Sponsors
To learn more about sponsorship opportunities and if your organization has been nominated to participate, please contact our conference facilitators.
Please note:
Nominated partners who elect not to sponsor may not otherwise attend the conference. Qualified partner organizations may, however, submit a request for an invitation for their CIO to attend as a conference attendee.
Partner of the Year
For nearly a century, IBM has helped business innovate and deliver increased value. IBM helps clients solve their most pressing issues by combining forward thinking, business insight, research and industry experience with the latest technologies. Discover how IBM works with CIOs to build smarter enterprises by offering a full portfolio of instrumented, interconnected and intelligent solutions.
Learn more at www.ibm.com/CIO
For over 35 years, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. Founded in 1968 to build semiconductor memory products, Intel introduced the world's first microprocessor in 1971. Today, Intel supplies the computing and communications industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking and communications products. These products are used by industry members to create advanced computing and communications systems.
Learn more at www.intel.com
Tata Consultancy Services is an IT services, consulting and business solutions organization that delivers real results to global business, ensuring a level of certainty no other firm can match. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled, infrastructure, engineering and assurance services. This is delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model, recognized as the benchmark of excellence in software development. A part of the Tata Group, India’s largest industrial conglomerate, TCS has a global footprint and is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchange in India.
Learn more at www.tcs.com
Presenting Sponsors
Rogers is a diversified public Canadian communications and media company. We are Canada's largest provider of wireless voice and data communications services and one of Canada's leading providers of cable television, high-speed Internet and telephony services. Through Rogers Media we are engaged in radio and television broadcasting, televised shopping, magazines and trade publications, and sports entertainment. We are publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: RCI.A and RCI.B) and on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: RCI). For further information about the Rogers group of companies, please visit www.rogers.com.
Learn more at www.rogers.com
National Sponsors
VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven virtualization solutions that reduce IT complexity. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere™ – VMware enables organizations to transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments. VMware solutions enable more efficient, agile IT service delivery without compromising control. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, VMware has more than 170,000 customers and 25,000 partners worldwide.
Learn more at www.vmware.com
Workday is the leader in enterprise-class, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for managing global businesses, combining a lower cost of ownership with an innovative approach to business applications. Founded by PeopleSoft veterans Dave Duffield and Aneel Bhusri, Workday delivers unified Human Capital Management, Payroll, and Financial Management solutions designed for today’s organizations and the way people work. Delivered in the cloud leveraging a modern technology platform, Workday offers a fresh alternative to legacy ERP. More than 280 customers, spanning medium-sized organizations to Fortune 50 businesses, have selected Workday.
Learn more at www.workday.com
Local Sponsors
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 236,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011.
Learn more at www.accenture.ca
Since its founding in 1976, Acer has achieved the goal of breaking the barriers between people and technology. Globally, Acer ranks No. 2 for notebook PCs*. In Canada, Acer ranks No. 1 for notebook PCs while No. 2 for overall PCs market. A profitable and sustainable Channel Business Model is instrumental to the company's continuing growth, while its multi-brand approach effectively integrates Acer, Gateway, Packard Bell, and eMachines brands in worldwide markets. Acer strives to design environmentally friendly products and establish a green supply chain through collaboration with suppliers. Acer is proud to be a Worldwide Partner of the Olympic Movement, including the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games and London 2012 Olympic Games. The Acer Group employs 8,000 people worldwide. Revenues for 2010 reached US$19.9 billion.
Learn more at www.acer-group.com
AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) is a premier communications holding company and one of the most honored companies in the world. Its subsidiaries and affiliates — AT&T operating companies — are the providers of AT&T services in the United States and around the world. With a powerful array of network resources that includes the nation’s largest 4G network, AT&T is a leading provider of wireless, Wi-Fi, high speed Internet, voice and cloud-based services. A leader in mobile Internet, AT&T also offers the best wireless coverage worldwide of any U.S. carrier, offering the most wireless phones that work in the most countries. It also offers advanced TV services under the AT&T U-verse® and AT&T │DIRECTV brands. The company’s suite of IP-based business communications services is one of the most advanced in the world. In domestic markets, AT&T Advertising Solutions and AT&T Interactive are known for their leadership in local search and advertising.
Learn more at www.att.com/enterprise
BlackBerry Enterprise Solution by Research In Motion
The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution(TM) provides a complete wireless connectivity platform for keeping mobile professionals connected to people and information. It provides users with wireless access to a full suite of productivity enhancing tools, including email, applications, Internet and intranet, phone, SMS and organizer features.
Learn more at www.blackberry.com
At CGI, we're in the business of satisfying clients. For more than 30 years, we've operated upon the principles of sharing in clients' challenges and delivering quality services to address them. A leading IT and business process services provider, CGI has 31,000 professionals operating in 125 offices worldwide, giving us close proximity to our clients. Through these offices, we offer local partnerships and a balanced blend of global delivery options to ensure clients receive the combination of value and expertise they require. CGI defines success by exceeding clients' expectations and helping them achieve superior performance.
Learn more at www.cgi.com
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EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information storage and management that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle.
Learn more at www.EMC.com
ExtraHop Networks is a leading provider of network and application performance management (APM) solutions. The ExtraHop Application Delivery Assurance system is the industry’s first completely passive network appliance that provides application-level visibility with no agents, configuration, or overhead. The ExtraHop system gives organizations, including Expedia, Kohl’s, Nintendo, GSA, Adobe, and Motorola, a complete picture of the performance of their business-critical applications in real time. Jesse Rothstein and Raja Mukerji, engineering veterans from F5 Networks, founded the privately held company in early 2007. ExtraHop Networks is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and funded by Madrona Venture Group and other private investors.
Learn more at www.extrahop.com
Lexmark Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Lexmark International Inc. provides businesses of all sizes with a broad range of printing products, software, solutions and services that help them to be more productive, reduce expense and manage overall document output.
With revenues of 3.9 billion for 2009, Lexmark’s award winning mono and colour printers and multi function devices are sold in over 170 countries in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the Pacific Rim and the Caribbean.
Lexmark’s success is driven by the company’s overarching commitment to its customers.
With a corporate vision of “Customers For Life” we earn customers loyalty by listening to them, anticipating their needs, and working to create value for them.
Lexmark is a socially responsible company that strives to maintain best practices for sustainability-balancing economic, environmental and social concerns
Learn more at www.lexmark.ca/
Micro Focus International plc (Micro Focus®; LSE: MCRO.L) is the leading provider of enterprise application management and modernization solutions. Micro Focus provides solutions that enable organizations to:
• Significantly reduce the costs of operating and managing mission-critical enterprise applications
• Increase the productivity of development teams
• Enable a greater focus on innovation and development of new solutions and features
• Improve business agility and significantly improve the time-to-market of new solutions and products
Micro Focus has more than 30 years of expertise, more than 18,000 customers, more than two million licensed users, more than 30 million end users and 91 of the Fortune Global 100 companies. Micro Focus has over 1100 employees worldwide with principal offices in the United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Japan.
Learn more at microfocus.com/
Q9 Networks is Canada's leading provider of outsourced data centre infrastructure services for organizations with mission-critical IT operations. Including its new Kamloops, B.C. facility, Q9 has 10 operational data centres in three provinces. Since 2000, investments in data centre capacity have totaled more than $340 million. Q9's data centres and network are backed by an industry-leading SLA that guarantees 100 per cent network and power availability. Q9 services, including: co-location, bandwidth, dedicated servers, firewalls, load balancing, virtual private networking (VPN) and back-up/restore, enable the rapid provisioning and scalability of client infrastructure.
Learn more at www.q9.com
QlikTech is a leader in Business Discovery — user-driven Business Intelligence (BI). QlikTech's powerful, accessible Business Discovery solution bridges the gap between traditional BI solutions and standalone office productivity applications. Its QlikView Business Discovery platform enables intuitive user-driven analysis that can be implemented in days or weeks. The in-memory associative search technology it pioneered allows users to explore information freely, rather than being confined to a predefined path of questions. QlikView Business Discovery works with existing BI applications and adds new capabilities: insight for everyone, zero-wait analysis, mobility, an app—like model, remixability and reassembly, and a social and collaborative experience.
Learn more at www.qlikview.com/us
RKO Business Solutions is focused exclusively on Enterprise Content Management (ECM) and Records Management (RM) program solutions. Our service offerings include program development, communications, consulting, information architecture, software installations, implementations and customizations. RKO's core value is the commitment the Principals make to ensure your project is successful and you are fully satisfied with our services and relationship. RKO's business is built on trustworthiness, repeat work and long-term relationships.
Learn more at www.rkosolutions.com
Savvis helps customers around the world with hosted IT solutions and cloud infrastructure. In fact, more than 2,500 unique customers, including more than 30 percent of Fortune 100 companies, use Savvis to reduce capital expense, improve service levels and harness the latest advances in cloud computing.
We offer flexible, holistic solutions that fit changing needs. We are 100 percent focused on IT infrastructure. And we have a highly credentialed team with the expertise and global footprint to help customers reach their business goals.
Learn more at www.savvis.com
Shaw Business is a division of Shaw Communications; a diversified communications and media company headquartered in Calgary. Shaw Business is a full service facility based carrier providing world class telecommunication services and solutions across Canada, designed for small businesses to large enterprises and governments. As a forward-thinking organization, Shaw Business continually invests in our network and our technology — staying on top of emerging demands such as cloud computing and high availability. By investing in our purpose built national fiber optic backbone, Shaw is the leading provider of broadband services in Canada. Our fiber optic network operates coast-to-coast, continent-wide and spans over 625,000 km to reach over 150,000 business locations across Canada.
Learn more at www.shawbusinesssolutions.ca
With innovative technology solutions and services, Symantec helps individuals and enterprises protect and manage their digital assets. Symantec provides a wide range of solutions including enterprise and consumer security, data management, application and infrastructure management, security management, storage and service management, and response and managed security services.
Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability, and integrity of their information. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries.
Learn more at www.symantec.com

