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7:30 am	Attendee Check-In; All American Breakfast Buffet Served: Scrambled Eggs, Bacon, Sausage Links, Country Fried Potatoes, Danish, Rolls, Orange Juice, Fresh Brewed Coffee
8:20 am	Welcome Message
8:30 am	Partnerships: The Secret to Cutting Costs While Increasing Your Competitive Edge
Event Center	Winnie Callahan Ed.D. Director, Business, Education, Government and Medical Innovation University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute How can a Business/University partnership be a win/win for both sides? In this session, Winnie will share three case studies and talk about the strategy for developing a winning partnership while avoiding the pitfalls that often sabotage and/or even discourage such initiatives from starting. This discussion will include: impacts on the “bottom line;” building one’s talent pool; and milking the relationship, from a public relations perspective, for all it’s worth. She will also be highlighting some of the diverse offerings a top University brings to the table and how a company can evaluate these offerings to create its own winning advantage.
9:45 am	Consolidation and Co-Location
Emerald Room	James C. Griffin Jr. Executive Vice-President of Technology Verifications, Inc.	Sponsored by CoSentry Chris Gustafson Senior IT Systems Engineer Verifications, Inc.
	There are many benefits to consolidating. Until recent years the maturity of Data Centers was an area of concern. Now that the technology and management of shared Data Centers have matured to a competency level that data security and reliability are no longer a barrier, how do you prioritize and select which areas of your company’s technical services and applications are prime candidates for consolidation? Furthermore how do you calculate the quantifiable ROI? Jim Griffin and Chris Gustafson will present a real world example of recent projects that have led to the successful consolidation and the value criteria used to prioritize and plan out the migration and consolidation of data and services to a centralized co-located Data Center.
9:45 am	Backup Strategies in Shrinking Backup Windows
Burgundy Room	Sponsored by Data Domain Brian Tonsager College Network Administrator Minnesota West Community and Technical College Shrinking backup windows continue to be a growing problem as the demand for “up time” and 24/7 high availability continues to skyrocket. Data de-duplication and offsite replication plan to play a major role in the future of your backup strategy and data integrity. What is data de-duplication and how can it save me time and money? What is replication and how can every backup be an “offsite” backup? What role does that “offsite” backup play in my disaster recovery plan? How do we better leverage our existing resources to make backing up easier?
9:45 am	What Do Email, Webmail, Mobile Devices and USB Storage Have in Common? Data Leakage!
	Sponsored by RSA Chuck Cinco Managing Officer of Information Security PREMIER Bankcard, LLC With businesses today relying more and more on sharing information and online collaboration, information is flowing more freely than ever. Come listen and gain some insight into the many ways that our data is magically 'leaking' outside of our companies. More importantly, learn how one company leveraged Data Leakage Prevention technologies to stop the leaking.
11:00 am	Application Delivery to the Enterprise
Emerald Room	Sponsored by Emineo Group Jeremy Holt Director of Information Services Grace University The current economic situation has forced many IT departments to cut costs and increase functionality to remain competitive. Grace University has met the challenge by introducing a blend of Citrix technologies, server virtualization, SAN storage, and user terminals. Through these efforts, the university has both provided a highly scalable IT environment, and has broadened its services to include local, remote, and mobile users. Jeremy Holt will detail this process of rethinking the management, delivery, support, and total cost of ownership in this challenging environment.
11:00 am	Software as a Service - Network Monitoring
Burgundy Room	Dave Geiver VP of Technology PREMIER Bankcard, LLC	Sponsored by SDN Communications TJ Reinsch Managing Officer Premier Bankcard
	A frank discussion of the challenges one organization experienced with network monitoring, reporting and alarming systems and the factors that led to their decision to outsource. You'll hear about their successes, challenges and the results of their decision.
11:00 am	Using Project Management Tools to Optimize IT Project Delivery and Operations
	Sponsored by Virtuoso Consulting Jay Ugofsky Manager, Enterprise & Information Technology Services Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc. (SGT) Are you struggling with the demand to provide more value with fewer resources? It seems that not only are we expected to be authorities in technology, but increasingly, we also are expected to illustrate the efficiency that our industry promotes. So how do we achieve greater business value and higher productivity? It comes down to building high performance teams. High performance comes from blending the right mix of management tools necessary to keep the team’s objectives in site and the work flow moving, without getting bogged down by unnecessary process. Generic tools alone are no silver bullet – it is the team that needs to embrace and craft these tools to serve exactly what the organization needs. As IT executives, we need to lead the charge in making sure that our teams are using the right tools, and if not, that they make the tools they have, better.
11:45 am	Callaway Buffet Served: Spicy BBQ Pork Loin, Oven Roasted Chicken, Roasted Baby Red Potatoes with Peppers and Onions, Seasonal Vegetables, Mixed Green Salad with Assorted Dressings, Pasta Salad, Fresh Baked Bread
12:45 pm	Growing South Dakota’s Knowledge Economy
Event Center	Dr. Mel Ustad Director of Commercialization South Dakota Governor's Office of Economic Development The session will provide an update on South Dakota’s economy along with an overview of South Dakota’s economic development initiatives and activities. This will include information on the 2010 Research Centers, Workforce 2025 Initiatives, and target industry sectors. South Dakota’s efforts to meet the workforce challenges of the knowledge economy through programs such as the Dakota Roots program to get former South Dakotans to return home and Dakota Seed internships will be highlighted. The objective of the session will be to make participants more aware of opportunities to work with the Governor’s Office of Economic Development to assist your company and South Dakota to grow and prosper in the knowledge economy of the 21 st century.
1:45 pm	Licensing 101 - The 'Do's and Don'ts' of Software Licensing, Including Both Traditional Software and Software as a Service
Emerald Room	Christopher C. Cain Partner Foley & Lardner LLP Many, if not most businesses today are “extended enterprises” in that they rely on third party software and services to provide key business processes and services to their organization, employees, business partners and customers. These solutions include: Software installed locally (i.e. at the client's business on computers owned by client), "ASP" solutions (Application Service Providers) which host remotely the client's software applications, "SaaS" solutions (Software as a Service) where the client uses a largely generic (i.e. non-client specific) user interface via the web to manipulate and search data for a specific use - sales, finance, etc. Despite IT’s critical importance to the enterprise, too often too little attention is paid to the agreements with software and related service providers, other than trying to get them done as quickly as possible and for the least amount of money. In this breakout, you will learn how to help avoid that result. The breakout will address the following topics: An overview of software agreement key terms, including SaaS agreements, and which areas deserve more attention and why. Key issues and key business points to address up front with the vendor or vendors (if still in vendor selection mode). When should you consider a SaaS or ASP model over traditional software licensing? What are the pros and cons of each? Effective tips on how to get what you want and need from a vendor’s solution
1:45 pm	Key Design Criteria: What to Look For in Your Next Data Center
Burgundy Room	Daniel J. McGrath President Technology Management, Inc Your investment in today’s data center should meet your immediate requirements as well as allow for future growth. Best practices for the design and construction of data centers and other IT mission-critical facilities continue to evolve with significant and favorable improvements. Good design drives operations, availability, energy efficiencies and allows for seamless preventive maintenance and growth. This session will explore the challenges, best practices and trends in data center design and construction. While there is no “one size fits all”, the incorporation of certain design fundamentals will strategically position the data center for maximum return on the investment and enable the greatest flexibility, reliability and energy efficiency in the years ahead.
2:45 pm	Contract Negotiations and Vendor Management
Emerald Room	Troy Clavel Sr. Enterprise Architect Information Dynamics, contractor to USGS This session will discuss methods of contract negotiation and vendor management. In this economy, there are fewer dollars chasing goods and services. Clearly pressure exists to reduce costs whenever possible. The negotiation process can help you to meet this expectation and provide a winning relationship between you the buyer and they as the seller. This applies to both CapEx (Capital Expenditures) and OpEx (Operational Expenditures). The phrase, "Everything is Negotiable" holds true when it comes to technology outlay. Claim your right to negotiate, collaborate to make the negotiation a win / win situation and reduce your business outlay while increasing or maintaining your service levels.
2:45 pm	WAN Optimization Through Data Compression Technology
Burgundy Room	Sponsored by High Point Networks Doug Remboldt Vice President – Technical Services National Information Solutions Cooperative (NISC) Discuss how one organization accelerated WAN throughput without increasing physical bandwidth. We will discuss throughput increases and communication cost reductions. We will also discuss options to increase application performance and availability across the WAN.
3:45 pm	CIO Panel Presentation
Event Center	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 whats on the mind of these local executives.
	Rich Naser Executive Director South Dakota Technology Business Center	Brian Young VP & CIO Creighton University
	Erik VanLaecken CIO / Director, Information Technology Southeast Technical Institute	Mike Dougherty SVP & CIO CNA Surety Corporation
	Troy Larson Sr. Vice President Information Systems MetaBank	Arlyn Broekhuis VP & CIO Sanford Health
4:30 pm	Closing Remarks & Cocktail Reception
Event Center	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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Wednesday November 4, 2009

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