| 7:00 am |
Attendee Check-In |
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Breakfast Buffet Served: Rise & Shine Breakfast
Assorted Chilled Fruit Juices to include Orange, Grapefruit, Cranberry , Fresh Fruit Display , Assorted Cereals, Berries, Bananas , 2% Milk and Skim Milk , Scrambled Eggs , Grilled Potatoes with Onion , Crisp Bacon , Country Sausage , Assorted Yogurts , Assorted Breakfast Breads to include Bagels, Muffins, Breads, Pastries, Cream Cheese, Butter, Preserves , Freshly Brewed 100% Colombian Gourmet Bean Coffee, Premium Tea |
| 7:50 am |
Welcome Message |
| 8:00 am |
Is There Still Life in the IT Career |
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 Phil Zwieg
Former VP of IS
Northwestern Mutual
Enrollment in IT related majors has been steadily and rapidly declining in the US and Europe since 2000. Many potential students have been scared away by overhyped news stories about offshoring and its impact on jobs in the US. Baby boomers are rapidly approaching retirment age. Birth rates are down across the globe. Other science and math related job opportunities are competing for scarce resources.
For those who look to manage this industry in the future, the combination of truth and fiction makes it difficult to determine the appropriate path. This presentation will focus on dispelling myths, reviewing the skill sets that will become critical in the future and talking about strategies to insure the "pipeline" for filling jobs will not dry up. |
| 9:15 am |
Moderated Best Practice Discussions |
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- Successful Enterprise Deployment of Analytic and Business Intelligence Tools
Thought Leader: Jerry High, Manager-Analytic Access Tools, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
Learn to play the "IT/Business Balancing Game" to win! Historically, analytic tools have been deployed as departmental solutions for high-end analysts who sift through the data and present the results to interested management -- creating an ad hoc environment with few IT controls. As corporate-wide interest in BI tools continues to grow, many IT processes now need to be enforced, including role-based security and other system controls that ad hoc analysts feel impede their work. Hear Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota's approach to this conundrum and the steps they took to ensure a successful enterprise deployment.
Sponsored by SAS Institute
- The Four Ages of IT Management
Thought Leader: Tom Bishop, CTO, BMC Software
Tom Bishop’s discussion“The Four Ages of IT Management” will address the forces and characteristics shaping the future enterprise as well as the capabilities IT organizations must now exhibit. It will also consider the kinds of value business needs from IT and the competencies to be developed for IT organizations and the businesses they enable to be successful. The alignment of business and IT will be viewed in terms of IT’s expectations from IT systems and services with senior management’s business goals and demands.
Sponsored by BMC Software
- Simplifying Through Global IT Consolidation
Thought Leader: Jerry O'Connell, Ecolab
Globalization of IT platforms and functions can be challenging and rewarding at the same time. Ecolab has embarked on a number of initiatives on this front over the past eighteen to twenty-four months including platform and network consolidations. We would like to share some of those experiences and gain some of your ideas as well
Sponsored by: MSI
- Implementing a Cost Effective Data Protection Solution in a Large, Distributed Environment.
Thought Leader: Amin Kassem,CIO, SHPS
This discussion will detail the events leading up to and following the replacement of a data protection solution within an enterprise environment. Learn how this fast growing organization implemented a new solution during a high growth period and see how success is obtained and measured.
Sponsored by: CommVault
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| 10:30 am |
Streamlining Your IT Department Through IT Process and IT Consolidation |
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Matthew Miszewski
CIO
State of Wisconsin
“Do a lot more with a lot less” – that’s what Matt Miszewski was told, both by his governor and legislative leaders, when he was appointed Wisconsin State CIO in early 2003. And these days that’s likewise the order for most CIOs, whether they’re in the public or private sector. But how do you tackle – or even begin to address – major interagency integration challenges amid multibillion-dollar budget deficits, entrenched technology silos, and a fractious political environment? Miszewski, now the president of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), will discuss how he has overcome those obstacles by emphasizing collaboration, consolidation and changes in the IT process, and has saved the State of Wisconsin more than $100 million along the way. |
| 11:30 |
Moderated Best Practice Discussions |
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- Aligning Technology with the Business, The Value of Consolidation
Thought Leader: Jeff Eccles, VP of IT & Knowledge Cooperative, Taylor Corporation
Taylor Corporation is a holding company of about 85 businesses in the commercial print, direct mail, and technology services business. By design, each of these organizations maintains their own name and brand in their marketplace, while Taylor Corporate supports them providing direction, support, leadership development and other shared services.
In the past two years, they have worked strategically at the business level to reorganize these 85 companies into to Entrepreneurial Business Units (EBU's) in order to better leverage the mass and to approach the end customer in a more organized fashion.
All the reorganization at the business level has produced many challenges in all disciplines throughout the organization and specifically in the IT organization.
Jeff will discuss how the IT group has looked at organizational structure, infrastructure & application architecture, and other IT service delivery factors to better support the changing & consolidating business model. He will also get more tactical around their actual consolidation and virtualization strategy in support of IT service delivery.
Sponsored by Computech Resources, Inc.
- The Journey to High Availability and Disaster Recovery with a Limited Budget
Thought Leader: Mark Rude, Director IT Operations, AgStar
Thought Leader: Scott Ament, Sr Technical Analyst & Team Lead, AgStar
AgStar did not posses a realistic Emergency Preparedness framework. The company made big steps to solving this by embarking on selling and building a viable business continuity plan and disaster recovery plan that is now part of each AgStar employee's job responsibilities.
The solution and plan were ultimately bought into by the organization by means of formally reporting test gaps and gap solutions to management, regulators and auditors.
Relying on a focus of high availability and disaster recovery helped AgStar convert an unreliable/legacy closed network to a full featured, centralized multi-service network featuring performance, efficiency, reliability and disaster recovery. It found that providing DRP in-house costs less; provides more flexibility; supports high availability; more capacity and offers disaster avoidance and timely recovery.
This best practice breakout will foster discussion surrounding the discovery, solution search and lessons learned throughout the process of implementation within AgStar.
Sponsored by Xiotech
- Virtualizing Your Environment – Managing a Run Away Train
Thought Leader: Andrew Mayberry, Sr. Network Engineer, HighJump Software, a 3M Company
With expected sales growth to exceed 40% year over year, HighJump Software, a 3M company, was adding needed resources, but had to reduce the time and cost related to creating, improving, and implementing their software solutions while replacing and stabilizing their aging core infrastructure.
Virtualization was determined to be the solution and was soon spinning out of control. In and attempt stop the insanity, two areas of focus were established, core business systems along with the development and implementation environments. How to create a solution to manage and bring the environments into corporate compliance without reducing end user efficiencies was the challenge.
During the breakout, discussion will include the decision made to choose virtualization, the path of virtualization throughout the organization, how it fostered into a monster, and strides made to manage this environment
Sponsored by Software Plus
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| 12:15pm |
Lunch Buffet Served: Gourmet Deli Buffet
Daily House Made Soup , Pasta Salad, Potato Soup, Fresh Garden Salad, Assorted Dressings , Deli Tray – Roast Beef, Turkey Breast, Honey Baked Ham, Swiss, Cheddar, Pepper jack , Relishes and Condiments , Breads and Rolls , Grilled and Marinated Vegetables , Specialty Chips , Daily Selection of Desserts |
| 1:15 pm |
Privacy - What you Need to Know |
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Michele Shuster
Attorney
Kegler, Brown, Hill & Ritter
It happened in a second. Despite the best security technology available an employee disseminates sensitive customer information to unauthorized users. In today’s legal landscape, IT Security is just a part of data safeguarding requirements. Privacy of sensitive data must be a part of a comprehensive security program. Learn the current legal landscape and what mandates are placed on companies from the privacy regulators.
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| 2:15 pm |
CIO Panel Presentation |
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Natan Abraham
Sr. Advisor CIO Group
Forrester Research, Inc.
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William J. McGarry
VP of IT & CIO
Saint Jude Medical
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David A. Albright
EVP & CIO
MoneyGram International, Inc.
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Rob Tabb
VP & CIO
Ecolab
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Michael Connly
Chief Information Officer
UnitedHealth Technologies
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| 3:15 pm |
Closing Remarks, Cocktail Reception with Hors d'oeuvres |
