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These are executive events produced by InformationWeek. These events may vary in subject matter but are designed for executives to network with peers, hear from industry experts and participate in panel and/or open discussion forums led by an by InformationWeek Moderator. If you would like further information about these events or are interested in attending, click the event links below.

IT Asset Management: Exercising Cost Leadership in a Difficult Economy
Sponsored by BDNA
In a down economy, when every dollar counts, can you account for the dollars that you're investing? A .5% error in accounting for your software assets could be politically unacceptable to your management. In a recession asset management equates to job security. Join InformationWeek and Gartner Analyst, Jack Heine for this complimentary senior level executive event!

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - Los Angeles, MA
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - San Francisco, CA

Accelerating Innovation Through BPM: How Leading Organizations Are Aligning IT with Business and Getting Spectacular Results
Sponsored by Software AG
Join us for this InformationWeek Executive breakfast event. Joe Panettieri, InformationWeek's contributing editor as well as other industry experts will share the secrets to keeping your IT systems aligned with your business. During this invitation only event, you'll learn how some of the world's most efficient companies leverage Business Process Management (BPM) to drive ever-increasing process efficiency, innovation and growth.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - Minneapolis, MN
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - Boston, MA

The Intelligent Low-Latency Trading Imperative
Sponsored by Sun Microsystems and Wall Street & Technology
Executing a trade faster than a competitor, while important, is only half of the battle. Drive in the financial markets has been focused on pure speed and low latency, however, forward looking firms are quickly adding intelligence to their latency- sensitive trading applications. Join your industry peers at this Wall Street & Technology Executive Breakfast for an open dialogue on some of the latest industry low-latency trends, trading strategies and newest technology.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - Chicago, IL

The Enterprise Meets Web 2.0: Optimizing Your IT Infrastructure
Sponsored by Force 10
Join experts from InformationWeek, Gartner, Pando Networks and Force10 Networks for this exclusive morning seminar in the heart of Manhattan. Youıll have the opportunity to learn how you can safely design and deploy Web 2.0-like services throughout your datacenters, across your wiring closets and out to your user base.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - New York, NY

An Evening of Mobility Networking Reception
Sponsored by Nokia
Join InformationWeek's Mobility Blogger, Eric Zeman for a networking cocktail reception hosted by Nokia. Join us in this casual setting where you can have intimate or group discussions among your peers, colleagues and industry experts on your mobile device management strategy.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - New York, NY
Thursday, May 15, 2008 - Chicago, IL

The Application Modernization Imperative: A Strategic Discussion on Leveraging Existing Core Applications in a Web-enabled and SOA Environment
Sponsored by Software AG
Join your executive peers for a moderated discussion led by Contributing Editor, Lane Cooper. Over the course of two hours Lane will lead the group in an interactive conversation that outlines the best practices and key steps that organizations can take to implement effective application modernization strategies.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - Seattle, WA
Thursday, May 15, 2008 - Toronto, Canada

Next Generation Data Center Trends: Virtualization, Blades, Power and Cooling
Sponsored by APC
Today's IT professionals are expected to respond immediately to the changing needs of business; but is the design of your datacenter really capable of keeping up with the pace? Innovations in multi-core processors, blade systems and server virtualization technology offer an amazing amount of efficiency and flexibility, while at the same time creating a whole new set of challenges for IT and Facility managers. The growing trend towards high-density rack configurations reduce floor space requirements but concentrate power needs and heat generation into much smaller areas; which may result in hot-spots that can even move throughout the day as workloads change.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - St Louis, MO

Making Virtualization A Reality In The Next Generation Data Center
Sponsored by Novell
Virtualization can help IT Executives cut costs and improve productivity and flexibility in their data centers. In this seminar with InformationWeek, Novell and Accenture, we will hear from leading experts from IDC on how to improve services and build the next generation data centers with virtualization technologies. We'll describe its impact and what you need to know before making any new hardware purchases, and how to make use of open systems to further cut the costs of these improvements.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - Dallas, TX
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - Chicago, IL
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - San Francisco, CA

Rules for Effective IT/Business Collaboration
How Business Rule Technology Bridges the Gap from IT Coding Business Logic to User-Driven Dynamic Decisioning
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Business rule technology bridges the gap from IT coding logic to dynamic decisioning.ı One firm used rules to help reduce maintenance requests by 70%! Bill Leannah, West Bend Mutual Insurance shares his practical rules experience. Thought Leaders Panel with analysts from Forrester & OMG answers your questions.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - 8:00 AM PT / 11:00 PM ET

New Age Of Innovation
An InformationWeek Editorial Perspectives TechWebcast
InformationWeek Executive Editor John Soat will lead a discussion with C.K. Prahalad and M.S. Krishnan, authors of New Age Of Innovation, querying them on the specifics of their new paradigm, their formulas for innovation, what it all means for old-line companies as well as new, entrepreneurial startups, and how it will affect the use of information technology in the future.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET

Leveraging capabilities in your existing Cisco network to effectively manage application performance from data center to WAN
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Join Cisco, Nemertes and Fluke Networks for this unique, round-table format webcast. The panelists will discuss how to leverage your infrastructure's existing capabilities and data sources such as Cisco IOS, IP SLAs and NetFlow to manage application performance from the data center to the LAN and WAN.
Thursday, May 15, 2008 - 9:00 AM

Service Dependency Mapping: Automating the Discovery of the Relationships from Business Services to Infrastructure
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Join ASG and EMA for an informative webcast on Thursday, May 29th and hear experts discuss how you can face managing your companies complex environment. The ability to automatically discover configuration information -- including packaged applications, business processes, and even custom applications -- and populate CMDBs, dramatically increases an organizationıs productivity.
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 8:00 AM PT/11:00 AM ET

Leading Analyst Research on Managing Your IT Portfolio in Challenging Times
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebcast
Join us for this live Webcast as we discover with challenging economic times upon us, effectively managing an integrated IT portfolio process is now a critical success factor for your IT organization. ıHear first-hand from Craig Symons of Forrester Research practical ways to ensure that your portfolio is balanced between risk and return as well as optimize your portfolio for maximum value.
Thursday, May 29, 2008 - 1:00 PM PT/4:00 PM ET

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Email Risks, Google highlights why what you don't know can cost you
Sponsored by Google
Please join Rebecca Wettemann, Vice President, Research from Nucleus Research and industry expert on the financial analysis of technology, and Google Security & Compliance Product Marketing Manager, Mark Campbell, to learn about some of the risks and costs of email mismanagement and what to do about it.
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Making Mobile Device Management Work In Your Organization
Sponsored by Nokia
Join InformationWeek writer Eric Zeman for this important webcast, where he will share the details of the latest survey of top CIOs and IT managers on device management. In addition, Zeman will decipher the data and offer tips on how you can leverage the latest MDM technologies.
This Webcast will include both market research and practical technology advice, giving you a complete picture of the benefits of today's leading MDM technologies.
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Understanding ILM and How it Can Benefit Your Company
Sponsored by Oracle
This webcast will explore the major drivers of ILM, describe the processes and policies that must be in place for a successful ILM project, and look at key elements such as the classification and migration technologies that will mark and move data as required by policy. It will also discuss products that can be used in an ILM deployment.
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Poor Performance Is A Silent Killer. Learn How to Improve Your Online Business With Real End User Monitoring
An InformationWeek Vendor Perspectives TechWebCast
Symphoniq, along with BuildDirect and Lockheed Federal Credit Union (LFCU) will discuss why itıs critical to monitor performance from an end-user perspective, why they looked beyond their current application monitoring tools, and how they improved their ability to immediately detect and isolate web application performance problems.
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