COMING SOON - 2010 CIO Impacts Forum, February 24, 2010. http://www.cio-conference.ucla.edu/2010/
Date Feb 25, 2009
Services For the Global Enterprise - Opportunities in Security, Mobility, Wireless and Cloud Computing
The I.T. industry has been steadily moving towards a Services based model whereby services such as video conferencing via a laptop, or directory services through a mobile phone, or filling time sheets/accounting through WiFi-enabled PDA, can be performed through the Internet cloud via a browser, instead of having to distribute and install software on each client. While the burden of software installation, update or maintenance is removed from the hands of the enterprise user, the burden of creating, managing and securing the infrastructure, devices, user accounts, and, networks, falls in the hands of the CIO. This presents the CIO's office with new and unique possibilities as well as relevant challenges for handling and creating Services for the Enterprise.
CIOs from Fortune 1000 companies will gather at the CIO Impacts Forum to be held at UCLA in Los Angeles, CA, on Feb 25, 2009. This event which is now in its 6th year will provide the opportunity to network with top executives and peers and attend presentations that discuss the progress made in Services for the Enterprise and investigate the opportunities for new classes of Services that are emerging as a result of technological advances in Cloud Computing, Security, Mobility and Wireless.
Services that are offered to the user must reside on a server somewhere, which eventually are virtualized with the help of Cloud Computing. Cloud computing offers a new and unique model of the computing function whereby computing cycles reside on the Internet and can be acquired on an as needed basis. This allows the CIO's office to transition its cost structure from a capital expense to an operating expense model. Outsourcing of a significant portion of the server infrastructure, networking, and in the future, even of client devices is the direction in which Cloud Computing is headed. The forum will bring together experts in the field to discuss the latest advances in Cloud Computing and how these advances are resulting in the development of a new class of services.
Reliable Security continues to be a major challenge for the CIO, who has to offer Services to the Enterprise employee. In fact, handling security has become increasingly more complex as more employees are using mobile computing devices such as the Motorola Q, HP iPaq, Google G1, iPhone or the Blackberry thereby leading to today's CIO having to deal with a plethora of operating systems, device hardware, networks and network policies of carriers. Bringing them all together into a single security infrastructure is a difficult and challenging task. By many predictions, networks and devices were expected to converge, simplifying security solutions; however, the reality is otherwise. Securing such heterogeneous infrastructure poses significant challenges for the CIO in providing Services for the Enterprise - this is another issue that will be presented by CIOs at the forum.
The availability and use of wireless/mobile devices has resulted in the globalization of the work force thereby bringing the burden of Servicing increasingly mobile enterprise employees to the CIOs office which now has to support laptops, PDAs, UMPCs and mobile phones in multiple languages in many countries located in different time zones. The CIO who may be required to offer services such as integrated databases or video teleconferencing on a PDA over wireless, now has to support the full matrix of devices/OS's/networks and yet offer the services in a manner that provides the same seamless experience to all users. Sometimes when these services are outsourced, their quality suffers. How CIOs are handling these challenges in the era of Services will also be discussed at the CIO Impacts Forum.
The 6th UCLA CIO Impacts Forum titled "Services for the Global Enterprise - Opportunities in Cloud Computing, Security, Mobility and Wireless" will address the above issues. Specifically, what these developments mean to the CIO today, and how the CIO of a Fortune 1000 Enterprise can plan for such developments in the future will be discussed.
Current Speakers
| Erna Adelson | SVP | Sony Electronics |
| Nikki Barua | Director | Sapient |
| David Bernstein | Vice President/GM | Cisco Systems, Inc. |
| Jim Davis | CIO | UCLA |
| Allen Fazio | VP & CIO | The Disneyland Resort |
| Emmanuel Frenehard | VP and CIO | Walt Disney International |
| Rajit Gadh | Professor & Director | UCLA - WINMEC |
| Keith Glennan | VP and CTO | Northrop Grumman |
| Alex Grimwade | VP | 20th Century Fox Television |
| Vivek Khuller | President and CEO | DiVitas Networks |
| Allen Marks | Senior IT Architect | Raytheon |
| Doug McGowan | CTO | Systemsfusion |
| Art Mena | Associate Technical Fellow | Boeing Information Technology |
| Andy Mulholland | Global Chief Technology Officer | Capgemini |
| Chuck Parker | President Digital Content Delivery | Technicolor |
| Dennis Quan | Director of Autonomic Computing | IBM |
| Jim Swartz | CIO | Sybase, Inc. |
| JL Valente | Executive Chairman | CITTIO |
| Alan Wexler | Senior Vice President - Managing Director North America | Sapient |
| Tom Witmer | VP | Kaiser Permanente |
Topics include, but not limited to:
- Providing services for the global enterprise - challenges and opportunities
- Services oriented architectures
- Software environments to support Services - Java, .Net, etc.
- New enterprise service opportunities due to technological advances
- Cloud computing - advances, architectures and how they support web services
- Wireless, Mobility and communications technologies - VOIP, Data Convergence; Convergence of Wireless, WiMax, Wi-Fi, Flavors of 802.11.4G and 5G networks
- How the CIO's role vis-a-vis the CTO's role is constantly being redefined as technology for internal use and technology that goes into the company's products/services start to merge
- Device specialization for enterprise needs
- Mandates, compliance and regulatory issues from federal and state governments, e.g. Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, Real ID Act, Privacy regulations
- Security technologies, policies, architecture
- Virtualization in server-side computing and distributed computing, Green technologies and developments
- Alignment of business goals with the IT function
- Changing role of CIO from cost center to key techno-business driver for the enterprise, CIO's job function and relationship to the company's market being served
- Enterprise 2.0 and the Mobile user
- Mobility in Assets and Personnel - RFID, Sensor and Tracking Technologies, Supply Chain and inventory tracking, middleware for economical deployment
- The effect of regulations on wireless transmission of data and how enterprises are coping with the plethora of new technologies
- Open Source - The effect of Open alliances such as Google's open handset alliance (OHA) on enterprise I.T.
- Maturing of the information security organization in terms of the strategies for information security, identity management/identity theft, and security architecture
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Speakers at previous forums
| William Crowell | CIO | County of San Diego |
| J. Stephen Fletcher | CIO | State of Utah |
| Arthur Hair | Chief Technology Officer | Walt Disney Studios |
| Randi Levin | General Manager/Chief Technology Officer | City of LA |
| Allen Marks | IT Fellow | Raytheon |
| Jeffrey Mirich | SVP and CIO | Walt Disney Studios |
| Dominic Nessi | CIO | Los Angeles World Airports |
| Joe Solimando | CIO | Disney Consumer Products |
| Bob Bauer | CTO | Xerox Global Services |
| Abe Kani | CIO | City of Atlanta |
| Bill Schrier | CTO | City of Seattle |
| Carl Eberling | Vice President, CIO West Area IT | Verizon Wireless |
| Celia Lin | CIO - Corporate Departments | Chevron |
| Chris Vein | CIO | City of San Francisco |
| Cita Furlani | CIO | N.I.S.T. |
| Cora Carmody | Sr. VP, CIO | SAIC |
| David Muntz | SVP & CIO | Baylor Health Care System |
| Doug Parish | Sr VP and CTO | Walt Disney Group |
| Ebrahim Keshavarz | Vice President, New Services Development | AT&T |
| Gary Ahwah | CIO | PacifiCare, A UnitedHealthcare Company |
| George Chappelle | CIO | Sara Lee Corporation |
| Hardik Bhatt | CIO | City of Chicago |
| Jeffrey Mirich | SVP and CIO | Walt Disney Studios |
| Jerome Beaudoin | VP & CIO | Devon Energy |
| Joe Cleveland | CIO | Lockheed Martin |
| Keith Glennan | VP and CTO | Northrop Grumman |
| Ken Chrisman | EVP | Wells Fargo |
| Mike Cook | Sr VP and GM | Hughes Network Systems |
| Len Lauer | COO | Qualcomm |
| Omer Simeon | EVP | Countrywide Financial |
| Phil Edholm | CTO and VP Network Architecture | Nortel Networks |
| Robert Fecteau | CIO | BAE Systems |
| Scott Griffin | VP and CIO | Boeing |
| Shaygan Kheradpir | CIO | Verizon Communications |
| Steve Cooper | CIO | American Red Cross |
| Vaho Rebassoo | CTO, IT Services | Boeing |
