Under Tom Murphy’s leadership, the technology organization at AmerisourceBergen has evolved into an embedded business asset designed to accelerate opportunities in the global economy. To achieve this strategic position, Murphy argues that CIOs must be able to identify and respond to the rapid changes in external business drivers, from mobility to shifting security demands. Murphy will discuss the challenges facing CIOs as they make decisions that profoundly impact the business and how the ability to keep pace with the convergence of business and technology will determine the legacy of the CIO.

In this challenging economy, CIOs must create collaboration amongst executive stakeholders and position technology to maximize its impact on the business. In this session Jay Ferro, Joseph Pekala, Thomas Schreier and moderator Maryann Goebel will share how they are successfully executing strategies that streamline processes resulting in significant savings and improved communication. They will discuss how leveraging people, process and technology — in that order — is core to moving your organization forward in this partially recovering economy.

Session discovery topics:

• Agile portfolios and governance models which empower partnerships
• Selling and executing strategic initiatives that drive growth
• Lean IT — moving beyond theory
• Lessons learned navigating the road of “influencer”

At First Data Corporation, SVP and Chief Development Officer, Jerry Bartlett leads a team that is transforming the business by driving down costs while maximizing value to customers and shareholders. He and his team have positioned IT as a leader for the organization by reallocating how the budget is spent in order to focus on developing strategic initiatives. Bartlett will be joined by IT Futurist Thornton May as they discuss the power of IT as a business authority, and how creative cost sourcing has created a clear path to First Data becoming a leader of innovative technologies that drive business growth.

Changes are coming to the communication network that connects your company internally, externally and in-between. This rapid transformation of the communication and collaboration landscape will redefine how you do business. Some of the most exciting changes are in the areas of mobility, security, applications and the cloud. How can IT leaders drive new opportunities for the business by getting ahead of the curve and capitalizing on change?

Session discovery topics:

• Mobility — understanding how changes will impact productivity
• Security — new developments to keep your information more secure
• Applications — evolutionary changes to the application landscape
• Cloud — where is it going?

Consumerization is transforming internal and external business functions into real-time processes that impact employees and customers. In this engaging executive discussion, Teresa Devine, Onyeka Nchege and Malcolm Harkins will explore how their organizations are approaching the integration of smart phones, tablets and other consumer devices to bring value to their businesses. With the help of moderator Thornton May, they will dive deeper into the challenges and successes faced when implementing a secure mobile strategy and discuss the impact this has had on their organizations.

Session discovery topics:

• Integrating devices for employee productivity and collaboration
• Preparing for the shift in technology delivery and support
• Enhancing retail operations and the bottom line through mobile convergence
• Risk vs. benefit — the power of personal responsibility

In today’s fast pace environment, information is fundamental for businesses to make smart decisions. This can be challenging when the organization lacks trust in their data. At U.S. Xpress Enterprises, Dale Langley and Tim Leonard have created a system that blurs the lines between transactional systems and business information. Their efforts have led to the implementation of an information management strategy that combines real time analytics with past data to produce critical, on-demand information. In this session, Langley and Leonard will discuss the challenges and successes that have come from ensuring the information management system is a core strategy for the company and how it has made U.S. Xpress a more nimble organization.

Session discovery topics:

• The power of foundational data
• Maintaining quality information
• Innovation for the future

As CIO at LaVie Care, Deborah Green has made it her priority to continue to enhance the value of IT despite numerous financial challenges in the long-term care industry. In this session, Green discusses how she and her IT management team were able to gain support and approval to lay the ground work for electronic medical records across 120+ inpatient facilities in 18 states. This ground work is the implementation of a robust, secure, centrally managed and most importantly, cost effective, WiFi solution designed to un-tether their workforce and enable point-of-patient care computing. Join Green as she shares how LaVie Care is able to initiate cost effective infrastructure changes in the face of a depressed economy.

The Coca-Cola Company is driving global growth. For that reason, business leaders scrutinize every investment for alignment with growth goals. Nowhere is this felt more than in IT. When Coca-Cola IT reached out to its business leaders for feedback, one of the top concerns was transparency of IT spending. Coca-Cola recognized that delivering transparency would help align IT investments with business priorities and address concerns of the business. Join Jim Scholefield as he shares The Coca-Cola Company’s journey to financial transparency and the key insights it has provided.

Session discovery topics:

• Understanding the true cost of information technology
• Changing the conversation between IT and the business
• Rebalancing the IT investment portfolio toward growth

In 2010, the global benefits leader Unum completed a dramatic transformation which streamlined their organization by bringing all of their technology teams under a single umbrella. The successful transition of creating a more efficient and effective department led to a strategic shift at Unum that improved communication, accountability and customer experience throughout the organization. Discussing their strategic approach to transforming Unum and the lessons learned along the way, Kathy Owen, SVP and Global CIO and Cissy Williams, VP of Global Programs, will share how IT has been the catalyst in driving change and aligning the business to ensure that value is extracted horizontally throughout the company.

Hercules had twelve “Labors.” Dante traversed nine circles of hell. And the hero of the emerging value drama — the modern CIO will face at least four steep and disruptive technology learning curves: Big Data, Mobility, Social Media and the Cloud. In the cloud space alone analysts document that there are more than 2,000 software-as-a-service [S-a-a-s] vendors clamoring for attention.

Looking at the road ahead non-hysterically one needs to remember that this is not our first rodeo. CIOs have been dealing with change since the title was first coined in 1981. Rapid change is not “revolutionary.” Rapid technological change is normal: it has been a standard part of the economic history of EVERY era since the beginning of the industrial revolution dating back to the original invention of the steam engine.

The question for those who would master the coming change is how to Observe, Orient, Decide and Act [O.O.D.A.] Thornton will share results from an international research study of executive O.O.D.A. loops.

Twelve years ago, The Weather Channel debuted their first application that allowed consumers to get up to date, location based weather reports via a mobile smart phone. Today they have one of the most widely downloaded applications for mobile and tablet devices. In this session, Brian Shield, EVP and CIO of The Weather Channel will discuss what it takes to be a leader in the field of IT consumerization. He will share the different ways in which the continued adoption of new technologies brings value to the organization and where he sees these innovations taking The Weather Channel in future years.

Session discovery topics:

• Leveraging technology for business growth
• The future of IT consumerization at The Weather Channel
• Challenges, successes and lessons learned as an early adopter

As large collections of data come together some very exciting, and somewhat unexpected, things happen. As data grows, the quality of predictions improve (fewer false positives, fewer false negatives), poor quality data starts to become helpful and computation can actually get faster as the number of records grow. Now, add to this the ‘space-time-travel’ data about how people move that is being created by billions of mobile devices, and what becomes computable is outright amazing. As it turns out, geospatial data is analytic super-food.