What You Will Learn
In this one day
conference you will learn:
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How to figure
out what the new technologies will do for
your company’s needs
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When will the
new technologies be ripe?
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How to figure
out which technologies to commit to?
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Where to place
your bets?
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How to handle
integration?
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What is the
business impact and what are the business
drivers?
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How to
validate that you have made the right
decision
Conference
Program
8:00am - 9:00am - Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am - 10:00am
|
Vaselopulos |
How to be
Relevant in 2010: Selecting Technologies that
are Business Enablers
Jim Vaselopulos, Vice President, PSC Group,
LLC
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 learn:
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How to
evaluate a list of emerging technologies and
their importance to the business
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An
understanding of what the growth mechanisms
are to your respective business
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Best practices
for clearly identifying business project
needs and prioritization
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How to work
the CIO and IT enablement challenges
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How to
articulate the direct contribution in
business terms to the board, the business
units and IT
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How to
evangelize to the IT organization that their
work on new technologies is an investment to
the business and how they can develop that
mindset
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How to
determine when a new technology is "ripe"
enough for your company's use
10:00am - 10:30am - Refreshment Break
10:30pm - 11:30pm
|
Keen |
Reducing the
Client Burden: How Desktop Virtualization May be
a Game Changer
Michael Keen,
Enterprise Architect, visionapp
Desktop computing
has long been the curse of IT. When
desktop hardware is under users' control (and
not IT), solid management software and lockdown
policies will not preclude support and security
challenges. PCs and laptops are also expensive
to purchase, deploy, maintain, manage and
upgrade.
Desktop
Virtualization may resolve many of these
burdens. The momentum of desktop
virtualization is driven by the following
desires: To reduce computing costs, to increase
IT control, and at the same time enhancing user
productivity.
By reducing the
spend on desktops money can be reallocated to
areas such as IT innovation – which can help
move the organization forward.
In this session
attendees will learn:
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Where desktop
virtualization makes sense
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ROI of desktop
virtualization
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How to
effectively implement the technology
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Limitations of
the technology
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Pros and cons
of the varying types of virtual desktop
technology
11:30am - 12:30pm
|
Ledyard |
Cloud Computing:
Ready for Prime Time or Still a Bit Hazy?
Eric Ledyard, CTO, AHEAD
In the last year
cloud computing has gained tremendous attention
in the industry. Yet, the very definition
of cloud computing depends on who you talk to.
Many organizations are still trying to figure
out what it means to them, what level of cloud
service they may be willing to embrace and what
are the real/tangible benefits. Will
cloud computing present the same challenges that
the outsourcing model of 2000 did?
In this session,
attendees will learn:
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Is cloud
computing ready for large and mid-tier
enterprises?
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If so, who is
embracing it?
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What are the
benefits of a private cloud versus a public
cloud?
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What the
differences are between
Infrastructure-as-a-service, Platform-as-a
service and Software-as-a-service
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Luncheon
1:30pm - 2:30pm
|
Schwan |
Low
Investment/High Yield – Strategies to Make the
Mobile Workforce More Productive
J Schwan, Founder and Managing Partner of
Solstice Consulting
Over the past 5
years, great strides have been made in
mobilizing the workforce's communications
platforms (email, calendaring, contacts, etc.).
With the maturity of the smartphone, the mobile
web and mobile application platforms, there is a
renewed interest in further enabling knowledge
workers by providing them with mobile versions
of their favorite enterprise applications and
services. This discussion will suggest how to
fulfill these needs with with a low
investment/high yield approach that is built on
company's existing (legacy) architecture.
The session will leave the audience with
considerations for a business case for
mobilizing the enterprise, pragmatic insight on
the technologies available, suggestions on which
platforms they should place their bets on, and
practical suggestions on how to get started.
2:30pm - 3:00pm - Refreshment Break
3:00pm - 4:00pm
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Moturu |
New Technology
Integration: Steps for Effective Implementation
Praveen Moturu,
Enterprise Architect, Blue Cross Blue Shield of
Illinois
When evaluating
these new technologies for IT modernization, one
must evaluate how well they can be implemented
with their existing environment technically as
well as how they can lead to business
improvement, cost savings, and new services
being offered to internal users.
In this session,
attendees will learn how to build a plan that
evaluates many new technologies as to how well
they can be implemented in their current
environment.
4:00pm
- 5:00pm
How to Build the
Business Case for New Technology Adoption
Moderator:
Mark Phinick, Regional Manager,
BigFix
Panelists will include:
Bernadette Rasmussen, Chief Enterprise
Architect, Divisional Vice President, HCSC
Sergey Chernov, PMP, Manager,
Enterprise Architecture, NiSource
Iain R. Tilbrook,Chief
Business Analyst, Argonne National Laboratory
Hemant Javeri,
Consultant
Architect, Enterprise Software Solution,
(Contractor, The Northern Trust)
and other professionals from IT
departments
Moving forward
with any large scale IT investment requires
organizations to ask the following questions.
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How will this
improve business processes?
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What is this
going to cost?
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What new
services can be expected to be rolled out?
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What is the
ROI?
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How long will
this take to achieve ROI?
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Can this new
technology lead us down the path of
innovation?
In this session
attendees will learn from IT leaders as to how
they have answered these questions and taken
their organizations to the next level.
Conference price: $219 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)˛, Inc.
Exhibits
As is always the
case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks
will not include product presentations.
During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks,
and the luncheon break you will have the
opportunity to informally meet representatives
from the following sponsoring companies, who
have solutions in the area of the conference.
