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: 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: Chief Information Officers are receiving a constant barrage of requests for correlating and sharing the data CIO’s support on behalf of their business clients. In another pile, often from the same business clients, is a stack of laws, policies, and requests to ensure the security and privacy of the data the business clients want to share. This open discussion will share experiences on balancing these two critical business needs.

Discussion: Jon will discuss his internal EMC business case for virtualization. He will cover the original business and technical issues justifying the VMware project(s), the architecture of the IT solution designed, how it was deployed it in terms of people, process, and infrastructure, lessons learned, and the impact it has made on the business including its annual cost savings and additional new capabilities and functionality gained.

Discussion: The personal details of nearly 4,000 people were on two laptops stolen from a third-party contractor working for... YOUR COMPANY. This is the lead for a story that no CIO wants to read about themselves. The problem is tricky. We've built a system of mobile workers. We have data flying across borders. All of our key and confidential data can now fit on a device that's probably smaller than they key to their car. How do we stem the tide? How do we put policies in place? What measures must we take to reduce our risks and prepare for the inevitable data theft? Please join our panel as we consider together how we meet the challenge of preventing data loss and misdirection in a mobile society.

Discussion: Virginia Farm Bureau will discuss how they reduced the cost of running IT while increasing agility, reliability and adaptability. They will walk you through the challenges of identifying and understanding IT costs and how to create a long term process to optimize your organization through virtualization.

Discussion: Do you ever say 'The company has no idea of what IT can do to help.' Do you ever wonder how your business processes will improve without using technology? Do you want to hear how other companies are evolving to incorporate IT in business strategy? If you answered yes to any one of these questions, or similar, then come prepared with discussion items these panelist. Tom, Marc and Jerry can provide excellent feedback on accomplishments in their organizations to leverage technology in day-to-day business activities, future strategic direction, global initiatives, cost savings and IT alignment.

Discussion: Why do IT projects fail? On the surface there appears to be little rhyme or reason to why IT projects fail, but when you drill down the reasons for failure are generally attributable to just a few root causes. If it truly comes down to just a few reasons, why do we insist on repeating these mistakes? Is it possible that the causes are not correctable, or do we simply tend to be overly optimistic and ignore the risk? Come take part in a panel discussion where we will visit IT project failure from both sides of the aisle.

Discussion:

• What emerging technologies do you see in your organization that may be of value to others in this conference?
• Do you have a “killer app” used in your organization that may have immediate benefit for other organizations? (This killer app should be relatively easy and inexpensive to purchase and implement with definitive value provided.) If so, what is it, what does it do, how much did it cost, and what value does it provide.
• What innovative process have you implemented that provides value to IT and/or your organization?
• For the hospital panelists, do you use a Personal Health Record (PHR)? If so, who is it and how does it work? Any thoughts about Microsoft entering the picture with their HealthVault? www.healthvault.com

Discussion: IT Governance is a perennial issue for CIOs. Who “owns” IT resources (e.g., hardware and software), functions (e.g., application development or service delivery) and skills? Sharing responsibilities for IT raises the need for an IT governance model. This session will describe how senior CIOs of large, complex organizations determine who is responsible for what and how IT decisions will be made.

Key issues include:

• What issues are driving the need for IT governance today?
• How do large IT organizations successfully develop their IT governance models?
• How should CIOs determine who will be responsible for what?

Discussion: Session will provide background on 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: The idea that some things are immeasurable is based on misconceptions about statistics and measurement or, in many cases, a lack of a clear definition of what to measure. Doug Hubbard will describe his Applied Information Economics (AIE) method, and discuss how to formulate intangibles as measurable.