Panelists:	Steve Cooper, CIO, American Red Cross
	Suzanne Peck, CTO/CIO, District of Columbia
	Tom Lockwood, Director Office of National Capital Region Coordination, DHS
	David Songco, CIO, NICHD/NIH

Business Problem: Continuity of Operations

IT Solution: Varied; Key stakeholders will discuss emergency preparedness planning in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area while taping a Radio Show that will be broadcast one week later. TrezzaMedia group will provide a sponsor to cover all costs associated with the radio show taping and broadcast.

Moderated by:

Doug Hubbard, President & Founder, Hubbard Decision Research

Discussion: Have you tried to measure or forecast the value of a proposed IT project or your entire IT portfolio? Are you struggling with whether to adopt a new method? Is there reason to believe it actually works? Avoid the pitfalls and identify winning strategies by learning from those who have been there. An impressive panel of IT leaders has come together to discuss how they measure the value of IT and how they justify IT investments by forecasting value. The panel will discuss what methods they've tried, what worked and what didn't.

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.

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

Panelists:	Joe Kraus, Former CIO, Intelsat
	Patricia Edfors, Former VP IT Risk Management, AOL
	Dale Spangenberg, CIO, Frederick County, MD

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?

Discussion: Aligning IT strategy with business strategy has been one of the top issues confronting IT and business executives for more than 20 years. Given this focus and attention over the years, most enterprises should finally have attained good IT and business alignment, but recent polls of CIOs and business executives reveal that aligning IT and business goals remains as a top concern. Our session will bring together leading IT executives to discuss this issue.

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:

• Realigning your business for today’s markets
• Governance and portfolio management
• Compliance
• Security and business continuity

Moderated by:	Joseph Page, Regional Manager, CA
	John Holovach, Regional Manager, CA

Panelists:	Dan Trieschmann, Price Waterhouse Coopers
	John Kinuthia, Infrastructure Services, Sogeti

Business Problem: Underlying many of the challenges that IT leaders are faced with today is the need to improve their Engagement with the business. Engagement refers to IT’s ability to partner with its customers in the business about how to maintain alignment and maximize the return from IT investments. In short: ‘How to do the right things’. Given that 80% of the typical IT budget is consumed by keeping the lights on activity, high quality engagement between IT and the business is critical in addressing how to get the greatest return from the 20% the budget that is discretionary.

IT Solution: Clarity from CA is the industry-leading IT Governance solution that enables IT organizations to achieve world-class performance by improving the quality of their engagement with the business and enhancing their ability to run at peak efficiency. The Clarity system couples top down portfolio planning and analysis with bottom up project, resource, financial, and process management. Clarity gives Executives a real time view into their organizations investments, initiatives, and resources, and empowers managers to deliver controlled and predictable execution of projects and programs.
Hear from CA on how to gain more business value and better align with the business. Engage with a panel of your peers and view a presentation on a case study. Gain knowledge of what works, what doesn’t and lessons learned.

Moderated by:	Pratik Gupta, Program Director Office of the CTO, Tivoli Software, IBM Corporation
	Rosen Sharma, CEO, Solidcore

Panelists:	Roderick J. Burfield , CIO, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
	Stephen Moritz, VP Project Delivery and Compliance Services Practices, Sogeti
	Tim Conners, Desktop Engineering Manager, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Discussion: CIO’s are being squeezed. They must simultaneously: 1) improve the controls environment in response to the myriad of laws and regulations designed to improve security, predictability and transparency; and also 2) spend precious IT dollars in a way that maximizes ROI. Is this dual goal really achievable, especially when internal and external auditors are looking for tighter controls and CFO’s are looking for IT spending that optimizes returns? The CIO must find a way to invest wisely in tools that can drive down the costs and improve effectiveness of defined processes in the following areas: IT Delivery, Information Integrity, Change Control, Auditing and Reporting.
Abstract

Discussion: If your people are your greatest asset, how should you invest in them? Will that investment yield a good return? How can you make sure that your team is well prepared for the task before them? How do you capitalize on individual skills and talents, while motivating the whole team?
Our panelists include senior managers from the Federal Government, State Government and Industry. They will share their experience of investing in their people. The discussion will include three different but complementary approaches to meeting the challenges, commitment and rewards of this investment and invite your questions regarding their lessons learned as they led their teams to success. When your team is prepared and highly motivated, they accomplish the seemingly impossible.