Discussion: An informal and interactive discussion with today’s search industry leaders. Find out: what they hear from prospective clients, what skills are needed to be successful, why do CIOs loose their jobs, what are prospective employers looking for, how do you get on their radar screens, which resumes get their attention, what is the future state of the CIO. This is your chance to hear it from the experts.

Business Problem: Identifying obstacles in offshoring and how large companies have overcome them.
IT Solution: Leveraging best practices to increase productivity at low costs through an offshore strategy.
Discusion: An expert in global delivery and several large clients will offer lessons learned in applying an offshore strategy. Topics will include tips in developing a global delivery model; considerations for first-time offshore users; which global locations produce the best costs, skills and delivery; overcoming time, language and cultural barriers; ensuring privacy and security; and implementing a disaster recovery plan for all geographies.

Discusion: IT has a unique dual role in a corporation – as a service provider and as a customer.
IT can harness this dual role in support of the corporation’s own new product development efforts. How?
Wholesale work process transformation of the IT organization using ITIL provides the key to streamlined operations and SOX compliance – but it turns out that it also enables higher quality, new product incubation.

Discussion: The IT organization has many attributes that can be leveraged as part of an enterprise process orientation, such as, having a cross-functional perspective and an understanding of how technology supports business processes. However, often the IT organization lacks market knowledge and the ability to motivate front line employees who deal with the day-to-day delivery of work. This leadership discussion is purposed to address: How business process improvement provides a governance framework for agility and operational performance in an organization and the role IT plays in this process?

Discussion: Viewing Information Security and Privacy from the three Sectors of the Private, Healthcare and Public communities, this group of experienced IT Leaders will address a variety of topic issues. They include:

1. What are the current/future challenges?
2. How can intellectual knowledge be protected?
3. Does physical or cyber security enter into IT responsibilities?
4. Where does the function of Security and Privacy report within the enterprise?

In addition the panel will involve the session attendees by soliciting their questions and comments to this critical IT challenge of Information Security and Privacy.

1. Becoming a valued member of the top management team.
2. Keeping continued focus on the highest priority business success factors.
3. Forging partnerships with management and staff in other departments.
4. Hiring and retaining the best people.
5. Leading and motiveating these people to do all theycan do to be successful.

Discussion: Have you tried to measure or forecast the value of a proposed IT project for your entire IT portfolio? Are you struggling with whether to adopt a new method? Is there reason to believe it actually works? Avoid the pitfalls and identify winning strategies by learning from those who have been there. An impressive panel of IT leaders has come together to discuss how they measure the value of IT and how they justify IT investments by forecasting value. The panel will discuss what methods they've tried, what worked and what didn't

Discussion: Among today’s leading CIO issues/challenges is the necessity or lack thereof for a definitive IT Strategy within the enterprise. This distinguished panel, with its varied IT executive experience, will focus on the key aspects of IT Strategic Planning; with a focus on the IT organization being viewed as a key contributor by the business, as opposed to one that is being pushed to continually control costs. These include:

How is your IT organization perceived?

Understanding the business

Building and nurturing business stakeholder relationships

Communicating, educating and selling

Managing expectations

All of the above and more will be addressed thru an opening panel summary discussion quickly followed by constructive and spirited comments/questions from the session attendees.

Discussion: Will provide a background of online carding portals, and will focus primarily on the emergence of volume traffic in online accounts; the malware infrastructure; criminal ancillary services and professionalization; and general points on the global trade of stolen financial data.