Efm Events

Ben McDavid
Systems Manager
JE Dunn

Disaster Recovery is one of those topics that gets talked about from time to time but inevitably very little action is taken. The fact is, today’s reliance on technology to drive business is unquestionable. Downtime that was once an inconvenience will now cripple an organization. This session will lead you through what JE Dunn did to build a reliable, testable, and scalable DR process. You will learn what we did right, what we could have done better, and what we have planned for the future.

Pierre Barbeau
CEO
Moblico

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?

Keith Kreeger
Director, IT Operations
Kansas City Southern

Larry Sellers
Director of Technology
Stormont-Vail Healthcare

Larry Sellers will present Stormont-Vail Healthcare's practical implementation of BYOD. Stormont-Vail has recently implemented a BYOD offering to its physician and mid-level practitioner populations. Stormont-Vail HealthCare is an integrated health care system serving a 12-county area in northeast Kansas. Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center, located in Topeka, Kan., is a 586-bed acute care center that provides inpatient, outpatient and a variety of community outreach services.

Larry will showcase business drivers that led to the concept, support strategy, end-user use agreements and the technical details of the implementation.

Mike Sargent
Director of Technology
Walsworth Publishing

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.

Rich Perkins
IT Portfolio Manager
Black & Veatch

This presentation will provide a high-level overview of the guiding principles of Black & Veatch’s Knowledge Management practices including insight into that organizations extensive deployment of SharePoint as a KM and Professional Networking platform. This presentation includes discussion and live demonstration of B&V’s SharePoint-based Project, Intranet, Dashboard, Community, and Professional Networking platform.

Shane Maas
IT Manager
Guide One Insurance

Virtualization changed the data center by allowing consolidation, unification and simplified management. The physical footprint of the data center became smaller as underutilized servers were virtualized and consolidated. Fast forward 4-5 years later in the virtualization journey and with expanded capabilities in both hardware and software, we are beginning the 2nd phase of virtualization which we call Data Center 2.0. Data Center 2.0 is about further consolidation and includes Tier 1 applications and desktops. The end state is a more efficient, consolidated, scalable and reliable data center that allows IT to be more reactive to the needs of the business. Shane Maas of GuideOne will discuss GuideOne’s virtualization journey and how Data Center 2.0 is benefiting IT and the business as a whole.

Kathleen Grote

FHLBank Topeka

Ned Fleming

Westar Energy

Randy Haufler

Stormont-Vail

Kevin Yeamans

Security Benefit

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?

Sam Passer
Vice President, Program Services
CommunityAmerica Credit Union

Projects that are approved to move forward in many organizations are not always what’s best for the company. Often times, critical projects are ignored and key areas within the organization are neglected. IT can fall victim to this trap. This session is geared to examining the pitfalls IT projects can face in the approval process and how to better position your projects to have a better chance of being approved and maybe even getting your entire organization excited about your next IT project.

Carl Waldenmaier
CIO & President
ActNow, LLC

“The only thing constant in life is change.”

It is quite apparent that the foundation of Information Technology for business has been shifting beneath our feet, but the question is; are we just waiting for the change to occur or are we embracing it? Carl will discuss the problems with simply reacting to changes in the business environment and explain how embracing disruptive technology in our strategy will put us ahead of the curve and reduce our IT headaches through more strategic planning and creative solutions.

• As CIO/CTO, what do we need to own and manage?
• How can we release our grip on IT platforms and actually get better SLAs
• How to selectively use “the cloud” without sacrificing security and control
• How using primarily Cloud services with a skeleton IT staff brought success in running a Logistics business
• How being proactive to disruptive changes can ultimately empower you

Chris Leon

Performance Contracting Group

Bryan Cole

Lockton Companies

Jeff Holton

SKC