Date Feb 24, 2010

Information Technologies for Transforming Energy and Healthcare Industries

Topics include, but not limited to:

  • Providing services for the global enterprise - challenges and opportunities
  • Services oriented architectures
  • Software environments to support Services - Java, .Net, etc.
  • New enterprise service opportunities due to technological advances
  • Cloud computing - advances, architectures and how they support web services
  • Wireless, Mobility and communications technologies - 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
  • Mandates, compliance and regulatory issues from federal and state governments, e.g. Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, Real ID Act, Privacy regulations
  • 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

For further information info@cio-conference.ucla.edu
Speaker Nominations are open : Nominate a Speaker
If you are interested in sponsoring the forum, email info@cio-conference.ucla.edu

Speakers at previous forums

Erna Adelson SVP Sony Electronics
Gary Ahwah CIO PacifiCare, A UnitedHealthcare Company
Bob Bauer CTO Xerox Global Services
Jerome Beaudoin VP & CIO Devon Energy
David Bernstein Vice President/GM Cisco Systems, Inc.
Hardik Bhatt CIO City of Chicago
Cora Carmody Sr. VP, CIO SAIC
George Chappelle CIO Sara Lee Corporation
Ken Chrisman EVP Wells Fargo
Joe Cleveland CIO Lockheed Martin
Mike Cook Sr VP and GM Hughes Network Systems
Steve Cooper CIO American Red Cross
William Crowell CIO County of San Diego
Carl Eberling Vice President, CIO West Area IT Verizon Wireless
Phil Edholm CTO and VP Network Architecture Nortel Networks
Allen Fazio VP & CIO The Disneyland Resort
Robert Fecteau CIO BAE Systems
J. Stephen Fletcher CIO State of Utah
Emmanuel Frenehard VP and CIO Walt Disney International
Cita Furlani CIO N.I.S.T.
Keith Glennan VP and CTO Northrop Grumman
Scott Griffin VP and CIO Boeing
Alex Grimwade VP 20th Century Fox Television
Arthur Hair Chief Technology Officer Walt Disney Studios
Abe Kani CIO City of Atlanta
Ebrahim Keshavarz Vice President, New Services Development AT&T
Shaygan Kheradpir CIO Verizon Communications
Len Lauer COO Qualcomm
Randi Levin General Manager/Chief Technology Officer City of LA
Celia Lin CIO - Corporate Departments Chevron
Allen Marks Senior IT Architect Raytheon
Art Mena Associate Technical Fellow Boeing Information Technology
Jeffrey Mirich SVP and CIO Walt Disney Studios
Andy Mulholland Global Chief Technology Officer Capgemini
David Muntz SVP & CIO Baylor Health Care System
Dominic Nessi CIO Los Angeles World Airports
Doug Parish Sr VP and CTO Walt Disney Group
Dennis Quan Director of Autonomic Computing IBM
Vaho Rebassoo CTO, IT Services Boeing
Bill Schrier CTO City of Seattle
Omer Simeon EVP Countrywide Financial
Joe Solimando CIO Disney Consumer Products
Jim Swartz CIO Sybase, Inc.
JL Valente Executive Chairman CITTIO
Chris Vein CIO City of San Francisco
Alan Wexler Senior Vice President - Managing Director North America Sapient
Tom Witmer VP Kaiser Permanente


Forum Sponsors:
WINMEC, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA Anderson School,
Easton Technology Leadership Program, 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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