KEYNOTE SESSION : "COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION: THE NEXT MARKET TRANSITION"
Speaker: Sheila Jordan, VP – Communication & Collaboration IT, Cisco Systems
Discussion: The Web is evolving and Cisco is at the forefront of this dynamic new collaborative network that is as much about creating new behaviors, new business models, and driving adoption rates as it is technology. Learn how Cisco is extending the power of Web 2.0 to its customers, partners, and employees through the use of richer applications, open communication, and the collective intelligence of collaboration to drive productivity, growth and innovation by delivering a world-class user experience.

BREAKOUT PANEL: “NEXT GENERATION IT: ACHIEVING ARCHITECTURAL AGILITY AND PROCESS STABILITY”
Moderator: Paul Penny, CTO & Director, Consulting & Advisory Services, Consonus Technologies
Panelists: Tony Vaden, CIO, American Tire Distribution
Kim Richter, VP – IT Service Management & Transformation, TIAA-CREF
Discussion: CIOs and IT leaders are under ever-increasing pressure to rapidly develop and deliver innovative solutions to meet the changing needs and scale of the business. Meanwhile, they are also expected to deliver higher levels of service at lower cost. Achieving these seemingly conflicting objectives require a combination of architecture and process improvements. In this session, better understand trends and best practices for increasing IT Agility through architectural improvements, while also improving reliability, service levels and business alignment through process improvements. Panelists will share their experiences with evolving IT Architectures and with ITIL Best Practices.

BREAKOUT SESSION: " SAP MOBILE SOLUTIONS ENABLE EFFICIENCY & PRODUCTIVITY"
Moderated by: Sean Epstein, Senior Principal, SAP Value Engineering
Panelists: Robert Tennant, CIO Barloworld Industrial Distribution
Discussion: SAP is pleased to present a conversation with Robert Tennant, CIO of Barloworld Industrial Distribution. Mr. Tennant will discuss the successful implementation of SAP mobile technology that helps companies link back-office processes to the mobile devices of service workers on the road. By leveraging enterprise service-oriented architecture, composite applications from SAP connect handheld devices to business data and processes located in the home office. Barloworld Handling UK, a division of Barloworld Industrial Distribution and the UK distributor of Hyster fork lifts, has implemented an SAP composite application for mobile business to provide its more than 600 service technicians with remote access to the information they need to be more productive and make better business decisions. As a result of the implementation, Barloworld Handling UK is seeing an increase in worker productivity and customer service, and a decrease in overhead costs.

BREAK – SOLUTIONS EXCHANGE PAVILION

BREAKOUT SESSION: “STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION WITHIN A SERVICE ORIENTED FRAMEWORK”
Moderated by: Hubert Yoshida, Hitachi Data Systems, VP & CTO,
Panelists: Kep Disney, Storage Architect, Greenville Hospital System
James Kluttz, CTO, Novant Health, Inc.
Business Problem: Storage virtualization as a function of managing complex storage environments and exponential data growth.
IT Solution: Storage virtualization within a services oriented framework for managing dynamic storage environments.
Discussion: Nowhere is the exponential growth of data felt more acutely than in the world of enterprise storage. In fact, the growth of storage budgets now threatens to eclipse the growth of an organization's overall IT budget. Instead of continuing to add more storage systems and significantly more management complexity, a more cost-effective, sustainable approach is required. That new approach is a Services Oriented Approach to storage. This session will offer Services Oriented Storage Solution (SOSS), a strategy for overall management of dynamic storage environments.

BREAKOUT PANEL: “DRIVING STRATEGIC BUSINESS VALUE THROUGH ANALYTICS”
Moderated by: Dan Russell, VP, Ciber
Panelists: Joyce Norris-Montanari, Principal Architect, Enterprise Integration Practice, CIBER
Steve Morgan, Manager EDM Integration & ICC, Duke Energy
Dr. Rick Kochhar, Formerly Wachovia Business Executive, Risk Information Strategy
Discussion: Do you want to want to increase the business value delivered by IT and improve the overall perception of IT? If so, attend this interactive panel of Business and IT Executives along with an Industry Expert in BI Analytics. Case studies and key focus areas for discussion will include:

• Business Executive View: Value received from utilizing analytics for business performance metrics, customer analysis and operations analysis!
• IT Executive View: How IT should approach the business and the process of gaining business sponsorship, creating charters and developing strategies for Business Intelligence!
• Industry Expert View: Best practices for planning and executing a successful BI Roadmap and Initiatives!

INTEGRATING LOCATION INTO ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION-MAKING AND ENHANCED DELIVERY OF SERVICES”
Moderated by: Twyla McDermott, GIS Manager/Corp. Technology Planner, Office of the CIO, City of Charlotte
Panelists: Ted Northrup, Proprietor, The Map Shop
Tom Calhoun, IT Manager, Engineering & Property Management, City of Charlotte
Discussion: Geospatial Information Systems and Technologies (GIS/T) are unparalleled in their abilities to enhance decision making and delivery of services. This panel will highlight geospatial program and project components necessary for better decisions by anyone at any level in any industry in public, academic and private sectors. The panelists will identify how they’re using GIS to provide Location-based services, make administrative decisions and generally drive business.

LUNCHEON KEYNOTE PANEL: “DEMYSTIFYING BUSINESS SERVICE MANAGEMENT & CONFIGUARATION MANAGEMENT DATABASES (CMDBs)”
Moderated by: Arthur Allen, CEO, ASG Software
Panelists: John Connor, CTO, ASG Software
Claudia Vera, Sr. Manager of IS, Florida Hospital
Discussion: Please join ASG CEO Arthur Allen, and CTO John Connor, to learn how companies are successfully approaching Business Service Management (BSM) and Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs). ASG will share recently completed market research and feedback from their meetings with over 100 CIOs in how they are successfully demystifying BSM and CMDB. In addition, ASG will be joined by one of their BSM clients in this informative panel discussion. Learn first hand how to make it work for you.

“WORKSHOP: “IMPROVING YOUR EFFECTIVENESS – A WORKSHOP DEDICATED TO YOUR SUCCESS”
Facilitated by: Alan Guibord, Chairman & Founder, The Advisory Council and former CEO, Computerworld, former CIO, R.R. Donnelley & Sons
Workshop: This executive session is designed to be a group learning experience based on career management challenges. This workshop will include a group work session based on actual career situations. Each group will present its findings, followed by open discussion and sharing of ideas. In addition, the actual results of the situation will be presented. Learn from the experts as well as your peers. Take a huge leap towards enhancing your career

BREAKOUT SESSION: “PLANTING GREEN IN IT”
Moderated by: Crafton Timmerman, Project Manager, Wachovia Corp.
Panelists: Sunil Tandon, CTO & Acting CIO, GMAC
Mark Sparling, Sr. Consultant to Wachovia Corp.
Elizabeth Hindal, VP, Output & Imaging Services and Workplace Mobility, Wachovia Corp.
Discussion: All C – level executives and IT managers are faced with how to approach and leverage efforts to address sustainability driven by cost savings, social responsibility or in most cases, both.Major considerations are in place on how sustainability pays, the best targets for effect immediate change, and as always, the number one consideration being the bottom line.

BREAKOUT PANEL: “LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT – It’s Personal”
Moderated by: Jim Lamoin, Regional Leadership Forum Facilitator
Panelists: Heidi Musser, VP – Enterprise Simplification Program,Blue Cross/Blue Shield of NC
Robert Milden, Bank of America
John Snyder, Sr. Technology Executive, Client Management & Credit Technology
Discussion: Authentic leadership—through discovery, unique to each individual time for reflection, for lesson to take root and make permanent change Noticeable results:

• Ability to lead others—and have them follow
• Better decision making
• Delegation
• Deal effectively with peers in IT and business
• Life balance
• Any others

CLOSING KEYNOTE - “OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: A POWERFUL MODEL FOR INNOVATION AND VALUE”
Presented by: Lee Congdon, CIO, Red Hat, Inc.
Discussion: For more than a decade open source and Linux have helped to significantly transform the economics of IT. Fueled by an enduring collaborative model, it has had far reaching affects on the value of enterprise computing and innovation. In his talk, Lee Congdon, CIO of Red Hat, will draw on the needs of today's CIOs and map the adoption of open source in the enterprise. As we look ahead, hear how Red Hat is helping customers realize better performance from development to deployment, not just through Linux, but through a deeper open source strategy.

OPENING KEYNOTE PANEL: “EXECUTIVE IT LEADERSHIP”
Moderator: Martin Davis, CIO, Wachovia Corp.
Panelists: AR Mullinax, SVP & CIO, Duke Energy Corp.
Josh Jewett, SVP & CIO, Family Dollar Stores
Dennis Daniel, VP & CIO, NC Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Discussion: This panel will share thoughts, history and visions of the future through their personal knowledge, corporate experiences and where they see IT on the horizon.

BREAKOUT PANEL: “REDUCING COST AND COMPLEXITY WITH VIRTUALIZATION” (Without any additional software, hardware, or operating costs.)
Moderator: Roger Egan, Director, North America Channel Sales, Red Hat, Inc.
Panelists: Joe Dickman, Managing Partner, Vizuri Division of Applied Engineering Management (AEM) Corporation
John Wragg, Chief Application Architect, Pindar Set, Inc.
Discussion: Is your organization facing budget cutbacks? Many IT decision makers are eager to learn how to continue to support and maintain their IT Infrastructure while cutting their operating costs. Red Hat focuses on solutions for customers who wish to simplify their IT Infrastructure, consolidates workloads, and increase availability. Our integrated virtualization capabilities give choice to deployments: standalone, virtual servers, and cloud computing or even software appliances. Unlike expensive, proprietary solutions, Red Hat virtualization allows guests to run Enterprise Linux, Solaris and Windows. Learn how the open source solutions from Red Hat can virtualize any server without additional software, operating system subscriptions, or hardware.

BREAKOUT PANEL: “EFFECTIVE CORPORATE TRANSFORMATIOMS”
Moderator: Suzanne Fairlie, President, ProSearch, Inc.
Panelists: Deborah Poole, VP, Finance Transformation & IT, TIAA-CREF
Rob Willard, Service Delivery Executive – Online Banking, Bank of America
Discussion: how corporations can change the dimensions of people, process & technology using a transformation/process excellence methodology. Corps are facing many issues with cost reductions, competitive pressures & the increased emphasis on compliance & regulatory mandates have forced corporations to run as efficiently and as effective as possible.

LUNCHEON KEYNOTE SESSION- "GROOMING THE NEXT CIO"
Presented By: Darwin John, Former CIO, Scott Paper; LDS Church; FBI
Discussion: Will speak to the realities of today and the requirements of the role of CIO going forward which will be both more complex and require more leadership capability. Beyond that will speak to the "call to action" for those of us in the field, if we are to be responsive. This call to action will be about leadership that can deliver the basics of IT in a flawless manner. It is about earning ones way into the inner circle of leadership of the enterprise with earned trust, respect and credibility. It is about leading change in ones self and others. Therefore what must we do or do differently. This will include proactive approaches to the transformation required between where we are and where we must be. Finally, will be a period of dialog with the attendees to explore, challenge, probe and test concepts presented

BREAKOUT PANEL: WEB 2.0
Moderator: Greg Archer, VP, Corporate IT Services, Premier, Inc.
Panelist: Magdy Attia Ph.D., James B. Duke Distinguished Professor, Chair, Computer Science and Engineering
Discussion: Understand what technologies are affiliated with Web 2.0 and the unending possibilities:

• What’s happening in real IT shops?
• Who’s deploying what technologies?
• What experimentation is happening?
• Successes? Failures?? Lessons learned???

BREAKOUT PANEL: “INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY”
Moderator: David R. Johnson, Special Agent, FBI – Charlotte Office
Panelists: Jeffrey Gentef, Computer Scientist – assigned to the CyberSquad, FBI – Charlotte Office
Discussion: An overview of the FBI Charlotte Cyber Squad and emerging cyber threats.