Efm Events

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Keri Pearlson
President
SIM Austin

Victor Fetter
VP & CIO of Online Engineering
Dell

Tired of doing the same old thing? Are you interested in discussing how to create business value? Strategic platforms are increasingly demonstrating the power of being an enabler for innovation, velocity and opening new markets and revenue streams. Come join the discussion and explore ways to capitalize on the tectonic shifts occurring in IT and discover how to move from business alignment to a world where you can be a leader in creating new ecosystems for your organization.

Shawn Dunn
Manager of Servers & Storage
International Paper

This session will discuss a practical approach to virtualizing your x86 environment. The methods described in this session allowed a fortune 1000 company to achieve almost a 90% virtual server environment in less than 4 years. We will discuss the history, the approach, the challenges and the successes. We will also discuss this same companies approach to virtual desktops including their pitfalls and potentials.

Agenda:

• The challenges: Licensing, ownership, perception & performance
• The approach: Negotiation, open arms & tuning
• The success: Cost savings, recovery times and methods.
• The pitfalls and potentials of virtual desktops.

Stephen C. Finnerty
VP GIS Technology and Vendor Services
Applied Materials

Heather Sterk
IT Director
Beckett Associates

Would your employees, partners, and Sales Reps welcome a google-like self service Business Intelligence solution? See how Beckett Associates, North America’s largest distributor of trading cards, used visual analytics to develop a solution in less than four weeks that handled the large data volume of nearly 15-20 million rows of records from multiple sources. Their solution enabled self-service reporting and analysis, improved inventory management, prevented unusable merchandise, increased revenue, and gave them the ability to stay up to date with the latest industry trends.

Alan Claypool
CIO
Austin Energy

Smart decisions for families and businesses are derived from information gleaned from the vast amount of data generated by the utilities. The decisions start with balancing their objectives and desires; some are binary in need, others want very detailed usage. Key points of discussion are our experiences with connecting customers with information using a portal and enterprise service bus.

Mohammed Farooq
Former CTO
State of Texas

In this session, Mohammed will discuss the lessons learned from this pioneering new cloud services broker model. In this model, enterprise IT, acts as a broker and provides IT user’s access to multiple cloud service choices. The cloud broker platform enables users to design solutions, buy cloud services, deploy solutions and control cost/resources/SLA. The session will discuss in detail what applications are best suited for the cloud , what new IT processes and skills are required to successfully adopt and operate the cloud. For CIO’s, the session will discuss the economics of cloud and identify areas with highest savings potential when compared to the current IT model. CIO’s can get a in-depth perspective from a live case study on what worked, what did not work, where are the high risk areas in technology and operations, what is the hidden cost of going cloud and what to expect from cloud providers with respect to pricing, support and SLA’s.

Eric Hungate
CIO
The Texas Association of School Boards

New generations of employees and the fast pace of smart technology have pushed many companies to address personally owned devices in the workplace.  This is  requiring  IT organizations to address this concept with flexibility without compromising security and legal and regulatory requirements.   This breakout will be an Open Forum sharing lessons learned on how different companies are dealing with the demand to bring you own device to work, the governance you need to put around this concept, and the overall impact it can make on your company. 

Specific areas of conversation will include:

• Exploring the Movement towards Device Agnostic Infrastructure
• Governance
• End-User Support
• Security
• Regulatory & Legal Issues
• Emerging Capabilities
• Licensing Issues
• Device Choices - laptops, pdas, BlackBerry, Smartphone’s, iPads, etc...

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Karl Wachs
CIO
Haas International

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.

Charles Brett
Principal Consultant
Delve

Across all industries, organizations are struggling to keep up with the growing volumes of electronic information stored on their systems. Structured data in applications, images in enterprise content management systems, office documents on shared drives and SharePoint, Social Media and of course emails and attachments are all growing at 40% - 60% annually at most organizations--with no signs of slowing down. The costs and risks of this digital landfill are enormous: e-discovery, operational inefficiencies, and, of course, IT storage. In this session, you'll learn how leading organizations are beginning to address the digital landfill problem through information lifecycle governance (ILG), which uses a combination of cutting-edge technologies, defensible disposition methodologies, and governance mechanisms not only to slow the growth of information going forwards, but reduce the amount of historical information stored in structured and unstructured repositories.

Jerry Sheets
Senior Consultant
Resource Advantage Inc.

Public and Private Sector executives are constantly challenged to do more with less. Learn how the State of Utah, Division of Construction and Facilities Management (DFCM) has leveraged a blend of commercial and open source Business Intelligence tools to increase service to both internal and external customers while dramatically reducing its costs.

Keri Pearlson
President
SIM Austin

Dr. Keri Pearlson of KP Partners will lead a session on “The Six Conversations the CIO Must Have about Social Business.” Social business is much more than using social media to engage customers. Forward thinking businesses have found ways to collaborate, innovate and engage in new and strategic ways to bud a social business. Building a social business is fast becoming one of the top issues facing IT leaders in every company. Have you started to form your Social Business Strategy? Dr. Pearlson will share the findings of her research about what forward thinking companies are doing and lead a discussion about what the CIOs role is in helping lead the social business strategy formulation process.

Eric Matthews
Deputy CIO - Application
City of Richardson

The city of Richardson, Texas brought a business intelligence solution to its departmental workflows in 2006. Utilizing Information Builders' WebFOCUS, nearly every department has found a way to report on and streamline operations based on reporting that helps local government make better decisions. This session will look at how innovative reporting for code enforcement, payroll, public safety, water usage, and a variety of other areas has helped Richardson run smarter. Examples include not only standard web-based reporting, but also geographic mapping and mobile device delivery. This presentation shows how internal resources and a small budget can still deliver a best-of-breed solution that helps drive value for the city and community.

Russ Finney
Former VP & CIO
Tokyo Electron

Karen Robinson
CIO
The State of Texas

Jeff Smedley
CIO
J&J Worldwide Services

Sam Coursen
Former CIO
Freescale Semiconductor

Karl Wachs
CIO
Haas International

Eric Hungate
CIO
The Texas Association of School Boards