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For the IT profession and its role in the enterprise, the next few years will bring new frontiers in business, technology and staffing, putting CIOs once more in the crucible of change. Join us for three days of intensive discussion and interactive sessions and workshops that will explore these issues in depth, providing real take-aways and stimulating conversation. You'll enjoy unprecedented networking opportunities and get to meet our Ones To Watch Award winners, the future leaders of IT. Whether you're a seasoned IT leader or new to the role, you'll walk away with valuable information and important new resources and contacts.

The CSO Executive Seminar Series on Identity Management provided a one-day overview of the solutions, hurdles and successes that have been encountered by IT professionals implementing identity solutions. Whether you're dealing with issues of compliance and risk management, remote access for a mobile workforce, or employee account management, this seminar brought you first hand knowledge as presented by IT leaders and leading identity management analysts.

This highly interactive program brought together the best of academic teachings and real business situations all within a focused and intense workshop setting. Attendees worked from case studies and scenarios and participated in exercises and discussions, both individually and as teams.

This exciting new event for IT executives, was brought to you by CIO magazine and the CIO Executive Council. Attendees were offered a one-day, regional forum to collaborate with and learn from their peers and industry leaders. Our agenda planned and vetted by a board of CIO directors from each region, packed maximum value into a single-day, multi-format and conveniently located package. CIO Perspectives is the most powerful and efficient way for you attendees to connect and collaborate with their regional peers in one day that's strictly business and all value.

Every year the CSO Perspectives Conference™ brings together the field's top minds for an unparalleled learning and networking experience. At this event, we provided practical information that helped attendees perform their jobs better. Executives who attended had the chance to meet and swap ideas with the very best security leaders, including this year's Compass Award honorees. Join us next time around and discover what it takes to become the complete CSO!

This session explored the issues and opportunities CIOs and IT decision makers face in making their organizations' computing and electronic infrastructure as energy efficient as possible while maintaining a competitive advantage.

Delegates that attended this seminar walked away equipped to assess and implement PCI standards and learned how to protect themselves from significant penalties. Participants engaged in interactive dialogue on the following issues:

• Strategies to secure the payment system
• Using incentives to validate PCI compliance
• Understanding the deadlines and benchmarks for achieving compliance
• Mapping the requirements of PCI DSS to products and services in the security and privacy marketplace

Coming from a variety of industries, speakers were not only practitioners but also authorities on the regulatory landscape and best practices in achieving compliance.

• Deven Bhatt, Director, Corporate Security, Airlines Reporting Corporation
• Derek Brink , Vice President & Research Director, Aberdeen Group
• Jennifer Fischer , Director, Payment System Risk , Visa USA
• David Taylor , President, PCI Security Vendor Alliance

At this year's CIO|08 we looked at the forces of disruption, how to potentially benefit from disruptive influences and discussed what was happening in the world around us. Session discussions centered on topics such as:

• Facilitating the mobile work force and applications to help drive it
• Execution strategies for overcoming disruption
• Issues dominating the upcoming elections
• How to become the CIO of the future

Lecturers and presenters represented many of the foremost companies in the US and boasted a number of CIO Hall of Fame members including:

• Gregor Bailar, Former CIO & Member of Executive Committee, Capital One Financial
• Monte Ford, Senior Vice President & CIO, American Airlines
• Max Hopper, President & Founder, Max D. Hopper Associates, Inc.
• Douglas Merrill, CIO & Vice President, Engineering, Google Inc.
• Kevin Turner, COO, Microsoft Corporation

Using a focused and intensive approach, The CIO Pocket MBA provided attendees with the benefits and advantages of an MBA degree that was uniquely structured for IT executives. Students studied:

• Best practices for creating value through information systems
• Methods to identify, weigh and communicate the strategic competitive advantages of IT
• Effective strategy implementation practices
• Capabilities assessment tools

Professors for the program are distinguished Boston University School of Management faculty and recognized professionals in both the educational and IT forums.

• Lloyd Baird, Professor/Chairman/Faculty Director, Leadership Institute
• Michael Lawson, Senior Associate Dean, Professor, Information Systems Department
• Fernando F. Suarez, Associate Professor, Information Systems Department
• N. Venkat Venkatraman, David J. McGrath, Jr. Professor in Management

Attendees were privy to straight talk, hard-won lessons and practical insight on real-world deployments. Enterprise IT professionals gave their unvarnished views on what it took to achieve success with their identity deployments. Talks focused on:

• Realizing vendor relationship management through identity
• Implementing authentication as risk management
• Design and deployment of an enterprise-wide digital identity entitlement infrastructure
• The future of identity management

Speakers included:

• J.P. Rangaswami, CIO, BT Global Services
• William Barnes, CISSP, Service Owner for Identity and Access Management, Pfizer, Inc.
• Jeremy Warren, CTO, US Department of Justice

Attendees heard from some of the 100 companies whose innovations in IT transformed their businesses. Sessions focused on innovation, creativity, technology and business alignment.

• Turning raw potential into achievement and a return on investment
• Employing mass collaboration
• Enabling business processes through innovation
• Achieving success though SOA and BI implementations

Members of the speaking faculty and 100 winners included:

• Don Tapscott , Author, Wikinomics
• Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist
• Randall Stephenson, Chairman & CEO, ATT
• Karl Salnoske , Vice President & CIO , Schering-Plough Corporation

Business Continuity Forum 2007 provided attendees with key strategic and tactical skills necessary to address the issues of continuity, recovery and resiliency in their enterprises. Attendees walked away with knowledge of:

• Which people need to be involved in planning, execution and recovery
• The most important things to consider when building resiliency into enterprise system architecture
• How to continue operations in the event of a large infrastructure failure

Presenters were CIOs, CSOs and government representatives that had been involved in one or more disaster situations requiring their unique expertise.

• Gregory Ferris, Managing Director of Global Business Continuity Planning , Morgan Stanley
• John Gibb, Director, New York State Emergency Management Office
• Jason Jackson, Director, Emergency Management, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• James Onalfo, Deputy Commissioner & CIO, New York City Police Department

This seminar brought together top security and privacy executives to discuss current pressing identity management issues and legal ramifications. Attendees learned first hand how to properly implement identity management strategies to become industry leaders by exploring the following:

• A roadmap for thinking about security and compliance
• Methods to help get organized and implement controls
• Breaking down roadblocks to identity management implementation

Presenters included:

• Michael Luckin, Senior Vice President, Delivery Systems, Technology Credit Union
• Matthew Todd, CSO & Vice President, Risk and Technical Operations, Financial Engines
• John Butz , Senior Director, Comcast
• Theresa Ho, CISSP, CISA, CISM, PMP , Director, Information Security, The McGraw-Hill Companies

This conference provided attendees with leadership best practices, tools, advice and leading edge technologies that contributed to the success of IT and its leaders. Some of the topics covered by industry CIOs and leading experts were:

• Ways to be seen as a leader within your organization
• Tools to help you lead and mentor your staff
• Technologies that can facilitate leadership initiatives throughout the organization
• Workshops that identified emerging competencies and developed career-advancement strategies

Presenters at this event included a broad spectrum of IT executives and leadership gurus including:

• Charlie Brenner, Senior Vice President, Fidelity Investments
• Joseph Cleveland, CIO , Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Jim Collins, Author, Good to Great
• Robert Scott, Vice President, Innovation & Architecture, The Procter & Gamble Company

Attendees at this event heard about security issues from experts across the practice. In those discussions they learned about the following business concerns and took away critical new skills.

• Designing a presentation to build the business case for security
• Techniques for creating dashboards to summarize key security metrics, trends and goals
• Methods to craft a critical incident table topping exercise
• The benefits of aligning IT and security

Industry and thought leaders presenting at this event included:

• Paul Bremer, Ambassador
• Francis D'Addario, Vice President, Starbucks Coffee Company
• Francis Taylor, CSO, The General Electric Company
• Gary Triplett, Special Advisor, US Northern Command

"Information...it's the blood that flows through the veins of every organization. As such, that information is critical to the success of business, so it must be organized and it must be protected, both for the success of the organization and often to meet regulatory requirements. Historically, businesses have packed away documents and memos into boxes and shipped them off to storage. But in today's modern enterprise, documents and correspondence exist primarily in electronic format and that poses challenges for enterprise security executives from both a management and a legal perspective. Assuring the validity and integrity of documents, from simple memos to contracts, as well as maintaining electronic communications in irrefutable format is a difficult task...but there are best practices out there. CSO Magazine's Executive Seminar on Document & Information Assurance will examine the legal requirements associated with document and information assurance, the best practices in building a policy and program in your organization, and look at the solutions available to help businesses manage this undertaking. Attendees will hear from legal experts as well as peer security and technology executives who will share their insights and experiences in dealing with this critical issue."