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COMPETING PRIORITIES FOR IT
The priorities faced by CTOs and CIOs continue to change as quickly as
technology itself evolves. While security and cost optimization remain high on the corporate IT agenda,
competitive pressures to adopt Clean IT practices and Web 2.0 tools (with decreasing resources) introduce more
conflicts than ever before.
These sessions will help technology professionals understand some of the changes
that lie ahead and what these mean for their organizations. Attendees will also gain an appreciation of how to
achieve IT and business alignment; uncover IT enterprise expenditures and moderate costs; improve control
over IT processes; and uncover significant savings in the cost of IT delivery.
Join your IT colleagues for informative keynote presentations and interactive panel discussions designed to help you achieve your goals, balance priorities, get GREEN, and get ready for Web 2.0.
| Monday,
September 22, 2008 |
| Keynote: |
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| 8:30 – 10:00 am |
State of the Nation/Jobs 2.0: Action Agenda for Canada's Talent Crisis |
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| 10:15 – 11:15 am |
- Transforming Toronto Services with Strategic I&T
- The Convergence of BI and EPM: Driving Management Excellence |
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| 11:30 am – 12:30 pm |
- Environmental Sustainability & Software
- VOIP: Where Do We Go
From Here? |
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| 12:30 – 2:00 pm |
Luncheon Keynote: Web
2.0 in the Enterprise |
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| 2:15
– 3:15 pm |
- The Greening of IT
- The Art of Negotiation |
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| 3:30 – 4:30 pm |
- Enterprise Architecture: Aligning Business and IT
- Service-Oriented Architecture in the Enterprise: An Integrated Approach |
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| Tuesday, September 23, 2008 |
| Keynote: |
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| 8:30 – 10:00 am |
The Canadian Opportunity for Social Networking and Web 2.0 |
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| 10:15 – 11:15 am |
Outsourcing in Uncertain Economic Times: Maximizing Business Benefits and Managing
the Risk |
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| 11:30 – 12:30 pm |
- Virtual Security in the Real World
- Why ERP Isn't Just for Big Business Anymore |
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State of the Nation
Monday, September 22, 2008
8:30 – 10:00 am, Room 718B
Just what are the issues that face the Technology Industry today? This State of the Nation plenary offers unique insights into the salient challenges that affect business success, particularly the growth of the technology industry. The session will begin with a keynote presentation by David Ticoll on the changing landscape of talent and how it affects businesses at every level. An interactive discussion panel follows.
Sharing knowledge and recent statistics on such things as adoption of technology, internet usage, and drawing comparisons between the GTA, Canada, and the world, each of these industry leaders will share their perspectives on what it all means to the future of Toronto's technology landscape. |
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Transforming Toronto Services with Strategic I&T
Dave Wallace
Chief Information Officer, City of Toronto
Monday, September 22, 2008
10:15 - 11:15 am, Room 717A
Toronto services are going under a massive level of transformation. This presentation will focus how I&T can be strategically aligned with business and service directions through effective planning, architecting and measuring results. |
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The Convergence of BI and EPM: Driving Management Excellence
Les Husar
Enterprise Performance Management, ASR, Oracle
Monday, September 22, 2008
10:15 - 11:15 am, Room 717B
Organizations world-wide have been very successful implementing ERP and other business operation applications to optimize their processes and achieve excellence. However, with more businesses becoming more operationally excellent, competitive differentiation needs to come from somewhere else. Leading edge organizations see their next level of competitive advantage in achieving management excellence. In order to do this, organizations need to look at standardizing, automating and integrating their management processes and implementing the right BI and EPM solutions to optimally support these processes. Attend this session to learn about the latest developments in the convergence of BI and EPM and how these technologies are being leveraged to create smart, agile and aligned organizations that exhibit management excellence. |
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Environmental Sustainability & Software
Monday, September 22, 2008
11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Room 717A
<Session description to come> |
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VoIP - Where Do We Go From Here?
Tracy Fleming
Director of Emerging Technology, Avaya Canada
VoIP - Where Do We Go From Here?
Monday, September 22, 2008
11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Room 717B
Avaya defines Unified Communications as the convergence of real-time and non-real-time business communication applications. It applies to office and mobile workers independent of network, location, or device. These applications include voice and video telephony and conferencing, voice and video mail, instant messaging, email, calendar and contacts, and collaboration. In addition to looking at the user access and solution options, this session will explore the steps necessary for a successful Unified Communications deployment which starts with taking a segmented view of the work force and examining business processes. Case studies illustrating how organizations have used UC to improve their business will be discussed. Finally, we will let you know from experience some of the best practices and potential pitfalls we've encountered. |
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 Web 2.0 In The Enterprise
Richard McDonald
Technical Executive and Distinguished
IT Architect, IBM
Monday, September 22, 2008
12:30 – 2:00 pm, Room 718B
Web 2.0 is the current buzz in the Internet. From LinkedIn to Facebook and Twitter to DogEar – we are increasingly connected to each other. People of all generations are using these services to create their own presence on the world-wide web. They’re also doing it on your company intranet. And if they’re not, they probably want to or are finding “unofficial” ways. We’ll talk about the implications of this explosion of new content to your enterprise. And we’ll cover a few simple things you can do to get the most value from Web 2.0.
With over twenty-five years’ experience in IBM’s production development and technical support group, Richard McDonald has helped to develop and deploy a vast array of new technologies. He is one of only three IBM Distinguished IT Architects in Canada. Richard will deconstruct the “buzz” around Web 2.0 technology and share his experience and knowledge to help you plan your Web 2.0 strategy. |
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The Greening of IT
Brett Philp
IT Architect,
IBM Canada
Monday, September 22, 2008
2:15 – 3:15 pm, Room 717A
Power availability and costs, computer density hot spots, datacenter space limitations, and cooling capacity are the common challenges that IBM and our clients are facing. Investments in the Greening of IT such as standard comparative metrics for efficiency, future product initiatives, innovative cooling technologies, and investigative services are aimed at saving IT from the major disruption the industry has observed through 2007. |
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The Art of Negotiation
Monday, September 22, 2008
2:15 - 3:15, Room 717B
In this session, two senior professionals will show you how to successfully achieve your goals and protect your interests as you negotiate for information technology and telecommunications products and services. Using a specially developed presentation format, the “negotiators” will:
- tell you how to plan (yes, plan) in advance of negotiating;
- reveal the “tricks of the trade” when it comes to active listening, team negotiating and making a deal; and
- demonstrate, through a series of situational examples, how to get where you need to be in a negotiation and when it is in your best interest to hold back.
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Enterprise Architecture: Aligning Business and IT
Jim Alexander
Vice President, National Public Sector, Chartwell Inc.
Monday, September 22, 2008
3:30 – 4:30 pm, Room 717A
This is an exciting and pivotal time for the development and direction of Enterprise Architecture—specifically the evolution of Enterprise Business Architecture. Gaining widespread acceptance by the government, the standards have ‘crossed cover” and the opportunity for business and IT alignment has never been closer at hand. More significant is the resultant design and alignment of service delivery channels and major government transformations. Business architecture: not just for systems sake, but for the sake of governments that are better designed, accountable, integrated and modernized. |
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Service-Oriented Architecture in the Enterprise: An Integrated Approach
Nandan Joshi
Global Alliances Technical Director, TIBCO
Monday, September 22, 2008
3:30 – 4:30 pm, Room 717B
Today’s SOA technology and standards allow enterprises to realize the vision of rapid development and deployment of services in the enterprise. During this talk, I will describe a vision for service enabling the enterprise, leveraging existing investments in technology and applications. The SOA fabric approach allows creation of composite applications by providing a uniform environment for composing, deploying and managing services. In addition, I will discuss how policy and transport virtualization will help developers and deployment engineers in delivering business critical services which can be scaled. |
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 The Canadian Opportunity for Social Networking and Web 2.0
Vinay Nair
Research Manager, Canadian Enterprise Applications Research, IDC
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
8:30 –
10:00 am, Room 718B
The social networking and Web 2.0 revolution is happening whether Canadian organizations are ready for it or not. This session examines their use within Canadian enterprises and discusses the key drivers, inhibitors, and preferences around them. Presenting findings from a recently conducted study, essential guidance will be provided to participants on how best to maximize their position within this rapidly developing market.
This session is a must-attend for Canadian executives looking to understand this market better, and for vendors and consultants that want to position social networking and Web 2.0 product and service offerings to the Canadian enterprise customer. |
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Outsourcing In Uncertain Economic Times: Maximizing Business Benefits and Managing the Risk
Tuesday, September 22, 2008
10:15 – 11:15 am, Room 717A
Recent economic slowdown has forced organizations to rethink about their cost structures. As lowered costs re one of the obvious benefits of outsourcing, the slowdown creates new opportunities and challenges for existing and new outsourcing arrangements. In order to explore these opportunities and challenges, a panel comprised of senior executives from the industry including vendors and advisors will provide their point of view on various challenges and opportunities. The audience will also be provided with a questionnaire to provide their perspectives and an opportunity to ask questions of the panelists at the end of the discussion.
So if you are involved in outsourcing projects in your organization or thinking about outsourcing, please join this session to learn about the critical elements of outsourcing, and how to leverage it to benefit your organization. |
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Virtual Security in the Real World
Robert W. Beggs, CISSP, CISA
CEO, Digital Defence
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Room 717A
Virtualization, which allows users to run multiple operating systems on a single physical box, can reduce costs and improve network manageability. From a security perspective, this simplified management can enhance system security. Virtualized systems are supporting security in roles such as secure software development, malware analysis, and disaster recovery.
But what are the risks of putting virtual systems into your production network? This seminar will review the perceived, and real, risks that you should consider before deploying a virtual environment. Technical attacks, such as those against the hypervisor layer, together with organizational and operational issues will be critically examined. We’ll conclude with a review of the practical steps that an organization can take to mitigate the security challenges of virtualization. |
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Why ERP Isn't Just for Big Business Anymore
Conrad Mandala
Vice President, SAP Business One, North America, Vice President Indirect Channels
SAP Canada
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
11:30 am – 12:30 pm, Room 717B
<Session description to come> |
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