CIO Perspectives - Dallas 2011

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

7:00 am - 8:00 am	Registration and Breakfast
8:00 am - 8:15 am	Welcome and Opening Remarks Maryfran Johnson, Editor in Chief, CIO magazine & events
8:15 am - 8:45 am	Meet Your Social Networking Catalyst Thom Singer, CIO Perspectives Dallas Conference Networking Catalyst and author of “The ABC’s of Networking” Networking opportunities are the major reason that busy senior IT executives make the time to attend conferences, yet many never really take full advantage of meeting the other amazing people in the audience. Thom Singer, an expert in personal branding and networking skills, is about to change all that. In this short and engaging conference kickoff, Thom will become your "networking catalyst," motivating you to make this Dallas CIO Perspectives event one of the most rewarding and well-connected experiences of your career.
8:45 am - 9:45 am	The CIO as Risk Manager: Consumer Devices and Other Enterprise Security Challenges Moderator: Maryfran Johnson, Editor in Chief, CIO magazine & events Lynden Tennison, SVP & CIO, Union Pacific Corp. Tracy Nolan, VP & CIO, Commercial Metals Co. Khalid Kark, Vice President and Research Director, Forrester Research Risk management and data security, always front-and-center concerns for CIOs, are especially in the spotlight these days as greater numbers of consumer devices flood into our enterprises. As CIO magazine’s 2011 State of the CIO research noted, an increasing number of senior IT leaders are struggling to strike a balance between innovative use of new technology tools and the necessary protections to keep data and applications safe. Where are the greatest threats coming from now? How should your security posture and governance adapt to wireless and mobility demands? Given the business imperative of collaborating more freely with partners, customers and the young "digital natives" entering the workforce, what is the best approach for CIOs to take? In this wide-ranging panel discussion, CIOs and Chief Security Officers will share their experiences, ideas and advice.
9:45 am - 10:15 am	Social Computing and the Cloud: A Q&A Interview Eric Walters, Manager of Network Services, 7-Eleven Moderator: Maryfran Johnson Sponsored by Juniper Networks
10:15 am - 10:45 am	Networking and Refreshment Break
10:45 am - 11:15 am	The CIO Collaboration Paradox David Murashige, Vice President, Business Development, Avaya Communications and collaboration are a major challenge for today’s CIOs, largely because the devices and user experiences tend to fall short of what enterprise workers need in easy-to-use tools to help them connect, communicate and collaborate at a moment’s notice. High-end telepresense solutions are too expensive for most companies. Low-tech document sharing only goes so far. Neither offer the increased productivity and process efficiency of seamless integration across video, instant messaging, screen and document sharing, email and web. In this industry expert session, Avaya VP of Business Development David Murashige will talk about the changing face of business collaboration and how the directions emerging in this field can help CIOs fuel corporate innovation and growth.
11:15 am - 12:30 pm	Sounding Board: A Case Study Workshop on Cost-Conscious ERP Pam Stenson, SVP & GM, CIO Executive Council Janis O'Bryan, CIO & SVP of IT, Hudson Advisors LLC In this problem-solving workshop run by our CIO Executive Council, you'll hear a brief case study from Hudson Advisors LLC, a commercial mortgage servicer and real estate asset manager for the private equity firm, Lone Star Funds. Hudson Advisors manages more than $31 billion in assets. CIO Janis O'Bryan is actively investigating a move away from her traditional ERP provider (Oracle) to newer cloud-based or more cost effective on-premise solutions. In this hands-on workshop, she will briefly describe the issues and concerns she faces and then turn to the group for additional problem-solving and ideas. The workshop concludes with each table reporting out its best advice and specific recommendations. Click here to download the summary.
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm	Lunch and Networking Break
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm	The CIO as Business Transformer: Leveraging IT Best Practices Across the Enterprise Steve Finnerty, Vice President of Information Technology and Vendor Services, Applied Materials CIOs and IT organizations are increasingly being called upon to expand the scope of their traditional contributions and become enterprise change agents and business transformation leaders. In this session, Steve Finnerty will highlight recent experiences at Applied Materials to demonstrate how strategic IT leadership can serve as a lever for driving enterprise-wide transformation. In this compelling account of one company’s transformation from within, Steve will share the leadership lessons learned and talk about the IT career development opportunities that arose along the way.
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Business Technology Briefings These sponsored breakout sessions are geared to help CIOs understand the latest technologies and software services available today, and how they can deliver benefits to their organization's strategic positioning, cost efficiencies or operational excellence.
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Operate & Innovate on a Dime Andrew Schroepfer, Vice President of Strategy, Rackspace Hosting Cloud technologies are creating an inflection point where many enterprises must at least consider hosting alternatives for even the most mission-critical websites and applications. And while cloud may be available for everyone, it is not the best choice for everything. In this breakout session, Rackspace Hosting will demystify the cloud by sharing how enterprise customers are adopting cloud computing for various types of applications. Learn how a hosted solution can enable your organization’s innovation by cost-effectively overcoming the challenges of scaling, availability and performance. Rackspace will also share information about OpenStack™, a game-changing open-source cloud platform designed to foster the emergence of technology standards and cloud interoperability.	High Speed Data Access for Modern Applications Herb Cunitz, VP of Global Field Operations, Cloud Application Platform Division at VMware, VMware To realize the full promise of cloud, you need a new approach to data management that supports the needs of applications deployed across elastic, highly scalable, geographically distributed architectures. Is data management a key topic for your organization? This session will foster an open dialogue around how your peers are managing data for their modern applications. Come share your challenges and solutions to data management as we review case studies and offer practical advice. Among the topics for discussion: Meeting the demands of highly scalable applications Managing globally distributed data grids Controlling databases in your organization Supporting applications with indeterminate usage Reducing database spend Providing data availability “anytime, anywhere”
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm	The CIO as Innovator: Providing Rich Business Intelligence on a Poor Man's Budget Mark Stone, SVP & CIO, Safety-Kleen Despite its tremendous need for more sophisticated data analysis, spending millions of dollars on a BI solution was not an option for Safety-Kleen, Inc., which is one of the largest recovery and recycling companies for used oil products in the U.S. “We’ve got real need but a shoestring budget, so what are my options?” says CIO Mark Stone. “You have to leverage software you already own.” In this highly practical, case-study-in-motion, Stone will detail how he figured out a $500,000 solution to solve this multi-million-dollar need. He'll delve into the upsides and downsides of his unique approach, and talk frankly about the software, governance and partnerships that are making it possible.
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm	Closing Remarks and Networking Catalyst Wrapup
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Cocktail Reception Sponsored by: CONNECT with fellow attendees, sponsors and speakers as we finish off the day with a cocktail and some conversation.