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CIO: IT Leadership Strategies

In-depth information on the top priorities and challenges for CIOs in making business driven IT decisions in the new year.

Nov. 1, 2011

9:00am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Bios

Donald E. Stephens Convention Center  Rosemont (O'Hare) Illinois

Overview

How do you define IT Leadership?   Does it consist of aligning IT with the business?  Driving business efforts forward?  Increasing quality of IT services?  What skills does it take to be an effective IT Leader?  How do you lead IT during challenging economic times?

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

  • Providing Strategic Corporate Value: How to Leverage Business Intelligence

  • Concrete Ways to Run IT like a Business

  • Strategies for CIOs to Stay Relevant and Successful (CIO panel discussion)

  • Agility and Productivity: How to Leverage Mobility and Cloud Computing for Business Benefit

  • How CIOs Can Create an Environment of Innovation (CIO panel discussion)

  • Workforce Management: How to Prepare for Tech Savvy Millennials (CIO panel discussion)

Conference Program

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

 

Gupta

 

9:00am-10:00am

Providing Strategic Corporate Value: How to Leverage Business Intelligence

Praveen Gupta, President, Accelper Consulting - Author 'Six Sigma Business Scorecard'

One of the major challenges that IT leaders face is in providing strategic value. An area that can help IT executives with corporate value is leveraging Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management.

In this session attendees will learn:

  • How to lead by extracting the best data and getting it into the right hands
  • How to make sense of the data so that it is understood by other enterprise C level executives
  • How to understand and leverage the Social Media Impact on the corporate brand

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

Mayor

10:30am-11:30am

Concrete Ways to Run IT like a Business

David Mayor, Chief Information Officer, City of Rochester, New York

Many CIOs and IT leaders have learned business skills 'the hard way' while others may have had some business experience. Either way, it is important for CIOs and IT leaders to leverage the experiences to help move the business forward.

In this session, a prominent CIO will explain to you in concrete terms how to run your IT organization as business. With decades of experience as a business owner, consultant and CIO he will help you sharpen your business focus.

In this session attendees will learn:

  • How to develop a comprehensive model of IT strategic services
  • How to build an atmosphere of innovation
  • How to build competency centers
  • How to form a strategic planning steering committee
  • When to insource versus outsource
  • How to quantify the business value of cloud computing
  • How to articulate to other C-Level executives the business results IT has achieved

McEntee

Tran

Payton

Gabriel

Marin

11:30am-12:30pm

Strategies for CIOs to Stay Relevant and Successful (CIO Panel Discussion)

Moderator:
Phil McEntee, Managing Principal, Technology Executive Network
Panelists will include:
Lac Tran, Sr. VP, CIO and Associate Dean, Rush University Medical Center
Vincent A. Marin, CIO, Huron Consulting Group
John Payton, Director of IT, Emerson Electric Co - Knaack L.L.C.
Michael Gabriel, Director, Data Protection Practice, Integralis; Former CISO, Career Education Corporation

and other CIOs and enterprise IT executives

CIOs and IT executives, in order to stay relevant, need to focus on business outcomes rather than technology outcomes. They need to focus on areas that include innovation and intelligence that directly correspond to business goals.

In this session attendees will learn from seasoned CIOs and IT executives as to strategies that are making them indispensable to the business.

 

12:30pm - 1:30pm Luncheon

Vaselopulos

1:30pm-2:30pm

Agility and Productivity: How to Leverage Mobility and Cloud Computing for Business Benefit

James Vaselopulos, Partner, PSC Group, LLC

Cloud Computing and Enterprise Mobility represent a huge opportunity for IT leaders to provide significant value to the extended enterprise and its users. But where do hype and reality meet?

In this session, attendees will learn:

  • Where cloud computing fits and where it does not fit
  • The intersection of cloud and mobility
  • The different patterns of current enterprise adoption (e.g. Private vs. Public)
  • The differences between Software-as-a- Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and
  • How can we leverage these technologies/processes to make IT more valuable to the business?

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

Gupta

Thier

Jacob

Courbebaisse

3:00pm-4:00pm

How CIOs Can Create an Environment of Innovation (CIO panel discussion)

Moderator:
Praveen Gupta, President, Accelper Consulting - Author 'Business Innovation'
Panelists will include:
Alain Courbebaisse, Global CIO, Newedge
Sony Jacob, CIO, PSAV
Guy Thier, CIO, Bally Total Fitness

and other CIOs and enterprise IT executives

In order to succeed with larger changes, organizations first need to make a series of smaller incremental changes. By laying these smaller incremental changes as the foundation, larger changes can lead to effective innovation and avoid unnecessary pitfalls.

In this CIO panel discussion attendees will learn:

  • How to develop the culture of innovation
  • Where to start
  • How to collaborate with other business units and get their buy-in
  • How to measure the success of the investment

Hattas

Trifiletti

Matthews

Zolnier

Brewer

4:00pm-5:00pm

Workforce Management: How to Prepare for Tech Savvy Millennials (CIO panel discussion)

Moderator: Mark Hattas, Chairman, Geneca

Panelists will include:
Steve Brewer, IT Director, FONA International
Vito Trifiletti, CIO, Preferred Meal Systems
David Matthews, SVP, CIO, National Restaurant Association
David Zolnier, Enterprise Solutions Architect, Heartland Business Systems, Former CIO, Indian Prairie School District

CIOs and enterprise IT executives

The last several years have brought about an industry transformation due to social media, cloud computing, mobility and tablet computing. The next generation of IT employees will be much more tech savvy and independent compared to previous generations. Many employees (especially recent college grads) expect to collaborate and communicate across traditional boundaries.

In this session attendees will learn:

  • How can IT executives need to adapt to the different mindset of the ‘Millennials’
  • How the overall culture should adapt
  • What steps your organization needs to take to create an environment that will support Millennials?

Conference Price: $249.00 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.

  


 

 

 

 
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