4th Annual Oklahoma IT Symposium
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| 7:30 am | Attendee Check-In; Breakfast Buffet The Classic Breakfast Buffet - Sliced Seasonal Fruit, Scrambled Eggs, Hickory Smoked Bacon and Sausage Links, Breakfast Potatoes, Biscuits and Country Sausage Gravy, Fresh Pastries and Muffins, Butter and Assorted Preserves |
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| 8:20 am | Welcome Message | |||
| 8:30 am | How to Invest Wisely in IT During Recessionary Times | |||
| International Ballroom |  Gene Phifer Managing VP Gartner Research The global recession is challenging many enterprises to significantly slash budgets. It is imperative that IT be able to contribute not only with reduced budgets, but also with initiatives that can assist the rest of the business to attain their budget goals. At the same time, wise enterprises are looking for tactical investment opportunities, especially in customer facing initiatives. And even wiser enterprises are preparing themselves for the end of the recession and return to growth. What technologies, sourcing options, and alternatives are best suited to help enterprises reach these goals? We will examine four key areas and provide prescriptive guidance in each:
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| 9:45 am | Transforming an IT Department from a Domestic to a Global Service Organization
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| Westminster |  Rick Bennett Director, Information Technology T.D. Williamson, Inc. In a global economy, you will eventually be asked to execute an Information Technology strategy outside of the United States. Over the last four years, T.D. Williamson has functionalized Information Technology to thirty-seven countries around the world. This presentation is for IT leadership and will discuss the business/technology challenges along with lessons learned in the following areas: areas business unit alignment, service culture, infrastructure, telecommunications and application systems. |
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| Gilcrease |
Richard Harris
Director of IT First Financial Network Richard Harris, Vice President of IT Infrastructure, will discuss how First Financial Network designed and implemented a virtual DR environment that really works. Faced with daunting regulatory demands and relentless availability requirements from their customers, First Financial Network needed to implement and test their system without disruption to the operations. Mr. Harris will take you through the issues they faced and the decisions they made on the road to a successful implementation of two remote replicating Storage Area Networks and describe their environment, before and after. |
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| 9:45 am | Virtualization Best Practice: Bank of Fayetteville | |||
| Russell |
SVP, IT Bank of Fayetteville Les Barnes, Senior Vice President of IT, will discuss how The Bank of Fayetteville designed and deployed our virtual data centers utilizing VMware with Dell EqualLogic SANs as the shared data storage infrastructure. He will discuss best practice recommendations for creating LUNs to support medium I/O Microsoft SQL databases running document imaging, check imaging, CRM applications, and file servers. Mr. Barnes will also discuss their environment and how The Bank of Fayetteville uses the SAN snapshot and replication functions to test disaster recovery, and the recovery issues that virtualization addressed. |
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| 11:00 am | Outsourcing: Panel Discussion on Outsourcing Hype, Reality, Risks and Benefits | |||
| Westminster | 
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 Dennis Rygwalski CIO Bank of Oklahoma |
 Dan Barth CIO OPUBCO Communications Group |
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| Seeking an Outsourced Model that Fits: In shifting to an outsourced model, organizations are usually faced with the challenge of determining what functions to outsource and what to retain in-house. Hear a panel of CIO’s discuss areas, drivers, risks, critical success factors, and benefits you need to consider before you embark on the outsourcing relationship. | ||||
| 11:00 am | A Cost Effective Approach to the Perpetual Arms Race | |||
| Gilcrease |
Marcia MacLeod CIO and VP Williams |
Director, IT Security Williams |
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| Regulatory mandates, cyber security, and governance issues has become a critical element in IT decisions in the same way that outsourcing, e-business, client/server, ERP, service-oriented architecture (SOA), cloud computing and other major technological innovations have in recent years. Addressing these issues without a solid holistic approach to IT risk management can quickly drain scarce resources. Applying a Governance-Risk–Compliance (GRC) approach can assist in minimizing the cost of mitigation across multiple risk exposures. | ||||
| 11:00 am | Turning Away Attackers Without Turning Away Customers | |||
| Russell |
Partner Netbriar Current security technologies rely heavily on knowing about specific attacks before they happen. With increases in distributed attacks that may not even exploit a security vulnerability, it becomes increasingly important to find a way to turn away attackers without also turning away customers. Jeff Bewley explores the specific methods that two very large customers have implemented to control these emerging attacks without blocking any of their legitimate customers. |
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| 11:45 am |
Lunch Buffet Served |
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| 12:45 pm | Less Money, More Work and Rising Expectations: What Did I Get Myself Into? |
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| International Ballroom |
Duncan Regional Health Systems Our reality is times are tough and getting tougher for technology leaders and their teams. Every day we see our organizations losing financial ground that result in many technology groups being the first and sometimes hardest hit areas for cutbacks and staff reductions. At the same time, the hardest hit with financial restrictions, technology groups have also seen the workload and expectations for solutions rise to sometimes-unattainable levels. It is a troubling, chaotic and yet opportune time for technology to make an impact in our businesses like no other. Geared to the technology leader in any industry, this presentation will be a glimpse into ways to help control technology cost, create more efficiency in the technology team and overall have a larger impact in the reshaping of business process than ever before. Contract control, capital acquisition strategy and planning like never before will and can help reduce technology cost while allowing us to produce high-quality processes and systems in our businesses. Using these tools and others can help you, your group, and your business to be more successful in turbulent times. Again, times are tough, times are getting tougher and the way back to financial success is riding a lot on the success of the technology team, technology leader and their shared and coordinated vision for the businesses they serve. There is a way out, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Now is the time for technology to lead business in a new direction and to help stabilize our economy for future generations. |
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| 1:45 pm | Cost-Effective Measures for a Cost-Conscious IT World: "An Efficient Data Center Model |
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| International Ballroom |  Gene Rindels Director of IT Ditch Witch |
Stan Martin |
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Please join our panel for an informative discussion covering these key areas:
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| 1:45 pm | Measurement Practices for Successful Software Projects | |||
| Westminster |
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| Lonnie will speak on the dependability of FPA as a measurement tool, including its strengths and weaknesses in different environments, technologies, and shops. He will cites real-world examples of projects that were developed successfully as a result of FPA. And he will touch on the FPA learning curve and strategies to integrate it successfully into an IT shop’s culture. Brett will give a testimonial on the value of Function Point Analysis as a measurement tool from the point of view of a business unit stakeholder. |
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| 1:45 pm | Managing Performance in a Transparent Environment | |||
| Gilcrease |
Performance Management Specialist Presbyterian Healthcare Services One of the greatest challenges in a high-performance culture is how to share critical performance measures across the entire organization. Additionally, how does one get a performance management initiative off the ground in the first place? In this presentation Molly Payne will discuss the performance management challenges faced by Presbyterian Healthcare Services when it began its journey to national excellence through the pursuit of the Baldrige Award. Ms. Payne will share how the organization implemented its performance management paradigm and how it has been able to share key performance indicators with all 9000 of its employees. She will also discuss how Presbyterian’s performance management initiative has grown, and how the organization has become an enterprise of knowledge sharing and information transparency. |
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| 1:45 pm | Challenges of Responding to Rapid Growth in a Small Company | |||
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CIO Weather Decision Technology Matt Orr, CIO of Weather Decision Technologies, will discuss the challenges of growing IT infrastructure at a rapid pace while working in a small company environment. Everyone has seen the shipping commercial where a small company sits watching a counter of their sales begin to roll and suddenly the number spins out of control. A look of panic sets in on the manager’s faces. When this happens decisions have to be made can make or break a small company. Do we hire additional employees or buy more servers? Can we handle this in house or do we need to use external resources? We will discuss the decisions that WDT made from an IT standpoint that allowed it to prosper and become one of the largest weather content providers in the country. |
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| 2:45 pm | Healthcare Reform ... Implications for Businesses' Information Technology | |||
| Westminster |  Jerry Scherer VP, ITG HCSC |
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| Multiple drivers influence businesses' approach to providing for employee healthcare needs. This session will provide a Healthcare Reform update, discuss how reforms impact the healthcare industry and identify actions business Technology Leaders are taking to position for the new healthcare realities. | ||||
| 2:45 pm | The Power of Virtualization |
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| Gilcrease |
CIO HoganTaylor LLP Steve Perkins, CIO at HoganTaylor LLP in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, will provide a timely and relevant case study of the company’s recent VMware implementation. He will discuss the project scope and scale, and offer the cost savings returned from the implementation. If you are considering a similar implementation, you will benefit from hearing his experiences and how he approached challenges, as well as gain his valuable insights. |
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| 2:45 pm | Implementing a Global Internet Site With SharePoint: TDWilliamson.com under the hood |
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| Russell | 
Sponsored by SpringPoint Global Web Master T.D. Williamson, Inc. |
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| 3:45 pm | CIO Panel Presentation |
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 Chuck Dougherty CIO Chickasaw Nation |
 Dr. John M. Schleede Dean, College of Business & Technology Northeastern State University |
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 Vic Alonzi Director of IT Helmerich & Payne, Inc |
 Chris Truesdell CIO QuikTrip |
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 John Delano VP & CIO INTEGRIS Health |
 Rudy Erb CIO Bancinsure |
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| 4:30 pm | Closing Remarks & Cocktail Reception | |||
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