Dan Perley

While work-from-home was never a part of Big-Tech’s plan for workers in your company, they are now being dragged there… This lecture provides a deep historical review of the deplorable state of products optimized for the home workplace and explains how (and why) the technology industry has persistently resisted truly blending personal computing and telephony. This has created a void – a black hole – which everyone will soon be rushing to fill. How can your company position itself for the arrival of home workplace products which actually rise above the trivial level.

The home workplace offers incredible environmental, energy and economic benefits, but the work-from-home movement has the potential to change how we all live and work, not least by creating new electronic commonwealths within a capitalist America - and beyond. Dan leverages his past books, 40 years in IT and a deep knowledge of the true significance of the home workplace now and in the future to expound on where the home workplace will ultimately take us.

Dan was one of the pioneers of the open systems movement and he led the first major multi-vendor server procurement in North America. He details, blow-by-blow, how IBM’s attempts to kill the UNIX operating and the Internet protocol failed resulting in a golden age of competitive technology within the framework of computing and communications standards.