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"CHALLENGES OF CHANGE SOLVED THROUGH IT INNOVATION"
September 14-15, 2010
Regional Learning Alliance
Cranberry Woods, PA |
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| 7:00AM-9:00AM |
REGISTRATION - Foyer |
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| 7:00AM-9:00AM |
PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING/BUFFET BREAKFAST |
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9:00AM-9:15AM
Marc Di Francisco |
WELCOME
Marc Di Francisco, President, CIO Forum & Executive IT Summit
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Phil Svesnik |
PROGRAM INTRODUCTION
Phil Svesnik, CIO, Westmoreland County |
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9:15AM-10:15AM
Ed Abrams |
KEYNOTE - "BUILDING A SMARTER PLANET: LOWER COSTS, IMPROVE EFFICIENCY AND REDUCE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT"
Presented by: Ed Abrams, VP Marketing, IBM General Business
Discussion: No matter where you live or what industry you work in, you know that things could work a little better. Consider these facts: 67 percent of all electrical energy is lost due to inefficient power generation and grid management. Congested roadways in the U.S. cost $78 billion annually in wasted hours and gas. Consumer products and retail industries lose about $40 billion annually, or 3.5 percent of their sales, due to supply chain inefficiencies. Electronic medical records could prevent an estimated 100,000 deaths a year from medical error. As the world around us becomes increasingly smaller and flatter, it's also becoming smarter. What this means is that for the first time in history almost anything can become digitally aware and interconnected, and that means we can build a smart grid, smart traffic systems, smart supply chains, and smart healthcare solutions. It also means tremendous opportunity for your business. With so much technology and networking abundantly available at such low cost, what wouldn't you put smart technology into? What service wouldn't you provide a customer, citizen, student or patient? What wouldn't you connect? What information wouldn't you mine for insight? Please join Ed Abrams as he talks about how companies like yours are showing a return on their technology investments by implementing smarter solutions for today's smarter planet. |
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| 10:15AM-10:45AM |
BREAK – SOLUTIONS EXCHANGE PAVILION |
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10:45AM-11:45AM
Great Ballroom
Paul Kaminski
Patrick Worms
Jim McEvoy
Nora McDonald |
“GLOBALIZATION - EXAMINING THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CLIMATE”
Moderated by: Paul Kaminski, Asst. Mgr. IT & Telecom, Carnegie Mellon University
Panelists: Patrick Worms, CIO, Carmeuse
Jim McEvoy, Dir. IS, II-VI, Inc.
Nora McDonald, Director, IT Governance and Project Quality, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.
Discussion: In today’s business, globalization is becoming more and more prevalent. Please join our panel of experts as they discuss the challenges of dealing with governance of staffing and teamwork, how to get vendors to work with you if you are a small organization, how to deal with some of the “cultural differences” in other countries and how the global view of being “American” may be perceived. We will also look at how projects are handled differently when they involve one foreign country as opposed to multiple foreign countries. |
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12:00PM-1:30PM
Great Ballroom
Scott Sullivan
Liam Durbin
Michael Cisek
Rehan Khan |
LUNCHEON KEYNOTE - “VENDOR MANAGEMENT”
Moderated by: Scott Sullivan, CFO & CIO, Pitt Ohio Express
Panelists: Liam Durbin, CIO Heinz North America, H.J. Heinz Company
Mike Cisek, IT Director, Pitt Ohio Express
Rehan Khan, Associate Provost & CIO, West Virginia University
Discussion: This panel has representatives from manufacturing, transportation and education organizations that differ greatly in size and scope. To get some insight into how each organization functions, we will address the following questions: Who makes up the vendor management team in your organization? If it’s separate, how does IT align with the Vendor Management organization? Who has what rights and responsibilities to interact with vendors, and to what degree? How do you see cloud computing impacting your vendor management process? We will also discuss selection processes and strategies that have been employed to position your organizations to best weather the economic storm over the last 24 months. |
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| 1:30PM-2:00PM |
DESSERT – SOLUTIONS EXCHANGE PAVILION |
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2:00PM-3:00PM
Session 1
Great Ballroom B
Robert Lee
Tony Lalli
Matt Tolbert |
“INFRASTRUCTURE – FUTURE TRENDS”
Moderated by: Bob Lee, Manager IT, EQT Corp.
Panelists: Tony Lalli, VP Infrastructure, The Bank of New York Mellon
Matt Tolbert, Mgr. Information Security, Westinghouse Electric
Discussion: In today’s changing market, organizations are being forced to look at many upcoming trends in order to keep their organizations at the forefront of technology. This panel will discuss some of the infrastructure trends that they face within their organizations and what they see coming in the future. We will discuss Cloud Computing and its many definitions, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Unified Communications. Join us in this interactive discussion on infrastructure trends. |
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Session 2
MSA Auditorium
Jay Douglass
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“MEASURING ROI FOR PROCESS IMPROVEMENT – INDUSTRY RESULTS”
Presented by: Jay Douglass, International Business Mgr., Program Dev. & Transition, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Discussion: Now more than ever, organizations must consistently improve their ability to deliver solutions that meet the increasingly challenging demands of the market. Standing still is not an option because competitors don't. Organizations must decide which improvement solutions deserve funding and human resources.
Years' worth of data and results collected by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) show that organizations should invest in process improvements. This talk summarizes the results and the methods used to achieve them. It also describes case studies of organizations realizing significant benefits from their investments in SEI process improvement methods. |
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| 3:00PM-3:30PM |
BREAK – SOLUTIONS EXCHANGE PAVILION |
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3:30PM-4:30PM
Session 1
Great Ballroom B
Andrew Lawlor
Ed Cutone
Paul Hugenberg
Steve McDonell |
“IT STRATEGIC PLANNING”
Moderated by: Andrew Lawlor, Assoc. VP Tech. & Comm., Edinboro University
Panelists: Ed Cutone, CIO, Snap Retail
Paul Hugenberg, CIO, Consumers National Bank
Steve McDonell, Dir. Information Technology, ACHIEVA
Discussion: Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. It follows that IT strategic planning defines the information technology strategy for the organization. The relationship of the IT strategy to its organization, the role of the chief IT officer in the development of business strategy, and the use of trends and the rapid changes of technology will be discussed by our panelists.
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Session 2
MSA Auditorium |
“INTERNET PICKPOCKETS – CYBERCRIME AND MALICIOUS CODE IN 2010”
Presented by: Brian King, Computer Scientist/Forensic Examiner, Cyber Crime Squad, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Pittsburgh Division
Discussion: Over the past decade, cybercrime has evolved from the raucous world of independent attention-seekers causing Internet hysteria, to a quiet world of well-organized cybercrime syndicates that craft malicious code to secretly collect information and defraud Internet users and businesses out of millions of dollars. During this session, learn the current threats facing Internet users and businesses, ways to mitigate those threats, how to report to the FBI should you fall victim to cybercrime, and what the FBI is doing to target cyber-criminals around the world. |
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| 4:30PM – 6:30 PM |
EXECUTIVE RECEPTION
Admittance by Conference badge or VIP pass only. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and beverages. |
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"CHALLENGES OF CHANGE SOLVED THROUGH IT INNOVATION"
September 14-15, 2010
Regional Learning Alliance
Cranberry Woods, PA |
| 7:00AM-9:00AM |
REGISTRATION - Foyer |
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| 7:00AM-9:00AM |
PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING/BUFFET BREAKFAST |
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9:00AM-9:15AM
Marc Di Francisco |
WELCOME
Marc Di Francisco, President, CIO Forum & Executive IT Summit
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Phil Svesnik |
PROGRAM INTRODUCTION
Phil Svesnik, CIO, Westmoreland County |
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9:15AM-10:15AM
Great Ballroom
Steve Smith
Rick Arthur
Howard Stern
Sandra Brandon
Stacey Fedorka |
KEYNOTE - “IT LEADERSHIP – WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE CIO”
Moderated by: Steve Smith, Executive Director, Greater Pittsburgh CIO Group, Founder & Managing Director, Plus Consulting
Panelists: Rick Arthur, VP & CIO, Allegheny Energy
Howard Stern, CIO, City of Pittsburgh
Sandra Brandon, Dir. Administration, University of Pittsburgh
Stacey Fedorka, VP Technology & CIO, Ansaldo STS
Discussion: IT Leadership is a key component of every organizations success, but what really makes an effective CIO? Join our panel of IT Leaders from the region as they discuss their thoughts and experiences about IT leadership and what makes an effective CIO. Discussion points will address a variety of subjects including:
- What are the top few things a CIO has to do exceptionally in order to succeed?
- How do you determine where to spend your time and energy?
- How have evolving regulatory requirements changed your role over time?
- What have shrinking budgets done to change your role?
- How do you motivate / lead employees and vendors and how critical is the “People Management” part of your job?
- Is continuous improvement a goal or a hard metric and (if a hard metric) how do you measure it and how critical is that in your success?
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| 10:15AM-10:45AM |
BREAK – SOLUTIONS EXCHANGE PAVILION |
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10:45AM-11:45PM
Session 1
Great Ballroom B
Phil Zwieg |
"THINKING AND LEADERSHIP….WHAT’S THE REAL LINK?"
Presented by: Phil Zwieg, VP IS, NW Mutual (Ret), Facilitator, Regional Leadership Forum
Discussion: We often assume, either correctly or incorrectly, that leadership and thinking must be connected. How can they not be? How can one be an effective leader without being a thinker? But thinking has been described in many ways….system thinking, creative thinking, focused thinking, critical thinking, abstract thinking, thinking out-of-the-box, etc. All of them can probably be tied to leadership in one way or another. Through a series of interactive exercises and shared experiences, this session will focus on how thought processes can be either a stimulus to effective leadership or a detriment. Once some insight is gained, what is the value of having sufficient time to “think” in today’s ever more harried and stressed business environment. |
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Session 2
MSA Auditorium
Cynthia Babb |
"INFORMATION GOVERNANCE: SMARTER STRATEGIES TO MAXIMIZE YOUR INFORMATION SUPPLY CHAIN"
Presented by: Cynthia Babb, Product Management, Applications, IBM
Discussion: The volume and variety of digital information is exploding as our Planet becomes more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Current economic times require corporations and governments to analyze new information faster and make timely decisions for achieving business goals within budget. Look around you and think about all the new types of information your organization is collecting that it previously did not capture 10, 5, or even a single year ago. How do you manage and protect this information today? Is your organization able to harness this data to drive smarter business outcomes and ensure your company is prepared for the future?
In this session we will discuss best practices to master the complete lifecycle of information, establish sustainable management of information quality and security, and enable IT to make information more accessible and meaningful to the business. Learn how an effective governance strategy can enable IT and business to collaborate more effectively by ensuring information is aligned to business goals. Understand how your organization can take a holistic approach to improve operational efficiency by reducing risk and wasted time and cost associated with finding, understanding, and managing information. |
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12:00PM-1:30PM
Great Ballroom
Doug Hubbard
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CLOSING KEYNOTE - "PULSE: THE INTERNET AS THE ULTIMATE MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENT FOR BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT"
Presented by: Douglas W. Hubbard, President, Hubbard Decision Research
Discussion: In this session, Doug Hubbard, author of How to Measure Anything and The Failure of Risk Management will present his latest research into a new way to use the internet. As more people use Twitter, Facebook, Craigslist, eBay and Amazon, it is become more feasible to use the “tracks” they leave behind as an important source of business intelligence. Reports on the frequency of particular searches on Google can be used to determine if unemployment is decreasing or even to determine where flu outbreaks occur first. Ranks of books on Amazon can be analyzed to determine whether housing is recovering or if more people are going into their own business. New methods for searching blogs and twitter can give you the “buzz” on your company. The internet has become the most powerful socio-economic measurement tool in history – and is yet vastly underutilized for this purpose. Find out what’s next for this new way of analyzing trends in business, government, and popular culture. |
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| 1:30PM-2:00PM |
DESSERT – SOLUTIONS EXCHANGE PAVILION |
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| 2:00PM-2:15PM |
FINAL DRAWINGS & REFRESHMENTS SERVED IN THE SOLUTIONS EXCHANGE PAVILION |
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| ADVANCED REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED |
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To register, please contact:
Nina Di Francisco
ninad@pemconferences.com
1.503.821.7318 |
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| There is no registration via the web due to pre-qualification requirements. |
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