Discussion: Once little more than an order-taking, reactive organization, Cisco IT has vaulted to a place of prominence and value within the company. Balancing operational excellence with strategic innovation, the IT organization provides essential business capabilities and is a trusted partner to the business. This position of value and relevance was difficult but worth transforming the organization – a transformation that your IT organization can also achieve.
One of the key initiatives in moving the IT organization forward is the “Cisco on Cisco” program – this fundamental business strategy has become a cultural element of the company. Cisco on Cisco is the story, lessons learned, and information about Cisco deploying its own products internally. Cisco IT truly becomes Cisco’s first and best reference customer. In many cases, our internal solutions are the earliest, largest, and most complex in the world.
Lance discusses how Cisco IT addresses many of the same IT challenges you face every day, using technology to enable growth, increase productivity, and provide a superior user experience.

Discussion: Many IT Organizations have taken the initiative around Disaster Recovery planning for IT assets and services. DR planning is considered an important element of a much larger Business Continuity planning effort undertaken to protect the enterprise at large. But is it really being driven as a top-down approach from executive levels or are CIO’s and other IT decision makers actually raising corporate awareness and fostering more prudent corporate governance through the DR planning process?
This presentation will offer DR/BC planning frameworks and approaches, present case studies from IT practitioners on the planning and executing of their DR strategies, and encourage a discussion on the effect or role of IT DR planning on overall corporate BC planning.

Discussion: A collaborative effort to “wire” RDU’s new terminal to meet the needs of airlines, merchandisers, security and 5 million travelers.

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 CIO's 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.

Discussion: How legal and regulatory requirements affect your eMail system. How we are helping our customers manage their growing eMail systems. We offer a solution tailored towards customers with either Microsoft Exchange or IBM Lotus Domino eMail systems. InCentric Solutions can help you manage your growing eMail systems. We do this by archiving eMail and attachments into a reliable and scalable content repository. You can be better prepared to comply with government and industry regulations. This solution improves performance of your eMail system and enables rapid response to legal requests for eMail records

Discussion: In the world of Web 2.0, organizations have an imperative to effectively attract and manage the new generation of Workers 2.0. This session will address the increasingly complex organizational dynamics of merging employees from various generations, as well as detail specific strategies for motivating each generation to work for the best organizational performance possible.

Discussion: The Strategic Value of IT from the perspective of a CFO and CIO. They will talk about the advantage of technology and their own experiences.

• Is the downward tendency in university enrollment continuing? If yes, what’s driving this trend? If no, how do we sustain growth?
• Are students optimistic about their future in light of persistent out sourcing pressures and the economic rise of the 3rd world?
• Collectively, what specifically should we be doing, together, with our University colleagues to evolve a bright and lasting future for our next generation technical workforce?

Discussion: Join an Executive CIO Panel, chaired by Steve Crawford, Past NC-SIM President and Vice President of IS at Amarr, Inc. Listen and participate in the exchange. Engage the panel as they:
- discuss the dominant leadership that the CIO plays inside his organization and across the enterprise
- explore the role and impact that the internet is having on IT organizations and the companies being served
- weigh in on the evolving IT organization and the role of its leader

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.

Discussion: Each year, the number of reported incidents of cyber crime increases. Intrusions and damages are widespread and costly. Financial losses have increased 2000% since 1999. Today’s cyber threatscape is made up of extremely talented people and organized groups that are targeting large enterprises around the world. Business leaders are being faced with the complicated challenges of protecting the privacy of confidential information, preventing data leakage, and maintaining the integrity of critical applications that ensure business continuity.The business infrastructure of today needs to be able to defend itself against these targeted threats.Join Patrick Gray as he leads an interactive discussion on security. Take advantage of this unique opportunity to discuss the Cyber Threatscape and the critical importance of preparing your infrastructure to defend against it.

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.

Discussion:
- We have a passion for quality results
- We exemplify personal and organizational excellence
- We relentlessly pursue success
- We build relationships based on mutual trust
- We support a unified and aligned mission
- We accept accountability for the effects of our leadership