Speaker:
Ram Charan, Executive Consultant and co-author, Confronting Reality: Master the New Model for Success

Speakers:
Addons Wu, CIO, General Motors China
R. Mark Mechem, Director of Business Advisory Services, US-China Business Council
Geoffrey He, Executive Editor, InformationWeek China

Speakers:
David Barnes, SVP & CIO, UPS
Beth Mathews, Director of Global eCommerce, UPS

Speakers:
Barbara Carlini, North American CIO, Diageo Inc.
John Jalovec, CIO & VP, Global Applications, Honeywell Inc.
Charlie Troxel, CTO, Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Glen Meakem, Managing General Partner, Meakem Ventures

Speakers:
Meike-Uta Hansen, Director, e-Supply Chain Integration and Services, Volkswagen

Speaker:
C.K. Prahalad, Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan
Sunil Mehta, Vice President, National Association of Software & Service Companies (NASSCOM)
Varun Jha, CIO, Tata Steel

Speakers:
David Guzman, Chief Research Officer, The Yankee Group
Ken Braud, Director of IT, Halliburton
Greg Blount, Project Director, TPI

Speakers:
Denis O’Leary, Private Investor/Consultant (former EVP Chase.com)
Jason Maynard, Software Analyst, Credit Suisse First Boston

Track One
Session 1 (2:40 p.m. - 3:35 p.m.)
"Windows vs. Linux – Who’s More Secure?"
With the seemingly constant stream of security patches coming out of Redmond, WA, some advocates are singing the praises of Linux as a more secure, viable operating system for the enterprise. But as Linux gains more penetration, it becomes more of a target for security breaches, or so the argument goes. In this session, we’ll look into the Windows vs. Linux security debate and determine how best to keep your networks secure.

Speaker:
Jim Brown, CIO, United Cerebral Palsy of New York City
W. Garrett Grainger, Jr., CIO, Dixon Ticonderoga Company
Moderator:
John Foley, Senior Editor-at-Large, InformationWeek

Session 2 (3:40 p.m. - 4:35 p.m.)
"Beyond Storage Management: Enabling ILM"
How data gets managed, stored, retrieved and irreversibly expunged is an ongoing challenge for any enterprise IT organization. Now, the promise of information lifecycle management (ILM) hopes to address this challenge by aligning business value with IT infrastructure and setting storage policies. In this session, we’ll identify the risks, values and related metrics of ILM, and weigh-in on the question if your organization should fully adopt an ILM strategy.

Speaker:
Mike Sink, Director, Network and Operations Infrastructure, Kichler Lighting

Moderator:
Rusty Weston, Editor, InformationWeek Research & Founding Editor, Managing Offshore

Track Two
Session 1 (2:40 p.m. - 3:35 p.m.)
"Visibility Across Borders: Can Business Intelligence Do It?"
Seeking the goal of end-to-end visibility through business intelligence in a global or globally-connected enterprise is a challenge on several fronts: data security, data format standardization, choice of KPIs, choice of integration methods and extraordinarily diverse user requirements for data presentation are just a few. An IT executive who has gone through the struggle of implementing a global BI strategy brings the lessons home.

Speaker:
Jeffrey Nash, Manager, Disability / Hazardous Material and Business Intelligence, DaimlerChrysler

Moderator:
John Soat, Editor, InformationWeek

Session 2 (3:40 p.m. - 4:35 p.m.)
"Rally ’Round the Standards: Guidelines for Global Governance"
IT standards such as ITIL, ISO/IE 17799, and Cobit address important areas of IT practice (management best practices, security, and audit, respectively) and can support certain aspects of global governance initiatives. However, internal standardization – of data formats, technology platforms, business and IT processes – are at least as important, or maybe more so, in helping to establish a stable basis for global governance – IT and corporate. Initiating and enforcing global standardization efforts can be a grinding challenge, but not necessarily an insurmountable one. Learn directly from IT executives who have hands-on experience in global standardization efforts.

Speaker:
Dale Vanhooser, Director of IT, Georgia-Pacific
Bob Paarlberg, Managing Director, IT, Royster-Clark, Inc.

Moderator:
Chris Murphy, Executive Editor, InformationWeek

IT Confidential Live
John Soat, Editor, InformationWeek

"Creating Global IT Strategies"
This combination briefing and discussion explores several very current matters confronting today's global CIOs. Insights from a variety of third party sources and participants will be shared. How do changing economics in national and global service industries and, specifically, IT services affect the global CIO? Are new strategies needed?

Speaker:
Brian Sommer, Expert, The Advisory Council

"Managing a Global IT Organization"
Is distributing an IT function around the world the cure for all your cost and creativity problems, or a Pandora's Box of new headaches? This interactive session will look into: Setting a global vision, transporting project goals and monitoring progress; Normalizing value sets, cultures and performance standards; and Building an organizational infrastructure for the virtual "next cubicle."

Speaker:
Wes Melling, Expert, The Advisory Council

“Building a Global IT Infrastructure”
With technology options like grid computing, n-tier infrastructures and location-aware applications, and business alternatives like model company, managed services and offshore outsourcing, how can you best ascertain which solutions are right for your IT organization, end users, and business needs?

Speaker:
Sanjay Anand, Expert, The Advisory Council