2011 midTECH Speakers included:

Keynote Speakers:

Judy Smolski, IBM VP of Midmarket, and Watson, IBM Super Computer

According to recent surveys conducted by IBM, Mid-Market Executives see the current market situation as "a time of great change and great opportunity". In this presentation, we'll explore how IBM solutions can help address:

Key technology focus areas of CIOs based on a recent Global CIO Report
Challenges midsize businesses face with their current IT infrastructure
How organizations can apply analytics to gain meaningful insights from information and improve their business operations and services to their customers through an overview of Watson

Sponsored by: IBM

Beyond just a Seat at the Table
Bill Wood, VP & CIO, Brookstone, Inc.

Deliver Strategic Leadership and Innovation
Build proactive, consultative relationships to gain credibility
OK, you got a seat at the table, now what?
Organizational transformation - How to get your team to think like business owners

Educational Tracks:

How the Cloud Saved Our Business
Tim Maliyil, CEO, AlertBoot

Going from traditional infrastructure to private cloud to public cloud with Dell
How we were able to shift more engineering focus towards innovation due to the cloud
The cloud helped us avoid a $2 million hardware refresh
The ROI from virtualization helped us survive the recession and to launch a new security service

Sponsored by: DELL

Staying Ahead of the Curve
Sam Lamonica, CIO, Rosendin Electric

How Business Intelligence is at the forefront of growth
The challenges and opportunities with the increased Mobility
The importance to building and Sustaining ones infrastructure
Challenges in the Economy and how we look to grow in the construction industry

Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
David Michel, CIO, Burr Forman

Why we all need to be proactive vs reactive
Preparedness Vs Recovery
Complete Redesign of the Network
Specific Concerns that we overcame
Specific Results we produced

Social Media in the Enterprise
Jay McLaughlin, SVP & CIO, CNLBank

Embracing the Inevitable
The Social Threat: Understanding the Risks
What's your Strategy for Implementation?
Friending your Customers
Preventing Social Media Disasters for Your Organization
Why Social Media is Important for the New Age of the CIO

Managing Your Greatest Asset: Your People
Lori Temple, VP of IT, UNLV

Training and Technical Development
Retaining your mobile workforce
Creating a vision: Managerial and Technical
Creating goals and objectives that relate to the Vision

Getting Past the Hype of the Cloud
Ben Weinberger, CIO, Lathrop & Gage

The path we took to the cloud
Challenges we faced and lessons we learned
How we created more opportunities with the cloud
Storage virtualization makes storage a commodity
How this can help our IT Dept. run like a business

Challenges you face when you’re a Global Company
Mike Booke, VP of Global IT, Capital Safety

How to manage a global IT team
Dealing with different cultures and regions
Global strategic planning with the regional businesses
Global infrastructure support

Stepping Stones to the Cloud
Robert Klotz, VP of IT, Akibai

What exactly is the Cloud?
The Benefits Vs The Challenges
Dealing with those Challenges
Building a successful roadmap leading to the cloud

Living in the Innovation Age: Five guiding principles for prospering in this new era
Tarak Modi, VP & CTO, CALIBRE Systems, Inc.

What is Innovation?
How does one encourage innovation?
What, When, Why and How do you start innovation?
Pros and Cons of our Innovation Programs

Analyzing Analytics: What to Consider Prior to Embarking on a BI Implementation to Maximize Value
Dr. Alma Barranco-Mendoza, CIO, Trinity Western University

Understanding Business Intelligence (BI)
Analytics vs. Data mining
What we need to do prior to a BI implementation
Pit falls to avoid during a BI implementation to obtain value out of it.

Plan, Govern, and Execute: The Project and Portfolio Management Trinity
Davin Gallego, Vice President, Business & Technology Enablement Company, Acquity Group

What is the PPM Trinity?
What are the common pitfalls found in these lifecycles?
What are some of the methods and tools used to overcome these pitfalls?
How have other companies addressed these challenges?

Sponsored by: Acquity Group

Breaking Away to Become a Stand Alone Company
Leda Csanka, VP & CIO, Cetera Financial Group

How we became a standalone company upon the sale of three businesses and their technology
Implementing an entire new infrastructure in less than a year
Rebranding the “New” Business
Major Obstacles we overcame
Leadership needed to accomplish the unknown future

Tablets in the Workplace: Productivity Vs. Entertainment
Roy Caswell, VP of IT, Seitlin Insurance & Advisory Services

Leveraging the tablet’s ability to produce profit
Overcoming the security challenges presented
Understanding the potential ROI
The challenges of professional use vs personal use

Finding Clarity in the Cloud
Roger McIlmoyle, Solutions Architect, SunGard Availability Services

Understanding it's a Strategy and not a Technology
Consideration in Migrating to an Enterprise Cloud
Security & Compliance in the Cloud
Is Disaster Recovery Relevant?

Sponsored by: SunGard

Voices in the Cloud: Implementing Cloud-based VoIP
Larry Bolick, CIO, Aquent – Cahal Grennan M5 Networks

The Vision
Why Clouds?
Multi-phased Deployment
Challenges Overcome
Goals Met?
Lessons Learned

Sponsored by: M5 Networks

“3 Bears” of Privileged Identity Management
Brian Anderson, CMO, BeyondTrust

Goldilocks’ quest for the perfect temperature of porridge, the best-sized chair and the comfiest bed is very similar to the ongoing IT dilemma of configuring admin rights and achieving “least privilege:” that delicate balance of granting users with enough access to get their work done, while at the same time limiting their access to keep them from getting in trouble.

Join us for this fun and engaging session during which fanciful BeyondTrust Chief Marketing Officer, Brian Anderson, will demonstrate how you can keep good people from doing bad things and how to easily give your team boundaries… not walls. You’ll also discover that least privilege is not just about increasing productivity, but also expertly managing security and compliance, resulting in maximum IT efficiency.

Sponsored by: Beyond Trust

Producing Top Quality Products On Time, Every Time
King P. Lum, Director of Progress, ACE Clearwater Enterprises

ACE Clearwater Enterprises is a family-owned manufacturer of sheet metal products, specializing in complex formed and welded assemblies for the aerospace, automotive, and power generation industries. ACE customers require top quality products on time, every time, and expect faster turnaround times every year. ACE implemented Epicor’s next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to keep up with the accelerated pace of the manufacturing industry.

Sponsored by: Epicor

How to add 200 analysts without hiring anyone new
Ted Corbett, Director of Knowledge Management, Seattle Children’s

There’s increasing pressure to use one of your most valuable assets – data – to develop keen insight about how to propel an organization’s success. However, the gap between turning information into insight is wide. This session will describe how Seattle Children’s Hospital, one of the top ten children’s hospitals in the U.S., has effectively bridged this gap by empowering those who know the data best – administrators, executives, clinicians – to own their own data exploration as well as report and dashboard creation. For the business, this has meant faster, more impactful insights that drive revenue opportunities and optimize patient care. For IT, this has meant an end to constant BI requests and the opportunity to focus on what they do best, creating a technology backbone that serves the need of the entire organization. Join this session to understand how you can bridge this insight gap in your organization, whether in the healthcare field or another industry.

Join Ted Corbett, Seattle Children’s Director of Knowledge Management, to discuss how Children’s has leveraged Tableau to meet these needs. Ted has led the business intelligence community at Seattle Children’s for over three years. Prior to joining Children’s, Ted was a Senior Manager in the Business Intelligence practice at Hitachi Consulting where he helped drive business intelligence success at non-healthcare companies like Microsoft, Starbucks, WaMu and Qwest.

Sponsored by: Tableau Software