KEYNOTE PANEL – "IT LEADERSHIP: CREATING ORGANIZATIONAL VALUE"
Moderated by: James Sage, CIO, University of Akron
Panelists: Jon Elsasser, CIO, Timken, Co.
Steve Pickett, CIO, Penske, Corp.
Andy Platt, CIO, J.M. Smucker Company
Discussion: Come and hear four of the top CIOs in the region address these and other topics. What are your greatest challenges and opportunities? How are you addressing them? How do you educate yourself and the other IT leaders to enable you to “help drive your organization forward” and create competitive advantages? How is the Value of your department measured? What are you doing to manage and promote the perceived value of IT within your organization?

“DEMYSTIFYING BUSINESS SERVICE MANAGEMENT & CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT DATABASES (CMDBs)”
Moderated by: Lee Ann Pepper, Regional VP, ASG Software
Panelists: Mike Goodhues, CIO, Baltimore Public Schools
Jimmy Augustine, VP Marketing, ASG Software
Ken Jackson, Senior VP, ASG Software
Discussion: Please join ASG, to learn how companies are successfully approaching Business Service Management (BSM) and Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs). Our panel will discuss what is required to deliver IT services and align with your business objectives. You might be surprised to find how easily a true BSM Solution can be achieved, and how close you may already be to effectively monitoring, reporting and managing your business services.

“APPLICATIONS OF A SERVICE ORIENTED STORAGE SOLUTION”
Moderated by: Claus Mikkelsen, Chief Scientist, Hitachi Data Systems
Panelist: Nick Cellentani, VP Operations & Storage Consulting, Adexis
Discussion: In today’s data center, the struggle to manage an ever growing storage environment is well known. A key challenge is to create a solution that provides the variety of services required by the business, allow it to scale as business scales and, of course, spend less to manage than last year. In the storage industry, this is known as Service Oriented Storage Solution. In this session we will learn more about how a service oriented storage solution is constructed and how it can be applied to your data center. In addition a panel of three end users of a service oriented storage solution will talk about their experiences and answer your questions about applying this to your data center.

LUNCHEON KEYNOTE - “OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE: A POWERFUL MODEL FOR INNOVATION AND VALUE”
Presented by: Michael Tiemann, Vice President, Open Source Affairs, 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, Michael Tiemann, Vice President, Open Source Affairs 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.

“UNLOCKING BUSINESS VALUE: A DISCUSSION OF ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE, REDUCE RISKS AND CONTROL COSTS”
Moderated by: Steve Johnston, Field Marketing Manager, Optim Solutions, IBM Software Group
Discussion: Today’s enterprise-level IT departments are challenged to support the highest levels of corporate performance within a strict budget. The risks of information security, data retention and compliance loom large. Enterprise data management strategies enable you to accelerate performance while controlling costs and mitigating risks. In this session, we will discuss some of the strategies that leading organizations have implemented to align their management of application data with their business objectives to optimize performance, mitigate risks and control costs.

“FROM CLASH TO CLOUD: MEETING TOMORROWS IT EXPECTATIONS WITH SERVICE SOLUTIONS”
Moderated by: Peter Coffee, Director, Platform Research, salesforce.com; Former Technology Editor, eWeek
Panelists: Drew Sellers, CIO, Life Line Screening
Mike Hamberg, Technical Analyst, Veyance Technologies
Discussion: Enterprise IT managers face clashing expectations -- a demand for improved control of information and business processes, combined with faster delivery of strategic innovations. This session explores fundamental shifts of technology that make "cloud computing" the new center of gravity for conceiving and deploying applications that satisfy all stakeholders, and examines the environmental changes that combine to compel professional service management.

WORKSHOP: "IMPROVING YOUR EFFECTIVENESS – A WORKSHOP DEDICATED TO YOUR SUCCESS"
Facilitated by: Peter Schay, EVP & COO, The Advisory Council (TAC)
Discussion: 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.

KEYNOTE PANEL – “ECM IS MORE THAN IMPLEMENTING NEW TECHNOLOGY”
Moderated by: Richard Baily, VP, Xerox Global Services
Panelists: Katherine A. Cronin, VP & Managing Principal, Xerox Global Services
Russell Miller, VP, Merrill Lynch Strategic Development & Innovation
Michael Gruskin, Managing Attorney, Commercial & Product Litigation, General Motors Legal Staff
Greg Kandra, Principal, Business Process Services Practice, Xerox Global Services
Discussion: ECM is more than implementing a technology workflow and server system. It is about organizational change and optimizing the productivity of the assets of the enterprise in order to accomplish key objectives such as speeding time to revenue and rapidly managing costly corporate issues such as litigation risk, maximizing the effectiveness of targeted customers notices and communications, increased responsiveness to customer requests across lines of business, and customer contract management. Xerox has helped customers in many industries accomplish just this. We will bring customer users such as GM and other industry subject matter experts to answer your questions and discuss how they manage and leverage content across the enterprise to drive business value.

“LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT: IT’S PERSONAL”
Moderated by: Phil Zweig, Principal, Z-Sharp, LLC
Panelists: Drew Patterson, Director IS, Lamson & Sessions
Matthew Stec, Application Develop. Team Lead, Corp. Internet Services, The Sherwin-Williams Company
Discussion: This discussion will focus on the opportunities and perspectives associated with developing a “personal leadership style”. Our intent is to investigate with panelists a number of different questions: What does personal leadership style mean to you today? How has the experience of gaining that leadership perspective translated into the way you execute your corporate role today? What is it about the process of “getting there” that surprised you the most? What would your peers and subordinates say is different about your leadership practices today? How do you view the difference between leadership and management?

“VIRTUALIZING YOUR COMPANY - WHAY, WHAT EFFORT, WHAT ACHIEVEMENTS”
Moderated by: Gerald Filler, CIO, GMAC Insurance (Ret.)
Panelists: Robert Kelley, IT Operations Manager, R.I.T.A.
John Berisford, Senior Architect, Server Computing, ERICO International Corporation
Discussion:

• What savings both dollars and other areas (energy, floorspace, personnel) have been achieved or expect to achieve?
• Operational intangibles - what has been achieved beyond direct savings?
• Obstacles to implementation
• Whater were the biggest surprises that you were not able to plan for? How were they resolved?
• How did you prepare your staff and organizational processes for this effort?
• What would you do differently?

LUNCHEON KEYNOTE - “HOW TO SURVIVE AS A CIO”
Presented by: Steve Yates, CIO, KeyCorp
Discussion: What does it mean when writers of CIO articles predict “The CIO of the Future Will Need to Have Greater Business Skills”? Most CIOs think they have good business skills, so why aren’t they perceived as such?
Steve will answer these questions by sharing lessons learned from his role as a CIO in Five Major U.S. corporations, one with an IT department over 3000 people. Starting his career as a mainframe systems programmer and working his way up through project management to applications department head to CIO, he has been a member of several executive teams and learned much about what they are most comfortable with in their CIO. Like all CIO’s, he struggles to be all they desire, but he will share how he has gained a significant level of recognition as a “business focused” CIO.