Driven by her business mandate to create a culture of innovation and drive collaboration, IBM CIO, Jeanette Horan, is focused on three key elements of transformation: business, IT and work. She will present IBM’s internal transformation journey through the lens of the CIO, detailing how IBM has transformed to meet financial targets, gained efficiency through the virtualization and standardization of global infrastructure, and embraced cloud computing and business analytics. Horan will also explore how IT supports employees around the world in the age of social business.

Session discovery topics:

• Business transformation — establishing governance and integrating IT with the business
• IT transformation — enabling efficiency with technology
• Work transformation — fostering mobility and collaboration transformation

After scaling Long’s Peak in Colorado last year, a team of officers and doctors at Texas Health Resources fixed their eyes on summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro. The planning progressed, and this seed of an idea grew into a mission that would encompass a much greater feat. Nine months later, this group of leaders not only conquered a mountain but opened a medical clinic in an underserved Tanzanian village. They thought they were going there to change a village, but walked away transformed by the experience. Join Edward Marx, SVP and CIO of Texas Health, as he shares a story of teamwork and collaboration. Hear the insightful lessons learned through the Maasai people and from his journey to the Roof of Africa.

When it comes to mobility in the enterprise, CIOs must balance a complex equation with improved workflow and collaboration on one hand, and business-critical security and management challenges on the other. Charles Koskovich’s Customer Support Operations organization empowers RIM’s high-performance mobile computing experience for enterprise customers worldwide. In an agile and competitive marketplace, RIM is changing the culture of collaboration and creativity with innovative solutions to drive growth. Koskovich’s insights into the future of personal and corporate connectivity speak to the escalating expectations for smartphones and mobile applications in the enterprise and demonstrate the role that IT organizations can play in designing intelligent mobile solutions for their businesses.

CIOs are working to improve operational efficiency and performance, but what new technologies and strategies are really working for IT and business partners? This discussion will address how IT is streamlining business operations through the use of cloud computing and virtualization.

Session discovery questions:

• Where are you currently in evaluating and implementing a cloud strategy for your organization?
• As a CIO, what are the biggest questions and concerns that enterprise cloud solutions raise for you?
• In what area of the business do you see cloud having the biggest impact and what is your future vision for cloud computing within your organization?

K. Ananth Krishnan, VP and CTO of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), will speak about innovation as a part of a creative continuum. He will discuss tools and platforms for tapping innovation from business-as-usual scenarios and strategies for keeping a well oiled innovation pipeline for the business to consider. He will talk about how the customer is a key piece in a business’ innovation scenario and explain how TCS connects to the enterprise as well as the larger innovation landscape to deliver business value.

Session discovery topics:

• Connected processes - invention, innovation, co-innovation
• Social impact - frugal innovation
• Key trends - mobility, cloud, social

‘Better, faster, cheaper’ continues as the battle cry in companies around the world. The pace of change we are experiencing today with emerging technologies, and the related challenges they bring, are stretching traditional organization and leadership models beyond capacity in the constant pursuit of getting more with less. Ken Rundus will present a model for leading in new dimensions and share how it has increased productivity in the information services group at Dal-Tile. He will also introduce a new tool that gives leaders better insight into the people they lead. Come find out how to get the ‘right people on the bus and in the right seat’ and get them aligned for high performance by using new paradigms to lead at light speed.

Consumers are being exposed to new technology at a rapid pace and the dominance of the ‘anytime, anywhere’ interaction is placing a new burden on CIOs. Consumerization is transforming business functions both internally and externally into real-time processes that impact employees and customers. In this engaging executive discussion, we will explore how organizations are approaching the integration of smart phones, tablets and other consumer devices inside the enterprise. We will also discuss how CIOs are capitalizing on mobile applications and identifying new opportunities for mobility to drive a new business future.

Session discovery questions:

• What is your strategy for integrating mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets into the enterprise?
• How are you currently managing the security of mobile devices and what is the biggest challenge you are facing in regards to security and IT consumerization?
• What internal and external applications are you developing and what are the costs/ benefits to the business?

Today’s CIOs have difficulties closing the gap on what is required by the CEO to transform businesses to perform well during the current turbulent economic environment. In this engaging keynote session, Thomas Falk, Chairman and CEO of Kimberly-Clark, along with Ramón Baez, CIO of Kimberly-Clark, will share how they’ve been working together to drive value and transformational change over the last five years. They will share insights and lessons learned as they address how they’re leveraging technology to deliver positive business outcomes for Kimberly-Clark.

As Chief Information and Digital Officer, Baron Concors brings a unique perspective into the online and mobile evolution at Pizza Hut. In 2009, Concors and senior executive staff realized that mobile devices were going to be a key driver for customer engagement and gaining a competitive advantage. As a result, the award winning iPhone application was developed and launched, immediately becoming a significant ordering channel for the business. More than five million people have downloaded Pizza Hut mobile apps to date, and with the recent iPad and Android app releases, it’s clear that Pizza Hut is leveraging mobile technology to meet and exceed customer expectations.

Session discovery topics:

• Fostering a culture of innovation
• Engaging consumers and measuring satisfaction
• Developing mobile applications and integration across systems

CIOs are now facing challenges similar in scale to the introduction of the computer a half a century ago. An endless stream of new technology services threaten to hollow out the IT organization, perhaps to the point where its primary role will be in supplier management as an orchestrator of services. With industry pundits predicting IT headcount may fall by 75% or more over the coming years, is this a disaster or an opportunity to reshape the role of the CIO and the IT function?

Richard Taggart will present ideas from his experiences as Corporate CIO at Disney and head of the strategy practice at SHI, and suggest a baker’s dozen list of best CIO practices as used by some of the most successful CIOs.

The effective execution of analytics can be a key driver of competitive advantage for the business. This session will discuss how IT is enabling better decision making through improved information access and the application of analytics and modeling.

Session discovery questions:

• How are you partnering with the business to determine what an effective analytics strategy looks like and how to structure tools to provide true ROI?
• How are you prioritizing which business capabilities to enhance through business analytics?
• How are you leveraging analytics to better connect with your customers?

Consumers’ schedules are tight and their budgets tighter. In a demanding and competitive retail environment, IT departments must be highly engaged and in sync with the business operation. Advances in technology are having a phenomenal impact on retailing, from in-store electronic scanners and mobile ordering devices to software applications that rapidly download and discern store sales data. Almost overnight, business systems are being designed to increase sales and profits. While IT must focus on defensive strategies like keeping the lights on and reducing costs, that is only half the game. Join Joe DePinto, President and CEO of 7-Eleven, Inc. as he discusses how driving the offense with technological innovation that maximizes revenue and profits, will ultimately prove to be the game-changer.