Tentative Agenda
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  • Sunday, September 12, 2010

    12:00 pm — 4:00 pm
    Monarch Beach Golf Links

    InformationWeek 500 Annual Golf Tournament

    Host: Workday
    • Registration and lunch start at 11:00 am
    • Shot gun tournament begins at 12:00 pm
    • Awards immediately follow tournament at Club 19
    1:00 pm — 6:00 pm
    Rotunda

    Conference Registration

     
     
    1:30 pm — 3:30 pm
    Monarch Ballroom

    Culture: A Blueprint For Organizational Innovation


    Most companies have innovation strategies and numerous processes to implement those strategies. Inside the most innovative companies, however, culture trumps strategy, and most CIOs haven't taken a serious look at how to define their IT organization's culture. If you can't define it, you can't measure it. If you can't measure it, you can't manage it.

    This hands-on, interactive workshop will review best and next practices with an emphasis on the role organizational culture plays in fostering innovation and growth. Included is a case study discussion, where we'll benchmark the culture of innovation at four Fortune 500 companies against two best practice companies.

    All attendees will receive a complimentary copy of 8 ½ Best & Next Practices: A Blueprint for Organizational Innovation.

    Workshop Leader: Lou Musante, Managing Partner, Echo Strategies
     
     
    6:00 pm — 8:00 pm
    Grand Lawn

    Welcome Reception

  • Monday, September 13, 2010

    7:00 am — 8:00 am
    Pacific Promenade

    Networking Breakfast

     
     
    7:00 am — 5:30 pm
    Rotunda

    Conference Registration

     
     
    7:00 am — 5:30 pm
    Pacific Promenade

    Sponsor Display / Hospitality Area

     
     
    7:00 am — 5:30 pm
    Pacific Promenade

    Internet Lounge

     
     
    8:15 am — 8:30 am
    Pacific Ballroom

    Welcome & Opening Remarks

     
     
    8:30 am — 10:15 am
    Pacific Ballroom

    The Growth Imperative

    Driving growth will require both imagination and execution. It will demand that leaders think differently and creatively about new frontiers of opportunity, and how technology will, as it always has, lead the way. But the thinking and the imagining are only part of the journey. Success requires leaders to take risks and to follow through; to make the sharpest ideas become reality. In our opening session, we'll take you on a journey from big, mind-expanding ideas to real-world execution.

    The first part of this session (8:30 to 9:15) will feature fascinating and visual presentations around science and innovation.

    JoAnn Kuchera-Morin founded CREATE (Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology), and works on the Allosphere, which is a 3D immersive theater that maps complex data in time and space. She will be showing how scientists are able to map data both visually and sonically for phenomenal affects in science, math and art.

    Woody Norris is a serial inventor of electronics, tools, and cutting-edge sonic equipment -- such as the LRAD acoustic cannon. Woody will talk about and demonstrate some of his inventions but also his process for innovation. He won the 2005 Lemelson-MIT Prize for his invention of a hypersonic sound system.

    In the second part of this session (9:15 to 10:15), we'll get down to brass tacks with three dynamic business technology executives, who will reveal in rapid-fire vignettes how IT is engaging customers and generating new sources of revenue at their companies.

    Bill Martin, CIO of Royal Caribbean, will discuss how the innovative cruise vacation company is using real-time analytics to improve the guest experience and the bottom line. Martin will also show how wireless and other technology innovations enhance the guest experience on the world's largest cruise ship.

    Shawn Keim, Director of Development for Wet Seal, will show how the retailer of teen clothing for girls is combining mobility and social networking to drive sales.

    Dave Bent, senior VP of eBusiness services and CIO of United Stationers, will discuss the company's IT-led transformation from a wholesale distributor of business products to a provider of electronic commerce, marketing, merchandising, logistics, and other revenue-generating services to its suppliers and reseller customers.

    Probing our presenters throughout the entire session will be our curmudgeonly Commentary Desk, featuring Seth Ravin, CEO of Rimini Street, an alternative provider of enterprise software support services; Jason Maynard, technology analyst with Wells Fargo Securities; and Ray Wang, partner with Altimeter Group.
    10:15 am — 10:30 am
     

    Break

     
     
    10:30 am — 11:15 am
    Monarch 1

    Executive Roundtable: Peer to Peer Perspective

    Moving Beyond "The Economy"

    So much corporate discussion and strategy decisions in recent times have centered around the state of global economic affairs. CIOs continue to emerge as strategically positioned to drive growth and impact profitability for their organizations through advanced analytics. Leaders in the industry rely on a key corporate asset – their data – to differentiate themselves from the pack. Reporting and planning are table stakes today. Advanced analytics are driving the leaders in better managing their business by providing a 360-degree view of the business, as well as predicting trends into the future. Analytics have a direct and immediate influence on inventory levels, product availability, distribution costs, marketing directives, and more importantly, market share, shareholder return, and profitability. This session reveals what industry pioneers are doing to directly impact growth, and key best practices in execution of their new strategic initiatives.

    Moderator: Scott Vaughan, VP Marketing & Marketing Services, TechWeb

    Randy Lea, VP, Product Marketing & Management, Teradata Corporation
     
     
    10:30 am — 11:15 am
    Monarch 2

    Executive Roundtable: Peer to Peer Perspective

    Security and the Cloud: Protection of Your Most Valuable Resources

    We are clearly experiencing the rise of a new era in IT, a shift as big as the one that moved us from mainframe to client-server computing to the web. This massive transformation of IT is compelling a re-think of the way enterprises protect their critical assets. The most critical resources are typically the applications and their data, plus their supporting systems i.e. servers, storage and databases. Good security design employs a defense in depth approach to protect these resources from unauthorized user access and attacks. “All-virtual” and cloud architectures open the door for discontinuous innovation resulting in better security/compliance than was earlier possible, leveraging virtualization attributes such as introspection, instant insertion/layering, distributable enforcement, and policies that migrate with the workload. Ultimately, virtualization's greatest benefit is encapsulation and un-tethering processing from the hardware, leaving the door open to migrate workloads and their dependencies to the cloud in an agile fashion.

    Allwyn Sequeira, CTO of Security for VMware, will discuss these topics, and highlight new security/compliance architectures for virtual datacenters, virtual desktop infrastructure, and new application frameworks.

    Moderator: Elliot Kass, VP, Content Services, InformationWeek

    Allwyn Sequeira, CTO of Security, VMware
     
     
    10:30 am — 11:15 am
    Monarch 3

    Executive Roundtable: Peer to Peer Perspective

    Real vs. Fake SaaS: An Expose

    Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is an established alternative to on-premise applications for the enterprise. In fact, according to the 2010 InformationWeek Analytics survey on SaaS applications, 32% of companies report their organization is embracing a strategic long-term vision to use SaaS applications and 59% say SaaS is an appropriate delivery method for specific application functionality. SaaS and the broader concept of “cloud computing” have become such hot topics that even the legacy on-premise vendors who once pooh-poohed the concept have now embraced it, offering their own “versions” of software-as-a-service solutions.

    But, don’t be fooled…while the differences between real SaaS applications and their knock-off counterparts might not seem apparent, it doesn’t take long to recognize that the business value delivered by multi-tenant, cloud solutions built from the ground up is far superior. Bob Evans, Sr. Vice President and director of InformationWeek’s Global CIO unit will moderate this informative panel including Andy Schlei, Vice President, Information Technology, Sony Pictures Entertainment; Kate Bass, CIO, Valspar Corporation; and Stan Swete, CTO, Workday as we discuss and debate these differences.

    Moderator: Bob Evans, Sr. Vice President and director of InformationWeek’s Global CIO

    Participants:
    Kate Bass, CIO, Valspar Corporation
    Andy Schlei, Vice President, Information Technology, Sony Pictures Entertainment
    Stan Swete, CTO, Workday
    Purnima Wagle, Vice President of IT, Corporate Solutions, Flextronics
    Jason Williams, IT Director, Application Services, H.B. Fuller Company
     
     
    11:15 am — 11:30 am
     

    Break

     
     
    11:30 am — 12:15 pm
    Pacific Ballroom

    INNOVATION MANDATE

    Is the U.S. losing its place at the center of global technology innovation? Could Silicon Valley become the next Detroit? Join a panel of top industry thinkers and doers for a provocative discussion of the economic, political, cultural, and other issues that are shaping--and threatening--tech innovation in the U.S. and abroad.

    Panelists: Jerry Johnson, CIO of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Ananth Krishnan, CTO, Tata Consultancy Services, Aneel Bhusri, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Workday

    Moderator: Rob Preston, Editor In Chief, InformationWeek
    12:15 pm — 1:30 pm
    Pacific Lawn

    Networking Lunch

     
     
    1:45 pm — 2:30 pm
    Pacific Ballroom

    Unlocking Innovation: A CIO's Guide

    Our earlier Innovation Mandate session explored the triumphs and challenges of IT-based innovation at the macroeconomic level. In this session, we'll dive into how companies and IT organizations are structuring and unlocking innovation at the micro level. Join a panel of leading business technology executives to learn how "innovation teams" are conceiving and executing on cutting-edge application and other IT-driven initiatives at their companies.

    Panelists: Paul Heller, CIO, Vanguard; Tilak Mandadi, Vice President, American Express Technologies; Emmet Keeffe, CEO, iRise

    Moderator: Chris Murphy, Editor, InformationWeek
     
     
    3:00 pm — 4:00 pm
    Monarch 1, 2, 3

    InformationWeek Connect: Unconference Session

    Ad hoc, collaborative sessions where you can connect with peers about topics that matter to you most. We’ll provide the framework and the meeting space, you drive the conversation.

    David Berlind, Chief Content Officer, TechWeb
     
     
    6:00 pm — 9:00 pm

    The Value Honors Awards Dinner

  • Tuesday, September 14, 2010

    7:00 am — 8:00 am
    Pacific Promenade

    Networking Breakfast

     
     
    7:00 am — 5:30 pm
    Rotunda

    Conference Registration

     
     
    7:00 am — 5:30 pm
    Pacific Promenade

    Sponsor Display / Hospitality Area

     
     
    7:00 am — 5:30 pm
    Pacific Promenade

    Internet Lounge

     
     
    8:00 am — 8:15 am
    Pacific Ballroom

    Opening Remarks

     
     
    8:15 am — 9:00 am
    Pacific Ballroom

    Keynote: Nicholas Carr on "The Shallows"

    Nicholas Carr often stirs up the technology industry's collective psyche by posing questions that frighten us. He has questioned the role of IT ("Does IT Matter?"--2004), he has posited that "the cloud" is the ultimate culmination of the commoditization of technology ("The Big Switch"--2008), and he has asked whether the technologies that are driving the modern Internet are, collectively, dumbing us down ("Is Google Making Us Stupid," The Atlantic--August 2008). Carr's latest fright tome, "The Shallows," picks up where he left off, but in doing so he weaves a fabric of research and science that tells us, once and for all, that the technology of the Internet is changing the way we think -- not just what we think, but the actual process of thinking; and perhaps not for the better. It's a fascinating discussion that's sure to get your dander up.
    9:00 am — 9:45 am
    Pacific Ballroom

    Cloud Computing In The Real World

    Learn how pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly is living the promise of cloud computing today--not just in tucked-away pilot projects, but increasingly for key enterprise capabilities to develop insights, cut costs, and get products to market faster.

    Principals: Michael Heim, VP of IT and CIO, Eli Lilly; Mike Meadows, VP and Information Officer, Global Information Services and Diabetes Business Unit, Eli Lilly

    Interviewer: John Foley, Editor, InformationWeek
    9:45 am — 10:00 am
     

    Break

     
     
    10:00 am — 10:45 am
    Monarch 1

    Executive Roundtable: Peer to Peer Perspective

    Harnessing Today's Information Explosion for Business Benefit with IBM Enterprise Content Management

    Businesses today need to solve increasingly complex business problems faster than ever before. They need to be responsive amid huge volumes of expanding business content, a wide variety of content types, hundreds of business processes and unending regulatory challenges. How are you responding?

    Join Ken Bisconti, Vice President, IBM Enterprise Content Management Products and Strategy, for a roundtable discussion with industry leaders, like yourself, exploring high-value applications and use cases. Learn about innovative approaches to managing content by unifying information, processes and people. Find out how some organizations are expanding their case management practices through the use of content, process, advanced analytics, business rules, collaboration and social software. These leading-edge strategies and solutions help organizations deliver improved insight, responsiveness, flexibility, better customer service and regulatory compliance.

    Moderator: Scott Vaughan, VP Marketing & Marketing Services, TechWeb

    Ken Bisconti, Vice President, IBM Enterprise Content Management Products and Strategy
     
     
    10:00 am — 10:45 am
    Monarch 2

    Executive Roundtable: Peer to Peer Perspective

    Consolidation Without Compromise

    Join Riverbed and a few of their customers as they discuss their experiences consolidating IT infrastructure and building private clouds. They will talk about the roadblocks and surprises that they have encountered along the way and the benefits delivered by centralizing data centers, removing servers from remote sites and deploying branch office box technologies like the Riverbed Services Platform. They will also answer questions about future strategies and deployments and the role that WAN optimization plays in enabling private clouds.

    Moderator: Elliot Kass, VP, Content Services, InformationWeek

    Participants:
    Eugene Alfaro, Manager, Global IT Operations & Support, Simpson Strong-Tie
    Adam Rasner, Director of IT, Rayonier
     
     
    10:45 am — 11:00 am
     

    Break

     
     
    11:00 am — 11:45 pm
    Pacific Ballroom

    CIOs On The Hot Seat

    If CIOs want to be in the boardroom, they need to really infiltrate it, and that means understanding the audience, speaking their language, and being prepared to convince them of the need for funding, the necessity of inclusion, and their organization's unique abilities to contribute to the company's bottom line.  In this session, back this year by popular demand, top CIOs will step in front of a board of directors, American Idol style, complete with a time-pressured presentation of a key business technology initiative of their choosing and critiques from the board and the audience.  The board will also select a winner of the InformationWeek 500 Conference CIO In The Hot Seat showdown.

    CIO Presenters: Pablo Ciano, CIO, DHL; David Smoley, CIO, Flextronics

    Board Of Directors: Jean Cholka, CEO, Freeborders

    MC:  Fritz Nelson, VP and Editorial Director, InformationWeek
    11:45 am — 12:15 pm

    IT Infrastructure In The "Big Data" Era: Acxiom Steps Up

    Acxiom, a global interactive marketing services provider, not only manages one of the world's largest data repositories, but it also runs a world-class data center operation. And because data truly is Acxiom's business, its IT organization must be in complete alignment with the company's CXO leadership and demanding customers when it comes to making the right business decisions. In this session, Acxiom's top executives discuss the many challenges of managing an IT infrastructure that houses multiple petabytes of customer data, and how the company's use of virtualization and cloud computing is keeping costs down while Acxiom embarks on new growth opportunities.

    Principals: John Adams, COO, Acxiom; David Guzmán, CIO, Acxiom

    Moderator: Brian Gillooly, Editor In Chief Events, InformationWeek
    12:15 pm — 1:15 pm
    Pacific Lawn

    Networking Lunch

     
     
    1:30 pm — 2:15 pm
    Monarch Ballroom

    InformationWeek Analytics Workshops

    Join InformationWeek Analytics experts--savvy IT practitioners all--for one of these hands-on sessions delving into the practical considerations of cloud computing, social networking, and unified communications.

    Cloud Computing: Michael Biddick

    In the movie The Graduate, Ben was famously told to think about a career in plastics. In a modern day remake, he'd probably be told to consider cloud computing. From internal clouds to software as a service, it's an idea that's reshaping how we think about IT services. In this session, expert Michael Biddick will show how organizations are adopting cloud computing and how to create a long-term vision for IT services that includes rational use of the cloud.

    Social Networking: Mike Healey

    If there ever was a technology whose successful use required a strong partnership between IT and other departments, social networking is it. Realizing the benefits of collaboration both within the company and with external partners and customers takes the right technology tools, the right training, and a willing and energized user base. In this session, expert Mike Healey will provide an overview and best practices for how social networking is being used to better business. Oh, and he'll touch on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, too.

    Unified Communications: Jeremy Littlejohn

    For those who've made the investment in a voice over IP telephony system, continuing down the unified communications path is the next logical step. A more mobile workforce, advances in desktop video and presence technology, and more plentiful bandwidth are conspiring to make UC attractive for organizations trying to build a more collaborative workforce. In this session, expert Jeremy Littlejohn will explore trends in UC adoption and provide insights into successful deployments. Here's a hint: The technology is the easy part.

    Government Priorities

    IT leaders in all levels of government are grappling with common challenges -- cybersecurity, project management, data center consolidation, cloud computing, open government, and more. How do they meet organizational objectives with limited resources? In this interactive session, public sector CIOs come together to share experiences and hash out solutions.

    Discussion will be led by Jerry Johnson, CIO of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Carolyn Lawson, director of E-services in California’s Office of the CIO.
    2:15 pm — 3:30 pm
    Monarch Ballroom

    Executive Exchange

     
     
    3:45 pm — 4:45 pm
    Pacific Ballroom

    Keynote: Peter Hinssen on "The New Normal in IT"


    How will businesses deal with customers who no longer tolerate limitations in pricing, delivery, convenience, quality, and service? How will they handle the seemingly contradictory customer demands for secure privacy protection and open information access? Belgian IT entrepreneur Peter Hinssen, author of the best-seller "Business/IT Fusion," showcases examples from his latest book, "The New Normal in IT," to explain how companies can thrive in a world without digital limits. Hinssen discusses how to change the way people in your organization think about IT in order to meet the changing demands of customers and business partners. He explains how this approach to the "new normal" helps companies establish an IT infrastructure and organizational culture that adheres to an innovation and growth mandate.
    7:00 pm — 9:00 pm
    Pacific Ballroom

    InformationWeek 500 Awards Dinner & Gala

    An evening of recognition and celebration as we unveil this year's InformationWeek 500.
    9:00 pm — 10:00 pm
    Pacific Promenade

    Dessert Reception

  • Wednesday, September 15, 2010

     
     

    Departure