By CIOs, for CIOs' is not just a slogan. The CIO Executive Summit is relevant because it truly is driven by our current concerns and interests and organized in a way where we leave prepared to make a difference for our respective companies.
Louie Ehrlich, CIO, Chevron Corporation and President, Chevron IT CompanyChevron Corporation
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The CIO Executive Summit provides an outstanding environment for exchanging thoughts and ideas, and to share our individual technology strategies with our peers. This is the quintessential summit for CIOs.
Puneet Bhasin, Sr. Vice President & Chief Information OfficerWaste Management
Jody Conradt Special Assistant to the Women’s Athletic Director, Former Head Women’s Basketball Coach/Women’s Athletic Director The University of Texas, Austin
Jody Conradt knows what it takes to motivate a team to strive for success. Recently appointed to the Board of Governors for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Conradt’s legacy in the basketball community has been defined by her passion for empowering her players to be leaders on the court and in all aspects of life. When she retired from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, after more than 30 years as the head women’s basketball coach, Conradt had achieved the status of the second all-time winningest coach in men’s and women’s collegiate basketball. Central to Conradt’s approach to coaching and administration is her belief that building strong teams is the key to effective leadership.
Serving as the VP of Communications, Innovation & Collaboration for Schlumberger Limited, Rod Nelson is constantly investigating how new technology and innovation will impact the oil and gas industry. Taking a big picture perspective on the industry, Nelson asks the tough questions and drives the conversations that will shape the future of global energy.
Session discovery topics:
Understanding the role of oil and gas in the world energy supply
A new direction for oil and gas — embracing a culture of innovation
The value of technology — unlocking new resources and driving value
Looking to the future — energy, the environment and education
Effective leadership is especially critical during times of organizational change. People are generally opposed to change unless they initiate it. Therefore it is very important that leaders make a compelling case as to why the change is needed. Join Richard Lewis, CIO of the City of Houston, as he shares examples from his own professional leadership journey that illustrate how to identify and develop leadership skills that will help encourage and facilitate change.
Session discovery topics:
Building your own leadership skill set
Moving toward leadership and away from management
Fostering a culture of collaboration, commitment and courage
Leading by example and mentoring your team
Improving organizational health and business value
IT and business process outsourcing have morphed from a pure cost savings exercise into a key decision involving strategic objectives. As this shift has taken place, the governance and management of ITO and BPO relationships has not matured to deal with high levels of coordination and collaboration between clients and vendors. With an in-depth understanding of these challenges, Dr. Anitesh Barua offers CIOs an action plan for successfully collaborating with vendors.
Session discovery topics:
Suitable contracts – selecting various outsourcing tasks
Managing complex outsourcing deals with coordination mechanisms
Pitfalls of governance structure and outsourced task mismatches
Fostering collaboration between multiple vendors
Guardian model – governance structures suitable for multi-sourcing
Modularity of task and interface design – maintaining outsourcing relationships
Are you getting the most out of your BI investments? Do you struggle to measure the value and impact of BI and communicate it back to the business? Join Giuliano Di Vitantonio for a discussion on utilizing BI for maximum value in the enterprise.
Session discovery topics:
Enabling operational excellence – getting the right information to the right people at the right time
Leveraging corporate intelligence to improve your bottom line
Empowering business users to maximize the value of information
Communicating the value of BI – key conversations around value
Although innovation can add tremendous value to the enterprise, creating an organic culture of innovators is a challenge for many CIOs. Crucial to fostering innovation is senior level business participation, transparency and engagement. Greg Schwartz is responding to that challenge by creating a strong foundation of trust between IT and the business community.
Session discovery topics:
Building credibility – executing on the fundamentals of availability and delivery
Providing a robust technology environment for experimentation
Facilitating a journey of discovery and risk taking
Gaining trust with business partners – make them part of the process
At the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, quick and accurate data delivery is key to the success of the business. Therefore, Dr. Lynn Vogel and his team have developed their own electronic medical record capability, delivered on a service oriented architecture. This framework has boosted M.D. Anderson ahead of most other healthcare organizations. In this session, Dr. Vogel explains the benefits of building their revolutionary SOA framework.
Session discovery topics:
Achieving high performance and scalability
Accessibility and rapid response – establishing a highly available data environment
Creating value – data derived from a single source of truth
As Director of the Johnson Space Center, Michael Coats brings the poise, courage and determination he developed as naval aviator and astronaut to his leadership role. Coats, who is a member of the Astronaut Hall of Fame, offers insight into how well defined and dynamic leadership can inspire innovation and guide an organization through successes and challenges. NASA, and the space age, are now more than 50. The next 50 years will prove to be more exciting than the last. Since almost the beginning, Houston has been part of that legacy.
Session discovery topics:
The final flights of the Space Shuttle – completing the ISS
A new path – turning uncertainty into opportunity
FY 2011 budget – NASA: a catalyst for development
Global economic competitiveness – technical talent pool
Whether you are just moving into the cloud, researching more options within the public cloud, or building your own private cloud, most CIOs agree that this is the future of infrastructure as a service. But can CIOs have it all – both increased productivity and cost benefits within a secure cloud? Join James Beeson, CISO of GE Capital, as he outlines what CIOs should be thinking about when it comes to securely adopting the cloud.
Session discovery topics:
Planning for key conversations – important questions to ask vendors
Addressing data ownership and access – forensics and eDiscovery
Creating a disaster recovery plan within the cloud
Taking the next step – resources to educate yourself and the enterprise
Dell IT has undergone a radical transformation over the last few years, enabling it to shift from approximately 70% spend on operations and 30% spend on innovation to an even 50% split by the end of 2010. Gain insight from Dell’s experience and best practices around how it has unleashed enterprise efficiency in its ongoing transformation. This session will focus on the company’s journey to shift IT spend to allow for greater focus on strategic imperatives versus “keeping the lights on” by focusing on standardization, simplification and automation.
Great organizations are built on remarkable stories and powerful leadership. In tough times like these, they are the ‘secret sauce.’
The Governing Body is proud to introduce to the CIO Executive Summit stage an extraordinary communicator and ‘leadership junkie’ Doug Keeley, CEO and Chief Storyteller at The Mark of a Leader.
Based on a powerful approach he calls “Five Level Leadership,” Keeley uses amazing stories of the world’s greatest leaders and brands to show how the power of story and focused leadership make the difference in organizations. Using unforgettable video and music, and threading his narratives through the conference, he promises to challenge you as leaders and inspire you to rethink your approach to getting the most out of your team.
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