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7:30 am	Attendee Check-In; Breakfast Buffet Served
8:20 am	Welcome Message
8:30 am	Building a Winning Technology Team
Ballroom	C.E. "Duffy" Boyle Chief Information Officer Douglas Omaha Technology Commission What makes a winning team? Is it the people, the leadership or the results? While these are all components, it is the consistency of winning over a long period of time that determines the success of a team. This consistency does not happen by chance. It takes preparation, hard work, and most importantly... practice, practice, practice. This session focuses on "The 8 Essentials of a Winning Team". In an entertaining way you will see the importance of Vision, Leadership, Culture, Teamwork and other attributes of a winning team. These are not new concepts... but the message may inspire you to work with others to truly build a winning technology team focused on growing your business.
9:45 am	Achieving IT Cost Savings During and After the Downturn
Room 3027	Sponsored by Corporate Contracts Doug Gumm Vice President, Information Technology FBL Financial Group, Inc. Cost savings is the # 1 issue CIOs are facing given the current economic downturn. IT professionals are being challenged by their companies to do “more with less” despite a decreasing budget and a diminishing workforce. Doug Gumm, the VP of IT of FBL Financial Group, has found an answer to these challenges and adding true dollars to his department’s bottom line. In this town hall style breakout, Doug will describe how FBL Financial Group has been able to address cost savings by utilizing a third party in his IT procurement process. A group of experts assist Doug and his team in running the RFP process, contract negotiations and licensing issues. The addition of a 3 rd party negotiator has allowed Doug and his team to focus on running their business and not focus on the challenges of contract negotiations and licensing issues. Through this cost savings initiative, Doug has been able to add a significant amount of money to the bottom line and also insure a “best in practice” contract that protects FBL Financial Group from hidden or unexpected costs in the future. Doug will outline one particular project that utilized expert negotiators to assist his team. The project consisted of an RFP, price and contract negotiations for a software purchase. Doug will also explain the ROI and true run rate savings achieved by partnering with this team of expert IT negotiators.
9:45 am	Leveraging Information Technology from Client Computing to the Data Center to: Improve collaboration; Reduce travel; Increase productivity; Enable business transformation and Reduce Costs
Room 3029	Sponsored by CSS Staffing Terry A. West Vice President, Enterprise Technology Services ConAgra Foods, Inc. All Information Technology organizations are expected to enable the business to be more effective, more productive, deliver business systems and reduce cost. Terry will share an overview of some initiatives at ConAgra Foods in Client Computing and Data Center standardization and how they impacted cost reductions. In Client Computing he will focus on standardization and the Unified Communications initiative leveraging key vendor partners. Having standardized the desktop environment across the enterprise the biggest challenge was not implementing or leveraging the technology, rather the change management necessary to ensure adoption and utilization to achieve the benefits. Within the Data Center he will focus on their success with virtualization and implementing Linux on powerful servers to support their ERP.
9:45 am	Don’t Be That Guy…Stay Out of the WSJ Headlines in a Negative Context
Room 3028 North	Sponsored by Symantec
	As the data indicates below, there are staggering amounts of corporate and personal data lost each day. Our panel will be discussing Data Loss Prevention and tactics on how NOT to be “the GUY” & “the COMPANY” in the headlines of the WSJ. 318 million records lost since 2005 47% increase in reported breaches from 2007 to 2008 Avg cost of breach is around $190 per record $600 million total IP theft per year globally 96% of data loss is due to employee oversight or broken business processes 52% of CISOs believe DLP is a top driver of security spending 65% increase in DLP spending since 2006 DLP is listed as the number one most promising security technology as reported by a survey of 1,000 CIO's
9:45 am	The Managed Services Decision
Room 3028 South	Sponsored by MSI D.J. Toms VP of IT West Asset Management With today’s economy and IT department’s declining budgets, IT leaders are forced to spread resources thin to both address strategic IT initiatives and resolve the everyday fires. This situation limits IT departments’ productivity and slows business growth by not giving IT the flexibility to focus resources on new projects and core business initiatives that will impact the bottom line. With these challenges always comes the question…Should I bring in a managed services partner to help my team? This session will provide an overview on how a managed services partnership can be utilized to complement internal resources. Additionally, it will provide a specific example of how West Asset Management used a managed services partner to enhance our business.
11:00 am	Cutting Costs and Risk Mitigation using Disk Based Backup and Data Deduplication
Room 3027	Sponsored by Data Domain Jim Pomeroy IT Director, CSO Seim, Johnson, Sestak & Quist LLP At the beginning of 2009 Jim Pomeroy was tasked by his firm (Seim, Johnson, Sestak & Quist) with reengineering the firm's backup infrastructure and designing and implementing a disaster recovery and business continuity plan for the company. Over the past 4 years Seim Johnson has experienced tremendous data growth following a business process reengineering of the firms key processes and a move to the paperless office. The company currently has an annual storage growth of 1.5 TB. With this large amount of storage growth the company was faced with long backup times and the cumbersome task of managing an ever growing catalog of backup tapes. In order to reduce backup windows and to facilitate the off-site recovery of the company's data; Seim Johnson decided to move to a disk based backup infrastructure with data deduplication. In conjunction with a move to denser tape media and server virtualization the backup to disk infrastructure has greatly improved the firms storage, backup and recovery position. Seim Johnson currently has 9 TB of storage under management. The firm currently has 2 fibre channel storage arrays and has just recently moved to a backup to the backup to disk/data deduplication infrastructure. The firm is planning to leverage data replication and deduplication as part of the company's DR/BCP plan slated for implementation in the fall of 2009.
11:00 am	Legalese as a Second Language. Are You putting Your Organization at Risk?
Room 3029	Michael Bydalek Business Lawyer Kutak Rock LLP	John Passarelli Partner Kutak Rock LLP	Sponsored by Cox Business
	Mike Bydalek: With the increasing popularity of the SaaS model, it is important for IT professionals and legal departments to understand risks associated with the model and how well drafted service levels, information security requirements and data ownership provisions can limit an enterprise's risk associated with hosted software model. Highlights will include legal options to managing risks associated with software as a service, including contract provision, for effectively managing these risks. John Passarelli: The growth of electronic data and the constantly changing technology that helps preserve and organize data has revolutionized commercial litigation today. Businesses need to understand how to fully manage their electronic data, from documents to emails, and how to respond quickly and efficiently if a lawsuit is filed or if the government requests information from them. A company's failure to lawfully manage and preserve its electronic data when faced with litigation may result in substantial monetary and other penalties, including criminal penalties.
11:00 am	Reducing I.T. Spend with a Lean IT Printer & Copier Consolidation Project
Room 3028 North	Sponsored by Affinity Jeff Mason Global Information Services Manager Harley-Davidson Motor Company Jeff will share the initiative he championed for Harley-Davidson to reduce operating expenses by $1M annually through a Lean IT effort in a technology area that is easily overlooked in most large and midsize companies. This project was a success with minimal impact to the organization reducing the number of print/copy/fax/scan devices by 80% while increasing the speed, security and capability of the resultant devices. He will share the analysis and efforts required to develop a business case along with the road map, selection process and project implementation . Jeff’s presentation compares projected payback versus the actual on-track reductions. The benefits Harley is realizing through making change of this magnitude should be extremely compelling for any company managing through today’s economic circumstances.
11:00 am	Application Delivery to the Enterprise
Room 3028 South	Sponsored by Emineo Group Tim Pugsley IT Manager Nebraska Orthopedic Hospital Nebraska Orthopedic Hospital faced growth challenges in the areas of deployment and management of applications to local and remote sites as well as mobile users. An application delivery model resolved many of these challenges and helped NOH’s IT Department distribute business systems to both remote and local workforce staff with lower costs than the traditional client/server methodology. With the introduction of a Citrix farm, virtualization of workloads, and provisioning of servers, IT Manager Tim Pugsley and his team solved the issues stemming from the growth of the hospital. Collectively, this system lowered the cost of ownership and provided a much more scalable IT environment for business initiatives. Tim Pugsley will share what this application delivery model has done for Nebraska Orthopedic Hospital, giving them a way to rethink how their IT department handles application management.
11:45 am	Hot Lunch Buffet Served
12:45 pm	Achieving Business Value via Business Transformation
Ballroom	Dan Simpson Sr. VP and CIO Physicians Mutual Information Technology has the ability to deliver business value in a number of ways. IT can: improve customer satisfaction and employee retention, reduce time to market, improve data/information quality, increase competitive advantage, improve operational efficiency, increase flexibility, enable compliance, and reduce risk. The resulting expense reductions, revenue increases, and other benefits, are central for a sustainable IT-Business partnership. Find out how a strategic approach to transformation can deliver greater returns for your business.
1:45 pm	Unified Communications
Room 3027	Sponsored by AOS Stephen Held VP & CIO Leo A Daly Company There are plenty of business drivers that Leo A Daly based their business case on and ultimately chose this path. As well as the potential for additional future capabilities that help to shape the way business is done today and changing for tomorrow. Mainly flexibility, mobility, speed and being able to address the rapidly changing employee environment as well as leveraging the existing infrastructure and resources.
1:45 pm	Tier 1 Application Delivery and Portability Through Virtualized Desktops
Room 3029	Sponsored by IP Pathways Chad Jeffrey Information Technology Manager Madison County Health Care System Today's IT infrastructures are complex, inflexible and growing fast. Storage expenditures keep rising, applications are mission critical, resources are consumed by labor-intensive tasks, management costs are spiraling higher and there are GLBA, SOX , HIPAA and other compliance concerns. This session and live demo will explain how a county hospital is utilizing virtualization and single sign-on solutions to enhance patient care, enable their EMR deployment, access patient information more quickly, achieving application portability and enabling compliance.
1:45 pm	Security Tip: Never Share your password with anyone, ever.
Room 3028 North	Sponsored by Continuum Worldwide Bryan McLaughlin Information Security Officer Creighton University The cost to react to a breach of sensitive information continues to increase, the cost to implement a data loss prevention solution is not cheap, the number of hardware and software vulnerabilities discovered each day is staggering, and the amount of specialized technical expertise to indentify and appropriately react to a loss of data is nearly unaffordable. Despite the doom and gloom this session will discuss how one organization uses an optimal mix of current technology, in house talent, policies and procedures and outsourced expertise to address the protection of sensitive data.
2:45 pm	Server Consolidation and Virtualization Using Blade Server Infrastructure
Room 3027	Sponsored by Net Direct Systems Paul Farrell IT Infrastructure Manager Black Hills Corporation This presentation will highlight one company’s approach to moving from a distributed, single-purpose server environment to a centralized, consolidated and virtualized data center infrastructure. The testing and evaluation process and results will be discussed, as well as lessons learned and how those lessons have been applied.
2:45 pm	Cost-Effective Measures for a Cost-Conscious IT World: "An Efficient Data Center Model"
Room 3029	Scott Irwin President FNTS	Dave Hahn Assistant Vice President Physicians Mutual	Sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
	Data centers are being challenged from both ends: on one side, demand for more storage capacity is growing; on the other, costs for increased power, cooling and facilities are escalating. Customers are demanding innovative, environmentally friendly solutions to streamline IT operations and control costs. At no time in recent memory is enterprise cost-containment a bigger factor, given our uncertain economic climate. Please join our panel for an informative discussion covering these key areas: Present and Future Data Center challenges Implementing more environmentally- friendly data centers Complying with environmental and compliance directives Driving down data center power, cooling and facilities costs Tiered Storage and Virtualization Technology Case Studies:
2:45 pm	Systematically Reducing IT Costs, Showing More IT Value, and Establishing an IT Demand Management Process
Room 3028 North	Sponsored by Apptio John Shepard Director Global IT Infrastructure Starbucks Coffee Company Most IT organizations are being forced to simultaneously reduce costs and provide increasingly competitive advantage to their corporations. A revolution, born from leading edge IT organizations and adopted by ITIL v3 standards, is taking place to help IT deliver on this challenge. IT Cost Transparency provides better understanding of IT service costs, cost drivers, service performance, and comparative Benchmark standing against peer group companies in order to help organizations save money by making better informed decisions. This session will explain the benefits of IT Cost Transparency initiatives and the challenges and results of implementation.
3:45 pm	CIO Panel Presentation
Ballroom	Join these industry leaders in an interactive discussion and 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 what's on the mind of these local executives.
	Brian Young VP of IT Creighton University	Scott Buchholz SVP - CIO Black Hills Corporation
	Thomas J. McAlister CIO infoGROUP	Nancy Dallessio SVP & CIO UNIFI Companies
	Philip R. Ruhlman Chief Information Officer Gallup	Allana Cummings VP & CMIO Children’s Hospital and Medical Center
4:30 pm	Closing Remarks & Cocktail Reception
Ballroom	Enjoy this complimentary cocktail reception 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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June 2nd, 2009

Harper Center, Creighton University, Omaha

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