CIO Austin Summit

A forum for innovative IT thought leaders in Austin

Despite the economic downturn freezing or cutting budgets and yielding a slow recovery, businesses are regaining strength and global IT spending is expected to increase in the coming years. But even with an economic upturn on the horizon and more importance placed on IT, we aren’t out of the woods yet. The role of the CIO is more important than ever as financial turmoil continues to alter the world's economy, making it difficult to put your organization in a position to achieve success. The business goals have changed and CIOs are now tasked with trying to find emerging opportunities to drive value throughout the enterprise. 

We're in a historic transition - one marked by challenges, but filled with possibility. Preparing for the upturn and making the right decisions in times of change can better position your enterprise to succeed.

The CIO Austin Summit is a unique opportunity for the city’s greatest IT thinkers to collaborate on current industry challenges and trends. The event will include representatives from various industries, including health care, finance, insurance, government, telecom, utilities, education and more. Attending CIOs and IT executives engage in peer-on-peer networking, while discussing the issues currently affecting CIOs from a variety of industries.

As an IT leader in Austin, now is the time to produce real business value for your organization. We at CDM Media know that in order for you to take time out of the office, it must be time well spent. The CIO Austin Summit agenda offers a balanced schedule of focused educational sessions, one-on-one meetings and networking opportunities that will maximize your time and efforts, providing you with ideas and strategies truly capable of changing business practices. 

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True Wireless Overview True Wireless has managed over 500,000 devices for clients since the company was founded in 2004. They continue to support and build the products and services that their customers need to manage wireless deployments, usage and spend.

Minimize The Risk Of Your Cloud-Based Services The promise of the cloud is appealing reduced costs, greater agility, flexibility, scalability, and potentially greater security. At the same time, IT organizations recognize that the cloud introduces a number of issues related to security, data integrity, compliance, service level agreements, and data architecture that must be addressed. Therefore, the adoption of cloud services is being tempered by a significant level of uncertainty.

Make Your Mainframe Work Smarter Not Harder The natural home for core business applications has traditionally been the mainframe. Continued investment in maintenance, product updates and support returns critical business value year on year by keeping existing applications current, relevant and supported. It makes sound financial, business, and technical sense to ensure that business functions and the systems that support them continue to be developed, enhanced and improved as an IT priority.

SAP BusinessObjects Software Provides New Marketing Insights In its desire to differentiate itself from its competitors, Forbes has recently turned to the data-mining and reporting functionality provided by SAP BusinessObjects technology to create more precise demographics for its advertisers.

Alternatives to Legacy IT Systems: An Unbiased Look at the Current State of the Cloud Market There are a limited number of technologies which have gained as much popularity as the concept of cloud computing, especially within the last 5 years. The attention geared toward cloud computing is the result of the soaring costs of legacy IT systems which impede business progress for most enterprises. Cloud computing represents the answer to this dilemma as it offers enhanced scalability and flexibility with access to the latest IT innovations and software at a lower cost than comparable legacy IT systems.

Executive Content

15 Minutes with Parsh Mishra 15 Minutes with Parsh Mishra: As VP Technology Infrastructure - WHG Compliance, Parsh Mishra works on the Risk Management side. The foremost function of his team is to bring down IT inherent risk to tolerable or non-affecting levels.

2011 Course Catalog Information Security Media Group has assembled a broad suite of webinar training programs that are relevant to your career needs. These sessions cover the gamut of industry/security topics such as: regulatory compliance, fraud, and today's pressing needs.

INFORM: Step Up To Your Digital Security Responsibilities Inform Magazine is a quarterly publication designed to give you a wealth of insight on current topics from key industry figures. It has contributors from all over the globe, covering many different industries and sectors. Regular features in each issue include: Key thought leadership interviews with senior IT Security professionals, current news and hot topics, practical how to guides, and latest technology updates.

Savvis Aggressive Global Growth Meets Mission-Critical Needs of Enterprise Clients Savvis, a CenturyLink company, continues to grow its data center footprint worldwide to support your increasingly mission-critical global requirements of enterprise-class IT infrastructure. The new Savvis data centers, combined with expansions of its existing data centers, significantly increase the company’s footprint in response to your growing demand for cloud, managed hosting and colocation services.

Perfecting the IT Purchasing Supply Chain Ronald Franz, Process Information Officer at General Motors discusses GM's IT purchasing supply chain, including what changes were made during the economic downturn, what quality control measures are used to ensure information entering the system is accurate and what strategies are used to guarantee seamless communication between GM and its suppliers.

 
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