As this largest annual gathering of Council members, we will learn about the Council’s newly defined mission spanning the lifecycle of the IT profession and new and exciting programs that support it. Members will then break into small discussion groups to share ideas that build on these initiatives and their related challenges. We’ll close with the Council Member Appreciation Awards before adjourning to the reception.  

Throughout the course of his 40-year career with the Coast Guard, Admiral Thad Allen’s no-nonsense leadership style and competency has won him the respect of senior government leaders as a man who confronts challenges by capturing and focusing the passion, energy and efforts of diverse stakeholders and helps them achieve common goals. Most recently at the center of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, to which he was appointed by President Obama to lead the country’s efforts in cleaning up the spill, Allen believes that leadership starts with bringing people together, agreeing on goals and creating a unity of purpose that can solve seemingly intractable crises. In times where the extraordinary is becoming more ordinary, Allen helps audiences understand the importance of preparation, preventative readiness and ensuring that you can manage a crisis before it hits your business.
 

When United Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek talks about the world’s largest airline becoming a “technology company with wings,” CIO Keith Halbert knows that his marching orders are being spelled out at the highest levels of this $23 billion business. The U.S. airline industry drives more than $1 trillion in U.S. economic activity, yet it’s lost nearly $60 billion and shed more than one-third of all airline jobs in just the past decade. So the challenges United faces are daunting on every front. Now more than six months post-merger with Continental Airlines, the massive work is under way to evolve the carrier into a “real-time, event-driven, predictive” business. In this compelling presentation, Keith will talk about the process of building a strategic IT roadmap for United’s future, and about the transformational leadership skills CIOs must hone in order to establish business credibility and “executive presence” across the C-suite.

Today's data centers stand at the epicenter of powerful technological and economic trends. Just as other core areas of the IT organization are evolving to meet the demands of an Internet-enabled world, networks must prepare to make a significant leap forward into cloud computing. By rethinking traditional legacy approaches, it’s possible for businesses to refresh their data center networks to offer greater economies of scale, improved application service levels, simpler management and even lower costs. In this Q&A interview with Mike Rose, former CIO of Royal Dutch Shell and now EVP of Service, Support and Operations for Juniper, you'll hear some in-the-trenches advice on the most critical steps IT organizations need to take now to meet the coming wave of data center challenges.

Attendees choose between two different topics in these fast-paced, intimate workshop breakouts hosted by our Leadership Event sponsors. Each facilitated discussion will focus on the top strategic challenges and opportunities associated with game-changing technologies, processes and services. The goal is to identify new leadership approaches, discuss proven best practices, and solicit peer advice for getting the most out of these technology solutions.

The speedy transition of cloud computing from last year’s buzzword to this year’s reality has surprised even the most skeptical CIOs. On the positive side of the cloud ledger are cost savings, speed of implementation and user acceptance. On the negative side are concerns about data security, integration and vendor management complexity. As the demands of the virtual workplace grow, many businesses are using cloud-based software, services or infrastructure to enable mobile strategies or launch unified communication capabilities. In this wide-ranging panel discussion with the CIOs of Microsoft, Coca-Cola Bottling, Underwriters Laboratories and Marquette Group, you’ll hear how the wide variety of cloud options are changing the way today’s technology roadmaps are being designed. Our panelists will also talk about how governance structures are evolving, how private vs. public clouds are being evaluated and how the CIO role is changing as a result.

Houston-based Waste Management, Inc. has 22 million customers, 45,000 employees and 1,200 locations. The CEO’s goal is to “know more about our customers and how to service them better than anyone else in our industry.” So the CIO’s mandate is to establish customer intimacy by enabling new forms of customer communication, as well as providing full transparency to waste collection and processing data all along the supply chain.

 

Use this free time to connect with new members of your network and get freshened up for our gala awards reception and dinner honoring up-and-coming IT leaders and CIOs of the future.

Join us to celebrate the next generation of CIOs as we honor this group of 25 outstanding senior IT leaders. Our 7th annual CIO Ones to Watch Award emphasizes the importance of developing tomorrow’s CIOs and is produced and judged by the CIO Executive Council in collaboration with CIO magazine.

Tomorrow’s CIOs
As we honor the next generation of CIOs with the Ones to Watch Award, HBO’s CIO Michael Gabriel wonders, “Could this generation be among the last?” The lack of interest from young people in IT and technical careers is much more than a worrisome dip in enrollments -- it’s a sustained retreat. Michael will deliver a call-to-action for the profession to ensure its own future.
 

A review of key threads, ideas and takeaways from Day 1 of the conference, and a preview of today’s themes.

CIO Chad Fulgham has set an unprecedented pace of IT change at the FBI since his appointment two years ago, embarking on major infrastructure, application and process improvements. The list includes a data center consolidation effort, a new domestic network, new desktop hardware, systems management and security tools, and major application development efforts. But the real cornerstone of his strategy is a unified communication, collaboration and mobility effort that is showing clear and present benefits in how the Bureau conducts its investigations. In this rare inside look at the changing technological face of the FBI, Chad will talk about the changes and challenges of his tenure and what it means for one of America's highest profile federal agencies.

Following up on our opening keynote, this practitioner panel will delve into the leadership challenges of the increasingly mobile enterprise. As more of your employees come to work equipped with smart phones and other consumer devices, how should CIOs be managing the transition to running critical business apps in these less secure environments? How do you influence the business value proposition for these technologies, envisioning and promoting innovative use beyond supporting basic apps? Given the business imperative of collaborating internally and externally, what is the best approach to take toward risk management and data security? In this wide-ranging discussion, moderated by Pam Stenson, our expert CIO panel will share their practical experiences, ideas and advice.

The impending split of industrial giant ITT into three separate multibillion-dollar companies creates a unique set of leadership opportunities and challenges for CIO Carol Zierhoffer, who is leading not only the separation of the IT organizations but also the standup of financial shared services. At just three months into the plan to separate into defense, water and industrial manufacturing businesses, Carol will share her leadership approach and lessons learned so far, particularly on the delicate and critical people side. How do you redirect an IT organization that’s been working diligently to build single-instance global systems and processes into a three-way split structure? How do you energize your employees about the personal leadership opportunities the split affords while allaying their concerns about an uncertain future? In this compelling presentation, Carol will talk frankly about the upsides and downsides of leading a once-unified team down three separate paths. 

As business has gone global, so too has the domain of today’s enterprise CIO. But leading global transformation brings about a whole new set of challenges and obstacles. How do you measure the overall success of the global organization? How do you drive innovation from the edges and not only from the center? How do you manage the political implications of “globalizing” when country leaders are used to running their own IT shows? And most importantly, how can you keep operations running smoothly and morale high amidst natural disasters and political disruption? The CIOs taking part in this lively discussion of global challenges for IT organizations will share what it takes to establish and grow business, deploy IT and lead operations around the world.

Three CIOs will present brief case studies on new initiatives to grow their businesses while pushing the envelope on today’s hot technologies. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions and probe the decisions made and the strategies behind the approaches employed by these CIOs.

Clorox CIO Ralph Loura developed and is applying a transformation model -- based on communities of practice -- that is retooling IT talent to better leverage the changes coming in a cloud-oriented world.

AAA CIO Brent Stahlheber has deployed cloud-based collaboration technology to enable members to access destination-specific expert travel agents in any location from AAA office to their own homes.

 

The lack of leadership depth on the IT staff is the top hurdle in advancing the strategic impact of IT and the role of the CIO as a business executive. Research shows that this situation is getting worse rather than better. In this expert panel and workshop hosted by the CIO Executive Council, you’ll hear a cross-disciplinary perspective on how we can to solve the problem and then work in cross-generational groups (current CIOs and Ones to Watch winners and Pathways program participants) to dig into specific approaches and strategies for shoring up and developing your leadership bench strength.