Five years ago, Rayonier’s new CEO agreed that the organization’s IT operating model, composed of eight decentralized organizations, was grossly inefficient and tasked Mitch Walters to consolidate. Facing significant resistance across the company, Walters and his IT team set out to organize a fragmented and unnecessarily redundant IT environment. Among the top challenges for Walters and his team was to unite, engage and motivate a siloed workforce. Over the course of four years, Walters and his team improved their performance and reputation within Rayonier, beginning with a group of disengaged employees and ending with a high performing, highly engaged workforce. Walters will share his story with Rayonier, detailing the characteristics that made this transformation so successful.

The visionary CIO’s appetite for transformation can be larger than what a company’s legacy systems and corporate culture can stomach. The leadership challenge becomes planning for the business of tomorrow, while maintaining and protecting the business of today. As the pace of technological innovation continues to demand faster processes and workflow, most organizations cannot transform into nimble digital enterprises overnight. In this session, Whitney Bouck challenges the Florida CIO community to imagine how they would deliver business transformation if freed from constraints of cumbersome IT infrastructure. Bouck will lead a discussion about how CIOs can enable collaboration across their workforces and integrate new technologies into their operations to achieve greater growth and productivity.

Hackers today are better equipped, better financed and better prepared to penetrate your defenses than at any point in history. Your digital business depends on staying one step ahead of them, and the fact is, many of our most cherished security practices and products are woefully inadequate for the threats ahead. Join Brenda Santos and James Robinson for an informative and interactive discussion on why today’s threat landscape demands a new approach to security. The session will also highlight actions you can take immediately to stop more threats — today and in the future.

Rapid advances in technology have made the illusive theories of corporate computing, set forth almost a decade ago, much more attainable. Changes such as systems that are knowledge based, adaptive and able to provide contextual information for fact-based decision-making are here; engagement with customers and partners becomes integral to a more holistic relationship management philosophy. The shift from information technology to business technology is quickly becoming the new modus operandi as business models adapt to capitalize on external drivers. But the challenges remain the same — shifts are rapid, the complexity of integrating systems is only increasing, and risk adverse cultures make it hard to initiate change. Where can CIOs start? Join this Executive Boardroom to learn how you can capitalize on the new digital enterprise.

Attendee participation is encouraged int his interactive discussion. Seating is limited and reserved for CIO and CISO attendees. Sponsor participation is limited to boardroom sponsor representatives only. To reserve your seat, please contact Denise Long at 503-972-2165 or denise.long@evanta.com.

The rise of social media and mobile devices in the workplace has made the job of protecting the enterprise very difficult for IT professionals. The pace at which these disruptors evolve makes the employment and incorporation of these technologies a sometimes messy and tremulous experience. Mark Fiedelholtz, an attorney specializing in social media liability, joins Mike Maier from the City of Fort Lauderdale to discuss case studies and lessons learned around social media and mobile devices in the workplace. This session will cover how the legal landscape is changing around social media liability and issues and policy myths around the extended electronic workplace. You will leave this session with a better understanding of where the courts stand on social media and BYOD.

The consumerization revolution has changed the way the professional sports entertainment industry delivers services to the end-user. Tery Howard and David Enriquez with the Marlins are working with their technology teams to find innovative ways to recreate the fan experience. Howard and Enriquez will engage the group in a discussion about creating business opportunities with mobile technologies. They will discuss the ways mobile applications can be used for more targeted interaction, as well as the kind of infrastructures, both Wi-Fi and cellular, needed to support a large wireless environment with thousands of users. CIOs attending this session should come prepared with questions from their experience driving mobile computing strategies in their organizations.

Enterprises without mobile technology are virtually non-existent. One thing’s for sure though — whether or not management embraces mobile computing, it’s here to stay. This relatively new frontier for IT, however, is creating a slew of business risks that many people don’t understand or haven’t even thought about. In this Boardroom, noted author Kevin Beaver will moderate a discussion about mobile concerns, from devices to apps and beyond, that need to be on your short list of priorities. He’ll outline exploits CISOs can expect to see and commonly overlooked “gotchas” that, when addressed, can offer a ton of resilience.

Discussion topics:

• Addressing common mobile security oversights
• Tweaking your perspective on mobile devices and apps
• Testing your own systems to fully understand what’s at stake
• Getting visibility and buy-in needed to stay out of the trap of mobile security complacency

Attendee participation is encouraged int his interactive discussion. Seating is limited and reserved for CIO and CISO attendees. Sponsor participation is limited to boardroom sponsor representatives only. To reserve your seat, please contact Denise Long at 503-972-2165 or denise.long@evanta.com.

The Internet threat landscape has shifted. What used to be a playground for hackers and other Internet miscreants is now a borderless abyss of organized crime fueled by financial gain and state sponsored forays into our critical infrastructures. Cisco Systems' Patrick Gray, a 20-year veteran of the FBI, will explore the current threat landscape by highlighting the newest cyber criminals and examining the latest tactics employed by these predators. Gray will address how organized criminal groups, collectives such as Anonymous, and state-sponsored actors interact with this new crime element utilizing Social Media, social engineering, advanced persistent threats and Malware to compromise networks world-wide both large and small. Gray will also discuss how we can prepare to stave off these relentless attacks in order to protect our critical infrastructures through technology, awareness and planning.

The opportunities to leverage Big Data across the enterprise are endless — and marketing, finance and security officers all want in on the action. As stewards of corporate data, technologists are fundamental in delineating the volume and variety of data. Faced with large amount of both structured and unstructured data, CIOs must face the risks and opportunities associated with the ownership, quality and consistency of this data to offer insights into how the business can make faster and more accurate decisions. Patricia Florissi, global CTO for EMC, will join the agenda to share how Big Data can transform your business strategy.

Glen Taylor of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts is tasked with securing a wireless network that supports a Walt Disney World campus spanning 47 square miles, roughly the size of San Francisco. Add to this complex environment a rise from 200 to more than 3,500 rouge wireless access points, and the adage “walk a mile in his shoes” becomes a straightforward lesson in empathy. In this session, Taylor will describe how he and his team collaborated with Disney corporate technology and multiple business partners to make Walt Disney World a safer environment for all technology end-users. His team used crowdsourcing as an innovative way to save millions of dollars and increase employee engagement and awareness in security protocols. Not without lessons learned, Taylor will also discuss the challenges and process issues they uncovered, as well as the solutions implemented by the various teams.

To accelerate enterprise growth, deliver better operational results and reduce IT cost, CIOs and IT executives must carefully consider where and how to deploy cloud. Should they build their own private cloud, consume from public cloud providers, or utilize a combination of both? What workloads should be deployed in which delivery model? In this collaborative boardroom session, seating will be limited to 25 attendees willing to explore the key considerations in finding the right approach to cloud. Join this Executive Boardroom to discuss a more pragmatic approach in selecting an optimal cloud delivery model to meet your organization’s unique needs, as well as real-world use cases and implementations.

Attendee participation is encouraged int his interactive discussion. Seating is limited and reserved for CIO and CISO attendees. Sponsor participation is limited to boardroom sponsor representatives only. To reserve your seat, please contact Denise Long at 503-972-2165 or denise.long@evanta.com.

"Whole brain thinking" is the use of both the left and right sides of the brain in as synergistic a way as possible, in order to apply both logical thinking and creative thinking to the same problem. For too long, the distinctiveness of left and right lobe brain functions have been overemphasized, so much so that we have lost the reality of how the brain works as a whole. We know scientifically that the left side of the brain controls our language, motor skills, and positive emotions, while the right side of the brain controls negative emotions and abstract things, such as shapes and metaphors. The interaction between brain lobes, however, is constant. Leaders are faced every day with complex issues that require complex and thoughtful consideration. Do you use your whole brain to tackle decision making and problem solving, or is your process limited? This dynamic presentation from Don Marinelli, the co-founder and former executive producer of the Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center, will provide functional insights as to how you can implement "Whole Brain Thinking" on a macro scale, pertinent to work, play, creativity and problem solving.