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Leveraging Cloud To Invite Big Data And Mobility Jan 17, 2014

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Cloud Computing, Big Data and mobility arguably share similar intrinsic features such as distribution, and geographical dispersion. How can you utilize these common intrinsic features to invite Big Data and mobility into your organization, leveraging an existing cloud infrastructure, at a low risk, low cost and with high resilience to meet changing business demand?

Guest: Wayne Shurts Title: Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Sysco

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How to Get More Women in IT Jan 08, 2014

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We want to be able to promote gender equality within IT just as the world has done so within other industries. Numbers suggest that fewer women entering into science, technology, engineering or math fields that might lead to a leadership role in technology. So it remains important that we identify the state of women in IT and business, what's causing the disparity between men and women and how we get to an ultimately level playing field. How are organizations prioritizing the recruitment and education of women in the technology field? How are existing leaders making the case that a role in IT can help women to achieve their wants, needs and dreams?

Guest 1: Fawn Germer, Global Leadership Speaker, Author and Women's Leadership Expert, Bestselling Oprah

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Guest 2: Janet Sherlock, Chief Information Officer, Carter's, Inc.

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A Day in the Life of a Leader | CIO Talk Network Dec 18, 2013

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Great leadership is not about rare moments. It is about daily habits, honest reflection, and the ability to inspire people while staying grounded in reality. In this CIO Talk Network conversation, Jon Walton, CIO for the County of San Mateo, joins Sanjog Aul to share how leaders navigate their day with intention and impact.

They discuss: • How leaders shape their day for clarity and focus • Turning big goals into visible progress • Moving beyond management into genuine leadership • Creating honest, two way dialogue across the team • Finding mentors, reflection time, and new learning paths • Handling difficult conversations in person, not through email • Recognizing fatigue and knowing when to step back

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Building The Workplace for Gen-Y Dec 11, 2013

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For as much as the current generation loves to bash the 20-somethings entering into the workforce and assign clichés about their demeanor and work ethic, the reality is that this group will one day be the industry leaders and is currently among the group leading the charge of a digital revolution. So rather than thinking about what management practices will work best for "them" how can the current generation help pave the way for the future? If the value in the workplace to millennials is a better corporate environment, a reinvented virtual enterprise, BYOD policies and more flexibility on the whole, how are we modernizing to meet those expectations?

Guest 1: Greg Schwartz, Chief Information Officer and SVP Information Technology, USAA

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Guest 2: Heather Hernandez, Senior Research Engineer, USAA

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Guest 3: Ryan O'Leary, IT Technical Director, USAA

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Cloud Suitability and Transformation Dec 06, 2013

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In planning your application and infrastructure environment, an essential step is to determine their cloud suitability. How do you go about determining that? Since each application and infrastructure element may have its unique provisioning needs, how do you transform or modernize these elements to run on one cloud foundation? Can you plan all this upfront or have to play it by ear as you unearth the intricacies?

Guest: George Surdu Title: Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Comerica

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Developing a Big Data Workforce Dec 04, 2013

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Big Data has exploded as a field, and with it will come a massive flux of new openings within IT organizations. Half the battle is finding the right talent when to some extent these jobs and these skills don't even exist yet, but an equal challenge is in defining the various Big Data roles for your organization and industry given the broad variety of skills and competencies that maintaining Big Data will require. How exactly does a Big Data job differ from something related to "analytics," "statistics" or a "data scientist?" What approaches on the whole will help integrate Big Data hiring into regular IT staffing duties?

Guest 1: Dr. Phil Shelley, Former CTO, Sears Holding

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Guest 2: Doug Henschen, Executive Editor, InformationWeek

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Philanthropy and Technology Changing The World Nov 27, 2013

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Philanthropic organizations across the globe all have a single goal; we want to work together to make the world a better place. The cause could be ending world hunger, poverty, disease or lack of education, but the intention is the same. The trouble lies in organizing all of those different parties who can help contribute money, resources and services onto that one unified vision. So how are NGOs starting to think like businesses in order to compete, deliver expectations and quantifiable change such that they can see a difference? How is new technology helping to produce more transparency, agility and information sharing toward this end goal?

Guest: William A. Brindley, Former Chief Executive Officer, Special Advisor in the Social Sector, NetHope

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Managing Security from The Inside Out Nov 20, 2013

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Threats to your enterprise have as much chance to come from around the globe as they do across the hall. This much is obvious to the savvy CISO. Your organization may have governance policies in place along with proper education on privacy and security within your organization, but is it possible that investment dollars are not entirely going where they belong? To what extent are organizations overlooking internal security threats? What kind of internal threats are most concerning, be they malicious or unintentional? And where should CISOs be refocusing their efforts? Kevin Novak will be speaking today at the SC Congress in Chicago on the topic "Security, Privacy and Whistleblowing".

Guest: Kevin Novak, CISO & IT Risk Manager, Northern Trust Corporation

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Flexible Leadership and Evolving Commitments Nov 13, 2013

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The world in which we operate moves so quickly that it's ill-advised for a leader to devote an organization's undivided attention on one thing or one direction for too long. So in an effort to be nimble and flexible to changing conditions, a leader will make evolving commitments to many markets, funding or technology. But wouldn't doing so put added stress on people within the organization scrambling to meet all these diverse commitments? How does such decision making impact an organization? What are the pros and cons and how should a leader respond?

Guest: Professor Joseph L. Badaracco Jr., John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, Harvard Business School

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Getting Past BYOD Security Concerns Nov 06, 2013

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Even in our modern workplace, we're still having discussions about gaps in our BYOD security policies or that many companies don't even have one in place. If you listen to many blogs or vendor white papers, employees are utilizing workarounds, executives are being careless and many organizations are still living in the stone age. Aren't we just peddling fear at this point? What do we have to do to put these concerns behind us? How bad is the problem really, and what can we focus on so far that's actually worked as a benchmark moving forward?

Guest 1: Dan Lohrmann, CSO, Department of Technology, Management & Budget (DTMB), Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Protection, State of Michigan

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Guest 2: Elayne Starkey, CSO, Department of Technology and Information (DTI), Delaware

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