I can only attend two or three events each year. I need to make sure the value I'm receiving is very high. I get that from THE CIO FORUM.
Brad Friedman, VP of Information Services
Burlington Coat Factory
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Conference The CIO Forum | Now in Its 15th Year
Our conference program is refreshingly different to what you're used to seeing at regular tradeshows and conferences. Why?
• Built Around Your Needs: We create The Forums conference program based on research and feedback from our clients, senior level IT executives, who like you are dealing with critical issues on a daily basis.
• First class speakers: Conference sessions are led by peers or industry experts, who have a clear understanding of the business obstacles inherent in controlling large technology departments and how they can be managed and resolved.
• Intimate sessions: Sessions are for small groups of under 25 delegates. This environment encourages attendees to be able to share best practices, successful case studies, and receive opinions and suggestions from their colleagues.
The entire conference is built around helping you become a more effective executive and opening doors to new perspectives and points of view to help you and your department move forward.
If you are interested in participating as a speaker or wish to recommend a speaker or topic, please contact Steve McCuaig now.
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Mavericks at Work: Why The Most Original Minds in Business Win
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| Keynote Speaker |
| Polly LaBarre |
Polly LaBarre is a bestselling author, agenda-setting writer, speaker, and television correspondent, who has contributed to the business conversation in a range of forums for over a dozen years. She is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win. The Economist named Mavericks a “Book of the Year” and called the book "a pivotal work in the tradition of In Search of Excellence and Good to Great."
Currently, Polly is a business and innovation correspondent for CNN. In her thrice-weekly “Idea Factory” segments on the network’s American Morning and Your Money programs, she introduces viewers to a remarkable collection of inspiring leaders, innovative organizations, and exciting new ideas from the world of business and beyond.
As a member of the original team of Fast Company magazine, Polly played a central role in the remarkable success of a magazine that changed the way leaders at all levels think about working and winning—and earned a passionate following around the world. Polly’s writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Fast Company and the New York Times. She is a co-author of The Big Moo: Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable (Portfolio, 2005).
As the editorial director of Women 2.0, a web documentary project currently in development with the Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation, she helped to create an innovative platform for chronicling women’s movements around the globe and advancing the cause of gender equality. A graduate of Yale University, Polly lives in New York City.
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Is my Information Security spend worth it?
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| Industry Session |
| Michael Everall (CISSP), Chief Information Security Officer, Lehman Brothers |
Sure, we know that we need to protect the firm’s assets and manage risk, be it Financial, Operational, Regulatory or Reputational but let’s be honest, a smoothly functioning and effective Enterprise Security Management program should look like a swan on a lake, all smooth, seamless gliding on the surface, just don’t look at the thrashing and kicking under the surface…..
So, when you enter the perennial battle of the budget, other than dry statistics on patches run, risks mitigated, malware events blocked and so on, how do you quantify and justify not just the spend but also the benefits..?
Here we will talk about several real world examples and studies showing the costs, not just of a breach but how the costs are lessened with effective management, process, policy and people in place. Some of the examples come from others, some come from my own experience from September 11th, the August 14th East Coast power failure and class action lawsuits and e-discovery.
The point is, it’s not IF you will have a breach or security based event, it’s WHEN, HOW MUCH and WHAT DID WE DO. |
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Future Trends in Cloud & Mobility for CIOs
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| Industry Session |
| Ariel Silverstone, Former CISO, Expedia |
It’s 2014. Where have the trends which started in the previous decade of the century lead us?
This talk will focus on historical currents, motivators and streams seen in 2005 and beyond attempt to gaze at the opaque crystal ball that is information Technology. Market forces such as ‘consumerization of IT’, mobility, Cloud Computing, and the US tax code, combined with global drivers such as the new Spring of Nations, global financial meltdown, publicized security and privacy breaches and even global warming will be tied into this conversation, attempting to unravel the direction technology is likely to take in the coming years.
Join the conversation and bring your own contribution! |
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Future Trends in Cloud & Mobility for CISOs
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| Industry Session |
| Ariel Silverstone, Former CISO, Expedia |
It’s 2014. Where have the trends which started in the previous decade of the century lead us?
This talk will focus on historical currents, motivators and streams seen in 2005 and beyond attempt to gaze at the opaque crystal ball that is Information Security, Assurance, and Privacy future. Market forces such as ‘consumerization of IT’, mobility, Cloud Computing, and the US tax code, combined with global drivers such as the new Spring of Nations, global financial meltdown, publicized security and privacy breaches and even global warming will be tied into this conversation, attempting to unravel the direction security or the lack thereof is likely to take, and take us with, in the coming years.
Join the conversation and bring your own contribution |
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Building, Tracking, and Measuring Success of an Information Security Program
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| Industry Session - Roundtable |
| Moderated by: Mauricio Angée, CISSP, VP, Information Security Manager, Mercantil Commercebank |
Building, Tracking, and Measuring Success of an Information Security Program
Roundtable
Join peers as you discuss key concepts and strategies for building and implementing an information security risk management program. The discussion will help both IT and Information Security professionals to effectively identify, quantify and manage security threats.
• Discuss the different aspects of successfully implementing an Information Security program, form conceptualization to execution including people, tools, and process.
• Provide an overview of the importance of the integration of Information Security into the system development life cycle (SDLC), an effective risk management mitigation process, and best practices for an on-going risk evaluation and assessment and the factors that will lead to a successful implementation of an Information Security program.
• Discuss the need for developing a collecting, analyzing and reporting meaningful metrics that will help Information Security professionals tracking, measuring and presenting the overall security posture, trends, gaps and resource requirements/needs.
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Highlights from past Conference Programs
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Work in the Age of the Social Graph
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| Clay Shirky, Writer, Consultant, and Teacher on New Technology and Social Media |
The future of work isn't just about workers' access to information, it's about our access to each other. The rise of the "social graph, the sum of all personal links in the connected world, is changing the world of work, by giving each worker access to new tools of both collaboration and distraction. Workers are already embedded in the social graph, and the capabilities they have access to on the social web rise every day. What are the threat and opportunities for managers, and how should they respond?
Bio:
Clay is a provocative new voice on all things Internet: social networks and media, economics and culture, connected communities, and the open source movement. He divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies
In addition to his consulting work, Clay is an adjunct professor in NYU’s graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where he teaches courses on the interrelated effects of social and technological network topology—how our networks shape culture and vice-versa. Prior to his appointment at NYU, Clay was a partner at The Accelerator Group, an investment firm focused on early-stage companies.
His recent book, Cognitive Surplus, explores how social technologies and media are changing us, from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world.
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Legal Issues Concerning Employee Data Theft
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| Daniel J. Lefkowitz, Partner at Daniel J. Lefkowitz, Esq. |
What are the legal remedies available to address rogue employees who misappropriate confidential data or trade secrets from a company’s computer system? Recent legal decisions have changed the landscape on a company’s obligations to restrict or terminate access to any proprietary data. In some cases the legal tools available including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act depends upon which area of the country the unauthorized access occurred.
This session will lay out the importance of auditing trade secrets and confidential data and creating a framework of clear policies regarding access to data. Legal remedies and the approach to investigating data theft will be discussed.
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Agility—how to make it work for you!
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| Howard L. Niden, CIO, Mayer Brown LLP |
We are often told that a more agile IT organization means a more effective and efficient operation that is more often able to meet its customers expectations and play the role of business partner rather than a supplier. An agile IT organization is a win for the business.
That said, the term “agility” is often used but rarely defined in the business context. Further, finding an approach that measures agility and assists an organization (and its people) to be more agile is very difficult and what is out there is to often less than satisfying. But, we know agility when we see it and what we need is an approach to manage and improve it.
Agility isn’t just a mindset, it is a discipline that requires thought, planning, investment along with a active willingness to be agile. This session will provide a framework for thinking about agility and provide concrete steps to improve the agility of your people and your organization.
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What really matters in Cyber Security
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| Charles Beard, CIO, SAIC |
As CIOs and CISOs, how do we ultimately decide what security solutions to integrate? Are we starting with evaluating the threat model and internal security policies then developing the appropriate technology as some experts advise, or the other way around? What new threat models are on the horizon worth looking at? How do we constantly evaluate our cyber security policy needs?
Join Charles Beard, CIO of SAIC, as he discusses these questions and shares his thoughts on what really matters in cyber security.
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Leveraging Technology: An Adecco Case Study
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| Bryan A. Ackermann, Chief Information Officer, Adecco Group North America |
As the economy begins to recover, the increased levels of temporary staffing needs meant that Adecco needed to find ways to be faster, more efficient and more effective in their job placements. The IT and Marketing team took on this challenge.
By integrating social networking, advanced search and mobile technologies to their existing processes, they were able to access more relevant data, create better matches, and ultimately get the right opportunities to the right people wherever they are to enable them to apply right away.
That being said, it hasn’t been easy. There are obvious security concerns, along with the usual change management and customer issues that come up during any major IT shift. Adecco took these problems as an opportunity and leveraged them to positively impact the lives of the 120,000 people they put to work each day.
Join Bryan Ackermann as he discusses the pros and cons of the new tools available to the CIO, and how to decide whether it is right for your organization.
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Building the IT Leader: From the Backroom to the Boardroom
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| Kathie Topel, Vice President, Impact Insights |
We hear things like differentiation, business value, sustainable innovation, maximized impact and strategy execution all the time. But, if IT leaders are going to be a true peer to their executive counterparts and assume “Game Changer” status within their company, they will need to ensure that their team is engaged in the business and not just the technology.
How does this happen? IT leaders must have awareness and knowledge centered around how they participate in the delivery of the mission, vision, strategy and brand values of the company.
In this interactive session, you will learn more about how leadership is not only for executives from Kathie Topel, longtime IT industry executive and visionary from SPR Companies’ Impact Insights. Topel will cover concrete techniques you can implement immediately following the presentation—approaches that have tangible application at work and life in general and demonstrate how everyone can exhibit leadership skills—not only in their daily job, but also in day-to-day life, with family, friends and in the greater community.
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Project Management through Volatility Analysis
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| Vince Kellen, CIO, University of Kentucky |
Often, from the outset of many projects, the pressure for senior IT management to have measurable project performance negatively competes with the desire for project managers to have simpler project plans that require less effort to maintain.
To this end, Vince Kellen, CIO of The University of Kentucky, will outline his radical approach that strikes a balance between the two, focussing on insight into project volatility early in the project’s lifecycle. The concept has proven to be helpful in detecting project problems earlier, pinpointing the problem causes, and facilitating management intervention without burdening the project management team with additional analysis or data entry work.
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Social Computing & IT Security Roundtable
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| Alan Levine, CISO, Alcoa, Inc |
In today’s day and age, every large enterprise struggles with the concept of protecting themselves from the evolving threats of social networking. The expanding definition of social networking has become a subjective one, as what was once viewed as simply bad for the work environment, has now not only become acceptable behavior, but at times depended upon. Since the exceptions to once clear cut rule are rising so fast, is it time to redefine its place in the business world? How can we assess what is useful and what is simply inappropriate workplace behavior?
Time and intellectual property are also being lost at an exponential rate. There was a time where any comment, presentation or article quote required multiple levels of internal approvals. Now, in an instant, control has been lost. Proprietary information can be shared with a broad, diverse and anonymous audience immediately, and traced back to your IP address. Data that was once controlled, may now need a court order to regain, as ownership can be lost in the blink on an eye.
Join Alan Levine, CISO of Alcoa Inc., will discuss the above, and ask: “What can we do about it?”
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Change management in IT
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| Ben Weinberger, CIO, Lathrop & Gage LLP |
Once the project has been scoped, budgeted, planned and delivered, often the final step of a successful implementation is ignored: the users. By not paying enough attention to transitioning users (and their old habits) to the new systems, all the previous work will be for nothing.
That being said, this roundtable isn’t about being “touchy-feely” about working with people – it’s about sharing strategic steps that can be executed to ensure maximum up-take.
What is the role of the CIO and the IT organization of the future?
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Selling IT's Value
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| Roman Coba, CIO, McCain Foods |
There is a well-trodden path CIOs and IT leaders take when they want to get buy-in. It usually involves heading straight into the CEO's office, hoping that they'll push the idea through while simultaneously gaining a seat at the table. Although this may work, it is a very short-term tactic that doesn't ensure trust in the department.
For long-term IT visibility and leverage, the new path is through demonstration of value at all levels. Starting with a sales and marketing campaign, IT can too clearly lay out concepts based on value and goals, getting buy-in from top to bottom. Understanding the business, then demonstrating how the technology can drive and deliver on their needs can earn the place at the table.
Roman Coba, CIO of McCain Foods takes the room through how they put this theory into practice in a global perspective, covering seven regions with one IS organisation.
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Putting the "Information" back in the Chief Information Officer title
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| Doug Porter, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President BHI, BlueCross Blue Shield |
As the CIO role seems to evolve every 18 months, more and more is being asked of us: more people skills, more sales skills, more organizational skills, more social media integration. What seems to have been set aside in all of this is the importance on information itself.
Join Doug Porter in a discussion on how we can harvest insights from knowledge workers, use those insights to establish/ monitor control intervals, and ultimately drive actionable information into the hands of our business partners.
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Securing the Cloud
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| Round Table |
| Andrew Madejczyk, VP, Global Technology Operations, Sterling Info Systems |
In an open forum discussion, this session will attempt to address issues centred on Cloud Computing and Security. From the on-going open interpretation of the term “cloud” to the different stages that people are at with their understanding and adoption of cloud computing and security to examples of Cloud providers and the evolution of Securing the Cloud.
This discussion will also touch upon security frameworks and their effect on using Cloud services. Considerations when choosing a Cloud provider and the associated risks involved when doing so.
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Personal Leadership Coaching
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| Personal one-on-one coaching sessions |
| Denise Kirwan, Patti Anesetti, Georgia Perkey |
| In this private one-on-one coaching session, you and your coach collaborate as a team, focusing on YOUR goals and vision. You bring the desire to achieve, a willingness to discover new approaches, an openness to include someone else in the process, and a readiness to take action. Your coach will contribute provocative questions, new perspectives, straight talk, and authentic encouragement. You take away actionable solutions, insights, and strategies that are custom-designed for creating success in your organization, your career, or your life. |
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