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Fresh Fruit Bowl, Assorted Cold Cereals w/milk, Array of Chilled Juices, Freshly Brewed Coffee & Teas, Black Forest Ham, Applewood Smoked Bacon, Sausage Links, Tuscany Scrambled Eggs w/ Cheese & Basil, O'Brien Potatoes, Pancakes, and Oatmeal.

Laura Fucci
CIO
Clark County

Robert Tipton
Author & CEO
R S Tipton, Incorporated

The “Status Quo Bias” is a deadly condition... Do you or your organization suffer from it? No question today’s business and IT-related climates are fraught with peril, and the status quo is infecting groups in epidemic proportions. Worse yet, fear is rampant and judgment is skewed — is an event a crisis or an opportunity? Answering this question depends completely on your point of view and state of mind — after all, we see what we’re ready to see... Based upon Robert Tipton’s new book, JUMP! - Get Unstuck, this timely and powerful presentation unlocks the extraordinary power of innovative change. He’ll give you immediate takeaways related to driving higher levels of relevance and sustainability for you and your organization, and will arm you with the details of the JUMP! Innovative Change Model™ toolkit so you’ll be ready to begin creating your own breakthroughs and accelerated performance. Thrive, don’t just survive! For more information about JUMP!, visit http://www.OurJUMP.com and http://www.Facebook.com/OurJUMP

LEARNING POINTS:

1. Understand the Vital Role of Innovation and Creative Process In Business and IT Management Today
2. Detailed Knowledge Related to JUMP! and The Four Stages of Innovative Change:
   1. Get Ready
   2. Incubate
   3. Aha!
   4. Make it Real
3. Specific Tools and Behaviors Needed to Remain Highly Relevant and Marketable
4. An Entirely New Approach to the Status Quo

William Olsen
Director of IT&T Infrastructure
Nevada  Energy

As an industry, utilities are undergoing a major transformation with the introduction of “Smart” technologies into their core businesses. NV Energy is no exception and with this change, the alignment of IT and the business is more critical than ever. Bill will be discussing this transformation, the affects it has on the company and the role that IT is playing to ensure a successful outcome.

Peter Ellis
Senior Software Engineer
Northrop Grumman

In today’s fast changing world, Rapid Application Development could be just what the doctor ordered to keep your BI users/customer feeling good. Getting to market quickly with product solutions is critical in this economy and developing an IT environment that is able to react to customer needs is absolutely a must if you want to get to the market before your competitors do.

• How to find BI initiatives that can impact a company quickly.
• Avoiding the pitfalls of traditional development methodologies.
• Partnering with customers on the development front.
• Understanding the data game within your organization.
• Testing and Turnover.
• Selecting the best tools for the job.
• Prototyping, flexibility and re-use.
• Benefits and concerns of data warehousing.

The information is within your customer data base. The question is, how and what do we mine, and what’s the most effective/efficient method to get content into your customers hands to provide a better experience for your customer so you can keep your current customers and pick up new ones.

Punam Mathur
Vice President, People Resources
Nevada Energy

Developing the Next Generation of Leaders Right Now – Leaders can make or break you. What are you doing today to prepare your organization for the leadership challenges of the ‘new normal.’ What are the competencies and behaviors leaders in your organization must possess to be successful? Are your ‘people systems’ helping or hindering you? What will it take to be a ‘best in class’ organization?O

Adam Goldstein
VP, Information Technology
Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.

One of the biggest challenges facing IT Departments today is how to manage the increasing demand and cost required to provide appropriate resources to run database and other business applications. In addition, developers expect flexible and timely provisioning of resources to manage their dynamic and complex build, test and production environments. In this session, we will explore and discuss concepts and solutions around virtual server deployment and management as well as hardware and networking infrastructure requirements to support this type of environment. Using real-world examples, the moderator will walk through the process he used in evaluating and selecting a solution which addressed these issues.

Angela Klein
Director of Application Support
Wynn/Encore

An overview of what it takes to open a Hotel/Casino from the ground up, the sister property three years later, and a 60,000sf expansion two years later. What are the key success drivers to getting it right the first time while achieving Five Star Five Diamond awards?

Caesar Salad With Parmesan & Croutons ,Field Greens Salad, Ambrosia Salad, Barbequed Lemon-Garlic Chicken Char-Broiled Sirloin Tri-Tip, Baked Orange Roughy, Medley of Mixed Vegetables, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Rolls & Butter, Assorted Desserts , Iced Tea & Lemonade.

Would your CEO characterize your company as an information company?  Does your company see IT as a cost center or a strategic asset?  Do you have the same voice as leaders of other functional units?  Do you shape and enable business strategy, or do you react to it? As leaders of technology organizations, our key challenge can be to find relevance in the world of executive management, operations, and business strategy.  And as a leader, only you can define your relevance.  In this talk we will examine ideas and approaches that make IT executives effective—and keep them that way.

Bill Whelpley
Cloud Computing Expert
IBM

Cloud - isn’t this just an old concept with new marketing hype? What is real? During our time together we will dispel the vapor around cloud, discuss how businesses are implementing cloud computing and how you can take immediate actions to build a more dynamic infrastructure to reduce costs, improve service delivery and enable business innovation. CIO Viewpoint of Cloud Computing

• What are the emerging cloud delivery models and are all vendors speaking the same language?
• What business workloads should and should not be transitioned to the cloud and why?
• What do I need to consider re: security, virtualization, service continuity, availability and complexity?
• What are the benefits and the potential positive financial impact to my business?
• Which companies are early adopters of cloud technologies?
• What are the steps to implementing cloud technologies?
• Open discussion and answers to your cloud question

Matt Birmingham
Manager – CRM Software Development
Grand Canyon University

The fictional TV show "M*A*S*H" followed the 4077th field-medical unit, where the doctors often found themselves getting roused during inopportune times due to unforeseen circumstances. The response to these emergencies often led to scenes of the operating room where the medical heroes often complained about the deplorable working conditions and the "meatball surgery" having to be performed to save lives. If it weren't for a mix of bravery and extreme patient knowledge, many times the patient would not survive.

While not always life or death, many times a company can depend on its surgical analogs, developers, to closely monitor the health of their applications and to quickly respond under crisis and unexpected situations. The appropriate and thoughtful use of an Application Performance Monitoring tool can serve all ownership levels to provide immediate insight into the health of an application. When used correctly, APM can become one of the most powerful tools available to a development and support team.

We will explore how Grand Canyon University has employed Application Performance Monitoring and how it uses the tools available to provide immediate and preemptive support to an application that would have previously only received help after the situation has become "life threatening." Use your APM to turn your team into more "Hawkeyes" by making surgical changes and corrections based on deep understanding of your application's health.

Dr. Lori Temple
Vice Provost for IT
UNLV

Too many projects coming your way from too many sources? Trouble knowing what resources are available for new project requests? Have dozens of projects managed competently but in very different ways by several different project leads? Join us for a discussion of how to keep a pulse on your projects without micromanaging your project team leaders or over committing your resources. Bring to the conversation your most vexing challenges and be ready to share your organizational successes.

Christopher Ipsen
CISO
State of Nevada

Kyle Ginney
SISO
UnitedHealthcare, Nevada Market

Maria Gudewicz
Director of IT Operations/Information Security Officer
University Medical Center of Southern Nevada (UMC)

Paul Mudgett
System Security Officer
NSHE

This panel discussion will cover the security issues you may have in your company. This panel will start with some basic questions and then answer questions from the audience. Questions to kick off the session:

Security Fundamentals:

• The regulatory issues – Logging and Monitoring private information – how are you handling this?
• How do you get vendors to help you conform to the regulatory issues?
• How do you adequately protect end users?
• Formalizing security – where should reporting be – IT, Regulatory, or Legal Departments?
• What strategies are you using to secure budget for the security initiatives you want to do?

Joseph Marcella
CIO/Director of Information Technologies
City of Las Vegas

Bob Schaich
Senior Vice President and CIO
UnitedHealthcare, Nevada Market

Mugunth Viathylingham
CIO
College of Southern Nevada

Sheleen Quish
CIO
Ameristar Casinos

Chris Wilding
CIO
City of Henderson