CIO Summit Agenda

Day 1: Sunday, November 7

6pm - 7pm

Welcome Cocktail Reception

7pm - 9.45pm

Welcome Address presented by Master of Ceremonies

Master of Ceremonies: Dick LeFave - Independent Telecommunications/IT Professional, D&L Partners, LLC & Former CIO Sprint/Nextel

Welcome Gala Dinner + Keynote Speech

Day 2: Monday, November 8

7am - 8am

Breakfast Networking Reception & Collection of Final Itinerary

8.10 - 8.50

CIO Keynote Presentation

CIOs In Transition: The Shift from Cost Saver To Value Provider

9.00 - 9.30

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Transformational Leadership

Making the transition from technology manager to business executive is often a challenge for many IT professionals. Organizations now require a new level of leadership from their IT executives. Technology is no longer a utility to leverage information, but a true business enabler. This session will focus on the skills required to transform an underperforming IT organization into a world class IT business leader. It will touch upon the mindset, skills and qualities required to not only to become a transformational leader, but to develop a culture of leadership, which will ensure long term sustainability.

Presented by: Larry Bonfante, CIO, US Tennis Association

CIO Think Tank

How to Accurately Monitor, Measure and Demonstrate the Value of IT to the Business

9.35 - 10.05

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought-Leadership

How to Build a Private Cloud and Deliver IT as a Service

Today’s common IT infrastructures have become far too complex and uncompromising. CIOs need to support critical business projects. However, with more than 70 percent of their time and money spent on IT maintenance, it becomes a question of, “How do we create flexibility and reduce complexity while still maintaining control, security and governance of the company’s assets?” Enter private cloud computing.

This session will break down the inhibitors that can keep CIOs awake at night and focus on the value that Private Cloud Computing can bring to your business. Points of discussion include:

10.45 - 11.10

'Wired' Networking Break + Analyst Q&A Session

11.15 - 11.45

Executive Exchange

CIO Case Study

The Virtualization Journey at Allegis Group

The Allegis Group began virtualizing their data center more than 5 years ago, an easy business decision considering the need to save money on data center space and power, as well as the fact that the amount of data center space is decreasing. This session will take you through the Allegis Group’s implementation successes and challenges, including how it transformed the organization’s strategy, goals and objectives in the IT department. The journey changed the organization’s whole concept of what the data center should look like.

Presented by Kevin Apperson, CIO, Allegis Group

CIO Think Tank

The Importance of Intelligent Data to the Enterprise

A VP at a $4.3 billion/year freight and logistics company will share insight on the importance of data utilization to its business, and how their information management and data analytics strategy helped them achieve;

Presented by: Sean Devine, VP, Pricing and Engineering, Con-way Freight

11.50 - 12.20

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought-Leadership

Information Management Strategies: The Path to Making Smarter, Analytical-based Decisions

CIO Case Study

Getting Lean, Staying Lean

CIO Think Tank

ERP Transformation

Presented by: Raj Ramasamy, CIO, Thales Group

1.00 - 2.00

VIP Luncheon + CIO Open Forum (Invitation Only)

Lessons in Leadership

CIOs are reacting to federal incentives and organizational demands by accepting the status quo.  Not every project needs to be leading edge or impose risk - however, more and more the strategy is to simply follow the trends.  If we as CIOs do not push innovation - who will?  Leaders or Lemmings?

Presented by: Marc Probst, CIO, Intermountain Healthcare

2.05 - 2.35

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought-Leadership

Virtualization & Cloud Computing Security

When deploying virtualization or a public or private cloud environment, a variety of factors can cause concern and ultimately inhibit speed of adoption. This session will identify and discuss the following:

• Securing dormant and in use virtual machines
• Reducing the complexity of your virtual security landscape
• Mitigating cloud security risks
• Navigating policy management guidelines through IT governance

2.40 - 3.10

Executive Exchange

CIO Case Study

IT Consolidation through Virtualization

This session will discuss the lessons learned during San Francisco’s government data center & IT consolidation effort.

Presented by: Richard Robinson, COO & Director Enterprise Operations for the Dept. of Technology for the City and county of San Francisco

CIO Think Tank

Creating a Successful Oracle & SAP Roadmap

3.15 - 3.45

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought-Leadership

Leveraging Unified Communications & Collaboration to Drive Workforce Transformation

3.50 - 4.20

Executive Exchange

CIO Focus Group

Prepare for the Upturn

During the recovery, there will be no going back to business as usual. This session will focus on what actions a CIO can take to position their enterprise to take advantage of the economic upturn. Areas of discussions and debate include:

• How can CIOs avoid the mistakes made by others who were unprepared for a recession
• How can CIOs transition their technologies from owner-operated solutions to lighter-weight services
• The art of creating recession-proof relationships with your business partners
• How to stop managing resources and start focusing on managing results

Moderated by: Dick LeFave - Independent Telecommunications/IT Professional, D&L Partners, LLC & Former CIO Sprint/Nextel

4.25- 4.55

Executive Exchange

CIO Focus Group

Best Practices for Selecting a Business Process Management Suite

An open forum discussion led by a solution provider.  
This session will look at the key business drivers CIOs face when implementing a sophisticated BPM suite.

5.00 - 6.00

Keynote CIO Executive Visions

How to Get the Most from Sourcing and Vendor Relationships

This panel of experts will share insight on how to improve your sourcing and vendor management, inspire innovation and collaborate with your business partners, as well as explore disruptive technologies that can add value in tough market conditions.

Moderated by Dick LeFave - Independent Telecommunications/IT Professional, D&L Partners, LLC & Former CIO Sprint/Nextel

Panelists:
Jacki Beretta, CIO, Con-way Freight

6.00 - 7.00

Cocktail Reception & Networking

7.00 - 9.30

9.30 - 10.30

Cheese & Wine Tasting

Day 3: Tuesday, November 9

7.30 - 8.30

Networking Breakfast & CIO Debate Group

E-mail in the Cloud: The Key Decision Points

8.40 - 9.20

CIO Keynote Presentation

From Cloud to Virtualization to Client - The Cloud Computing Value Journey

9.30 - 10.00

Executive Exchange

CIO Focus Group

Project Portfolio Management

CIO Case Study

Is the Receptionist Better Connected Than You?

This session is an in-depth look at how to build an effective team using organizational network analysis.

Presented by Micki Nelson, CIO, MWH Global

10.05 - 10.35

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

The Compliance and E-discovery Challenge

In the midst of regulatory change, CIOs need to keep their businesses agile as well as be able to absorb and respond to new laws by implementing effective compliancy mandates that can be swiftly monitored and reported. Whether deploying a standalone search-based compliance or embedding it within your compliance suite, this session will demonstrate the tangible value that CIOs can achieve in their quest to govern data and stay compliant.

10.40 - 11.10

Executive Exchange

CIO ROI Take-away

How to Increase Application Acceleration and Enable IT Consolidation While Eliminating the Need to Increase Bandwidth, Storage or Servers

This exclusive session will present the raw business facts on how companies can save money, time, and resources, as well as achieve greater productivity from their IT infrastructure and applications. Whether deploying cloud-based services, CRM/ERP, server virtualization or just plain old infrastructure upgrades, WAN Optimization presents you, the CIO, the right business case in transitional times.

11.15 - 11.35

VIP Networking Break + Analyst Q&A Session

11.40 - 12.10

Executive Exchange

Quick-Fire Q&A with the Analysts

Social CRM – The Next Generation of Customer Innovation

Quick-Fire Q&A with the Analysts

Apple.......In the Enterprise?

12.15 - 12.45

Executive Exchange

Vendor Showcase

Data Loss Prevention: How to Protect Your Customers Data and Ensure Compliant Data Policies Across Your Enterprise

Vendor Showcase

Application Lifecycle Management

VIP Luncheon + Networking + CIO Open Forum Discussion

The Ever-changing Role of the CIO

This open forum will address how CIOs need to transform their role from an IT Cost Center Manager to a C-Suite Partner who leverages IT to drive top-line revenue and sustainable business value.

Moderated by Terry Morgan, ex-CIO, Delhaize Group

CIO Keynote Presentation

Accelerating Growth

This agenda session will provide an in-depth look at how business leaders can redefine a company’s strategy and transform a recession into a recovery.

A Recipe for Success
This session will address how CIOs can stay alert to market conditions, build innovation into the core of the business, and retain talent.

Keynote - CIO Executive Visions

Managing Technology Integration  Through Times of M&A

Moderated by Dick LeFave - Independent Telecommunications/IT Professional, D&L Partners, LLC & Former CIO Sprint/Nextel

Panellists:
Rahul Goturi, CIO, Solutia

3.30 - 3.40

Closing Remarks

7.00 - 9.30

Southwestern Dinner + Networking