| Tuesday, September 12th - INNOVATION – IN PRACTICE |
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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 PRACTICE
Determining Your Unique Value
A day dedicated to learning hands-on, practical advice from industry-specific case studies delivered by current and past No. 1 companies and category leaders from the annual InformationWeek 500 survey. |
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9:30 a.m. |
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"Innovation Excellence – The Best Of The Best"
The InformationWeek 500 Winners
Still struggling to optimize Web services? Haven’t figured out yet how to maximize worker productivity? Is your company merely coping when it should be growing? These companies have the guts to change, the guts to lead, the guts to innovate! A panel of CIOs from top companies in the 2006 InformationWeek 500 reveal the formula behind sustained innovation and growth, and discuss with the audience how to get around specific technology challenges that separate the great companies from the merely good ones.
Moderator:
John Foley, Editor, InformationWeek
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12:00 p.m. |
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"Benchmark Your Effectiveness!" - Breakout Sessions
This series of birds-of-a-feather breakout sessions, which run in two concurrent tracks, is based on the morning’s keynote presentation from the No. 1 company in the InformationWeek 500, in which you’ll compare lessons learned from the morning with real-life examples from your peers. Work through your own challenges by sharing experiences and ideas among people who are in the same boat. The topic of discussion for each breakout session focuses on one of the primary areas in which the top company has excelled. |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Track One: Best Practices Birds-of-a-Feather Workshop
"Maximizing Worker Productivity (And How To Get Them To Follow You To The Promised Land)"
In this session, discuss what it takes to get the most out of your staff, how to do more with less, and how to incorporate the next-generation of IT worker. Learn skills that’ll get your staff to take a bullet for you.
Presenter:
Kent Kushar, CIO, E&J Gallo
Facilitator:
Chris Murphy, Executive Editor, InformationWeek
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Track Two: Best Practices Birds-of-a-Feather Workshop
"Customer Data Sharing, Privacy Concerns, and Avoiding The Big, Scary 'Uh-Oh'"
Avoid the perp walk. In this session, find out how companies are erecting structures that prevent data-loss issues before they happen. Greater customer satisfaction doesn’t have to come with tradeoffs.
Presenter:
Robert Webb, CTO, Equifax
Facilitator:
Tom Claburn, Editor at Large, InformationWeek
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6:00 p.m. |
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Shipping Station
Hosted by Citrix Systems |
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10:45 a.m. |
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Networking Break |
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11:30 a.m. |
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Track One: Best Practices Birds-of-a-Feather Workshop
"Why Building A Mobile Business Might Not Make Your Business Mobile"
Everyone knows they’ve gotta go wireless. You might even have the infrastructures in place. But chaos still reigns, standards aren’t being followed, and mobile workers aren’t as productive as they could be. Learn from peers who’ve made it work.
Presenter:
Toby Redshaw, Corporate VP, Motorola
Facilitator:
Nick Hoover, Associate Editor, InformationWeek
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Track Two: Best Practices Birds-of-a-Feather Workshop
"Integrating New Technologies and Avoiding the Pain of Changing Out Legacy Systems"
The rip-and-tear model of moving your infrastructure forward and growing your business just won’t work. In this session, share best practices with peers about how to integrate new growth technologies and minimize the pain points without having to overhaul your back office.
Facilitator:
Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, InformationWeek
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12:15 p.m. |
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Track One: Best Practices Birds-of-a-Feather Workshop
"Getting Sign-Off On The IT Budget You Want"
No one’s promising you’ll get more money, and you may not even need more, but your peers have ideas about how to get an IT budget that structured more realistically, shaped for growth, and doesn’t mean you have to resort to favors to fund a pet project.
Presenter: TBA
Facilitator:
Tom Claburn, Editor at Large, InformationWeek
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Track Two: Best Practices Birds-of-a-Feather Workshop
"Optimizing Your Existing Infrastructure (It Takes More Than Web Services)"
For those who’ve even figured out how Web services fit into the corporate enterprise, there’s the revelation that it isn’t transforming things overnight. It requires better data-management techniques, corporate governance oversight, and perhaps even business process reorganization. And why’s that silo still there? Learn how to integrate it all.
Presenter:
Rajeev Ravindran, VP of Technology Delivery, JM Family
Facilitator:
Charles Babcock, Editor at Large, InformationWeek
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1:30 p.m. |
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Lunch
Hosted by Intel |
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"Reaching The Pinnacle: Secrets From The Nation's Best User Of Business Technology"
The No. 1 Company on the InformationWeek 500 List
Do you want to know what it takes to make it to the top of the charts and outdistance your competitors? Executives from the number one company on the list of 500 most innovative users of business technology provide an exclusive insider’s look at the innovative processes, the game-changing technologies, and the edgy corporate culture it takes to make a CEO shout, “IT rocks!” Attendees then move on to a series of birds-of-a-feather breakout sessions based on those best practices to dive into specifics and compare their own experiences with their peers.
Moderator:
Aaron Ricadela, Editor at Large, InformationWeek
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4:15 p.m. |
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Executive Exchange |
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5:00 p.m. |
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Birds-of-a-Feather Workshops Continue |
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Track One: Best Practices Birds-of-a-Feather Workshop
"Supply-Chain Efficiency and Always Being Faster Than The Other Guy"
Building and managing a frictionless supply chain that keeps you one step ahead of your competition. How to maximize inventory turns, minimize returns, and optimize pricing.
Presenter:
Rich Plane, CTO Harris Corporation
Facilitator:
Chris Murphy, Senior Executive Editor, InformationWeek
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Track Two: Best Practices Birds-of-a-Feather Workshop
"IT Partnerships with Line of Business Managers – The Jedi Vs. The Sith"
In this session, exchange ideas about what it takes to create a productive partnership with the lines of business, how to break communications logjams, and how to position IT as a facilitator for internal customers rather than the evil empire out to enforce its own agenda.
Presenter:
Eric Nill, CIO, Guaranty RV
Facilitator:
Nick Hoover, Associate Editor, InformationWeek and John Foley, Editor, InformationWeek
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9:00 p.m. |
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Dinner and Entertainment |
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