Efm Events

Sliced Fresh Fruit, Scrambled Eggs with Jack and Cheddar Cheese, Crisp Breakfast Potatoes, Applewood Smoked Bacon, Muesli, Granola and Low-fat Milk, Cranberry and Zucchini Breakfast Breads, Individual Fruit Yogurts, Medley of Seasonal Fruit Juices, Starbucks® Coffee and TAZO® Teas

Fred Mapp
Author, President and CEO
Quality Service Solutions

Fred Mapp
Author, President and CEO
Quality Service Solutions

With an ever-changing global economic climate, increases in the costs of doing business and extremely competitive marketplace, more and more responsibility is being placed on the planning efforts of the IT organization and their ability to implement technology that will improve profitability and drive business growth. How effective is your planning process to assist the business in achieving their objectives? Is your company spending enormous time and energy on strategic planning development with little to show for your efforts? What are the reasons for things not getting done as planned? Is it a cultural or lack of buy-in issue?

To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy plan into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This session will cover steps to continually ask the right questions to ensure your IT strategic plan has business focus and remains valid throughout the year. In addition this session will be the introduction to a panel discussion being held this afternoon consisting of IT leaders discussing what initiatives they have implemented to address these issues.

Jason Bredimus
Vice President, Global IT Infrastructure
Fender Musical Instruments Corp.

This panel will offer a forthcoming perspective on how mobile technology will shape the way companies continue to do business, and how the IT organization will have to adapt to what experts consider the inevitable mix and match environment of the very near future.

• What is your current mobile environment, and where do you see it in the next five years?
• What is your current mobile strategy? How do you see it changing in the future?
• How do you see Mobile being leveraged in the Future?
• Are you currently developing your own internal apps? Consumer Facing or Non-Consumer Facing?

Harold Dibler
Managing Director of IS Client Services
Best Western

This session will provide an overview on website and application tuning for high performance. While our transaction volume continues to increase, we constantly track, trend and monitor our performance to improve response time. Join Harold Dibler to learn more about Best Western’s tracking methodology, tools used and performance results they have achieved.

Chris Sinkwitz
Director of Applications
Meritage Homes

Tomato Basil Bisque, Caprese Salad, Melon and Proscuitto Salad, Chicken Piccatta, Italian Sausage with Peppers, Pasta Primavera with Seasonal Vegetables and Housemade Marinara, Cheese Tortellini with Pesto Cream Sauce, Tiramisu, Cannoli and Biscotti, Iced Tea, Starbucks® Coffee and TAZO® Teas

Chris Roberts
Founder, CISO and Chief Geek
One World Labs

Chris (CEO of One World Labs) is going to take a long, hard look at the basics that are still unprotected in our IT environments, as well as examining some of the upcoming technologies being implemented... and the challenges with them. Be sure to disable your BlueTooth, leave your luxury car at home, and switch off all the electronics!

Mr. Roberts will cover topics including risk reduction, policy implementation, systems configuration and other areas of interest to both the technical audience as well as the executive leadership. The discussion will provide an understanding of technical considerations as well as the business, fiduciary and legal responsibilities within any organization. The presentation will also examine business awareness to the security climate in today's world, and how Information Security should be reacting and working with clients.

Chris will also discuss the impact of both technical and policy-based solutions giving examples, case studies and real world examples of where ideas have both worked and fallen on the rocks. Finally, there will be a review of proactive options for intelligence gathering and preemptive threat analysis techniques to help attendees understand the security threats facing them today and how to protect against them. The session will review threat modeling, risk assessments and talk about the successful implementations of Information Security Threat Models.

David Moore
Chief Information Officer
Sonora Quest Laboratories

Tony Portela
Corporate Director of IT
Suntron Corporation

Scott Cusanek
Sr. Director of IT
Arizona Public Service Company

Brian Westphal
Vice President of Information Technology
ManpowerGroup - North American Finance

Fred Mapp
Author, President and CEO
Quality Service Solutions

Thaddeus J. Crawford
VP Information Technology
Cable One Inc.

Bret Wingert
Vice President, IT Operations
Insight

Jim Whitfill, M.D.
CIO
Scottsdale Medical Imaging