| Monday, September 17th |
| 8:00 a.m. |
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8:15 a.m. |
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Welcome & Opening Remarks
Rob Preston, VP/Editor in Chief, InformationWeek |
| 8:15 a.m. |
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9:15 a.m. |
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Morning Keynote
Innovation Know-How: The Skills For Innovating Outside Of Your Comfort Zone
Join world-renowned management consultant, business author, and thought leader Ram Charan in this hands-on discussion of how to promote innovation even in a risk-averse business technology environment. Among the areas where Dr. Charan will prod attendees: freeing up funds for business technology initiatives that fall outside the mainstream; tearing down obstacles to tech programs that create competitive advantage; and measuring risk and sorting out winning ideas from the merely expensive ones.
Ram Charan, Business Thought Leader & Author |
| 9:15 a.m. |
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10:15 a.m. |
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Panel Discussion
Getting Health Care Under Control: How IT Can Step Up To The Plate
Health care costs are rising three times faster than inflation and now eat up close to 20% of gross domestic product. By one estimate, General Motors’ health care costs add more than $1,500 to the price of each vehicle the company produces. Companies, under intense financial pressure, are passing on more and more of these costs to their employees. What can they do to stem the tide? Pioneer companies are deploying information tools to help employees live healthier and make better health care-buying decisions, and they’re also using software to analyze their costs to find places to squeeze. Medical practices and hospitals are starting to adopt electronic medical records, e-prescriptions, and other IT systems to lower costs and improve care. But progress is slow, as HR and benefits pros rather than IT execs lead the charge. It’s time for IT execs to take a leadership role. This panel session will lay out the challenges and best practices.
Speaker:
Dan Drawbaugh, CIO, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and InformationWeek Chief of the Year
Colin Evans, Director, Policy and Standards, Intel Digital Health Group
Lynn Harold Vogel, Ph.D., VP & CIO, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Moderator:
Rob Preston, VP/Editor in Chief, InformationWeek
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| 10:15 a.m. |
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10:30 a.m. |
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Networking Break |
| 10:30 a.m. |
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11:15 a.m. |
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Technology Briefing Sessions (Sponsor Hosted) |
| 11:15 a.m. |
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12:15 p.m. |
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Web 2.0 Gets Business Chops
Are customers wowed by your organization’s Web projects? Are employees yapping in the hallways about how they can't live without the new app built by the IT team? That's the standard being promised with Web 2.0—that data's easier to access and use than ever before, that the Web's more useful and portable, that the user (whether internal or external) gets a say in how information is shared. But it's all just banter unless your cool Web initiatives are finally translating into fatter profits and more satisfied customers. This panel of unconventional thinkers and leaders will challenge whether your business technology models and infrastructure live up to that standard.
Speaker:
Brian Behlendorf, CTO, CollabNet
Aneel Bhusri, co-founder and president, Workday
Raj Kushwaha, VP of services technology, Dell
Frank Lee, senior VP and chief systems architect, Wells Fargo
Moderator:
Chris Murphy, Senior Executive Editor, InformationWeek
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| 12:15 p.m. |
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1:30 p.m. |
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Networking Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. |
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2:30 p.m. |
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Get to the Point!
What do you get when you pit two of the most outspoken and opinionated industry observers against each other to debate the issues facing today's business technology leaders, give them a strict time limit to state their case, and mix in a few surprises? You get to the point! An InformationWeek conference classic returns by popular demand. Don't miss this fast-paced, no-holds-barred session that will have you thinking--and laughing.
Speakers:
Jason Maynard, Software Analyst, Credit Suisse
Denis O'Leary, Private Investor & Consultant
Moderator:
Fritz Nelson, SVP/Executive Producer, CMP TV |
| 2:30 p.m. |
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3:15 p.m. |
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Panel Discussion
Beyond Fantasy: Second Life Opens For Business
It's one part Star Trek holodeck, one part Mall of America. Second Life, Linden Lab's 3-D virtual world, isn't just a place for avatars to frolic in fantasy kingdoms and futuristic cyberpunk cities. It's also a place for real-world commerce. More than a dozen big companies, including Toyota, Circuit City, Cisco, Sears, and Adidas, have set up shop in Second Life. What are they really up to, and are their investments in the next generation of the Internet starting to pay off? A panel of Second Life pioneers walks attendees through an interactive multimedia session.
Speaker:
Christian Renaud, Chief Architect, Networked Virtual Environments, Cisco Systems
Christian Lassonde, President, Millions of Us
Bob Sutor, VP of Standards and Open Source, IBM
John Jainschigg, Editor in Chief, Dr. Dobb's Portal
Moderator:
Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, InformationWeek.com |
| 3:15 p.m. |
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5:00 p.m. |
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Executive Exchange |
| 7:00 p.m. |
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9:00 p.m. |
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InformationWeek 500 Gala Awards Dinner |
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