NGP has elected 60 of the most well respected Clinical and Drug Development decision makers in the US pharmaceutical and biotechnology space. The delegation is flown on behalf of NGP to the summit on an invitation-only basis and invitations are based on the level of responsibility of the delegate as well as the investments these executives are currently making to drive the industry forward.

To know more about this event, visit http://www.ngpsummit.com/clinical/whyattend.asp

Cognizant is a Platinum sponsor to the Information Week 500 Conference and Gala Awards. InformationWeek is currently accepting nominations on the practices of the nation's most innovative IT organizations for this program until April 30, 2008. To make the list, a company must demonstrate a pattern of technological, procedural, and organizational innovation.

For more information about this event, please visit http://www.informationweek.com/iw500/2008/faq.jhtml

Cognizant is a proud sponsor at The Next Generation Utilities: Technology Summit, a three day critical information gathering bringing together C-level technology executives from leading electricity utilities from North America and Europe. Held at a The Boulders Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona, the Summit will address the key challenges keeping technology decision makers “up at night” in this volatile utilities climate.

To know more about this event please visit: http://www.ngusummit.com/

All: Thank you for your overwhelming response for the first phase of Cognizant’s Boardroom 2008 Contest. We are happy to announce the 15 teams that make it to the semifinals of the contest. We will get in touch with the short listed teams separately.

Cognizant is an exhibitor at Oracle OpenWorld 2008. Oracle OpenWorld 2008 is the world's largest event dedicated to helping enterprises understand and harness the power of information. Connect with the people, products, and trends at the forefront of business and information technology in San Francisco. Attendees at this event will experience the latest in Oracle applications, technologies and solutions.

More than 41,000 attendees will visit more than 450 Oracle partners displaying the latest products in two Exhibition Halls with increased access to partners and demos. Over 1400 sessions across all Oracle applications, technology, industries and solution areas are planned in 2008 including 400 live demos for product experts.

Please visit the Cognizant exhibit #3510 to learn more about IT solutions

Cognizant is a proud Supporting Sponsor at the 11th Annual Chemical Industry IT Forum. If you are a chemical company CIO, CTO, or senior IT manager, then you will not want to miss this information packed conference specifically designed to focus on leveraging IT to address the global challenges and opportunities facing the chemical industry. Crafted from Chemical Week’s vast editorial knowledge and unique insights, and peer group intelligence, this conference will give you a depth and scope of content you will not find at other events. Hear from experts about the latest technology innovations, understand the best solutions for integrating IT across organizations and borders, gain insights into the latest trends in outsourcing, discover best practices for protecting your intellectual property, and network with industry executives and share experiences with your peers. Includes presentation of the annual Chemical Week CIO of the Year Award.

For more information on this event, please visit http://www.chemweek.com/IT08/

Cognizant is a Platinum Sponsor at the Initiate Exchange in Scottsdale, AZ. Initiate Exchange (formerly theHub Live) is the user conference dedicated to Initiate customers, prospects and partners. At Initiate Exchange, you will find 2 full days of education, networking and activities designed to help you make the most of your Initiate software. Learn best practices, see new products, and hear about industry innovations from independent industry leaders, your peers and Initiate experts. This invaluable face-to-face interaction enables you to gain strategies and tactics that can be quickly implemented in your environment.

For more information on this event, please visit http://www.initiatesystems.com/news_events/events/Pages/InitiateExchange.aspx

Join Cognizant at STARWEST 2008 where they are a Platinum level sponsor. At STARWEST you will immerse yourself in a world of learning, networking, and career growth opportunities. There is the opportunity to build your own conference to fit your testing role, skill level, and software environment. Learn about new products, timely issues, and cutting-edge testing solutions. Choose from in-depth Preconference Tutorials structured in a daylong format to provide practical information about specific testing issues and challenges. Attend the Keynote Presentations on a variety of testing topics given by international industry experts from a range of backgrounds. And select from Concurrent Sessions packed with information covering critical testing issues giving new real-world approaches to solving them for the beginner to advanced testing professional.

For more information about this event, please visit http://www.sqe.com/StarWest/Attend.aspx

Cognizant Green Office BPM solution helps organizations relook at their current business processes to conserve and minimize the environmental impact by digitizing and automating paper-based processes. Get to hear on the use of BPM in a paperless office scenario, not just from the standard efficiency and cost reduction angle but through a green lens as well. It proposes a holistic approach to measure & assess the waste footprint of an organization’s paper based processes.

To register for the webinar: http://searchcrm.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1222200957_743.html?src=wc_scrm_Cognizant_10_01_08_c&li=101586

Cognizant is proud sponsor at Cross-Channel Retail Executive Summit 2008. Combining a premier executive resort setting with an agenda focused on strategic business and technology imperatives in the world of cross-channel retailing, the 2008 Summit will provide strategic content and outstanding opportunities for peer-to-peer relationship-building for our invitation-only audience of senior retail and e-tail executives from the most successful cross-channel merchants in the world.

For more information about this event, please visit http://www.risnews.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=5AD28581357D428F8E65265B9377FDC5&nm=&type=WebTitle&mod=WebTitles& mid=DD35BDEB326347298C16B515B4CB888F& tier=3&id=A79CE6D4E22C4E8F9EF30B5AAF00ED5A& PageId=6ED3953D38904ADD8D9DB061789AF702.

'Integrating the shop floor with the top floor'

Cognizant is proud to be Lead IT-Services Sponsor at EMS in Düsseldorf. This networking event will deliver answers to the key questions affecting all manufacturing industries across the globe. The four days event begins with a choice of advanced manufacturing tours which take place in Leipzig BMW’s production plant and DHL’s Air hub.

Attend Cognizant's entry speaking session about 'Shop floor integration' on day one at 1:40 pm on Conference room 2 and learn how a smooth integration between your plant floor and the enterprise information systems can be established.

To know more about the event visit http://www.ems-summit.com/

The First Annual International SOA Symposium is a conference dedicated to SOA practitioners, consisting of the top SOA experts and authors from around the world, providing a series of talks, demonstrations, panels, and SOA training and certification workshops. This event will be headlined with an opening keynote by Thomas Erl, the world's top-selling SOA author and editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series. The conference agenda consists of 70 speaker sessions across 11 tracks, covering a range of topics from business-related issues to highly technical aspects of SOA.

Cognizant’s own SOA expert, Steve Ross-Talbot, will be speaking at the event. Steve will be speaking during the SOA & Industry track at the conference, and his presentation will be on “SOA and Offshoring; Testable Architectures”.

For more information on the conference, please visit http://www.soasymposium.com/default.asp.

Sand Hill Group and Cognizant invite you to an Executive Breakfast Briefing and CIO panel discussion on "SaaS: Seize or Cease" on Oct 8, 2008 from 7:30 am - 10:00am at the Four Seasons Palo, Alto. Hear about SaaS market trends from McKinsey & Company and gain real-world insight into SaaS business-technology opportunities and challenges during a “no-holds barred” CIO panel discussion moderated by M.R.Rangaswami, the well-known industry expert and publisher of SandHill.com.

M.R's panelists include:

• Doug Harr, CIO, Ingres Corporation

• Dave Watson, CIO, MedeFinance

• George Lin, CIO, Dolby Laboratories

To register to attend this event, please go to http://now.cognizant.com/content/SAAS.

Cognizant is proud to associate with InformationWeek Webcast which will explore business process outsourcing as a vehicle for strategic change. Using recent InformationWeek Analytics research, this event will quantify the extent to which companies take a strategic approach, specific areas they’re seeking strategic change, and obstacles to making the leap from a tactical lens (e.g., pure cost cutting) to strategic thinking such as transforming processes or increasing revenue.

Please Join InformationWeek Senior Executive Editor, Chris Murphy, Everest Research Institute Vice President Katrina Menzigian, and Cognizant’s Vice-President of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Business Consulting (CBC), Kaushik Bhaumik.

To register for this Webinar click here https://www.techwebonlineevents.com/ars/eventregistration.do; jsessionid=D7A71EF8DEDDFAAD6CE599C20585153D.tomcat1? mode=eventreg&F=1001141&subscriptiontype=online%20event&K=1AA1H1

Cognizant is a Gold sponsor. More than 600 attendees, vendors and visionaries are expected to attend this event. Attendees will include Project Leadership, Program Manager, CTOs, CCOs, CIOs, VPs of BI, Customer Contact Center Directors and Managers, CRM Managers, Enterprise Data Architects, Data Warehouse, Customer Service and much more.

Ask your Cognizant Account Representative; how you can get a free conference pass to attend. For more information about this event, please visit http://mdm-summit.com/

Cognizant is the Diamond sponsor at the PegaWORLD Agility ‘08 in Washington, D.C. on October 19-21, 2008. With “Pegasystems Partner Excellence” award for 2004 and 2005 and “Pegasystems System Integrator Partner of the Year” award for 2006 and 2007 to our credit, Cognizant will showcase its top-of-the-line solutions in PRPC, PegaWorks-to-PRPC migrations, enhancements, upgrades, solution framework development and implementation services at this event.

To know more information on the event, visit http://www.pegaworld2008.com/?PageID=registration

Get to know more about Cognizant at this conference. Write to events@cognizant.com for more details.

Cognizant is a gold sponsor of the Forrester Services & Sourcing Forum. Approximately 300 Enterprise executives who drive sourcing decision and investments will attend this year’s conference.

Join Cognizant at this two-day educational, networking event to strengthen your approach to sourcing and to learn best practices to drive bottom-line results.

Stop by the Cognizant stand #G2 and don’t miss Cognizant’s speaker session on Thursday, October 23^rd at 3:10 PM.

For program details visit http://www.forrester.com/events/eventdetail?eventID=2246 or contact your Cognizant Account Manager for details.

Join Cognizant at the CDISC 2008 International Exchange, on October 26-31, 2008, in Arlington, VA. Sunil Agarwal of Cognizant will be presenting on ICH Gateway - SDTM and E2B Standards Integration Tool, on the afternoon of Wednesday Oct 29^th. The CDISC International Exchange is a collaborative event to share progress, implementation experiences, and strategic ideas on worldwide data interchange standards for clinical research. Stop by and visit Cognizant at booth number 12.

For more information on this event, please visit, http://www.cdisc.org/events/interchange.html

Join more than 150 top industry experts, thought leaders, and partners to discuss innovative solutions to insurance industry challenges at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, October 27 - 29, 2008.

Where Innovation and Collaboration Meet
A variety of education sessions conducted by your peers and industry experts will focus on best practices for competitive differentiation and profitable business growth – enabling you to:

• Explore best practices across the insurance value chain
• Discuss today's challenges and opportunities in the insurance industry
• Learn practical and proven approaches to innovation
• Address issues across all lines of business
• Engage in true dialog during event sessions and special networking opportunities

You'll also hear about the latest developments from SAP and have an opportunity to participate in expert sessions and system demonstrations. Click here to view the agenda!

Learn more about the SAP Americas Insurance Forum 2008.

The conference aims to provide a platform for the community of Software Quality Managers and Software Testers through 2 day presentations, seminars and interactive workshops.

Visit Cognizant at booth E6 to know more on the Testing services offered. For more information and registration, visit https://www.sqs.de/sqs_conferences/registration_au.htm

Cognizant is a sponsor of the CIO | 09 The Year Ahead. Join Cognizant and you’ll have the opportunity to hear from and exchange ideas with your peers, thought leaders, industry luminaries and recognized leaders at this highly interactive and thought provoking event. We'll meet and talk with the inductees and current CIO Hall of Fame members, some of the most revered and recognized members of the CIO community.

Other CIO special activities may include a Golf Tournament, Executive Council Open House and a Dinner Celebration and CIO Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.

For more details visit http://public.cxo.com//conferences//index.html?conferenceID=29

For more information about this event, please visit http://www.simnet.org/Programs/SIMposium/About/tabid/74/Default.aspx

Cognizant will be participating in Eurostar for the third year in a row, as a Platinum Sponsor. For well over a decade now the EuroSTAR conference has been the most successful and widely acknowledged gathering of European software testing professionals, and for most people, the premier training and education event on the testing calendar. The theme of this years's conference is 'The Future of Software Testing'.

Visit us at Booth 15-16 to check out the future of software testing happening today! For more information on this event, please visit http://www.qualtechconferences.com/?id=2

Cognizant is a gold sponsor of the Forrester Services & Sourcing Forum entitled, “Sourcing on the Fault Lines: Creating Value in a Volatile World.”

Join Cognizant at this two-day forum designed specifically for sourcing and vendor management professions who affect the funding and sourcing of technology investments. At this program, attendees will learn how to successfully acquire and manage the right resources to help their firm achieve its business goals in an uncertain market.

More than 200 Enterprise executives, CIOs, Senior IT Managers and Technology Strategy professionals from Software and Tech Services, Manufacturing, Business Services, Financial Services and Communications will be in attendance.

Visit http://www.forrester.com/events/eventdetail?eventID=2232 for program information or contact your Cognizant Account Manager for details.

Cognizant will be participating as a Platinum sponsor in this event, which is rapidly becoming THE premier conference and networking event for CIOs in the Benelux region – and beyond! The theme of this year’s event is 'What leads to High Performance (Information)?' Today’s business requires a high and almost superior quality of performance in order to survive the competitive and globalising business environment. What does this mean for IT decision makers? What challenges do they face? These questions will be the main theme during the fourth CIO Day. Sub themes are: Leadership development, IT & Talent management, Business & IT Alignment, Transformation, Globalisation, Innovation, Collaboration and Culture.

Malcolm Frank, Cognizant’s Senior VP Marketing and Strategy, and internationally recognized thought leader, will be participating in the conference’s plenary session. To find out more about this event, please visit http://www.cioday.com/

Join Cognizant at display #751 where more than 15,000 attendees from more than 42 countries will be attending the NRF Retail’s Big show 2009. Fortune 500 CEOs, CFOs, VP and buyers representing major chains will participate in keynotes, working sessions and exhibits covering all aspects of retailing from technology and merchandising strategies to marketing and store design.

For more details on NRF’s Big show, visit http://events.nrf.com/annual09/public/enter.aspx

HIMSS Summit 2008 was a record-breaking year for the conference, with more than 28,400 attendees and 900 exhibitors. Stimulating speakers presented more than 300 educational sessions, thought-provoking keynotes addressed leading issues, and connections were made among physicians, nurses, administrators, pharmacists, payors and other key players in healthcare IT.

Don’t forget to mark your calendar for HIMSS09, which will take place in Chicago, Illinois, April 4-8, 2009 and get to visit Cognizant at this premier Senior IT Leadership program in North America. For more details visit http://www.himssconference.org/

For more information about this event, please visit : www.iirusa.com/cropartners/conference-exhibitors.xml