5th Annual Minnesota IT Symposium : Detailed Agenda

Detailed Agenda

Thursday October 27, 2005

Minneapolis Marriott Southwest

Global Sponsors

Microsoft

CommVault

Informatica

Cisco

5th Annual Minnesota IT Symposium

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7:00 am	Attendee Check-In; Breakfast Buffet Served
7:45 am	Welcome Message
8:00 am	The Balanced Scorecard & Strategic Alignment
	Phil Zwieg VP of IS Northwestern Mutual 1. Strategic alignment remains a hot issue: somehow business and IT can't get it right! 2. The Balanced Score Card is a significant tool for creating and sustaining alignment 3. Measurement is a must for any tool that attempts to address alignment 4. ITIL processes provide key input into measurement, assessment and on-going improvement.
9:15 am	Best Practice & Moderated Round Table Discussions
	Rights Management: Protecting your Intellectual Property Presented by: Dave Lane, Senior Business Productivity Advisor, Microsoft Corporation Sponsored by: Microsoft Architecture considerations for deploying your Single View of the Customer CDI and Enterprise Metadata Management projects Presented by Carlson Hospitality Rick Johnson, Manager Database Architecture and Ron Magnuson, Sr. ETL Architect Sponsored by Informatica Carlson Hospitality will review their approach and technology decision to integrate their customer data, generate unique id's, build complex transformation and cleansing rules, meet compliance requirements, and manage metadata through the entire process. Consolidating Distributed Data back to the Data Center Presented by: Michael Cammack, CIO, Bowman and Brooke and Eddie Fuentes, System Architect, Wells Fargo Sponsored by: CommVault The first half of the round table will address the issue of getting your arms around data growth and the management of that growth. The second part of this round table will discuss deploying modern backup/data management architecture to address today's explosive data growth.
10:30 am	Leveraging IT for Business Results
	Mike Laddin President & Senior Partner LeaderPoint 1. IT and Business Leadership in the Economic Environment of the firm. 2. Shopping for solutions or solving real business problems? 3. The courage to be clear about expectations. 4. When was the last time you went on a sales call: the politics underlying pressure on IT.
11:30 am	First 100 Days - Transforming the Organization with Speed and Care
	Bill Davis EVP, COO Magellan Associates This session will provide a structure and checklist to assist the newly assigned executive in creating, implementing and guiding them to improve their probability of success. The success or failure of a newly assigned executive is usually defined within the first 100 days of being on the job. The material has also been successfully used to transition an organization in 100 days from its current state into its desired state. Create quick and tangible wins that are important to the senior executive team, you and your organization. Create an effective plan for you and your organization’s success.
12:15 pm	Lunch Buffet Served
1:15 pm	The Five Things that IT Must Measure
	Craig Symons Principal Analyst Forrester Research IT is under increasing pressure to provide more transparency and visibility into its spending and operations. CIO’s are being asked to run IT like a business and demonstrate the business value of IT. By implementing a strategic IT measurement and management system, CIO’s can drive improved IT performance, demonstrate the business value of IT, and communicate IT’s contributions in business terms. The key is to measure the right things. This presentation articulates the five things that every CIO needs to measure, introduces a strategic measurement framework, and delivers actionable recommendations for improving IT performance.
2:15 pm	Best Practice & Moderated Round Table Discussions
	New Realities in Security Management Presented by: Trent D Bernatz, Product Specialist – Security, Cisco Sponsored by Cisco Delivering Business Services To Accelerate Business Strategy Execution Presented by Anne Knapp, CIO, SPS Commerce Sponsored by Oracle This roundtable discussion will focus on the following issues: Insight - Business intelligence for improved decision making with the ability to take action immediately. Adaptability - Adjust to changing market conditions and competitive threats. Ownership - Lower total cost of ownership Improving operational effectiveness through BPM Sponsored by Infosys Companies are discovering business process management as a discipline to reduce cost and improve flexibility of operations. The evolution in technologies and practices around BPM, ECM (Enterprise Content Management) and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) have made it easier for companies to translate this into reality.
3:15 pm	Closing Remarks, Cocktail Reception with Hors d'oeuvres

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