3rd Annual Oklahoma IT Symposium
Previous Events
Wisconsin 2007
Kansas City 2007
Wisconsin 2007
Nebraska 2007
| 7:30 am | Attendee Check-In; Breakfast Buffet |
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| 8:20 am | Welcome Message | |
| 8:30 am | Keeping IT Simple: Innovating Productivity Inside High-Velocity Growth | |
Cathy L. Tompkins SVP IT & CIO Chesapeake Energy Corporation This best practice presentation will highlight:
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| 9:45 am | SandRidge Energy: Discovering Beneath | Exploring Beyond |
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SVP-IT & CIO Sandridge Energy Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, SandRidge Energy, Inc. is a rapidly growing independent natural gas and oil company concentrating in exploration, development and production activities. From 3 employees in Oklahoma City and 60 employees in Amarillo in June 2006 , SandRidge is now 463 strong in Oklahoma City and 2341+ including field operations. SandRidge is now the 6th most active driller in the U.S., and has experienced phenomenal growth in natural gas production and reserves. To effectively implement the information technology infrastructure required to keep pace with the rapid growth, it took the right technology partners, the right attitude and the right relationships. This presentation describes the efforts of those who made a difference from an information technology perspective. |
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| 9:45 am | Sun's ECO Strategy in Action |
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Brian Day
Sr. Program Manager, Sun Microsystems This presentation details the $250M effort Sun has undertaken applying their Eco strategy to their internal operations. Global Lab & Datacenter Design Services (GDS) is the Sun internal organization that bridges the gap between facilities & IT and has lead these datacenter consolidations and energy efficiency principals and designs. Hear Sun's best practices and challenges around going green. ECO is Ecology and Economics. The |
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| 11:00 am | Unified Communications – What’s Your Strategy? | |
 Sponsored by Cox Business
Jerry Moore Director, Client & Network Services Tulsa Technology Center Unified communications is the answer to growing challenge of managing the multiple communication pathways that bombard today’s workforce. Distributed organizations have to contend with standard telephones, mobile phones, PDAs, email, instant messaging, video conferencing and more. Integrating these disparate forms of communication is essential to improving workforce efficiency. Sit-down with us as we review a case study of how Tulsa Technology Center deployed Unified Communications. |
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| 11:00 am | Case Study: Virtual Disaster Recovery | |
Member Management Information Technology, LLC Storage virtualization is the first step toward virtual disaster recovery. With advanced storage area network (SAN) technology managers can easily provision storage for multiple servers, automatically classify and migrate data to the appropriate tiers of storage, and create an unlimited number of recovery points using snapshot technology. Storage virtualization also brings the ability to boot from SAN. For organizations with more than a few servers, deploying and recovering servers can be a laborious task. Boot from SAN offers IT managers numerous advantages compared with booting to direct-attached disks. Booting from SAN reduces complexity, lowers costs and accelerates server recovery. To create a truly virtual data center, IT managers need a holistic storage solution; one that allows fully shared resources and provides complete data protection. Snapshots, or point and time copies of data, protect against data loss or corruption. Your SAN solution should give you the ability to take an unlimited number of space-efficient snapshots and allow you to keep them as long as necessary. This will enable you to design a complete matrix of protection around your data. Storage virtualization using snapshot technology and boot from SAN provides continuous data protection and enables quick response and complete recovery of data and systems. |
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| 11:45 am | Hot Lunch Buffet Served |
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| 12:45 pm | Disaster Recovery Planning - Options Evolve with Newer Technologies |
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 Vice President, Information Technology Security Benefit Corporation |
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| 1:45 pm | Creative Problem-Solving IT Teams | |
 VP for IT University of Central Oklahoma UCO’s Office of Information Technology uses a nontraditional approach to determining who to put on certain project teams or who to use in various stages within a project. Member selection is determined by their innate cognitive process for creative problem solving instead of by their job position. Use of this methodology has revealed skill sets and interests previously unknown to the management team. |
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CTO Kirby-Smith Machinery William Graham, Director of IT for Kirby-Smith Machinery in Oklahoma City will present a case study on lessons learned from moving from analog telephony to VOIP. Mr. Graham will share his experiences of transitioning 200 people in five branches across three states to an integrated VOIP solution and achieving $200,000 annual savings with increased reliability and productivity. Learn how to avoid pitfalls and escape the bonds of legacy systems and achieve success! |
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| 2:45 pm | Human Capital Management at Chesapeake Energy - Delivering the RIGHT Solution | |
IT Director Chesapeake Energy Deploying a new enterprise HR system in any organization can be a daunting effort. Consider an organization going through explosive growth, facing replacement of multiple legacy HR systems, supporting a wide range and maturity of HR practices, requiring an aggressive delivery timetable, and that has never attempted anything similar before. How do you approach this sort of effort? What considerations shape the implementation and support plans? How do you distinguish the right solution from the best solution? What are the notable challenges and what can be done to overcome them? How can you minimize the adverse impacts of change on the organization? This presentation will highlight how the team at Chesapeake Energy addressed these points, and others, to define and deliver the right Human Capital Management solution. Chesapeake Energy’s focus on investing in its workforce helped it become one of Fortune magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” last year. |
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| 2:45 pm | IT Strategy Planning : Enable Business and Technology Transformation | |
VP of Architecture Strategy & Technology Dollar Thrifty Competitive and market drivers are forcing organizations to align IT capabilities to business strategies. IT organizations must meet these business imperatives, while supporting cost reduction initiatives and enhancing quality of service, modernization & supporting new business capabilities. IT Strategy planning provides foundational framework in ensuring alignment across various business and technology transformation initiatives
This presentation will cover key tenets of IT Strategy Planning. This includes ensuring strategic linkage across business imperatives and IT strategies like service optimization initiatives, Virtualization & Server/Storage consolidation and modernization initiatives like SOA, Data Management capabilities. The key goal is to accelerate transformation efforts by alignment to business drivers.
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| 3:45 pm | CIO Panel Presentation |
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 John Soat Senior Executive Editor InformationWeek |
 Mark Brewer SVP & CIO Seagate Technology |
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 John Delano VP & CIO INTEGRIS Health |
 Jeanne Cotter VP & CIO Hobby Lobby |
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| 4:30 pm | Closing Remarks, Cocktail Reception |
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| Enjoy this complimentary cocktail reception hosted by ISLOK featuring an open bar, hors d’oeuvres and conversation. Make this an important element of your attendance to the IT Symposium. The ability to network and collaborate with your peers in an open and no-hype environment will prove to provide long lasting value to your key business initiatives moving forward. |
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