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

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

Panelists:	Dave Foust, Supervisor, IST Corporate Governance, SCANA Services
	Melanie Cox, Director of Information Technology, Tire Centers

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?

Facilitated by:	Alan Guibord, Chairman & Founder, The Advisory Council and Former CEO, Computerworld, and former CIO, R.R. Donnelley & Sons
	Peter Schay, EVP & COO, The Advisory Council

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:

• Governance and portfolio management
• Compliance
• Smart sourcing
• Security and business continuity

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: What if you could take 300 servers without VMware software and move them to 8 servers, 1 Rack with VMware software? In a recent Gartner report, it is estimated that through 2007, organizations with more than 200 servers will waste between $500,000 and $720,000 annually supporting underutilized application/server combinations. VMware Virtual Infrastructure Solutions allow corporations to run multiple Operating Systems on a single server. The impact of this is that enterprises can use dramatically less hardware and manage their existing hardware more efficiently.

IT Solution: What if you could:
Minimize your total cost of infrastructure ownership? Improve your team’s responsiveness, serviceability, availability and flexibility? Create a self-optimizing IT infrastructure today with the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing industry-standard IT environments through virtualization? Significantly improve your organizations IT optimization including, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery? Implement a secure desktop environment for application developers, offshore workers, engineering and systems operations staff?

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Panelists:	Chuck Fallaw, Deputy CIO, State of South Carolina
	Mike Garon, CIO, South Carolina Dept. of Revenue, President, South Carolina GMIS
	Randal M. Senn, CIO, SCANA Services, Inc.

Discussion: The CIO who views herself as a "change agent", places top priority on assuring that the organization's Strategic Vision and Goals are being met. Since by definition, a Strategic Vision is about change, Project Management lies at the core of the management discipline required to make “Vision” a Reality!

Experience, first hand, examples, discussion on lessons learned and the very personal skills required to stay one step ahead of your executive management team in making IT an enabler of your company’s future. Hear from CIOs representing different industries chime in regarding the universal emphasis they place on Project Management.

Moderated by:

Phil Yanov, Executive Director, GSA Technology Council, Founder & Executive Director, IT Leadership Council

Panelists:	Phil Cirulli, Exec. Director IT, Fluor
	Steve Lanzl, Former VP IT, Bowater
	Shari Donley, IS Director of Operations, McLeod Health

Discussion: The threats to enterprise data continue to multiply. There is phishing, spear-phishing, and vishing. Lost and misappropriated data have become embarrassing and costly headlines. How does the enterprise protect itself in this war of escalation? What techniques are being used in healthcare and industry in this technical war of escalation?

Moderated by:

Susan Mirdamadi, CIO, Denny’s Corporation

Panelists:	Richard Alexander, VP of IS, Michelin North America
	Dave Garrett, CIO, Palmetto Health
	Dr. Jim Bryant, CIO, State of South Carolina
	Randal. M. Senn, CIO, SCANA Services, Inc.

Discussion: Today’s CIO is a business leader involved at the board room level providing technology as an integral part of the business solution. This discussion will focus on the role the CIO plays on the leadership team and the positive characteristics that make him/her effective in this role. We will also address how to re-make yourself and staff to meet the challenges of the changing landscape. Many significant opportunities/issues face the CIO daily. What are they and how do we address them? What are some best practices that allow you to be an effective CIO?

Presented by:

Peter Funke, Executive Consultant, IBM

Discussion: This interactive demo will illustrate how a portal could provide a variety of portlets to help managers and employees be more efficient and effective. An Executive sees a shortfall on her dashboard and collaborates with the subordinate to correct the situation. A subordinate Manager receives the missive and begins executing against it using a content management tool. Other employees update travel requests, time worksheets, etc. This showcases the best practice examples of solutions in action against industry and customer business issues. This will demonstrate how a businesses persons, their processes, and their existing tools will work together better through a business model used by many companies worldwide.

Presented by:

Doug Hubbard, President, Hubbard Decision Research, Inventor of Applied Information Economics (AIE) and has critical praise from Gartner, Meta, Forester, and Giga Information Group. His articles and interviews are published in CIO Magazine, Information Week and Baseline Magazine. He derives his findings from 45 case studies done with the AIE method over the last 10 years.

Business Problem: Most IT organizations don't measure risk in the same way an actuary or statistician would and most don't attempt to build economic models to estimate even the most "intangible" benefits. This results in missing some of the most important trends, risks and metrics in IT today.

Solution: Using data from 45 statistical case studies with a total of over 3,000 variables and hundreds of tracked forecasts, Hubbard has found four key revelations that may profoundly affect what you measure, where you invest and how you control risks.

Business Problem: Global Service Providers are deploying new wireless and wireline broadband networks. Industry periodicals frequently propose: wireless reference architectures and specific services e.g.; VoIP, cellular data, IP-PBX’s, IMS, and various flavors of convergence as the next “big” revolution in communications. But -- How have service providers and technologies been evolving? How might they evolve in the future and how can enterprises plan for and justify investments in these services?

IT Solution: This presentation examines these topics from the end users and the business leader’s perspectives. It shares global observations and experiences and focuses on examples to highlight: What’s new, what’s important in various markets and it suggests some actions that might allow enterprises to effectively discover or capture the benefits of these new services in the coming year.

Moderated by:

Mark Hess, President, Western Technology Management Group

Panelists:	Dr. Jim Bryant, CIO, State of South Carolina
	Marc Pujda, CIO, Asten Johnson
	Khushru Tata, CIO, SC Tech College System

Business Problem: Enterprise Architectures are a major investment for most enterprises. By standardizing the business and IT environment, CIOs hope to reduce complexity, lower costs and improve support and service. Yet EAs raise two of the most challenging IT management issues today: managing IT complexity and the shared management of IT.

IT Solution: This session will bring together three CIOs, with diverse perspectives, to discuss the management challenges of EAs. It will describe practical approaches to developing an EA, managing it (governance), how SOAs are being used, how user resistance is being addressed and how EA success is being measured.

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