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iRise Hosts Federal Executive Roundtable Breakfast

Working session focuses on streamlining the process of software acquisition, design and delivery for government and industry

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – Apr. 16, 2008 – iRise®, the world’s leading visualization solutions company, today announced that it is hosting an exclusive executive roundtable working breakfast at 7:30am on May 9, 2008 at The Willard Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. that will feature a prestigious set of speakers discussing some of the most pressing issues facing government and industry IT executives.  The “Visualize Before You Modernize” working session will focus on transferring best practices being implemented in the commercial sector that are transforming the way companies specify, acquire and develop mission-critical software applications.

"Visualization, CMMI-ACQ and new approaches to innovation are giving private companies a huge competitive advantage in responding to issues like improving customer experience, predictable delivery and cost control," stated Emmet B. Keeffe III, iRise CEO and co-founder. "Government agencies are poised to take advantage of these best practices for the first time and this working session is the fastest way for these IT executives to gain this insight."

The roundtable will feature a dynamic moderator and four powerful keynote speakers:

• Moderator: G. Martin Wagner, senior fellow, Center for the Business of Government and former chief policy officer for Federal IT Acquisition at the GSA
• Keith Glennan, chief technology officer at Northrop Grumman Corporation - IT Solutions and previously, CIO of Northrop Grumman Corporation, IT sector
• Michael Schrage, senior advisor to MIT’s Security Studies Program; research fellow, MIT Sloan School, Center for Digital Business; and author (“Serious Play: How the World's Best Companies Simulate to Innovate”)
• Dr. Rich Frost, global director for Information Systems and Services, General Motors and senior advisor to the Software Engineering Institute for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ)
• Dr. Gregg Bailey, PhD, CIO, Department of Justice, ATF - OS&T

Topics to be addressed will include:

• Accurately eliciting user-centered application requirements
• Developing an air-tight understanding of technology needs
• Essential attributes of a competitive statement-of-objectives
• How to mitigate risk between the agency and service providers while implementing controls that ensure a successful deployment

Interested parties should visit the following URL for more details and registration information:  http://www.irise.com/summit/washdc_summit_email.php

About iRise
iRise is the world’s leading provider of visualization software for business applications.    Visualization is quickly becoming a critical competitive advantage for businesses to more effectively communicate their needs to technology teams and give everyone involved the ability to fully experience applications before they are built.   Federal agencies, government integrators and commercial companies of all sizes like the Social Security Administration, UPS, Wachovia, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Manpower, CompuCredit, Capgemini and many others use iRise to “test drive” their applications before building, which accelerates time to revenue, improves customer experience and drives costs down.  At iRise, our vision is that by 2020, all business software will be visualized before being built, the same way that every car, airplane and building is visualized today.  Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., iRise is backed by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners and Deutsche Bank and has sales offices across North America.

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Contact:
Jessie Curtner
iRise
(415) 772-0828
jcurtner@irise.com