IT Governance & Risk Management Strategies
Chicago, IL | November 13, 2008
 IT leaders know governance and risk management must work hand-in-hand to achieve tangible results. Learn how to mitigate risk, enforce standards and measuring results while ensuring compliance, security, high reliability and business continuity. At this seminar, we'll address topics including:
- Senior IT executives' views on how global governance and risk management trends are affecting their companies: Keynote Panel Discussion
- IT Governance Policy and Legal Insights
- IT Governance & Risk Management Assessment Strategies
- How to best manage your resources with a comprehensive IT Risk Management Program
- A legal overview of reducing risk of Electronic Discovery
- Increasing information integrity through effective automation controls
- Best practices for managing compliance, security, disaster recovery and high availability
All attendees will receive a Certificate of Completion for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit.
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Event Logistics |
| 1:00 |
Welcome & Introductions |
 $150 Members
$175 Nonmembers
November 13, 2008
1:00–5:15 PM
Union League Club
Main Lounge
65 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
Professional Business Casual Attire Required |
| 1:30–1:55 |
A GRC Sustainability Framework
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Chris Boswell, Director, Risk & Compliance Services, CA, Inc.
Chris Boswell specializes in the design and delivery of governance, security, risk management, and compliance solutions at CA. He has experience building GRC solutions across a wide variety of industries, and has worked with numerous regulations, standards and best practices over the past decade. Chris joined CA from Ernst & Young in 2004 to form a Global Security Assessment Practice within CA Technology Services. From there, he went on to design what is now CA Governance Risk & Compliance Manager. |
| 1:55–2:20 |
Reducing Costs and Risks of Electronic Information
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Hillard Sterling, Partner, Freeborn & Peters
Mr. Sterling is a litigator and partner at Freeborn & Peters LLP, a firm described as a "litigation powerhouse” by the Chicago Tribune. An emerging national leader in technology law, Hillard represents vendors, customers, and consultants in technology disputes involving computer system implementation projects, outsourcing arrangements, software licensing issues, and other technology-related matters.
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Mike O'Brien, Director of Litigation Technology, Freeborn & Peters
Mike oversees the Firm's use of technology to support information management in litigation. Mike developed an E-Discovery Lab that processes client mailstores and electronic documents in-house. It involves extracting text, metadata and native files, which are then imported into a searchable review database. Prior to joining Freeborn & Peters LLP, Mike worked for Williams Lea where he developed and directed an in-house solution for processing electronic documents for discovery. |
| 2:20-2:45 |
Break |
| 2:45–3:10 |
Data Governance in Non-Production Environments
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Eric Offenberg, CIPP and Business Development Manager, Optim IBM
Eric has nearly 12 years of technology marketing experience across various industries. Eric has established himself as a data governance thought leader, who speaks frequently on governance issues in industry events, webinars and with media and analysts on behalf of IBM. Eric recently spoke at Harvard University Privacy Summer Symposium and in the UK at the Privacy Laws and Business Conference at Cambridge University. |
| 3:10–3:35 |
Deployment Challenges of Risk Management & IT Governance from an Identity Management Perspective
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Vijay Subramanian, Software Practice Manager, Laurus Technologies
Sponsored by Sun Microsystems
Mr. Subramanian leads Laurus’ team of consultants and engineers responsible for security & compliance software solutions. He has been instrumental in growing the firm's Identity Management practice, and has been recognized by customers as a leading solution architect. He's led engagements for Laurus that include Kohler Company, William Rainey Harper College and Rockwell Automation.
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| 3:35-4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00–4:50 |
Keynote Panel
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Moderator:
Chris Boswell, Director, Risk & Compliance Services, CA, Inc.
Chris Boswell specializes in the design and delivery of governance, security, risk management, and compliance solutions at CA. He has experience building GRC solutions across a wide variety of industries, and has worked with numerous regulations, standards and best practices over the past decade. Chris joined CA from Ernst & Young in 2004 to form a Global Security Assessment Practice within CA Technology Services. From there, he went on to design what is now CA Governance Risk & Compliance Manager. |
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Panelists:
Sridar Peyyeti, Enterprise Architect, Allstate Corporation
Prior to joining Allstate, he was Director of Strategic Services at i2 Technologies and a Senior Manager with Accenture. Over the past 15 years, Sridar Peyyeti has been responsible for business strategies for multinationals, technology architectures, large global SAP programs and value engineering practice. |
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Ram Subramanian, Principal Architect, Risk & Compliance, Bank of America
Ram Subramanian is a senior IT professional with more than 16 years of experience in delivering large scale IT programs, including Enterprise Architecture & Data Governance programs for large corporations. Mr. Subramanian has extensive experience implementing Risk & Compliance related programs for major financial corporations. He currently is involved one of the largest Basel II implementations in North America. |
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Aaron J. Gellman, Professor, Northwestern University Transportation Center, Management and Strategy
A noted transportation economist, Prof. Gellman's research and teaching include transportation economics and policy, the regulation of transportation, and the management and utilization of research and technology. He is the author of numerous published papers and has served on government panels and committees, as well as corporate boards. |
| 4:50-5:00 |
Closing Remarks |
| 5:00–5:45 |
Meet the Speakers Networking Reception
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