Upcoming Targeted IT Conferences

• Fresh insights from CIOs as to how they are dealing with today’s top challenges and planning for 2007 and beyond
• How to insure you are doing the things strategically and tactically that will help you achieve results for the CIO and the extended enterprise
• What technologies/solutions are the best investments for the CIO and the extended enterprise?
• The pitfalls you should avoid when evaluating new IT solutions for your enterprise from the viewpoint of top management
• Types of relationships CIOs are looking for with external and internal business partners
• What new skills should you learn to make you even more strategic to the goals of the IT Department and the extended enterprise?
• ITIL/IT Service Management How IT Organizations are taking a unique approach as IT Service Units  
• Risk mitigation processes
• How to improve vendor relationship management

 

Conference Program

9:00am - 10:00am
ITIL-IT Service Management – Exceeding the Needs & Goals of the Business Through IT
Tom Bishop, Chief Technology Officer, BMC Software

Enterprises are becoming increasingly dependent on IT to help exceed the goals and needs of the business.  This necessitates the IT department to consistently deliver high-quality IT services to the rest of the organization.  Different business units may have varying definitions of what constitutes high-quality services.  Adhering to a high standard of IT services that is clearly communicated throughout the organization will allow the differing opinions to come together.

In this session attendees will gain a deeper understanding of ITIL and how it can help IT executives meet and exceed the goals of the extended enterprise.

Topics that will be from the viewpoint of the IT executive include:

• Service Support

• Service Delivery

• Security & Risk

• Service Level Agreements          

10:00am - 10:30am - Break

10:30am - 11:30am
Unique Ways of Improving Business Effectiveness Leveraging IT
Mason Rotelli, CIO, Communications Supply Corporation
Roscoe Rush, Director Technical Services, Communications Supply Corporation 

All IT organizations are challenged with finding more ways of doing more with less.  Business impact and business effectiveness are keys to IT proving their value to their company.  Open Source applications are a wonderful opportunity to provide tools that impact business and help to increase company effectiveness.  Communications Supply Corporation will share their approach, over-all strategy and the business impacts of their experiences with open source applications. 

In this session attendees will learn:

• Applications that impact business and how they impact effectiveness

• Where to find these applications

• A process for evaluating these applications

• A strategy for implementation and support of these tools

• How to articulate the value/ROI of open source to both sides of the enterprise: Business and IT

11:30am - 12:30pm
Mastering the Art of Influence: The Key to Long Term Success
Frank Mallinder, President, Box9 Consulting 

Life would be wonderful if your success was strictly a function of your technical skill or the technical skills of the members of your team.  However, success is very often linked to your ability to influence those who are seeking or using your services.  Survey after survey has concluded that one of the ‘most important’ things that IT executives need to do is to improve their communication skills.  In academia the saying is “Publish or perish!”  In IT the saying needs to become, “ Communicate or Perish!” 

If you are to succeed as an individual or a department, you must be able help others recognize the value of what you do.  Mastering the art of influence is the key.    

In this session you will learn: 

• The difference between influence and manipulate
• How to ask powerful questions that lead to better solutions
• How to prepare for important presentations where you are expected to “influence” the outcome
• How to present your recommendations in a powerful way

12:30pm - 1:30pm - Luncheon

1:30pm-2:30pm
Risk Management: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You
Moderator: Mark Hattas, CEO and Founder, Geneca
Panelists: Mark Griesbaum, CIO, Career Education Corp.
Susan Malisch, VP & CIO, Loyola University
Dave Mathews, CIO, Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago
Hyo Rhee, Sr. Manager, Business Solutions & Data, Quaker Oats

For the simple reason that businesses depend more than ever on IT’s ability to deliver, CIOs must do everything possible to guarantee the successful outcome of IT projects. Fortunately, most CIOs have a healthy paranoia about the importance of the early identification and management of project risks. However, identifying project risks is not as clear cut as you think.

While we can never predict the future with certainty, we can apply structured processes to contain risk by managing concerns before they become crises. Identifying project risks is the first step in the development of a healthy risk management program and insuring that a project’s ROI is not compromised. This panel gets you up-front with leading CIOs to learn how they champion the risk management process within their organizations. Topics covered include:

• Classification of software risks

• Risk mitigation processes

• The people side of risk management

• The risk management “check list”

2:30pm - 3:00pm - Break

3:00pm - 4:00pm
Connecting Business and IT Planning
Gint Dargis, Independent Consultant and Former CIO, Richardson Electronics 

As companies increase spending in IT moderately, there is greater interest these investments enable business strategies.  IT leaders are challenged with identifying and implementing technologies and doing so cost effectively.  To do so they need to not only know the business but tie into the planning process.  Understanding the enterprise business profile and how IT factors in are critical in determining how to tie into the planning process and how new technologies and initiatives can be introduced.

 Topics covered include:  

• What are business stakeholders expecting from IT?
• Business profile and IT positioning in defining leading technologies and projects.
• IT and business leadership roles in IT governance.
• Business and IT planning process scenarios.
• Using scorecards to demonstrate value and alignment

4:00pm - 5:00pm
The IT Vendor Management Challenge
Moderator: Steve O'Connor, VP Products, ITM Software
Panelists: Frank Matagrano, Director of Vendor Management, Solucient, LLC
Barry Robinson, VP Information Technology, Brookfield Properties
Sheleen Quish, CIO-At-Large
Patrick E. Moroney, President, The Barnier Group; Former CIO, Health Care Service Corp.
and other enterprise IT executives

Vendor relationships have become a critical success factor for today’s CIO and IT organization.  In today’s business climate, with its increased reliance on third-party products and services, it is more important than ever that IT effectively manage its vendors to meet its business objectives.  What is our risk exposure to any particular vendor?  Do we have the right vendor resources assigned to the right projects and initiatives?  Are we leveraging our vendors cost effectively? 

In this session we will discuss best practices and share experiences in vendor relationship management including:

• Tracking and measuring vendor performance
• Managing vendor risk exposure
• Improving the vendor selection process
• Optimizing vendor business impact

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Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education,
 in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs.
CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.



Conference price: $179 per person.

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Exhibits

As is always the case at CAMP IT Conferences events, the talks will not include product presentations. During the continental breakfast, coffee breaks, and the luncheon break you will have the opportunity to informally meet representatives from the following sponsoring companies, who have solutions in the area of the conference.