Please join us at The Broadmoor's West Course for the CIO Leadership Event Golf Tournament. At 6,800 feet, this premium 18-hole course has rolling fairways and multilevel greens that overlook both the city and the mountains. Regardless of your handicap, you'll find this course challenging yet enjoyable. This tournament brings participants of all skill levels together for a morning of networking and relaxing play. The tournament will be held in scramble format and open to all CIO Leadership Event participants.

• Important business drivers for applications modernization: agility, innovation, cost reduction.
• How obsolete technology, poor functionality or unstable applications, many hidden, affect the enterprise.
• How modernizing tools, processes and techniques result in productivity gains for the organization.

Today’s application and business leaders want it all: agility, innovation, and cost reduction in their application modernization initiatives. Join Mark Sarbiewski, senior director of product marketing for HP Software, to hear about the challenges and opportunities other organizations are experiencing. You’ll gain a better understanding of how business success depends on Agile software delivery -- not just Agile development.
 
In this session you’ll also:
• Learn about the latest Forrester Research findings from “Clearing Your Path To Modern Applications and Business Agility,” which highlights how companies are optimizing their application portfolios and modernizing their approach to enterprise software.
• See how HP R&D has adopted Agile in its own shop and is using HP Quality Center to manage and automate an agile software lifecycle.
• Gain insights on how to ensure the speed, quality and consistency of your Agile initiatives.

As businesses start taking advantage of the multitude of collaboration tools and platforms now available, what is the best thought-leadership framework for IT executives to use with these technologies? What are the best-case scenarios for securing and protecting corporate information while fostering innovative use of Web 2.0 technologies in communication, collaboration and customer interaction? With their potential for transcending cultural and global boundaries -- and equipping virtual teams with speedier decision-making -- the impact on the enterprise will be profound. In this lively discussion and debate, senior IT leaders will mix it up with a Microsoft executive on the future of collaboration technologies.

Developing IT budgets and managing the cost of providing services has always been an exercise in financial accounting, which made sense when IT managed most of the services it delivers. But with cloud computing and SaaS models taking hold, IT must now consider its cost structure from different perspectives. How much does it cost to deliver critical IT services such as e-mail and a corporate web presence? How much could an external service provider lower those costs? The answer can be provided by Service Cost Management.

In this session, Karen Garcia, VP & Chief of Staff for Information Services & Technology in BMC’s IT organization, along with Steve O’Connor, VP and General Manager of IT Business Management will explain IT Service Cost Management and provide an expert perspective on the opportunities IT offers. They will also discuss BMC’s own experiences in rolling out IT Service Cost Management within its own organization.

 

From securing entry-level IT jobs to reaching the pinnacle of a CIO career, women IT leaders have a unique perspective about the challenges along the way to becoming top business executives. In this career development breakout session, women at different stages in their career paths will discuss the specific issues women face, the solutions they’ve put into action and the difficult decisions they’ve made throughout their careers. The panel will also highlight what women around the world are saying as part of the CIO Executive Council's initiative to document the Top 10 Career Lessons for women IT leaders.

The global recession has been a very rough ride for Alcoa, one of the world’s largest aluminum makers. A steep decline in demand for its products, along with a dramatic reduction in commodity prices globally, forced the 120-year-old company to close plants, sell off unprofitable business units, slash its work force and struggle through a prolonged economic downturn. Overall revenues of $26.9 billion in 2008 tumbled to $18.4 billion by 2009. Yet CIO Kevin Horner has an inspiring story to tell about business transformation and agility, as well as some surprising lessons learned about managing IT costs while still delivering vital business services. He’ll also talk about the value of benchmarking IT performance and how he uses those metrics to gain business support for consolidation activities and much more.

Come join in the celebration! It's time to relax with light refreshments and cocktails and mingle with your colleagues and fellow attendees as we prepare to honor this year's Ones to Watch award winners. Business attire is required.

Join us for this gala awards dinner where we'll celebrate the achievements of the "Ones to Watch" award winners, a group next-generation IT leaders nominated by CIOs from some of the nation's most prestigious companies.

A Pathways Leadership Development Track

There’s less and less time (and money) for formal training in most IT organizations, yet more demand than ever to develop high-potential employees to be ready for the CIO's job. In this session, we'll tap the experiences and ideas of some of our Ones to Watch Award winners and Pathways program CIO mentors as they talk about how they used on-the-job opportunities to develop their skills and learn hard lessons. We’ll drill down on such experiences as running enterprise projects, negotiating deals, starting up teams, leading committees and standing in for the CIO. What’s to be gained? What are the risks? Which have the biggest developmental payoff?

Microsoft has an integrated, proven and easy-to-adopt set of solutions,  uniquely positioned to support your organization either on premises or in the cloud. In this expert session, you’ll learn how to:
• Optimize, by reducing complexity and helping your organization increase efficiency, thereby solving everyday business problems by making people more efficient in using their current tools.  
• Innovate, by creating the best productivity experience for your people and making your organization more competitive by expanding into new markets with innovative technologies.
• Grow, by learning how Microsoft solutions enable smarter decision making, drive order from chaos and simplify data interaction to enable your organization to grow.

 

Data is now ubiquitous and growing in volume every day.  This data explosion, along with continuing high levels of investment in data management, compels CIOs and their IT organizations to demand that data’s underlying value be joined with an analysis of optimal decision-making. That process, which we call “decision valuation,” quantifies the costs and benefits of competing approaches.  Cognizant’s Business Consulting and Enterprise Analytics Practice advises on this critical topic through practical expertise. In this session we will cover:

• a taxonomy for evaluating “decision valuation” opportunities
• a set of questions to ask, in order to achieve optimal answers
• a framework for calculating the business value of analytical insights
• a number of examples of data analytics and decision valuation in action.

A major customer-facing technology shift to mobility is well under way, as a host of smart phones, BlackBerries, mobile internet devices and mini-notebooks continue to blur the usage boundaries between our professional and personal lives. Yet there is no obvious “killer business idea” capturing the corporate mindshare or providing a single definitive direction for IT leaders. So where is mobile ecommerce heading? What are the best bets to be placing now on the mobile devices and applications that will deliver serious competitive advantage going forward? Our panel of senior IT leaders and vendor executives will take on the challenge of mapping the future of mobile ecommerce.

In this highly interactive session, attendees will break into small groups to brainstorm about the various paradoxes inherent in the CIO role, including such challenges as stakeholders relations, staffing models and keeping pace with the rapidly changing demands on IT organizations. Based on the CIO Executive Council’s monthly “CIO Paradox” column in CIO magazine, this hands-on workshop will give you the chance to exchange ideas – and assemble a practical list of takeaways and tactics – to help resolve some of the most fundamental career obstacles of our profession.