Ghana Conference on Technology & Outsourcing
12:00 Noon to 4:00 pm, September 25, 2003 Low Memorial Library & Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School, New York

 

12:00 Noon       World Leaders Forum

John Agyekum Kufuor, President, Republic of Ghana
                       

1:00 pm             Reception, Networking

                        Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia Law School

 

2:00 pm Welcome Remarks, Ghana Conference on Technology & Outsourcing

 

2:15 pm Keynote Address

Kojo Ben Taylor, Chief Executive Officer
Symetriq, Inc., Bloomington, Minnesota

2:45 pm In Search of Africa’s Silicon Valley

Yaw Owusu, Chief Executive Officer

                        Ghana Cyber Group, Inc., New York

 

3:00 pm The Future of Outsourcing ~ Case Study: Ghana

Awo Quaison Sackey, President & CEO
AQ Solutions, New Haven, Connecticut

 

3:15 pm Ghana, IT and BPO

Michael Best, PhD
Center for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development, Cambridge, Massachusetts

3:30 pm Call Center in Ghana: Results of a Pilot Project?

Karim Morsli, Chief Information Officer

Rising Data Solutions, Gaithersburg, Maryland

 

3:45 pm An Emerging Market: Technology Challenges

Eric M.K Osiakwan, Chief Operations Officer
Ghana New Ventures Competition Inc., Accra

Nii Simmons, Chairman

Nafricom, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4:00 pm Open Forum

 

4:25 pm Closing Remarks