Road to Innovation

46th DAC - It's a Wrap!

This year's DAC held in San Francisco's Moscone Center offered exhibitors, customers, and visitors a chance to connect, reconnect, learn about emerging technologies, and discover what's new on the innovation landscape.

Conversation with Dr. Leonard Liu - Augmenting Innovation for a New Global Frontier

Dr. Leonard Liu, Augmentum Chairman and CEO, is a powerful example of the American Dream.

Arriving in America from Taiwan forty years ago with $250 in his pocket, Dr. Liu was able to build a successful career at IBM for two decades, and now heads a company that in four years has grown to a 1,300 person, outsourcing powerhouse for software product and IT application development.

Customers the likes of Intel, Microsoft, and Motorola listen to what Augmentum has to say.

Dr. Liu is poised to raise the bar for himself, once again, by sharing with other U.S. companies how to live and work in two worlds, something he has done successfully for the last three decades.

The Asia America MultiTechnology Association presented its Asia Impact Award to Dr. Liu during its AAMA CONNECT 2007 conference. Given to an individual who stretches convention, identifies and executes on untapped opportunities, and has established a leadership role in his or her community validates the role that he now hopes to take to another level.

Dr. Liu uses the analogy of China as the second chef coming into the kitchen where for decades the U.S. was the only chef. "We need to learn how the second chef works and the second chef must learn how to come into our kitchen."

Now, two chefs have a chance to create exquisite meals together that neither one could do alone. Dr. Liu and his company will continue to augment innovation by building teams that know how to work in this kitchen, in a new way.

Visionary Description: Individuals / organizations representing far reaching change that lies just beyond the horizon