Efm Events

The Americana Breakfast Buffet: Fresh Chilled Juices, Fluffy Scrambled Eggs, Crispy Bacon and Grilled Pork Sausage, Breakfast Potatoes, Assorted Dry Cereals and Milk Assorted Breakfast Pastries, Coffee, Decaffeinated Coffee, Tea

Todd Louden
Manager IT CRM Applications
Roche Diagnostics

Rhonda Winter
CIO
Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Rhonda’s discussion will focus on the importance of building a high performance team, finding the road map to drive that team’s day to day success and the delicate balance of when to push for acceleration to achieve optimum results. Teambuilding actually starts with establishing comfort for each individual team member in their own ‘4 square feet’ and pushing to pass results in winning only if the request is well placed in the journey and used with caution.

Robert Tipton
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

Mike Rubesch
Executive Director of Systems & Operations
Purdue University

There are many ways to measure how efficiently you are using your storage capacity. Cost per raw TB, per usable TB, percent allocated, active vs inactive, structured vs unstructured are some common ways to look at storage capacity. Is the way you "use" your storage capacity on auto-pilot? Do you wonder if there are any wasted resources yet you keep buying more? What about the data itself -- do you have any idea what percentage of your total capacity footprint is actually active and "in-use?” Would you be shocked if that number was 20% or lower? If you are purchasing physical capacity on a regular basis, does that growth rate concern you? There are many reasons why most IT environments would be considered "inefficient" when it comes to storage resources. This session is going to discuss what capacity efficiency problems exist today and what can be done to improve them.

Pat O’Day
CTO
BlueLock

Tossed Garden Salad, Seasonal Fresh Fruit Display, Marinated Breast of Chicken, Roast Pork Loin Glazed, Roasted Garlic Yukon Potatoes with Coffee, Decaffeinated Coffee, Tea, House Breads and Butter Chef’s Choice of Vegetable and Desserts

Gail Farnsley
Visiting Professor, Computer & IT
Purdue University

Next Generation Data Protection Strategies

David Muegge
IT Architect
Baldwin & Lyons, Inc.

The need for data protection and the resulting challenges are something every business faces. These challenges can be considerable in today’s IT environment with shrinking budgets and growing data. This solution implementation review will provide insight into how one company dealt with the challenges. The discussion will highlight some of the latest technology and also show the effective reuse of some older technology.

Topics Include

• Challenges with legacy technology
• Solution choices and decisions
• Data de-duplication implementation (Data Domain)
• Software implementation (NetBackup and Open Storage)
• Benefits and savings
• Positioning for the future

For the past several years at Amerisure Insurance, “getting rid of the mainframe” was on the list of top IT objectives, but nothing was ever done to “move the ball forward”. Now that we streamlined our architecture through Strategic Virtualization, we turned our attention to this 900-pound gorilla” in our infrastructure. This session is perfect for you if you have a mainframe that you’ve talked about eliminating for years but just didn’t know where to begin or how to approach (it can be overwhelming). The beauty of this approach is that it keeps those critical applications that you need to support the business, but on a modern architecture at a much lower cost. You will now have the funds that you’ve saved to decide if you need to rewrite or replace the application without disrupting business functionality.

Jospeph Indaino
Director, Networks & Systems
Butler University

Desktop virtualization is on most organization’s agenda today.   I.T. departments are looking for the same gains on the desktop that were found in the virtual server environment.  But the desktop model is different.  And based upon how the desktop will be used, the cost will vary.  These variances will force IT to look deeper at how they build, deploy and market virtual desktops to their customer.  This session will review a desktop virtualization pilot, the lessons learned in the cost and infrastructure to support it, and how a modeled approach will help apply the appropriate cost and technology to the different business needs.

Diane Holmes
Director, Enterprise Services
Broadlane

The Broadlane Group provides solutions for healthcare providers to dramatically improve their operating margins. To support its business Broadlane has made extensive use of outsourcing and has what feels is a best in class outsourcing model. In this case study the Broadlane IT executive responsible for the agreements will discuss the process used to establish a top quartile contract for IT services.

• Comparing Current State vs. Best in Class as a starting point
• Assessing the Sourcing Options
• Developing the Best Contract and Managing Ongoing Service Delivery

Sam Newberry
Senior Director of Cloud Operations
nGenX Corporation

Robert Tipton
CEO
R S Tipton, Incorporated

Paul Quinn
SEO and CIO
Duke Realty Corporation

Steve Shannon
VP and CIO
Bell Industries

Laurie Rolston
Business I/S Leader
Dow AgroSciences

Debbie Babcock
Director of Information Technology & Facilities
Planned Parenthood of Indiana

Ron Thieme
VP and CIO
AIT Laboratories