CIO Chicago Summit Agenda
August 21, 2012

Networking Opportunities & Session Breaks

Executive Exchange

CIO Keynote Presentation

CIO Focus Group

A visionary speaker addresses the entire summit audience on a topic determined by the CIO Content Committee.

Led by a vendor, these sessions allow executives to discuss business drivers within a particular area of technology. Presentations are 15-20 minutes followed by 10-15 minutes of Q&A.

CIO Executive Visions

Analyst Q&A Session

A panel of IT executives has an in-depth discussion on a critical IT business topic. Audience members have an opportunity to pose questions to the panelists and moderator.

A high-impact, open-forum session covering the latest technology research and led by a member of our analyst partner community.

CIO Thought Leadership

Vendor Showcase

Led by a member of the vendor community, these sessions will provide an overview of cutting edge technology topics and pressing business concerns.

Presented by a member of the vendor community, these sessions are divided into three 10-minute long elevator pitches on the newest technology solutions and services.

CIO Think Tank

CIO Case Study

Focusing on a specific topic or initiative, these interactive, open-forum style sessions allow the attending 15-20 executives to discuss best practices and have lively debates.

Learn about recent technology implementations from the IT executives who drove the projects at their organizations. Presentations are followed by Q&A sessions.

CIO/CTO Roundtable

CIO Open Forum Luncheon

An interactive, focused session led by either an analyst, industry expert or member of the vendor community.

Led by a moderator, these sessions allow attendees to have informal discussions on pre-determined technology topics.

CIO Chicago Summit

7:00am - 8:00am

Registration & Greeting to the CIO Chicago Summit
Networking Breakfast

8:10am - 8:50am

Opening CIO Keynote Presentation

Bringing Big Data to the Enterprise

Enterprises are awash with data, easily amassing terabytes and even petabytes of information. It has been estimated that humanity creates around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data - per day. To phrase it differently: 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the past two years: by sensors gathering climate information; through social media interactions; with digital pictures and videos posted online; and by transaction records of in-store purchases, just to name a few.

Big data extends far beyond structured data, including unstructured data of all varieties (such as text, audio, video, click streams, and log files). Big data is often time-sensitive and must be used as it is streaming in to the enterprise to maximize the value to the business. Big data is more than a challenge - it is an opportunity to find insight in new and emerging types of revenue. It is an opportunity to make your business more agile and to answer questions that used to be beyond reach.

This keynote session will discuss the core big data analytics technologies with the components you need to manage, navigate, secure and explore your data.

9:00am - 9:30am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Data Security & Integrity - Gaining Control & Protecting Your Information

Enterprise data security has become a critical issue for business decision-makers when the control over the information is at stake. What can organizations do to secure enterprise data and applications? What strategies and methods can they use to maintain control over who has access to what?

Topics to be discussed:

9:35am - 10:05am

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Building a Mobile App is Not a Mobile Strategy

Everyone wants a mobile strategy, but to make it successful requires thorough planning. Most organizations underinvest in the tecnology and build simple mobile apps purely for the purpose of advertisement.

Here's the catch: building a mobile strategy is more than just having your own application. It means working with third-party mobile apps, mobile ad networks, and using offline marketing to drive the mobility process and provide significant value for the users.

CIO Think Tank

Cloud Gateway - Simplifying your Adoption of SaaS

Desktop virtualization is one of the most transformative technologies to come around in a long time. It is simultaneously simple and powerful, and it promises to revolutionize computing at every level of the organization and beyond. Implementing new technologies, CIOs aim to cut costs, streamline operations, and improve performance. Traditionally judged by three financial criteria: initial capital expense, ongoing operating costs, and time to value, these implementations necessitate complex programming, heavy investments in servers and software, training, and disruptive version control.

This session will discuss how you can fundamentally transform the way you manage desktops today - why it's so beneficial, what it means to users and how it benefits IT and the enterprise.

10:05am - 10:20am

Networking Break

CIO Thought Leadership

From Operational Excellence to Adaptive Processes

Business Process Management (BPM) is a symphony, harmonically coordinating the resource interactions that define how your business does what it does, and distinguishing your company from others. This session will highlight how BPM solutions and technologies can help CIOs and their business to evolve beyond just operational excellence and towards more adaptive processes.

11:00am - 11:30am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Improving your Enterprise IT Efficiency

This presentation will discuss how to improve your IT efficiency (structure, governance, core processes and metrics). We will also address the efficiency challenges in reducing overall cost to serve without impairing business services or degrading delivery of large change programs, and how to deliver new and improved capabilities. We will touch upon areas such as a flexible and secure infrastructure, a robust collaboration platform, improved enterprise data management capabilities, and solutions in CRM/Key Account Management.

11:35am - 12:05pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Maximizing Your Business Performance with Business Intelligence

Recent technology developments may fundamentally change the economic model for Business Intelligence (BI) and deliver an unprecedented ease of use. These products can no longer be viewed as cut-down versions of enterprise-level products, but more as offerings tailored the needs of smaller companies, particularly in ease of use, installation and affordability. Effective enterprise performance management is critical to building a high-performance business, enabling companies to manage shareholder value by organizing, integrating and analyzing financial, operational, competitive and marketplace information.

This session will discuss how CIOs can enable the broadest deployment of BI possible with the aim to create value with IT and maximize their company's overall business performance.

12:10pm - 1:10pm

CIO Networking Luncheon

CIO Think Tank

Mobility Killed the Desktop Star

Smartphones, tablet computers and other personal devices are connecting to an increasing number of corporate networks and the trend continues to gain momentum. With employers and employees alike expecting 24/7 access to company data, ease of access and convenience need to be balanced with industry, security, and compliance requirements.

The days of corporate IT departments distributing and mandating the technology that employees use are being challenged by a new generation of Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) workers who want to decide what technology they utilize. The lines between personal and business computing blur, as employees want a single mobile device to meet all of their needs. While most users focus on the 'simplicity' and 'ease of use' of new devices, they rarely understand the associated complex regulatory and legal concerns. PCI, SOX, HIPAA, GLBA mean little to employees, but are a constant focus for IT executives charged with keeping their computing environment secure and compliant.

This interactive discussion will highlight some industry trends and then launch into a candid discussion of how your peers are confronting these challenges. We'll focus on how to enable technology as a competitive advantage, while being mindful of the responsibility of having control over the flow of data.

CIO Think Tank

Data Management for the Enterprise:
How to Leverage Analytics and Turn Data into Insight

What are the challenges and best practices in effective data management? How can the CIO ensure data quality and integration to provide a holistic customer view and create value?

Predictive analytics helps direct decision making by applying a combination of advanced analytics and decision optimization to an organization's enterprise data. The objective is to improve business processes to meet specific organization goals.

This session will discuss how to establish the data analytics infrastructure required for supporting large scale predictive analytics initiatives for the enterprise.

1:50pm - 2:20pm

Executive Exchange

2:25pm - 2:55pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Risk Management and Cost Optimization

Beyond just reacting to the latest security threats, the CIO need to approach security from the standpoint of risk management, at the same time as growth remains a top priority for most enterprises and IT executives are challenged to provide sustainable management support to increasingly complex business models. When addressing the challenges becomes a survivor factor, it is crucial for IT leaders to be more effective. Developing an IT organization that successful can deliver innovative solutions, efficient risk management and pervasive cost optimization, is a key success factor for any operator.

CIO Think Tank

IT Shared Services

IT shared services goes beyond centralization to recast IT from a cost-center to a powerful support system for business imperatives and general productivity. The concept of IT shared services emphasize efficiency without redundancy, and allow enterprises to gain flexibility on their future sourcing options for delivering IT services globally.

This open-forum session will discuss how organization can achieve major cost savings by consolidating and standardizing IT operations. By aiming for a market-level standard of quality, IT shared services can sustain and build on those improvements while providing greater customer services.

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Making Hadoop-Based Analytics Enterprise-Grade

Hadoop and its Map Reduce data processing framework are enabling organizations to answer critical business questions and reveal competitive insights previously buried deep within their massive data sets. However many CIOs have struggled to run Hadoop and Map Reduce in-house because the software has historically been hard to install, integrate, manage, and use. Some Map Reduce service providers are not providing enterprise-grade features and support CIOs expect in their production environments.

This session will discuss the concerns and solutions for availability, security, performance, scalability, and stability of an Enterprise Map Reduce service.

CIO Executive Visions

Security, Identity Management and Fraud: Future Proofing the Enterprise IT System

American enterprises are facing a new and unprecedented range of risks. The challenges of the current economic climate are not enough, organizations are under pressure to assure the control and protection of sensitive client and employee information. Factors such as increasingly sophisticated security threats and the sheer pace of technology innovation raise the bar substantially, while longstanding questions about trust and confidence must be asked in a new light. In a time of economic constraint that has affected North American organizations more than many others, how do we deal with these challenges - and how do we prepare for what is yet to come?

Topics to be discussed in this insightful executive panel session:

4:40pm - 4:55pm

Closing Remarks