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Jeff Slotnick
CIO
Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics

Hugh Scott
VP
Direct Energy

How will CIOs remain relevant in a hyper-competitive future dominated by consumer technologies, on-demand software and global sourcing? The answer is easy: By reinventing ourselves as “Future-State CIOs” who emphasize the external-facing business strategy part of our role. The hard part is getting to that state from where most of us are today. Illuminating this journey is the top public-facing initiative of the Council in 2010-2011.

In this presentation, a Board member and federal agency deputy CIO, will review the Council's Future-State CIO concept and then focus most of the session on outlining the stages and aspects of the journey from back office, function-focused IT leader of the to business strategist CIO. He'll also preview journey-specific resources coming from the Council aimed at IT managers, current CIOs and the CEO community.

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.

Mark Morris
Director of IS
Wood Group ESP

Chris Clark
Manager, Global Business Process Systems
Wood Group ESP

Wood Group ESP has undertaken an extensive, company wide applications overhaul focused around 4 primary business applications. A core component of this initiative is to enable more reliable and extensive enterprise reporting across these applications with the development of an enterprise data warehouse. Throughout the process, Wood Group ESP focused on delivering incremental value to business users and addressed mission critical reporting with automated report development to replace manual processes.

Todd Park
Director of IT
W&W Steel

Come join Todd Park, Director of IT at W&W Steel as he walks us through their business challenges in managing and moving ever changing data across remote and international offices. Todd will discuss how the environment at W&W Steel has evolved and the technologies implemented to help them stay ahead of company and data growth. He will outline the different solutions implemented along with successes and failures which has brought them to the resilient iSCSI environment now in place across offices from Oklahoma City, OK to Chennai, India. We look forward to seeing you there!

Wes Nichols
System Administrator IV
T. D. Williamson, Inc.

Drowning as we are in TLA’s (three-letter acronyms), all we need is yet another buzzword hatched in some marketing conference room in Silicon Valley. Yet, why is it that we must carry a smart phone on our hip, have a telephone on our desk and tote a laptop? Doesn’t each of those limit us to communicating only in that device’s “native language” - SMS, Voice and Email respectively? And where does Video fit in? Is video conferencing still used only to impress in the board room? UC or Unified Communications might better be called “communications convergence” - the technology platform allowing the business user to choose his / her device of choice for communicating in the manner most effective at the time. In this session we will discuss how one company is taking the acts of communicating, collaborating and sharing ideas and making them device agnostic. We will review the strategy and decision criteria at critical points throughout the process and how we measure success in terms of cost savings.

Doug Eubanks
VP & CIO
NCH Corporation

• The Business has ‘held off’ innovations until the market improves. Personnel are tire and afraid, wanting relief.
• The business has some new ideas and needs to act fast to get ahead. We need an agile, innovative, motivated group to address new processes, new technology, and new opportunities.
• SO … How can the CIO organize in a manner that puts people in roles that their DNA is “wired…#157; for – allowing them great happiness and providing the business high productivity and employee retention?

Baby Field Greens with Cherry Tomatoes, Sliced Cucumbers and Grated Carrots with Spicy Ranch and Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressings, Roasted Vegetable and Black Barley Salad with Roasted Tomatoes, Horseradish Encrusted Salmon Filet, Seared Pork Tenderloin with Sun-Dried Cherry Demi Glaze, Chef’s Selection of Seasonal Vegetables, Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Freshly Baked Rolls and Creamery Butter, A Variety of Assorted Pastries and Cakes, Coffee, Tea and Water Service

Vic Alonzi
Director of IT
Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

Roger Neal
VP & CIO
Duncan Regional Health Systems

Our reality is times are tough and getting tougher for technology leaders and their teams. Every day we see our organizations losing financial ground that result in many technology groups being the first and sometimes hardest hit areas for cutbacks and staff reductions. At the same time, the hardest hit with financial restrictions, technology groups have also seen the workload and expectations for solutions rise to sometimes-unattainable levels. It is a troubling, chaotic and yet opportune time for technology to make an impact in our businesses like no other.

Geared to the technology leader in any industry, this presentation will be a glimpse into ways to help control technology cost, create more efficiency in the technology team and overall have a larger impact in the reshaping of business process than ever before. Contract control, capital acquisition strategy and planning like never before will and can help reduce technology cost while allowing us to produce high-quality processes and systems in our businesses. Using these tools and others can help you, your group, and your business to be more successful in turbulent times.

Again, times are tough, times are getting tougher and the way back to financial success is riding a lot on the success of the technology team, technology leader and their shared and coordinated vision for the businesses they serve. There is a way out, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Now is the time for technology to lead business in a new direction and to help stabilize our economy for future generations.

Will Langford
Director of IT
Golf USA

We will discuss the impact of PCI standards on the small and large retailer alike. Gone are the days of knuckle busters and carbon copies. Locking the file cabinet isn’t enough to protect card holder information. The demands placed by the Payment Card Industry will tax the expert and novice alike in this digital age.

Lloyd Wheeler
Network Operations Manager
Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

Mike Mullane
Database Administrator
Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

It is always great to hear how companies use virtualization in the IT environment to create gains for the business as a whole. Lloyd Wheeler, Network Operations Manager, and Mike Mullane, Database Administrator for Helmerich and Payne (a Tulsa-based energy exploration and production company) will discuss their current Sequel Server virtualization project using a combination of VMware and NetApp’s V-Series to leverage the use of existing storage, and show how they are taking advantage of available NetApp software tools to create, modify, and test SQL databases. Lloyd and Mike will demonstrate how Helmerich and Payne uses virtualization strategies to capture immediate benefits and cost savings, and also discuss how they might use virtualization to help meet their burgeoning business goals and objectives. Be sure to take in Helmerich and Payne’s discoveries, challenges, and best practices as virtualization continues to be one of the premier ways to efficiently navigate the economic terrain.

Effective management of content has become increasingly critical for organizations facing litigation, as they seek to manage potentially discoverable information. Additionally, organizations face heightened oversight from both internal audit and external regulatory bodies. The technology to manage content has become a key part of how an organization approaches its ability to capture, store, manage and produce information.

Today, an estimated 85 to 90 percent of the content created within an organization now exists electronically. Business operations are generating vast volumes of unstructured data – ranging from the content created in desktop applications to the web content and digital assets that are created and used in the course of business. Add to this the growing volume of digital communications – email, as well as the increasing use of instant messaging, PDAs, and voicemail – and it’s clear that today’s organization has many more sources of information to manage than the organization of even just five years ago. This presentation will share best practices and recommendations for how your organization can leverage investments in ECM to manage information for compliance, specifically:

• Where does Records Management fit into the discovery process for litigation, audit, and regulation?
• How does technology serve as the foundation for discovery initiatives?
• Why do we need a program to address discovery issues?
• What does it take to develop and implement a compliance program?
• What is the business case for these programs in the absence of large scale litigations

Alex Pettit
CIO and CTO
State of Oklahoma

Phillip Dodd
Site Coordinator
Norman Regional Health System

Norman Regional Health System will present how they created a desktop environment that simplifies administration while providing health practitioners with better access to applications and patient data. They’ll discuss the business drivers that led them to source a solution that offered centralized management and scalability, that would be easy to deploy and easy to back up. They will review their implementation of VMware View and how it transformed desktop management into a simplified and automated process, reducing the total cost of desktop ownership and providing end users with a consistent high-performance experience. Today they run 300 virtual desktops that provide doctors, nurses, and other staff with ready access to critical applications, such as Meditech, or to imaging servers with X-rays, MRIs, and other medical images. Norman Regional Health System will share best practices and key takeaways from their experience.

Peter Shukis
Project Manager
VHA, Inc.

Traditional "waterfall" methodologies are change-averse and create barriers between the business owners and the development team. VHA's presentation on Iterative Development will show how iterative and agile techniques, combined with the flexibility of an object-oriented architecture, allow for rapid development that is responsive to change while promoting a collaborative atmosphere between developers and business owners. The presentation will also showcase recent successes in creating rapidly-deployed Dashboard, iPhone, & iPad applications. The presentation will discuss specific techniques and strategies that aid the development team in maintaining successful and productive iterations, including: interation planning using Agile Poker, tracking development progress with Burndown Charts and converting existing Dashboards into Mobile Applications for iPhone and iPad devices.

David Baisden
Captain
Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office

United States Department of Justice Office of Civil Rights conducted a site visit of the detention facility and recommended replacement of current system. Captain Baisden, contacted the Northeastern Office of the National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) in Rome New York which specializes in video and audio technology.

Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office purchased one hundred and thirty eight either one or five megapixel cameras. Other components purchased were Dell servers, switches and workstations; Pivot3 storage solution and Samsung 40” televisions. Over the course of a month and a half the installation was completed.

When altercations broke out in the facility the old system cameras were never in the right place or only caught a portion of the altercation as it moved by the incident. Before the installation of the fixed megapixel system investigation of altercation’s took days, weeks or inconclusive. In the first thirty days after installation investigative time was reduced from days or weeks to minutes and over thirty charges were submitted in the first thirty days.

Not only did we save investigative time, installation labor but also will save millions of dollars in frivolous tort claims in future years. By installing the system ourselves we know every piece of the system and saved thousands of dollars on installation which is a model in itself for other public safety agencies.