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Enterprise 2000 Symposium, June 23-24, 1994 – IBM International Éducation Centre, La Hulpe, Brussels (Belgium) a page of my Logbook
Enterprise 2000 Symposium, June 23-24, 1994 – IBM International Éducation Centre, LaHulpe, Brussels (Belgium)
Chancellor Helmut Kohl, was a great promoter of Hi-Tec companies, providing means of financing, education, marketing German products and companies world-wide.
We did get plenty of support and promotion, and as a top German Startup in IT (Real Time systems) 1991 for military, industrial, aerospace, he sent us to China. Introduced us to Chinese Space, Telecom, and manufacturers, to build strong backed relationships to increase business for both sides during the 3 weeks long Business Exploration. This was in 1991, and this is reported in another page of my Logbook inside this very Blogger. Continuation of Government (both Federal and Bavarian) support was receiving an invitation to attend the Symposium s below:
“Strategic Analysis of European and Global Management and Technology for Future Business Leadership” by Helmut Schmidt, Former Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany
Symposium consisted of two full days and lectures by th Chancellleur Helmut Schmidt, spaced by question periods and lunches at the IBM HQ. Intensive schedule added to a top content and presentation by Helmut Schmidt and IBM VP Benelux. On the evening of June 23 a gala dinner was called and I was lucky to be invited to the table with Helmut Schmidt. A colegue of mine took a picture with me, my colleague Norber Hauser, the Chancellor and IBM VP Benelux. The picture is signed by H. Schmidt.
Helmut Schmidt became FRD first Defence Minister at the time of East German uprising in 1953. Later he was a very succesfull Finance minister, during the so called German Economic Miracle years (see Ludwig Erhard).
With his great expertise, competence in politics, finances, he created the first InterCouncil with 7 western leaders, which later morphed into a prototype G7 according to him. As an organizer of the Helsinki Accords in 1974 his take on taking in new members from the former Central-Eastern countries while EU placed stringent enrtry cryteria much more rigid and the earlier group 7 years before. When I questioned him "why the entrance hurdles are much higher for ie Hungary that a few years before ie Spain" which was much less industrialized. His response haas us all astonished:"because in 1987 we had our cofferss full of money, and now they are empty, and we could not afford now to pay for upgrade the economy.". Please not that in the bunch accepted was Greece. A wonderfull coutry, but country located 1 hour (GMT minus 2) behind Budapest. Geographically speaking.
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1993 Jan 17-20 - Pacific Telecom Council Conference - page from my Logbook
Page from my Logbook
1993 Jan 17-20 - Pacific Telecom Council Conference
Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii
Part of business development strategy was to expand contact base in the Western Pacific region, so I started visiting my business partner Mr. Min-Woo Nam, an expert in Real Time Computing/Ready Systems from Mr. Jim Ready, a personal friend since 1992. Continuing East to Tokyo, met my Rep there, I did continue further from Narita to Honolulu to attend the PTC conference there. Flying Eastward is saving you one day from your trip, when you cross the Timeline somewhere over the Pacific. Accountants are flabbergasted when you show your travel bills from two places for the “same” day. It happens as i.e. you start from Sydney flying to San Francisco. You pay for your hotel room in the morning and in San Francisco you check in on the same day.
Additional goal was to go, and fly over the Islands and to
obtain a helicopter flying licence from Mr. Ohara, the master instructor there. Most of my adult life there we books, which had made me stop and ponder on of such a books was "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller,
The conference was attended by over a thousand telecom experts from over 45 countries most of interest was South America, Australia, Indonesia, India, China, Korea and Japan. Great networking opportunities, noting various perspectives on the role of standard services plus some very uniquely suited and often already implemented services especially in South American countries with certain leanings like Cuba and or Venezuela. Some became opportunities to participate in projects there like distance education, health sciences etc.
The Second leg to my trip to Hawaii were to get to know a bit the archipelago itself which I was lucky to merge with the third “leg” which was the conclusion to my helicopter pilot licenses, for which theory I did read a priori to my actual visit. With actual flying tests resulted in practically “Island Hopping”, where I would see site for natives, observe various rituals, watch dances and listen to their music. During the flying hours we were able to see i.e. Pearl Harbour from up the Bell-1 helicopter, you see also oil bubbles floating to the sea surface from time to time. In reality seeing the oil bubbles coming out from the depth of the sunken “Arizona” is much more efficient from the Memorial than from hovering above it.
Interesting to me personally was that despite my Sheraton hotel room location 10 floors from ground, local pigeons were readily entering into my room from open door balcony. I have many pictures from this place.
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AUTOBAHN processor press Conference in Tokyo 1996 meets Cryptocurrency - a page from my Logbook
1996 PEP Press Conference in Tokyo- Presenting our new chip processor “Autobahn” the fastest at the time serial communication, following our press Release in Las Vegas.
Ever since I started with VME 3U technology my company was facing serious technologic disadvantage from boards VME 6U of the Big guys like Motorola, Force and others. Their access to motherboard was over 2 (not as in mine one) 98 pin DIN connectors. This need to access other resources connected to Motherboard, gave them double advantage in performance on the Signal level, while our compact, boards were better handling temperatures/heating, and especially shock and vibration resistance thus keeping up the competition away from our fine and uniquely closed market. But after couple of years chewing on the problem, we came with a simple solution: on to motherboard, 2 pins (21 and 23) on the J2 connector were assigned but not used. We decided to use them for signal processing at extremely high clock speed of 3GHz. To avoid creating the crosstalk effect the signal voltage was restricted to 0,5 V.
Prototypes we built, tests were hopeful on a prototype level, Sample chips were produced using old Moto production facility were old VME boards were tested in Munich. Patent was registered with the Munich patent registry in 1995. Small foundry was used in Munich to produce sample batch. Initially Motorola Semiconductors was willing to produce full scale production line. The rules in this business require however that for a production series a Second Source was to be secured, in case short of supplies, for our part PEP was not in the chip business, thus a guy from Munich Stefan Krause was now CEO of our new subsidiary. Every time a new chip design appears on the market a suitable foundry has to be located and contracted to supply the markets, and since the break and or retooling happens a second foundry can take up the production immediately. The preferred foundry was to be Motorola Semiconductors with its CEO, Eric M. Thus, the need to make another pitch to Toshiba in Tokyo. The delegation was assembled with me and Josef Kreidl, a commercial rep from our bank in Munich and one from Zug, Switzerland, plus VITA (VME International Trade Association) CEO Ray Alderman from Phoenix, AZ.
The negotiations with executives at Toshiba were scheduled to take 3 working days excluding one Sunday, which was very nice for a May stroll into the old town and a park, full of prancing school children enjoying their ice cream cones. Oddity to me was that while standing at the ice cream counter it was obvious that the most popular flavour was green tea sorbet, I hated green tee myself. Eric Mass was thirsty, and we stopped at one of those refrigerators like in cantinas where you could get something cold and another dispenser with hot coffee or tea to drink. Eric reached his pocket, pulled out his credit card and ordered a can of "ice tea", guessing the menu completely in Japanese. In a moment we’ve heard the rumble of drink can making its way from the storage and into the chute and finally landed into the pickup tray. Eric reached for the can, picked it up -and dropped in on the gravel in front of the dispenser. To our eyes asking “why” he replied: the can was piping hot!
After reviewing this event, I am still surprised that our market segmentation in the so called West (funny how this applies to Japan), we still use separate dispensers for hot and for cold drinks 25+ years after the event. In the West they stay bulky and would make sore eyes if placed when and where they are needed. The Japanese dispensers are extremely compact (no more than 1cubic meter), being easy on the eyes of passers by.
The presentation for the press conference attracted a good overview of journalists and developers and business personalities, each posing good number of questions highly advanced knowledge of possible use of our Autobahn chip. One of the most challenging questions came from a guy named Satoshi Nakamoto, who asked us challenging questions for over half an hour, before he left, leaving no business card saying he was who apparently has created Bitcoin, the crypto currency and block chain code & applications. Now almost 20 years later the Bitcoin (with its units called satoshi even today) was scrubbed, tested as a legal tender in San Salvador and Iran (payments for child and medical supplies from US), is a scheme promising high returns, no tax jurisdiction for now, etc. Wiki tells us a story of another world’s entity appearing in 2006 (~), who brought Bitcoin to the earthlings. All these may be rumors and require verification.
We have never met again. His email was run on the Dark Internet as per CERN (Switzerland) and my inquiry led me to believe that his invention was removed from the net and rebuilt in elsewhere, for several years, and tested later as mentioned in a paragraph above. This may be a rumor as well.
The Autobahn processor was accepted by developers immediately and requests for specifications arrived at PEP daily. Celebrations at PEP Modular Computers took long time, and we had chance to gather new designs, analyses of responses from coopetitors were no coming as expected.
This is in my view a response from competitors and not coopetitors, who continue using this strategies wo win business. Yet this was long not the end of Autobahn. It gave new and better life for video on powerful processors, often multiprocessors in video, which used to be closely attached to video camera processors. In harsh environment Autobahn enabled placing video camera near the observed event while computer processing that video, was placed at length, enabling observation easy to record and process it back where the computers were protected leaving full processing power at its highest performance. The life of Autobahn processor as the Top speed performer continued after I moved to different fields. Recently I was invited to meet several partners at
American Management Association Conference in London June 25-27 1996
Encouraged by friends and family members, I've decided to record some special moments from my professional life in the form of memoirs. They come like pages, including date, location a schematic, a picture with the person(s) involved and often with some incidental event which accompanied the mail meeting. The provide example, I attended with Urlich Gehrmann (my CFO) an American Management Association, European Chapter in London on June 25-27, 1996. The conference was an excellent venue to meet and to exchange view on various professional subjects. Baroness Thatcher lectured on Management to my great interest and I've met Benjamin Zander (director to The Boston Symphonic Orchestra) with whom we sung the "Ode an die Freude"in German language, from Beethoven 9th Symphony. Till today, I have a signed copy of the text page from Ben.
Incidentally, in parallel another big events run their course also in London. UEFA Euro 1996 tournament was taking place, on the night Germany played England in semifinals, giving 1(6):1(5) a win for the German team. Not paying too much attention to European Football, Ulrich and I were walking to a fine restaurant near our hotel, while he was chatting constantly in German to me, while I was a bit more sensitive to the shouts on the street we were crossing, hearing verbatim "kill the German bas....". The following morning in our hotel, sitting at the breakfast table, browsing morning newspapers we read that a poor Russian Tourist, german speaker, was badly manhandled by bunch of hooligans.
The blog has lost its original meaning and timeliness, but it may be a good venue bring those stories and share them.
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