Topics that will be covered in this conference include:

• Building and Retaining Your IT Staff
• Mitigating Risk in IT Investments
• Marketing & Communicating the Value of IT
• IT Governance Issues
• IT's Role in Improving Business Resiliency
• Handling Data Growth Risks and Opportunities

Conference Program

8:00am-9:00am - Continental Breakfast

9:00am-10:00am
IT Governance: Creating and Managing the  Framework that Supports the Strategies & Objectives of the Enterprise
Sharon Getz, Director IS, Zebra Technologies

"IT Governance" can be described as a structure of relationships and processes to direct and control the enterprise in order to achieve the enterprise’s goals by adding value while balancing risk versus return over IT and its processes.  Sharon has been responsible for Zebra’s IS organization for the last six years and will share with you how she and her team have handled IT Governance issues.

This presentation will provide you with an understanding of the following:

• What is IT Governance?

• Why have IT Governance at your business?

• Is there such a thing as "Cookie Cutter" IT Governance?

• Tools for IT Governance

• Importance of Measurement and Post-Implementation Review

• IT Governance and Portfolio Management
   

10:00 - 10:30 Break

10:30am-11:30am
Does Your Portfolio Have Enough High Return Projects?
Mark Hattas, CEO, Geneca

Most senior executives express support for new ideas and innovation.  But, in many cases, CEOs are apprehensive about innovation and view it simply as high-risk effort with doubtful returns. Much of the time this happens because their staff is unable to effectively communicate the wisdom of riskier, "investment" projects. As a result, investment in IT for the purposes of competitive advantage is limited.

Attendees of this session get new ideas on how to effectively align, assess, and justify the business case for high return projects within their organizations. Topics covered include:

• How to achieve -- and demonstrate -- greater ROI by objective investment selection and a better balance of risk and reward

• A methodology for assessing the risks vs. rewards of a set of possible projects

• How to improve your ability to market innovation within your company

11:30am-12:30pm
Improving Resiliency: From a Leadership Perspective
Irene Rozansky, CEO, R&A Crisis Management Services

The world is becoming turbulent faster than organizations are becoming resilient. In the 5 short years of the 21^st century we have been inundated with more turbulence than the previous 25 years.  It has been a virtual testing-ground for IT.  Dot Bomb, terrorism, SARS, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, east coast power outage, SOX, HIPAA, WI-FI, bandwidth theft, and the probable pandemic all had an effect on the business community, and especially on IT. Strategic resilience is not about responding to or recovering from a one-time crisis.

Are you currently protected by plans that merely serve as “symbols” of control and stability? Are you continuously anticipating and adjusting to trends that can permanently damage the core business?  Do you have the capacity to change before the need for change is obvious or too late? Do you habitually conduct risk assessments that calculate potential impacts from given threats (known and unknown) by taking into account 1) vulnerability, 2) likelihood of a threat, and 3) consequences of that threat being visited upon you? As a leader in your organization, do you have a well developed process for sensing warning signs?

In this session you will discover strategies that will allow you to leverage and grow your risk management and resiliency leadership capabilities.

12:30pm-1:30pm - Luncheon

1:30pm-2:30pm
Marketing & Communicating the Value of IT
Moderator: Sheleen Quish, former VP & CIO, US Can Corporation
Panelists: Jay Bahel, CIO, Brunswick New Technologies
Darlene A. Carrao, VP and CIO, Thomas & King, Inc
Dave Kamath, CIO, IDEX
Frank Mallinder, Founder, The Learning Institute

Although it may not be your first priority today, CIO's and IT leaders must move marketing and communications to the top of your list. These are the keys to success in your current position and the keys to your next position. You can do everything well and still not be valued or respected. Why? Because the business side of your company is still mystified by technology and cannot and do not appreciate your world. So you have two choices: make them technicians or connect with them on a level they understand: their emotions!  Learn how to get inside the heads and hearts of your internal customer and business executives. It's a lot more involved than having a user pizza party once a year. This panel will debate and discuss this issue and a new ways to look at concepts that include: moments of truth, perceptions as reality, collaboration and relationships.

4:00pm-5:00pm
The Difference Makers: Key Strategies and Real World Solutions to Turn Your IT Organization into an Employer of Choice
Moderator: Greg Ambrose, Managing Director, Catalyst Search Group
Panelists: John Moon, Former Corporate VP & CIO, Baxter Healthcare
Doug Lee, CIO, OptionCare
Gint Dargis, Sr. VP & CIO, Richardson Electronics

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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.



Conference price: $179 per person.

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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.