Information Technology Showcase 2003

PRE-CONFERENCE BREAKFAST PANEL

» Leadership -The Top and Bottom Line Impact
How do you build and motivate a high performance management team in the current economic environment? Leadership, when added to functional excellence, makes the difference between a good company and a great company. These panelists have a combined 50+ years of experience building and leading management teams. In this candid look at leadership, they will share their successes and failures with you.

Moderator: Amy Vernetti, Managing Director, Kindred Partners LLC
Panelists:
Kirk Arnold, GM, Institutional Retirement Services, Fidelity Investments
Izhar Shay, Co-Founder, President & CEO, Business Layers
Tom Thomas, CEO, HAHT Software
Morgan McKeown, Founder & CEO, Cor Business

If you'd like to attend, first you must be registered to attend the Information Technology Showcase. Next, you must RSVP for the breakfast by contacting Zainab Kazmi or 212-785-7898 x227.
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POINT...COUNTERPOINT

»IT Governance: Making the Case for Value
Today there is a growing momentum for technology executives to show the value of IT investments. The days of broken promises and long deployment cycles are over, IT governance has become a critical aspect of the bottom line for most corporations. Given the difficulty in quantifying ROI, how are technology leaders showing the value of their investments? How are they creating measurable goals to help their teams and management prove the value of investments? How are vendors starting to aid in process to show that their products and services achieve what they claim they do? In this session we'll explore how technology leaders are showing their key value to their businesses and how they are working with vendors to do so.

Moderator: Tony Kotler, Director, ROI Practices, Kotler Marketing Group

Panelists:
Amy Berkowitz, VP MIS, CBS
Ed Cartier, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Communications, Eracent
Lisa Cash, President & CEO, Princeton Softech
Dennis S. Callahan, EVP and CIO, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Donald Fotsch, Core Service Experience & Market Development, AOL Broadband
Chris Mahl, Senior Vice President, Salesforce.com
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» Ubiquitous Computing: Expanding the Value of Your Resources
Some call it "Distributed Computing", still others "Software as a Service" or a whole host of other names - but it's really about providing on-demand access for the complete enterprise. You've got $1.0 billion in IT resources that don't work together, or may not leverage time shifts or load management requirements. Your snoozing asset: 10 operating units, 24 different countries, 500 offices and thousands of desktops, laptops and handhelds -- can be they be slayed? What can be done to harness the power of the field and mobility computing capabilities? Learn what vendors and customers should do to team-up and develop low-to-no cost solutions.

Moderator: Fred Hoch, Vice President, Software Programs, SIIA

Panelists:
Mohamad Afshar, Oracle Application Server 10g Product Management
Stephanie Boyle, Head of Partner Relations, Ericsson Mobility World
Don Heaton, Director New Media Sales, Accuweather
Raffi Jamgotchian, Director of IT Infrastructure, INVESCO New York
George Kondrach, Executive Vice President, Innodata Isogen
Leif Pedersen, Vice President, Product Marketing, Vignette
Dan Stickel, EVP and General Manager, Software Technologies, Macrovision
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» Web Services: Beyond infancy and into maturity?
The Web Services life-cycle is well along and yet the pundits remain skeptical? A year ago Web Services was a catchy term to energize a technology sector, and now they really mean something. Or do they? What needs to be done to keep your IT staff focused on keeping the promise and what can you do to prevent mission creep from your IT and project managers? In this session, buyers will present the reality they are facing and vendors will explore the promises of the hype.

Moderator: Steve Garone, Managing Partner, The AlignIT Group

Panelists:
David Cohen, VP of Technology Architecture Group, of Merrill Lynch
Dr. Rajiv Gupta, CTO & Founder, Confluent Software
Kirk Klasson, Vice President, Strategy, Novell
Katie Morgenstern, Manager, CNBC Dow Jones Business Video
Steve O'Leary, Managing Director, Broadview International
Jeff Simon, Senior Director of Application Technologies, Standard & Poor's Corporation, Ecommerce Division
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TRENDS, SPENDS & OPPORTUNITIES

» The Return of the Consumer: Leveraging Technology To Reach Consumers And Expand Market Share
Sponsored by Sills Cummis

Retail and consumer spending has fueled the economy for the past 18 months. Enterprises are using technology more than ever to expand their relationships with their consumers through identify buying behavior, segmenting their markets and building loyalty. This panel will explore the following issues:

• Can the Internet build brand awareness and loyalty?
• How will the large investment in CRM deliver ROI and
  enhance the interaction with the consumer?
• How has technology helped in identifying and segmenting customer behavior?
• Is one-to-one marketing a reality or a myth?
• What are the market opportunities for emerging companies?

Moderator: Victor Boyajian, Chair, Capital Markets Group and Corporate Technology Practice, Sills Cummis

Panelists:
Michael Dunn, Vice President, Hearst Interactive Media
Tsvi Gal, Senior VP & CIO, Warner Music Group
Nalini Indorf Kaplan, Global Practice Leader, MasterCard
International
Christopher C. Rousseau, Vice President,
Electronic Commerce of McGraw-Hill Education
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• What are the key new regulatory requirements (Patriot Act, Sarbanes Oxley, etc.)?
• How will IT support compliance?
• What sustained role will regulating bodies have in enforcing these policies?
• How will technological solutions to compliance impact CAPEX budgets for financial institutions and corporations?
• What are the market opportunities for emerging companies?

• Is there a discrepancy between what buyers are looking for and what vendors are offering?
• What are the key challenges associated with extracting value from enterprise data?
• Can data automate business process management and support business decision-making?
• What are the key parameters that CIO's of Global 2000 companies are looking for when quantifying ROI?