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Insights from Microsoft CIO Tony Scott and Outlook from Industry Leaders on the Opportunities and Challenges in the Coming Decade
Understanding the changing role of the CIO and the proliferation of available technologies is critical to success, whether you work within, or provide technology to, the enterprise. A CIO must balance the risks and rewards against the organization’s business strategy. Technology leaders who understand this careful balance will achieve greater success and find themselves in a position of competitive advantage.
Keynote: Return to a Growth Agenda: Insights from Microsoft CIO, Tony Scott
Named to CIO Magazine’s Hall of Fame for his vision and leadership in profoundly shaping the technology-enabled business landscape, Microsoft CIO Tony Scott will share his story and some of his observations about the changing role of the CIO and the impact of unified communications and business intelligence on the enterprise as we turn the corner and return to a growth agenda.
Fireside Chat: Navigating within the Enterprise
Gary Beach, Publisher, CXO Media
Tony Scott, CIO, Microsoft
Gary Beach, publisher emeritus of CIO Magazine, will sit down with Tony to explore some of the key lessons he has learned as CIO of Microsoft and from his past roles as CIO of The Walt Disney Company, CTO of General Motors, and VP of Operations with Bristol-Meyers Squibb. They will then delve deeper, using a business lens to assess the implications of cloud computing, mobile devices, social media and business analytics to explore technology trends and his view across the enterprise.
Panel: Opportunities and Challenges Facing the CIO in the Coming Decade
A panel of experts will pick up on the key themes from the fireside chat to take a closer look at issues such as: the risks and rewards of social media; privacy and security in the cloud; mobile platform standardization; and making sense of the explosion of data in the enterprise. Attendees will gain insights into the challenges facing the enterprise and opportunities to guide their future business strategies.
Confirmed panelists:
Eben Berry, Chief Information Security Officer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA
Gabriel Helmer, Attorney and Co-chair, Security & Privacy Group, Foley Hoag LLP
Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist at the Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management, fellow at the Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and Author of Enterprise 2.0 New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges