Topics include (but not limited to):

  • Renewable energy - Solar, Wind, Geo-Thermal, Bio-Mass and their Impact on IT.
  • I.T. Impact on the development of Renewable Energy Sources
  • I.T. Advances in Healthcare Information Systems Develop (HIS)
  • I.T.and Smart Grid
  • Wireless, Mobile and RFID Technologies - How they affect I.T. for EEH
  • Smart Grid Architectures for Energy and Healthcare - commonalities and differences
  • Healthcare Quality Management via new technologies
  • Making a Business Case for advanced I.S. technologies in EEH
  • Changes from the CIO inn a global corporation that affect the CEOs business
  • Changes in the CIOs role as a result of the stimulus funding opportunities (and challenges)
  • Providing sustainable services for the global enterprise - challenges and opportunities
  • Sustainable Services oriented architectures
  • Software environments to support Sustainable Services - Java, .Net, etc.
  • Sustainable Information Technologies Issues:
    • New enterprise sustainable service opportunities due to technological advances
    • Cloud computing - advances, architectures and how they support sustainable web services
    • Wireless, Mobility and communications technologies sustainability issues - 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 for the next decade
    • Mandates, compliance and regulatory issues from federal and state governments, e.g. Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, Real ID Act, American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009
    • 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

Forum Sponsors:
WINMEC, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA Anderson School, BIT

WINMEC Sponsors:
ETRI, HP, Intel, Hughes Network Systems, ISMB, InterDigital Communications, Motorola Inc., QUALCOMM, Raytheon, Symbol Technologies, Tescom Co.

Equipment Sponsors:
Impinj, RSI ID Technologies, Printronix, Symbol, Maxell, Motorola Inc., Zebra, Quantum Route, Inc., Convergence Systems Limited, Magellan Technology (Australia), Confidex, Alien Technology, Intemec, UPM Raflatac, TagSense, Albis Technologies, Metalcraft Inc., Roxtron, Invengo

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