IT Trends Forecast: 2008
The Club's Annual Holiday Reception immediately followed the seminar. 
Chicago, IL | December 12, 2007
What issues will drive IT management in 2008? Join us and gain critical insights on:
- Top IT Executives from U.S. Cellular, Cars.com and DePaul University share predictions for the industry and their own organizations: Keynote Panel
- Corporate buying intentions
- Trends in IT innovation
- The outlook for web services, telecommunications, applications development, and more!
This event is designed for
- CIOs
- Senior IT executives
- IT Department heads
- Senior vendor executives
Call for Sponsors: Contact Tina Sieben at 847-837-3900, x2 for information about sponsorships.
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Agenda |
Event Logistics |
| 1:00 |
Welcome & Introductions |
$125 Members
$150 Nonmembers
Wednesday December 12, 2007
1:00–5:15 PM
Union League Club
Crystal Room
65 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
Professional Business Casual Attire Required |
| 1:30–1:55 |
Leading Edge Innovation Management for IT Executives
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Robert C. Wolcott, Ph.D, Adjunct Professor, Communication Systems Strategy & Management Program,
Northwestern University
Dr. Wolcott co-teaches Technological Innovation in the Northwestern University Communication Systems Strategy & Management Program. He has been a Fellow and Adjunct Professor at the Center for Research in Technology & Innovation and the Entrepreneurship Program at the Kellogg School of Management since 2002. He also teaches for Kellogg’s Executive MBA Program with the HKUST (Hong Kong) and Keio Business School (Tokyo). |
| 1:55–2:20 |
IT Management Trends for 2008
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Donald Anderson, Director, Business Development - Central Area, CA
Mr. Anderson is responsible for a 12-state area working with customers to help develop and implement solutions in support of their strategic business and IT initiatives. He joined CA in 1995 and routinely works within the Fortune 1000 companies in the Midwest helping clients address complexities of ITIL and other standards based programs that improve service levels within IT organizations. |
| 2:20-2:45 |
Break |
| 2:45–3:10 |
Top Application Development Trends
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Rockford Lhotka, Principal Technology Evangelist, Magenic
Rockford is the author of numerous books, including the Expert VB 2005 Business Objects and Expert C# 2005 Business Objects books. He is a Microsoft Regional Director, MVP and INETA speaker. He contributes to several major magazines and regularly presents at major conferences around the world - including Microsoft PDC, Tech Ed, VS Live! and VS Connections. |
| 3:10–3:35 |
Getting Technology Deals Done in 2008: A Lawyer's Perspective
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Len Ferber, Partner,
Katten Muchin Rosenman
As a Partner in Firm's Corporate Department and Co-Chair of its Technology Practice Group, Mr. Ferber represents software and other technology-based companies and consulting firms in a variety of transactional matters, including strategic partnering arrangements and joint ventures, sophisticated licensing arrangements and technology development agreements. He also serves as technology counsel to several major corporations. |
| 3:35-4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00–4:50 |
Keynote Panel
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Moderator: Richard Qualls, US Midwest Chief Architect, Sun Microsystems
Richard has more than 20 years experience architecting, implementing, and optimizing cutting edge business systems and data center infrastructure. Over his career he has fulfilled multiple roles including Enterprise Architect, Business Systems Analyst, Technology Manager. He is currently a visionary leader at Sun Microsystems as the U.S. Midwest Systems Engineering Chief Technologist. In this role, Richard champions and evangelizes key innovation and trends in IT infrastructure with Sun's largest and most complex clients. |
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Ashvin Vellody, Director, I.S. Enterprise Architecture, U.S. Cellular
Mr. Vellody is responsible for defining the I.T strategy, roadmap and standards for the Products and Services, Applications, Information Management and Information Security domains for the enterprise. In addition, he has oversight over the solution architecture lifecycle planning of the IT assests in the U.S. Cellular portfolio.
Mr. Vellody has more than 13 years of management consulting experience in industries such as Financial Service, Utilities and High Technology. |
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Manny Montejano, CTO, Cars.com
Manny has been the CTO of Cars.com for almost two years now. As part of the family of Classified Ventures, LLC verticals, he’s been charged with aligning the Cars.com IT strategy with the business strategic vision. Prior to joining Cars.com, Manny was CIO for Cole Taylor Bank and before that, the CTO for Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX.com) in Colorado. Manny is an IT veteran of more than 20 years in the Chicago area with companies like Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Goldman Sachs, The Clearing Corporation and IBM Global Services. |
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Vince Kellen, CIO, DePaul University
Vince Kellen, is the Vice President of Information Services (CIO) of DePaul University. Vince is also a 2007 CIO 100 award winner and a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium , an IT industry think tank. Vince has 25 years of technology and consulting experience in large and small firms and is on the faculty at DePaul University's School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information System (CTI) where he lectures on CRM, portals and enterprise architecture. He has authored four books, 43 papers, and has spoken at many IT industry events here in the U.S and abroad.
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Paul Brizz, Director, Insight Program, Oracle
Paul is an ex-Big 6 business leader with more than 16 years of progressive experience in information system design/development, business process implementation, program/project management, team leadership, and management consulting. His expertise is focused on optimizing business potential, profits, customer service, and people’s productivity. |
| 4:50–6:00 |
Meet the Speakers & Holiday Networking Reception
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