| Monday, September 11th - INNOVATION – IN IDEAS |
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Continental Breakfast |
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Sponsor Hospitality Area Opens |
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Cyber Café Opens |
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INNOVATION – IN IDEAS
Broadening Your Unique Possibilities
A daylong opportunity to exchange ideas with innovators in business strategy, business technology, and business practice. |
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8:15 a.m. |
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Opening Remarks |
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9:45 a.m. |
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"Building An 'Innovation Machine,' With Tom Peters"
If you’re looking for ordinary consultant-speak, go somewhere else. But if you’re looking for unique ideas for building an innovation machine, then Tom Peters will help start your engines. World-renowned business strategist and author Tom Peters leads an exciting seminar on how all businesses, large and small, can muster the resources and energy to create for themselves a living, breathing embodiment of innovation for growth. Says Peters, "In uncertain times like ours, innovation is inarguably top management’s Job One." Using his wealth of knowledge and experience trusted by giants like Ford, BP, and General Electric, Peters provides strategies, tactics, and actual cases that abet creation of an abiding "Culture of Innovation." |
| 9:45 a.m. |
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10:00 a.m. |
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Break |
| 10:00 a.m. |
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11:15 a.m. |
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Keynote
"Innovation in Today's Technology Landscape"
CIO Lars Rabbe of Yahoo! Inc. has helped change the way an entire generation looks at communication, socialization, and technology. Yahoo is reshaping how we find value in information, and CIO Lars Rabbe will discuss how we can rethink the enterprise and how we can integrate our use of personal and business technology to advance competitiveness and growth.
Moderator:
Chris Murphy, Senior Executive Editor, InformationWeek
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| 11:15 a.m. |
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12:00 p.m. |
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Sponsor Hosted Breakout Sessions |
| 12:00 p.m. |
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1:15 p.m. |
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Lunch
Hosted by Citrix Systems |
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2:15 p.m. |
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"The Exclusive Story Behind General Motors' Outsourcing Initiative, With Ralph Szygenda"
It’s been a tough year for General Motors and Detroit, to say the least. Falling revenue, stiffer competition, plant closings, labor strife – whew! Yet, through all that, business innovation continues to be a priority, and General Motors Group VP and CIO Ralph Szygenda provides the InformationWeek 500 audience with an exclusive look inside the mechanisms that led to GM’s groundbreaking outsourcing standardization initiative. It’s a program that could help reshape how business technology is sourced, sold, and managed. Szygenda answers the tough questions about where GM is headed, how this will reposition the company as a competitive leader, and where innovation is headed in American business.
Moderator:
Brian Gillooly, Editor-in-Chief, Events, InformationWeek and Editor-in-Chief, Optimize
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2:30 p.m. |
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Break |
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3:30 p.m. |
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"IT Family Feud"
An audience-participation game show in which two teams compete for prizes based on their knowledge of business technology concepts. |
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4:15 p.m. |
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Sponsor-Hosted Breakout Sessions |
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10:00 p.m. |
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InformationWeek 500 Dinner and Gala Awards Ceremony
INNOVATION – THE ACHIEVEMENT
Celebrating Your Unique Accomplishments
A gala celebration of the best in business technology, as we reveal exclusively to attendees our annual InformationWeek 500 list of industry innovators and honor the top companies.
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