CIO Summit Agenda
October 23-25, 2012

Networking Opportunities & Session Breaks

Executive Exchange

CIO Keynote Presentation

CIO Focus Group

A visionary speaker addresses the entire summit audience on a topic determined by the CIO Content Committee.

Led by a vendor, these sessions allow executives to discuss business drivers within a particular area of technology. Presentations are 15-20 minutes followed by 10-15 minutes of Q&A.

CIO Executive Visions

Analyst Q&A Session

A panel of IT executives has an in-depth discussion on a critical IT business topic. Audience members have an opportunity to pose questions to the panelists and moderator.

A high-impact, open-forum session covering the latest technology research and led by a member of our analyst partner community.

CIO Thought Leadership

Vendor Showcase

Led by a member of the vendor community, these sessions will provide an overview of cutting edge technology topics and pressing business concerns.

Presented by a member of the vendor community, these sessions are divided into three 10-minute long elevator pitches on the newest technology solutions and services.

CIO Think Tank

CIO Case Study

Focusing on a specific topic or initiative, these interactive, open-forum style sessions allow the attending 15-20 executives to discuss best practices and have lively debates.

Learn about recent technology implementations from the IT executives who drove the projects at their organizations. Presentations are followed by Q&A sessions.

CIO/CTO Roundtable

CIO Open Forum Luncheon

An interactive, focused session led by either an analyst, industry expert or member of the vendor community.

Led by a moderator, these sessions allow attendees to have informal discussions on pre-determined technology topics.

Day 1, October 23rd, 2012 - CIO Summit

Registration & Greeting to the CIO Summit

12:20pm - 1:20pm

Networking Luncheon

1:25pm - 2:25pm

Opening CIO Keynote Presentation

Creating an IT Foundation for Business Innovation

Modern organzaitions need to strategically leverage technology to rapidly create and deliver innovative business solutions and directly contribute to the business' success. These achievements require re-engineering traditional ways in which IT operates. In this session, we will outline several of the principles, practices and solutions required to create and continually advance its technological foundation for business innovation.

2:35pm - 3:05pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Getting What You Want Out of Your Relationship (With Your Cloud Provider)

Security, trust, and dependability: all traits we often associate with getting into a new relationship. But these are also important attributes we should expect from cloud providers. And while they appear to be two completely different topics - at their core - jumping to the cloud and starting off a relationship have more parallels than one could ever imagine. From the non-negotiables to the must-haves, this sesion will help you lay the ground rules so you know what to ask for from a cloud provider.

3:10pm - 3:40pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Business Beneficial User Experience Platform Using Open Source

User experience focuses on enhancing the productivity (and experience) of internal and external users, providing a single window to information across Enterprise Applications, including ERP, ECM, CRM, Learning Management etc.

This session will be an insightful discussion around open source technologies addressing the CIO's need to align individual, departmental and corporate goals, with user experience as the key to improving organizational productivity.

3:45pm - 4:15pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Lessons in IT Transformation

Most IT executives are experienced managers of technology projects and services. Many are knowledgeable about their companies' products and services and the markets they compete in. However the skills in human dynamics and communication required to transform an organization are not taught in business school and often do not come naturally to many IT executives.

This session is aimed at helping IT executives develop the human elements of IT leadership which are critical for transformational success as well as learn some new ways to communicate strategy.

CIO Think Tank

IT Shared Services

IT shared services goes beyond centralization to recast IT from a cost-center to a powerful support system for business imperatives and general productivity. The concept of IT shared services emphasize efficiency without redundancy, and allow enterprises to gain flexibility on their future sourcing options for delivering IT services globally.

This open-forum session will discuss how organization can achieve major cost savings by consolidating and standardizing IT operations. By aiming for a market-level standard of quality, IT shared services can sustain and build on those improvements while providing greater customer services.

4:20pm - 4:50pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Engage Better, Adapt Better, Decide Better, Operate Better

This session will discuss strategies, customer insights and cool innovations from the frontline of technology.

4:55pm - 5:25pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Harnessing a Game-Changing Asset

In 2011, it was estimated that 99% of all organization experienced an increased amount and complexity of data. This session will discuss strategies, trends and expert opinions focusing on why some top organizations are able to successfully extract insight from the "big data" they collect. We will also discuss why many more struggle to put all of their valuable data to good use.

Topics to be discussed:

5:30pm - 6:30pm

Cocktail Reception

6:30pm - 10:00pm

Evening Entertainment
& Networking Dinner

Day 2, October 24th, 2012 - CIO Summit

7:30am - 8:15am

Networking Breakfast

8:20am - 9:20am

CIO Executive Visions

How to Ensure an Efficient Communication of IT Security Issues to Non-IT Employees

This session will be an invigorating discussion around the task to communicate a basic-to-moderate level and understanding of IT security risk to non-IT staff, and strategies for how to encourage your employees to take more accountability when dealing with IT security issues.

9:25am - 9:55am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Harnessing Mobility and the Cloud, Securely

The rapid proliferation of mobile devices in the enterprise coupled with the easy, anytime, anywhere availability of the cloud has created new avenues for increased collaboration and productivity for employees. Though productivity gains can be substantial, so are the potential information risks posed by employee installed consumer/prosumer cloud products.

Attend this presentation where we'll discuss how IT is addressing these questions and learn how you can build a comprehensive approach that covers mobile, cloud, and the enterprise within a secure and compliant infrastructure that doesn't impede on the ease-of-use and access expectations of employees.

10:00am - 10:30am

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Transformational Leadership - Making Good Ideas Happen

Transformational leadership + innovative ideas vs. established institutional processes - how can they co-exist and deliver results in a timely manner?

10:35am - 11:05am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Smarter Working:
A View of the Future of Work and Collaboration

Today we are connected almost every moment we're awake. Telecommuting and flexible schedules have made 9-to-5 a distant memory. We collaborate with people across the country, or around the globe, working across borders and time zones. We communicate in all kinds of environments - airport terminals, hotel lobbies, train stations, at home and even from the car on our way to the office. Brilliant technological innovations are enabling anytime, anywhere, can do attitudes to work. As humans we continue to share the basic instinct and need of communication: to hear and be heard.

11:05am - 11:20am

Networking Break

11:25am - 11:55am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Transformational Digital Marketing Services

Today's companies, especially those with consumer oriented business models, need to meet market challenges by focusing on the most efficient and results-driven marketing strategies to grow and retain their consumer base. With the advent of social media, smartphones and tablets, the Digital Marketing is ever expanding its scope and reach. It has become equally, if not more, critical like traditional media such as Print, Radio and TV to overall marketing strategies. All of these new additional channels of digital marketing present a serious challenge for the Marketing and IT divisions to come up with a suitable strategy and approach.

In this presentation, we will discuss how the CIOs can help their organization to devise a comprehensive approach that transforms digital marketing services to adapt to present day opportunities and challenges.

12:00pm - 12:30pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Mobile Enterprise Application Development - What Are My Options?

The presentation will cover the various options available to develop and deploy mobile enterprise applications in the enterprise. The following alternatives will be compared and contrasted from the perspective of time-to-market, cost of development and ease of management:

12:35pm - 1:35pm

Networking Luncheon

1:40pm - 2:10pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Reduce Costs, Build Community with Unified Communications

Companies today are facing a mobile workforce and increasing demands for real-time communication options that strain their communications infrastructures. Consolidation, acquisitions, and new business needs pose significant challenges as IT tries to integrate disparate communication solutions and enterprise technologies into a cohesive communication foundation. Learn how Aspect, a company faced with multiple, disparate environments was able to quickly move to a single, unified communications solution and create a truly collaborative global culture. This session will address the drivers for unified communication, the process of achieving enterprise-wide collaboration, the insights learned from users along the way and the impact across and within departments of the implementation.

2:15pm - 2:45pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Real-Time Data Analytics

It's not just the sheer volume of data that challenges our businesses, but the complexity of the analysis we require when the information has been collected. Many of the popular analytics tools have limitations in what and how much they can measure. Long processing time, data limits, data sampling, segment limitations, table size limits, data source limits, and closed schemas are things of the past. Modern businesses need massive scalability, flexibility, and an open architecture that can analyze "big data" in real-time.

This session will discuss the advantages and limitations of real time data analytics. Including the question if the exponentially more efficient way the new tools can process data really means that results are actually available sooner?

CIO Think Tank

The Marketing Technology Collision

The worlds of the CIO and CMO are coming closer together every today, and technology is driving the majority of marketing efforts. In this new data driven world, the CIO and CMO are either best friends, or competing for overlapping areas of responsibility and delivery. Data is the new domain of both IT and marketing, and the CMO and CIO need to collaborate to deliver solutions to the business. Data and the Cloud are challenging the CIO and giving the CMO tools and data in volumes that require new, powerful and sophisticated tools to measure, manage, interrogate and analyze data. Connected commerce and the collision between all media types and marketing and IT are creating opportunities and challenges that we can all exploit for greater business value.

2:50pm - 3:20pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

The Benefits of Operating Efficient and Effective Data Centers

How can you avoid making major mistakes when operating and maintaining your data center? The key lies in the methodology behind your operations and maintenance program. Now more than ever, companies must realize the importance of a sustainable operations program. To achieve operational sustainability, organizations must act quickly to assess their current programs and begin building an operational methodology that avoids common mistakes. A complete program integrates people, processes, and systems in a manner that promotes quality assurance and continuous improvement.

This presentation will review the top 5 mistakes that companies make when implementing operations and maintenance programs and deliver a road map of the key components a proper program should have including a demonstration of the negative business impact of not having a component! Join us learn how to make your data center run more efficient and effective!

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Search Engines - Next Generation Big Data Business Intelligence and Decision Service

The largest "Big Data" Repository today is the Internet. If we use Search Engines to tame the Internet, can these same engines be used to tame our corporate transactional data? Usually considered useful for only search within content portals; these Engines are capable of ingesting our corporate transactional data for sophisticated analytics, predictive models, agile software services, and real time BI analytics.

This session will discuss how to use a Modern Search Engine to simplify it's service oriented decisioning, reduce the SDLC for transactional systems, make BI more accessible to knowledge workers, and drive high impact ROI.

CIO Thought Leadership

One Identity Service, Many Initiatives: How Identity Virtualization Saved Time, Money and Hassle at Intel Corporation

We continuously strives for processes that promote business enablement more quickly and intelligently. However, most organizations found themselves repeating the same time-consuming and costly customization process for each new identity management initiative. Issues such as identity silos and array of applications, demanded an adaptable, scalable solution that can aggregate, reuse and transform data for any identity initiative. This session will share how deploying an identity service based on virtualization may allow the IT team to jump from servicing three projects annually to ten projects annually - without increasing cost.

4:40pm - 5:40pm

CIO Executive Visions

eBusiness Strategies for a New Mobile World

Historically, companies have developed digital user interfaces based on assumptions about computer screen size, browser versions, input, and processing capability. These assumptions can no longer be taken for granted. Mobility is more than smartphones. The emergence of new connected devices, such as tablet computers like Apple's iPad or Samsung Galaxy tablet, will create additional options for media consumption anytime and anywhere.

This closing executive panel discussion will examine mobility and associated considerations when updating and developing future versions of your ebusiness strategy. Modern executives need to refresh and review their company ebusiness strategy in light of the changes in the mobile space, driving investment in application landscapes and decide what is fit for this new future.

5:40pm - 6:00pm

Concluding Remarks & Takeaways

6:00pm - 10:00pm

Farewell Dinner & After Dinner Networking