford University School of Medicine
2:00	VR for Personal Expression and Enterprise Teams
	Animating the Archive Using Second Life	Henrik Bennetsen, Director of Research, Humanities Research Center, Stanford University
	A Room of Your Own	Greg Nuyens, CEO, Qwaq Forums
	Media X Works	Martha Russell, PhD, Researcher, Media X at Stanford University, and President, Clickin Research
	3D Virtual Environments in the Enterprise	Cindy Pickering, Principal Engineer, Intel IT Innovation and Research, Collaboratory
	From Facilitating to Creating Collaborations	Piet Hut, PhD , Professor of Astrophysics and Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
4:15	Bus Departs for Tour and Demonstration
4:30	Tele-immersion HP Halo	Rick McGeer, PhD, Scientific Liaison, Hewlett-Packard Company Harlyn Baker, PhD, Senior Scientist, HP Labs
6:15	Bus Departs for Dinner
6:30	Dinner at McArthur Park	Paul Saffo, PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

August 2, What Do You Say When You're Connected?

8:30	Continental Breakfast
8:45	Overview	Chuck House
9:00	Studies of Virtual Environments	Byron Reeves, PhD, H-STAR Institute, Media X at Stanford University
9:45	Optimizing Virtuality--The Unique Affordances of Digital Teams	Jeremy Bailenson, PhD , Stanford University, Director of Virtual Human Interaction Lab
10:30	Break
10:45	Education and Training
	Virtual Law Scholars	Luis Perez-Hurtado, JSD Candidate, Stanford Law School
	Virtual Life	Neerja Raman, Stanford University, Senior Research Fellow, Digital Vision Program; Media X Fellow
	Creating Regional Wealth	Jeff Saperstein, Jeff Saperstein & Associates
12:15	Lunch and Tours of Virtual Human Interaction Lab
1:10	Open Work at Sun	Ann Bamesberger, Director, Sun Microsystems
1:30	Decision Theater—Sustainability Solutions	Deirdre Hahn, PhD, Associate Director, Decision Theater, Affiliated Faculty, Department of Information Systems, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
2:30	Spaces and Collaboration	Matt Taylor, Principal, Taylor Architecture
3:00	Break
3:15	Virtuality Indices	Eleanor Wynn, PhD, Enterprise Architect, Social Computing, Intel Corporation
4:00	The Collapsing Corporation and The Rise of Virtual Distance – What Executive Leadership Needs to Know About the Other Side of Technology	Karen Sobel-Lojeski, PhD, Chief Evangelist Officer, Virtual Distance International, Inc. and Research Director, Institute for Innovation & Information Productivity
4:45	Discussion
5:45	Bus Departs for Dinner
6:00	Dinner at California Café	Howard Rheingold, Author

August 3: Tackling the Intractable

9:00	Continental Breakfast
9:20	Overview and Rapporteur Recaps	Chuck House
	Connecting Groups	Martin Fischer, PhD, Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering
	What do you say?	Renate Fruchter, PhD, Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering
9:50	Catalytic Processes for Prioritizing/Acting	Neil Jacobstein, Chairman & CEO, Teknowledge, Henry Crown Fellow, Aspen Institute; Media X Fellow
10:30	Break
10:45	Discussions and Next Steps	Chuck House
11:00	Tackling the Intractable	Byron Reeves
11:45	Adjourn

Map of Galvez Field

To get to the Galvez Field parking location, please follow these directions:

From Highway 101 North & South:
Take the Embarcadero Road exit west toward Stanford. At El Camino Real, Embarcadero turns into Galvez Street as it enters the university. Turn right at Campus Drive. The entrance to the Galvez Field parking lot will be immediately on your right.

From Highway 280 North & South:
Exit Sand Hill Road east toward Stanford. Continue east, turning right at the traffic light on Arboretum near the Stanford Shopping Mall. Turn right on Galvez Street, then right on Campus Drive. The entrance to the Galvez Field parking lot will be immediately on your right.

From El Camino Real:
Exit El Camino Real at University Avenue. Turn toward the hills (away from the center of Palo Alto). As you enter Stanford, University Avenue becomes Palm Drive. Turn left at the traffic light on Arboretum. Turn right on Galvez Street, then right on Campus Drive. The entrance to the Galvez Field parking lot will be immediately on your right.

For questions, please contact Kathy Lung, Assistant Director of Media X. (650) 723-1616, kathy.lung@stanford.edu