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IT Leadership & Digital Transformation Strategies

Strategies and techniques for leading and guiding IT through a business approach during dynamic times.

February 28, 2019

8:30am-5:00pm

7 CPE / 0.7 CEU / CISSP / 7 PDU Credits Awarded

Conference location: Donald E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont (O’Hare) Illinois

Overview

How do you define IT Leadership? Does it consist of aligning IT with the business? Driving business efforts forward? Increasing quality of IT services? What skills does it take to be an effective IT Leader? How do you lead IT during challenging economic times?

What You Will Learn

In this one day conference attendees will learn:

• How IT Can Participate in Your Digital Business Transformation – and Make an Impact!
• Strategy & Tactics for Effective Transformations
• The Digital Data Center: Connect, Aggregate, Analyze and Act
• Vendor Management & GRC: Key Pillars of Digital Transformation
• How to Develop a Digital Business Strategic Plan: A CIO’s Imperative (panel discussion)
• How to Leverage Digital Transformation for a Superior Customer Experience
• IT Investment ROI: Finding the Balance between Cost Cutting & Proactive Investments (panel discussion)

Conference Price: $289.00 per person

Each attendee will receive a certificate awarding 7 CPE credits for CISSP continuing education, in addition to 0.7 CEUs and 7 PDUs. CISSP is a registered certification mark of (ISC)², Inc.

8:00am – 8:30am: Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30am-9:20am: How IT Can Participate in Your Digital Business Transformation – and Make an Impact!

Patricia Kumpula, Vice President, Divisional CIO, Personal Lines Technology, Allstate  

In most traditional organizations, IT is a back-office function – focused on Operations and cost control, spending little time with Customers and Products. But in a company transforming into a Digital Business, teams that work with Information and Technology have a much greater change to participate in those connections – and will very probably be on the team that reacts to and delivers on the ideas that are generated. Should IT play a key role in a Digital Business transformation? This presentation will provide some context for the idea – with real-world examples and stories of what works and what does not.

Kumpula

9:20am-10:10am-: Strategy & Tactics for Effective Transformations

Patrick Cannon, VP, US Signal Company

Effective transformation begins with strong leadership and a pragmatic plan that compliments your current organizational maturity and application readiness. Join us as we examine some of the most often overlooked strategies and tactics essential to successful Digital Transformations.

Cannon

10:10am -10:40am: Refreshment Break

10:40am-11:30am: The Digital Data Center: Connect, Aggregate, Analyze and Act

Luciano Aprile, Director Data Center Operations Solutions, Schneider Electric

Digital transformation is about more than enabling intelligence on individual products; it is about integrating people and technology. To be successful you must combine the standardization and rigor of a machine-driven process with the human intelligence, ingenuity and perception of highly trained onsite technicians, managers and remote support staff. Do it right and your digitization efforts in the data center will result in reduced risk of human error, improved efficiency, right-sizing of staff and increased transparency.

Aprile

11:30am-12:20pm: Using Cloud Transformation to Propel Business Innovation and Speed

Brendan Caulfield, Co-founder, ServerCentral Turing Group

The right cloud solution allows your business to move faster, meet critical timeframes, and innovate. Learn how the cloud transformed a 83-year old manufacturing company into a technology company while reducing computer costs and setup time.

Caulfield

12:20pm – 1:10pm Luncheon

1:10pm-2:00pm: How to Develop a Digital Business Strategic Plan: A CIO’s Imperative (panel discussion)

Moderator:
Kevin McGinley, Field CTO, Snowflake Computing
Panelists:
Kirti Vaidya, Vice President, Business Architecture and Transformation, Gallagher Bassett
Venu Yalavarthi, Global Head of Enterprise Architecture, Ingredion
Shaelyn Otikor, Senior Vice President | Global Strategy, Corporate & Institutional Services, Northern Trust
David Braner, CIO, City of Joliet
and other CIOs and IT Executives sharing effective strategies

For many enterprises, the digital enterprise is almost exclusively about customer engagement. The CIO is crucial in connecting business processes, enterprise information and the digital channels that achieve the always-on needs of customers and employees. The strength of the CIO-Business Leader relationship is vital to a company’s success, but can be challenging to navigate and manage.

In this session, attendees will learn from IT executives as to strategies that are using.

                    
Vaidya        Yalavarthi     Otikor        Braner            McGinley

2:00pm-2:50pm: Vendor Management & GRC: Key Pillars of Digital Transformation

Cor Winkler Prins, CEO and Co-Founder, 4me

Nine out of ten companies will have some part of their applications or infrastructure in the cloud by 2019” (IDG) and the speed with which Silicon Valley and other tech hubs around the world bring new digital, cloud capabilities to market is resulting in shifting trends towards selective outsourcing.

Combine this trend with an increasing focus on security and privacy (see GDPR) and Vendor Management, Risk and Compliance teams face a new challenge as they are tasked with extending audit and performance management capabilities across this growing number of service providers.

Winkler Prins

2:50pm – 3:20pm: Refreshment Break

3:20pm-4:10pm: Driving Out Business Value by Managing to Outcomes

Igor Arouca, Sr. Principal Consultant, Liferay

One of the toughest issues in any IT project is defining the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). The task is even more difficult when a firm commits to a Digital Transformation Project. Join us to learn how your teams can drive out business value by defining MVP and doing a phased approach. Witness how companies across multiple industries have derived immediate business value through the management of outcomes and the adoption of a phased approach, which provides consistent feedback from users. This major approach achieves quick adoption as a result of iterative processes put in place. Tune in as we demonstrate the importance in defining MVP for your digital transformation.

Arouca

4:10pm-5:00pm: IT Investment ROI: Finding the Balance between Cost Cutting & Proactive Investments (panel discussion)

Moderator:
Kendra Karczewski, Manager, Stratosphere Networks
Panelists:
Ram Narain – Senior Vice President-Enterprise PMO; M&A; Business Transformation, Anixter
Alison Kassel, CIO, Workforce Management Group, TrueBlue
Jeff Roseman, Director, Infrastructure & Information Security, Wilton Brands
and other CIOs and IT Executives sharing effective strategies

Many IT Executives are stuck in cost-cutting cycles tied only to expense-line trimming rather than business investments and outcomes. This approach limits the business growth since organizations do not fully exploit the use of IT. In this session, attendees will learn strategies for finding the right balance to move the organization forward.

               
Narain      Kassel       Roseman     Karczewski