Opening Keynote: Mission Critical Agility

Whether it is controlling interplanetary spacecraft, managing medical records, or "merely" staying in business, it seems like more of us are facing the pressure of building and managing mission-critical systems and teams.  It's tempting to think that reliability is all that matters, but we're also forced to adapt to constantly advancing technologies, shifting priorities, and relentless competitive pressures.  What can we learn about agility from great inventors and explorers who risked everything to change the world?  Is it wise to embrace innovation and take risks when so much is at stake?  Can you afford to be agile when failure is not an option, or can you afford not to?

Five years ago, Dr. Norris founded the JPL OPS Lab, an advanced agile development facility for the design, development, and deployment of mission-critical software and human-robot interaction technologies. In the OPS Lab, he pioneered an innovative approach to software development within NASA that emphasizes teamwork and innovation. This approach has earned the team numerous awards and a consistent record of success across a broad variety of projects. He has also been a driving force behind the use of open source software within NASA’s missions.

In addition to leading the development of one of the key pieces of operations software for the Spirit and Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Dr. Norris helped operate both rovers as a Tactical Activity Planner during the prime mission. In this role, he integrated the daily plan of action for the rover from the mission engineering and science teams and ensured that mission objectives were being met within the available resources of the spacecraft. His efforts on the mission earned him a NASA Honor award “for Outstanding Contribution to the Success of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission.”

In 2009, Dr. Norris received the Lew Allen Award for Excellence, JPL’s highest honor for an innovator in the early years of his/her career, “for exemplary vision, innovation and leadership in fundamentally advancing the capabilities for scientific involvement in planning operations on NASA's missions.” He also led the team that was co-winner of the 2004 NASA Software of the Year Award, NASA’s highest software award, and has received many other accolades for excellence in research, leadership, and public outreach.

Rocket Science for CIOs

Information Governance

You protect your assets, your staff, and your accounts, but are you protecting your most important resources?  Are you protecting your company’s data and that of your clients?

Information Governance is the 21st century’s emerging process for managing all proprietary information with a focus on security, accountability and profitability.  Annually losses to businesses due to data loss are in the billions of dollars, on top of which the government can often imposed additional millions in fines.  This does not include the irreparable damage also caused to your company’s reputation.

During this 50 minute presentation the attendee will be introduced to the most current and common cyber and physical threats to the private sector’s sensitive information.  More importantly, businesses will learn how by taking simple actions they can mitigate both their losses and their liability.

The Information Governance presentation will cover:

• Assessment, recommendations and implementation
• Analysis and risk assessment
• Policy and procedure development
• Training for employees and leadership
• Information security planning and audit
• Physical security review and remediation

New Paradigms to Lead at Light Speed

“Better, faster, cheaper” continues as the battle cry in companies around the world.  One minute managers were great leaders “in the day”, but they did not face the pace of change we are experiencing today with Mobility, Cloud Computing, Social Media and the related challenges they cause with Security and Business Intelligence / Analytics.  Traditional Organization and Leadership models (and their people) are being stretched beyond capacity in the constant pursuit of getting more with less.

Ken offers hope for leaders with a model for leading in new dimensions to “Lead at Light Speed”.  He will present the model and how it has increased productivity in the Information Services group at Dal-Tile.  Ken will also introduce a tool that is still very new in the marketplace that gives leaders new insight into the people they lead. 

Come find out how to get the “right people on the bus and in the right seat” and get them aligned for high performance as you use “New Paradigms to Lead At Light Speed”!
 

How Far Can Consumerization Take Us in the Enterprise?

The Connected CIO: How To Improve Results Through Conversations

Leading Virtual Teams – productivity in the 21st Century

Does anyone remember leading a team where we were all located in the same space working full-time on the same project without interruption? Today, people from different groups, companies, locations, and countries are regularly thrown together and are asked to achieve difficult objectives. They are need to quickly mobilize, complete work, and then demobilize and reform. They are asked to constantly adjusting to new and different roles, and goals. Such is the nature of work today.  In this session Brendan O’Malley will explore how we need to adjust our leadership techniques in order to better lead in this new paradigm.  

Stop spoiling and start engagement – Building High Engagement teams

They say spare the rod, spoil the child.  Do you find yourself focusing on the rod and the carrot frequently?   You want high engagement teams, but the economy cut your carrot and your culture doesn’t support the rod?  Are you ready to retire these deposed tools and start building teams that produce results instead of missed deadlines and increased costs?   Spend time learning how to get the most out of your most valuable asset.

In this session, delegates will share and discuss how leaders build teams that produce results.

• Are you promoting employee happiness instead of employee engagement?
• How do the carrot and rod inherently destroy what is most important to engagement?
• Are you robbing your employees of valuable learning experiences that directly affect the bottom line?
• How do you get the most from your most valuable asset?
• Do you have the right personality at the helm of your teams?
• If your team is a ship, what is your position on that ship?
• What signs are you missing that tell you about your culture?
 

Information security Discussion Group: CIOs, CISOs & the DNA of the organization

What would happen if, when CIOs and CISOs meet, they did not to talk about security but how to enable the business? How would that change how we do things? In many organizations, information security budgets are approved to meet regulatory and/or compliance requirements, and are separate from the IT department and the business.

At this round table, come share your ideas and let us think outside the box on how to make information security part of the business. Learn what your peers are doing to purge the word “security” from operations as security is deeply integrated into the “fabric” of their day-to-day business practices. Both CIOs and CISOs are encouraged to attend.
 

Mobility, Risk and Change: A Discussion Group

Personal Mobile Devices are here to stay due to lower costs, ease of use, and mostly demand from our users and leaders.   So how do you balance anything goes personal devices with the proprietary and regulated world of corporate data?  Even if your company use a MDM (Mobile Device Management) product it still has limitations and issues to overcome.  Not the least of which is dealing with a paranoid user base that is sure you are spying on them and monitoring their every move.

Today, malicious threats to mobile devices are increasing; user apathy and ignorance are prevalent; and the CFO demands a less expensive ways to deliver services, content, and data to end users.  All these issues conspire to challenge IT, Security, and Compliance leadership to adapt and innovate in this area immediately.  This Mobility Market is moving faster than most departments can keep up with it.

This Mobility Environment is worthy of a discussion of perspectives and to share experiences on how to face and address these challenges.

Discussion Agenda
                ○ Share unique perspectives of Mobility for your organization
                ○ Discuss culture and communication issues
                ○ Identify Risks and Threats we all face
                ○ Data with personal cloud services
                ○ Share unique ideas on how to address the Mobility issues we all face

Handling IT Demand in Complex Environment

Handling IT Demand in Complex Environment: A Discussion Group
Is demand jeopardizing your ability to execute? Is your requirement institutional?
Do you have a pipeline, a backlog, both, or neither? Is your team behind or in front of the wall?

Managing demand in an ever changing business environment is one of the historical challenges for IT leaders, and a derail in many careers too. Finding the right balance between demand and capacity can be a tricky discipline, that can drive organizations to excellence or inefficiency. Knowing your productivity level is a key aspect that most managers fail to understand, but one that productive and adaptive teams know very well. Building a team that can be as dynamic as your business need is not impossible, and it starts with been able to manage your demand and consequently their expectations.
 

Benchmarking IT Costs: A Discussion Group

This conversation is designed to share how we are delivering, at what costs (and under what pressures), drawing from the diverse experience of the attendees. Primarily focused on IT departments who function as service providers to their brand or business, Eric Dewey of Yum! Brands will moderate the group in the hopes of uncovering savings and innovative practices to take away.

Benchmarking topics include :

• Data Center Infrastructure Cost Reduction
• Data Center Co-location
• Public Cloud vs Private Cloud
• Outsourcing Contracts
• Contract Labor vs Internal Labor
• Offshoring opportunities
 

Privileged Identity Management: A Discussion GroupPrivileged Identity Management: A Discussion Group

Threat Management: A Discussion Group

Threat Management, the combination of inside and outside technology intelligence combined with human intelligence, is one of the least focused areas of Information Security. While organizations invest heavily in Security Technology and Security Awareness, most organizations don’t have a comprehensive Threat Management program. This lack of program inhibits their ability to truly under the threats and risks to the organization and focus security spend in appropriate areas. This round table discussion will look to focus on the needs of Threat Management, the strategies on selling the idea to Executive management and the elements required to build such a program.