Business Problem: Organizations are struggling on a daily basis to make their businesses more resilient. In this presentation, “Inside Out: A Business View of BC/DR Today and Tomorrow,” Michael Croy will address the trends in IT that must be considered to maintain operations at a time of crisis.

Discussion: An interactive session where audience teams will get together to brainstorm solutions to actual problems. Proposed solutions will be presented to the general audience for discussion. The moderators will then present a real-life case study to the audience. All attendees will be supplied with a synopsis of the discussions as well as the actual cases. Typical discussion subjects include:

Moderated by:	Michael Croy, Director, Business Continuity, Forsythe Solutions Group
	Shiraz Alikhan, Consultant, Forsythe Solutions Group

Discussion: Join us for a Question and Answer panel discussion with representatives from various organizations to discuss the pitfalls and shortcuts to building, managing and maintaining a quality Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plan in today's chaotic world. How have firms found real ways to fund a program? How have organizations managed to keep a DR or BC plan current in the face of ever changing technology and business process? How does acquisition impact a plan?

Business Problem: The role of IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) in enterprise communications networks has yet to be clearly defined, but network managers need to begin understanding IMS NOW to be in position to capitalize on the technology as it matures.

• Key Questions Answered?
• What is it? And where did it come from?
• Why pay attention to it!
• What is the vision behind IMS?
• What does it look like? High level architectural overview
• What is the significance of an access aware and an access independent application environment?
• What are some of the promising applications on the horizon with IMS?

IT Solution: In the world of true convergence the network is brought to the end user (rather than you going to the network) and in a manner that is seamless, simple, personal, portable and presence aware. This can be accomplished through complete convergence across services, across networks and across organizations. Value over IP (tm) enables an enterprise to participate in and make use of a seamless lifestyle communications experience that brings the full capabilities of the network directly to the individual. The Value over IP (tm) stage is characterized by an ability to utilize services through fully operational converged Next Generation networks built on IMS Architecture.

Business Problem: As the number of remote and mobile workers increases, so does the amount of critical business data being created at the edge of the network. Most organizations tend to ignore this distributed data, leaving that information at risk. Availability and accessibility to critical business data means it needs to be protected and secure for recovery and compliance purposes.

IT Solution: Utilizing Continuous Data Protection such as PC backup and recovery, Server backup and recovery and DataDefense that automatically backup and protect distributed data that resides on devices operated by remote and mobile workers. Server and PC backup and recovery backs up and protects that data so it can be recovered. DataDefense is a multi-layered security application that can automatically encrypt and eliminate data on a laptop or PC if that device is lost or stolen.

Business Problem: Verizon Wireless has long been considered a leader in the telecommunications industry with an emphasis on the nation's most reliable wireless network. Our panel discussion will provide key insight into the area of current trends in Wireless Technology. This discussion will focus on many data related issues facing companies today and wireless technology addresses those issues in today's fast changing workplace

IT Solution: Wireless Technology is a vital component in the effort to expand the workplace outside the boundaries of the traditional office. Wireless Technology, and the role it plays in today's ever changing work place environment, is a crucial area of information for all CIO's and IT professionals. Verizon Wireless will provide important insight into the current industry trends in wireless technology. Topics will include how companies are using WAN technology to expand their workplace, and what is on the horizon for wireless technology.

Discussion: An interactive panel discussion with representatives from organizations who have transformed their IT initiatives through the use of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). You will learn how these companies have benefited from the use of SaaS to streamline tasks such as asset management, software distribution, patch management, antivirus administration, online backup, and remote support. Wouldn’t you rather put your dollars and people towards your business rather than tasks such as desktop management which drive no strategic advantage? Join us to experience how SaaS is transforming IT management and enabling IT organizations to focus on helping the business rather than slowing it down.

Disccussion: A cross industry panel of CIO’s will be gathered to discuss what makes an effective CIO. We will investigate topics such as:

• Attributes of an effective CIO
• Is an effective CIO a business or technology leader and how does that effect ability to lead both within IT and outside IT?
• What soft skills are most important (example: good communicator, persuasive, business savvy, consensus builder, etc)? We will conduct a pre-conference survey of CIO and IT leaders across Central Florida soliciting their opinions and insights on the topic. The results of this survey will be shared during the panel discussion.

Discussion: Email is the fastest growing business application today and it places unforeseen burdens on already strained IT operations. Organizations are now required to retain a greater proportion of email to demonstrate compliance with external regulations, adhere to internal policies, and prepare for possible legal discovery requests. However, email systems are not designed to store the amount of data that gets stored on the typical message system, and the risks and disadvantages of doing so becomes increasingly apparent. Archiving is the answer as it reduces the load on your mail environment, indexes content so it can be quickly located and recalled and reduces storage needs through single instance storage. The benefits of Archiving are substantial to reduce both cost and risk to any operation.

Panelists:	Dave Hart, EVP & CTO, Integrated Solutions, Inc.
	James Dekle, Director, Info Tech/MIS, ABC Fine Wine & Spirits

Description: Enterprise IT Infrastructure Architectures are in a state of flux. The emerging enterprise applications concepts of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Web Services and Software as a Service (SaaS) promise to provide a loosely coupled set of software services that can be deployed flexibly and rapidly to support the business processes they automate. A successful migration to this application model will have significant dependencies on the underlying network, systems and storage infrastructure. Technologies such as virtualization, networked storage, and grid computing, are just some of the enabling innovations that can help us migrate from “siloed” environments with dedicated resources to a shared common architecture for all our enterprise applications. In the process we can maximize our investment in systems, networks and storage. In this session we will discuss the challenges of building a Service Oriented IT Infrastructure Architecture, strategies to overcome these challenges and ideas on how to leverage the enabling technologies to design, build and operate this infrastructure to support a scaleable, manageable, and secure enterprise application environment.

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

Panelists:	Dr. Skip Sloan, Director, Architecture Framework, Lockheed Martin
	Conrad Cross, CIO, City of Orlando
	Harold Miles, Senior Security Analyst, Lockheed Martin

Discussion: As information technologies become increasingly enmeshed in our daily lives, individuals are exposed to an every-increasing array of technologies. In some cases, technologies originally intended for personal use make their way into organizations. Individual workers recognize the potential application of a technology to work tasks and begin using the technology in their jobs. While there are many benefits from these “back-door” introductions, there are downsides as well. The new technology may introduce security holes, fit poorly with existing architectures, fail to meet regulatory requirements, as well as other problems. This panel will discuss the two sides of “back door” technologies; how they benefit organizations, and how they cause disruptions.