Conference Program

8:30am - 10:00am

Business Transformation: How Effective CIOs Integrate Culture and Technology
Patricia Shafer, President, Compel Ltd.

Operations Expert? Turnaround Specialist? Innovator? Business Strategist? Technology Visionary? It’s a given that the CIO span of influence and accountabilities have been changing and expanding. Yet, perhaps the greatest opportunity to be an invaluable strategic partner lies ahead . . .

In an era calling for “business transformation,” and with technology being one of today’s most important variables, CIOs and senior technology managers can be the most impactful leaders in an organization. How? . . . The best expand their interests and capabilities to include responsibility for the cultural side of change. They are catalysts - reaching out to internal customers, re-envisioning business processes, communicating in new ways, and training and developing their teams to do the same.
 

Whether you are a CIO currently or aspire to be one, this informative session – incorporating new research and real-life examples - will stimulate ideas for how to be most effective.

Topics covered will include:

• Who’s succeeding at transformation?

• What are the pros and cons of being a “transformational technology leader”?

• When should these approaches be used? When not?

• Where and how do you develop needed mindsets and skills?
  

10:00am - 10:30am - Refreshment Break

10:30am - 11:30am

How to Create Enterprise Value Through Sustainable IT Cost Management
Sumitro Sarkar, Founder, Managing Partner, TechStrategyLabs Inc.

At present IT cost reduction is the most burning issue on the CIO’s agenda.  Research shows that cost-reduction has a cyclical backlash where the cost creeps-up to the same or even a higher operating structure in 2-3 years.  Hence it is imperative to strategically reduce IT cost to gain sustainability on a lower operating cost model for the future, and create enterprise value.

In this session attendees will learn strategies for:

• Various forms of IT cost reduction

• Organizational ramifications of those from a sustainability perspective

• The impact of IT "cost-sensitivities" such as power utilization,  real-estate impacts, bandwidth, software/hardware license costs and  staffing

• Determining an approach to arrive at a lower IT operating cost model

11:30am - 12:30pm

How to Leverage IT to Gain Competitive Advantage in an Uncertain Economy
Moderator: Joel Basgall, Co-Founder & President, Geneca
Panelists:

Dave Kamath, CIO, IDEX Corporation,

 
As the economic outlook continues to be uncertain, the  CIO’s #1 priority is to predictably deliver on commitments that support business strategy. However, CIOs need to learn to balance surviving  the effects of uncertainty without sacrificing the ability to innovate, hold competitive ground, and  bounce back when the money flows back in.
 

As CIO, the worst thing you can do is get so focused on the inevitable cuts that your team can't take the business where it wants to be once the economy turns around.  
 

This presentation looks at new ways CIOs (and their business stakeholders) will be held accountable by their CEOs; why alignment on business objectives is more important than ever; and how to plan not only for the lean times but for the good ones that inevitably follow.

Topics covered:

• Where your company fits in the lead/follow/lag economic cycle and how this impacts your team

• How to achieve greater clarity and alignment on business objectives

• Tough times call for a tough team.  How to know whether you have an A, B, or C performing team and what to do about it

• CFO vs. your business customer – who is your best friend now?

• How to weigh the short- and long-term risks of portfolio cuts to both the business and IT

• How to work more strategically with the business team to accelerate product development and predictably deliver new product offerings and short time fixes.
   

12:30pm - 1:30pm - Luncheon

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Strategic Technology Directions: How to Place the Winning Bets
Jim Vaselopulos, Vice President, PSC Group

With limited budgets, staff, and time, CIO's must be shrewd in selecting the right projects, methods and technologies.  Irrespective of elegance or merit, technologies must be evaluated in the context of business value.
 

In this session attendees will gain:

• A framework and context for identifying the business value of projects and technologies

• Best practices for identifying business project needs and prioritization        

• Lower risk and higher reward methods of project management

• Methods to engage the business in continuing dialogues that foster an IT investment mentality

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Performance Improvement: How to Grow by Subtraction
Moderator: Peter Berg, Territory VP for the Enterprise North, CompuCom Systems, Inc.

Panelists:

Dave Patzwald, CIO, Schneider Electric North America

Michael J. Ouska, CIO, Lutheran Social Services of Illinois,

Yvonne Scott, CIO, Crowe Horwath LLP,

Bruce Massel, Former CIO, Brook Furniture Rental

Getting bogged down by details can preclude your professional growth and that of your staff.   CIOs need to focus on the more strategic issues that help move organization forward and create significant value for the entity as a whole.  As a way to improve performance, many CIOs have found it successful to ‘Shed’ as a way to focus on the finer details and reduce the time and effort spent on items of lesser importance.

In this session, attendees will learn from a panel of enterprise IT CIOs as to the results they have achieved through ‘shedding’.

Questions that will be answered include:

• How much is too much?

• Can we grow through subtraction?

• How do we know when to say ‘no’ ?

• How do empower our staff to say ‘no’ without the fear of being labeled negative?

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Explosive Data Growth: How CIOs are Managing the Challenges
Moderator: Costa Hasapopoulos, VP of Solutions and Products, Hitachi Data Systems

Panelists:
Mason Rotelli, CIO & CTO, Communication Supply Corporation

Mark Horbal, VP, Information Technology, SHC Direct, L.L.C.

John Phillips, Vice President & CIO, Allscripts
 

A leading analyst projects that the amount of information generated by the world is expected to increase 600% by 2010.  Adding to this data complexity are issues of legislation and compliance, environment (reducing carbon footprints in the data center) and business risk versus cost.

With all these issues, how does one get a handle on and prioritize the variety of challenges that exist with limited funds?  And at the same time how do you not stall your efforts in leveraging IT to move the business forward?

In this session, attendees will learn from seasoned CIOs as to how they are addressing data growth challenges that include the following:

• Compliance (archiving/e-Discovery/data discovery)

• Reducing data center/carbon footprint and costs

• Consolidation in the Data Center

• Greening the IT environment (storage economics/virtualization)

• Resilient/HA infrastructure for all that data

• Risk vs Cost
  

What You Will Learn

·          * Business Transformation: How Effective CIOs Integrate Culture and Technology

·          * Enterprise Value: How to Create Enterprise Value Through Sustainable IT Cost Management

·          * Corporate Advantage: How to Leverage IT to Gain Competitive Advantage in an Uncertain Economy

·          * Strategic Business Technology: How to Research and Implement to Drive Corporate Growth

·          * Performance Improvement: How to Grow by Subtraction

·          * Explosive Data Growth: How CIOs are Managing the Challenges

Conference price: $199 per person.

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.