CIO Boot Camp: Leadership Skills for the "New Next"

Monday-Tuesday, November 16-17, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

CHAIRPERSON:
Thornton May, Futurist, Executive Director and Dean, IT Leadership Academy

POSSE MEMBERS:
Bruce Barnes,
CIO Emeritus, Nationwide Financial Services

Louis Gutierrez,
CIO Emeritus - Commonwealth of Massachusetts; CIO Emeritus Harvard-Pilgrim Healthcare

John Lever,
Deputy CIO, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command [CNMOC], United States Navy

Tom Mantz,
Managing Director, MNL Associated, LLC; CIO Emeritus – Praxair Corporation

Mykolas Rambus,
CIO, Forbes Media

Dr. Robert Rennie,
VP, Technology & CIO, State College of Florida at Jacksonville

SPONSOR SPEAKERS:
Harry Labana,
Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, XenApp Product Group, Citrix Systems, Inc.

Apurva Davé,
Senior Director, Product Marketing, Riverbed Technology

Emile Rashkovich,
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Sentinel Real Estate Corporation

Economists can't decide whether we should expect a 'V', a 'U' or perhaps a 'W' shaped recovery. The important point is — there will be a recovery, the world has not ended. At the ever quickening heart of that recovery will be technology. Blackwood's Magazine's Battle of Dorking in 1871 (considered one of the most influential short stories ever written) woke a sleeping England to its shocking state of military unpreparedness. In a similar fashion, CIO Boot Camp hopes to wake a still hunkered down IT leadership community from its state of leadership unpreparedness. If you're a CTO, CIO or senior IT executive, attend this 2-day conference to explore the vast opportunity associated with the "New Next."

The world has changed and IT faces the opportunity of a lifetime. This is the time for vision, precision and decision. More than ever, technology is perceived by the top-of-the house as the single best way to improve business performance. Every vertical market — finance, media/entertainment, government, hospitality, health care — looks to IT to assist and lead the transformation. CTOs need to lead, not just manage. Business technology needs to be re-thought, re-vamped, re-platformed and re-energized. IT heroes will be those who focus beyond technology implementation to improving business outcomes.

The CIO Posse is a group of been-there-done-that C-class executives from billion dollar plus organizations who will share the mistakes they have made and the lessons they learned as they transition IT for the New Next.

The CIO Boot Camp blends ahead-of-the-curve leadership research with top-of-tech-trenches practical know-how in a highly interactive 2-day conference designed to giving participants a fully rounded tool kit to meet the challenges of the current economic environment.

DAY-BY-DAY OVERVIEW

12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:15	CIO SPOTLIGHT “Structured for High Performance” Louis Gutierrez, CIO Emeritus-Commonwealth of Massachusetts & Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare The crisis made opportunity to rapidly put the IT house in order The interests behind centralization (order) and decentralization (flexibility) The ways in which Services Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Architecture Planning, and other emerging technologies and methodologies, are shifting the balance of interests The importance of context, and timing Achieving compromise — aggressive consolidation of infrastructure, and core application services, with a generous distribution of business analytic resources within the business units — different approaches at different layers of the stack The role of "centers of excellence" in achieving transitions The importance of application inventory and architecture — even when the applications aren't yours Politically avoiding the image of IT good-hygienist / empire-builder, while arguing the case of IT order
2:15-3:00	CIO POSSE - IT and the ‘Money’ Thing What was the IT budget process like when you first became a CIO? What is it like now? CFO ‘War’ Stories
3:00-3:15	Break
3:30-4:00	Audience Jumpball – Social Technologies
4:00-5:00	CIO Posse - “Jump Balls” Organizational Psychology: Getting Inside the Heads of the ‘Suits’ Managing Globally Alternative IT
5:00-6:00	Sponsor Reception
Day Two
9:00-9:45	CIO SPOTLIGHT – “Managing the People of IT” Dr. Robert Rennie, VP, Technology & CIO, State College of Florida at Jacksonville Relationship with HR department Biggest challenge/worst moments Retaining and Attracting the 'right' kind of IT worker Best practices for managing high performance IT professionals Overcoming yester-thinking ... managing the 'cultural thing' Thoughts about the IT workforce of the future
9:45-10:30	CIO SPOTLIGHT – “Managing Culture” Tom Mantz, Managing Director, MNL Associated, LLC and CIO Emeritus – Praxair Corporation Understanding What Culture is Understanding Where Culture Comes From Understanding What You Can Do About It
10:30-10:45	Break
10:30-11:00	SPONSOR INSIGHT -  The Need for Speed: How Sentinel is Driving Business Value and Dramatic Improvements in Employee Productivity Sentinel Real Estate Corporation, an institutional investment management firm focusing exclusively on real estate, has $5 billion in real estate assets under management for domestic and international investors. Headquartered in New York City, with more than 1,100 people in 150+ offices across the United States, Sentinel relies on Yardi, a web-based, real estate asset and property management application, for managing most of its operations. Sentinel hosts Yardi from its NYC data center. Sentinel is leveraging Riverbed’s Steelhead appliances as part of a consolidated infrastructure/private cloud model, to ensure optimal performance of Yardi over the WAN, and to robustly and securely deliver more and more third party services to its remote professionals. The firm has experienced a 20X performance improvement across not only Yardi, but a broad range of applications, while avoiding costly bandwidth upgrades at its 150+ sites. Learn how Sentinel has cut its monthly communications bill in half, and significantly improved the productivity of its highly distributed workforce. Apurva Davé, Senior Director, Product Marketing, Riverbed Technology; Emile Rashkovich, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Sentinel Real Estate Corporation
11:00-12:00	Managing Vendors A must-have core competency is the ability to extract full value from vendor partners: Vendor management strategy Vendor management pro
12:00-1:30	Lunch
1:30-2:00	Citrix Sponsored Session Harry Labana, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, XenApp Product Group, Citrix Systems, Inc.
2:00-2:30	CIO POSSE – Thoughts on Social Technologies What Are Pioneers Doing? What Hasn't Worked? What Are the Questions You Need to Answer?
2:30-3:00	CIO POSSE- Sensemaking 101: IT Strategic Planning Processes Properly conceptualized, boldly imagined and precisely deployed IT projects can create competitive advantage. Learn best practices: Building IT road maps Getting executives to think strategically about IT
3:00-3:15	Break
3:00-3:45	CIO SPOTLIGHT - Electronic Readers Mykolas Rambus, CIO, Forbes Media
3:45-4:30	The Innovation Thing Thornton May, Futurist, Executive Director and Dean, IT Leadership Academy
4:30-5:00	Posse Send Off & Final Exam

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