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7:30 am	Attendee Check-In; Renaissance Breakfast Buffet Served Medely of Seasonal Fruit, Scrambled Eggs, Crisp Bacon or Grilled Ham, Fresh Breakfast Potatoes and Assorted Breakfast Pastries, Creamery Butter and Fruit Preserves. Served with Fresh Juices, Freshly Brewed Coffees, tea and Water Service.
8:20 am	Welcome Message
8:30 am	Keeping IT Simple: Innovating Productivity Inside High-Velocity Growth
Room #9	Cathy L. Tompkins SVP IT & CIO Chesapeake Energy Corporation This best practice presentation will highlight: The Chesapeake Energy management philosophy for keeping it simple How Chesapeake Energy got ranked #1 for information productivity while responding to the fast-paced M&A environment Tying process change synergies to growth initiatives Strengthening IT standards and value contribution while ensuring that IT culture does not become its own empire
9:45 am	SandRidge Energy: Discovering Beneath \| Exploring Beyond
Room #9	Sponsored by Perimeter Technology Thomas L. Winton SVP-IT & CIO Sandridge Energy Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, SandRidge Energy, Inc. is a rapidly growing independent natural gas and oil company concentrating in exploration, development and production activities. From 3 employees in Oklahoma City and 60 employees in Amarillo in June 2006 , SandRidge is now 463 strong in Oklahoma City and 2341+ including field operations. SandRidge is now the 6^th most active driller in the U.S., and has experienced phenomenal growth in natural gas production and reserves. To effectively implement the information technology infrastructure required to keep pace with the rapid growth, it took the right technology partners, the right attitude and the right relationships. This presentation describes the efforts of those who made a difference from an information technology perspective.
9:45 am	Sun's ECO Strategy in Action
Room #8	Sponsored by Sun Microsystems Brian Day Sr. Program Manager, Global Lab & Data Center Design Services Sun Microsystems This presentation details the $250M effort Sun has undertaken applying their Eco strategy to their internal operations. Global Lab & Datacenter Design Services (GDS) is the Sun internal organization that bridges the gap between facilities & IT and has lead these datacenter consolidations and energy efficiency principals and designs. Hear Sun's best practices and challenges around going green. ECO is Ecology and Economics. The Santa Clara, CA datacenter is 72,000 square feet of next generation, scalable space based on Sun's POD design. This datacenter houses the largest installation of Liebert XD products as well as the largest single install of APC hot aisle containment. Learn how Sun achieved 88% square footage compression and 61% utility reduction.
9:45 am	Improving Customer Satisfaction: Using ITIL to Achieve Results and Drive Innovation
Room #7	Mark Meier Director, Information Technology Department City of Oklahoma City Implementing ITIL inappropriately for your organization can generate far more cost than value. This presentation will discuss the City’s implementation, including the pitfalls and success stories. We will identify how to choose, scope and sequence the framework elements that are the most valuable for your organization. Finally we will review how to use ITIL to support innovation and engage IT employees and users in the technology selection process.
11:00 am	Unified Communications – What’s Your Strategy?
Room #9	Sponsored by Cox Business Jerry Moore Director, Client & Network Services Tulsa Technology Center Unified communications is the answer to growing challenge of managing the multiple communication pathways that bombard today’s workforce. Distributed organizations have to contend with standard telephones, mobile phones, PDAs, email, instant messaging, video conferencing and more. Integrating these disparate forms of communication is essential to improving workforce efficiency. Sit-down with us as we review a case study of how Tulsa Technology Center deployed Unified Communications.
11:00 am	Case Study: Virtual Disaster Recovery
Room #8	Sponsored by Davenport Group Brad Johnson Member Management Information Technology, LLC Storage virtualization is the first step toward virtual disaster recovery. With advanced storage area network (SAN) technology managers can easily provision storage for multiple servers, automatically classify and migrate data to the appropriate tiers of storage, and create an unlimited number of recovery points using snapshot technology. Storage virtualization also brings the ability to boot from SAN. For organizations with more than a few servers, deploying and recovering servers can be a laborious task. Boot from SAN offers IT managers numerous advantages compared with booting to direct-attached disks. Booting from SAN reduces complexity, lowers costs and accelerates server recovery. To create a truly virtual data center, IT managers need a holistic storage solution; one that allows fully shared resources and provides complete data protection. Snapshots, or point and time copies of data, protect against data loss or corruption. Your SAN solution should give you the ability to take an unlimited number of space-efficient snapshots and allow you to keep them as long as necessary. This will enable you to design a complete matrix of protection around your data. Storage virtualization using snapshot technology and boot from SAN provides continuous data protection and enables quick response and complete recovery of data and systems.
11:00 am	Enterprise Security, Factors Driving the Next Generation of Information Security
Room #7	Sponsored by True Digital Security David Greer Executive Director Institute for Information Security (iSec) With so many seemingly effective security solutions available, what is it that is driving so many organizations to seek answers within the universities? The fact is, information security is an emerging and highly specialized field. And while corporate marketing plays on fear, uncertainty, and doubt, the answers aren't found in product. This discussion will focus on the landscape of information security, and the underlying business factors driving corporations to seek solutions in academia.
11:45 am	Classic American Buffet: Baby Field Greens with Cherry Tomatoes, Sliced Cucumbers and Grated Carrots with Spicy Ranch and Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressings, Roasted Vegetable and Black Barley Salad with Roasted Tomatoes, Horseradish Encrusted Salmon Filet, Seared Pork Tenderloin with Sun-Dried Cherry Demi Glaze, Chef’s Selection of Seasonal Vegetables, Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Freshly Baked Rolls and Creamery Butter, A Variety of Assorted Pastries and Cakes, Coffee, Tea and Water Service
12:45 pm	Disaster Recovery Planning - Options Evolve with Newer Technologies
Room #9	Kevin Cohen Vice President, Information Technology Security Benefit Corporation Technology is the very heartbeat and lifeblood sustaining the operations of many businesses today. In the financial services industry where equity-based products and services are offered, a few minutes of ill-timed system outages can cost a company millions upon millions if trading is hindered and the market moves adversely. In this presentation, Kevin Cohen outlines Security Benefit Corporation’s practical approach to effectively mitigating these risks through highly redundant solutions in the primary data center and technologies that provide near-real-time system recovery in the event of a disaster. You will be taken through the analysis that led Security Benefit to evolve their recovery capability from a traditional shared service model to a remote warm site with replicated data and systems. Cohen will discuss the mix of evolving new technologies that made this transition a reality in the areas of server virtualization, data replication, wide area connectivity, and IP telephony.
1:45 pm	Creative Problem-Solving IT Teams
Room #9	Cynthia Rolfe VP for IT University of Central Oklahoma UCO’s Office of Information Technology uses a nontraditional approach to determining who to put on certain project teams or who to use in various stages within a project. Member selection is determined by their innate cognitive process for creative problem solving instead of by their job position. Use of this methodology has revealed skill sets and interests previously unknown to the management team.
1:45 pm	Waiting to Implement VOIP? Improve the Bottom Line Now!
Room #8	Sponsored by Peak Uptime William Graham CTO Kirby-Smith Machinery William Graham, Director of IT for Kirby-Smith Machinery in Oklahoma City will present a case study on lessons learned from moving from analog telephony to VOIP. Mr. Graham will share his experiences of transitioning 200 people in five branches across three states to an integrated VOIP solution and achieving $200,000 annual savings with increased reliability and productivity. Learn how to avoid pitfalls and escape the bonds of legacy systems and achieve success!
1:45 pm	Asset Centricity: Realize New Efficiencies that Translate to Real Dollars
Room #7	Sponsored by Stonebridge Travis Osborne Chief Solutions Architect Stonebridge A business is built around an essential asset without which that business cannot carry on its main activity. This truism is the foundation of a new approach gaining advocacy with both the IT and business sides of the organization. By structuring data around the business’ core asset and associating data with processes that are directly or indirectly interdependent on the asset, companies can realize new efficiencies that quickly translate to real dollars. Over the long term, the asset-based approach provides a means for incremental improvement in data management that affect the business every day, in every department. This “best practice” presentation will highlight: · The definition of asset centricity · The five fundamentals of asset-based data architectures · Asset centricity in action: an Oil & Gas case study
2:45 pm	Human Capital Management at Chesapeake Energy - Delivering the RIGHT Solution
Room #8	Sponsored by Oracle Jeff Gardner IT Director Chesapeake Energy Deploying a new enterprise HR system in any organization can be a daunting effort. Consider an organization going through explosive growth, facing replacement of multiple legacy HR systems, supporting a wide range and maturity of HR practices, requiring an aggressive delivery timetable, and that has never attempted anything similar before. How do you approach this sort of effort? What considerations shape the implementation and support plans? How do you distinguish the right solution from the best solution? What are the notable challenges and what can be done to overcome them? How can you minimize the adverse impacts of change on the organization? This presentation will highlight how the team at Chesapeake Energy addressed these points, and others, to define and deliver the right Human Capital Management solution. Chesapeake Energy’s focus on investing in its workforce helped it become one of Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” last year.
2:45 pm	IT Strategy Planning : Enable Business and Technology Transformation
Room #7	Sponsored by Informatica Vijay Musuvathy VP of Architecture Strategy & Technology Dollar Thrifty Competitive and market drivers are forcing organizations to align IT capabilities to business strategies. IT organizations must meet these business imperatives, while supporting cost reduction initiatives and enhancing quality of service, modernization & supporting new business capabilities. IT Strategy planning provides foundational framework in ensuring alignment across various business and technology transformation initiatives This presentation will cover key tenets of IT Strategy Planning. This includes ensuring strategic linkage across business imperatives and IT strategies like service optimization initiatives, Virtualization & Server/Storage consolidation and modernization initiatives like SOA, Data Management capabilities. The key goal is to accelerate transformation efforts by alignment to business drivers.
3:45 pm	CIO Panel Presentation
Room #9	Join these industry leaders in an interactive discussion moderated by InformationWeek. Hear what issues are facing today's CIO's and learn how they are resolving them. This panel discussion provides a rare opportunity to hear first hand whats on the mind of these local CIO's.
	Chris Murphy Mangement Editor InformationWeek	Mark Brewer SVP & CIO Seagate Technology
	John Delano VP & CIO INTEGRIS Health	Jeanne Cotter VP & CIO Hobby Lobby
	Dr. Cynthia Rolfe VP for IT University of Central Oklahoma
4:30 pm	Closing Remarks, Cocktail Reception
Room #9	Enjoy this complimentary cocktail reception hosted by ISLOK featuring an open bar, hors d’oeuvres and conversation. Make this an important element of your attendance to the IT Symposium. The ability to network and collaborate with your peers in an open and no-hype environment will prove to provide long lasting value to your key business initiatives moving forward.

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Tuesday August 26, 2008

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