IT Governance, Risk Management & Compliance
Chicago, IL | November 12, 2009
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.
Join the area's top IT executives as they discuss the importance of governance and address critical issues, including:
- How to adopt the principles of IT GRC
- Top compliance pitfalls for enterprise IT
- Best practices for minimizing data risks
- How to automate controls to integrate enterprise GRC
Attend this event for Free! Learn how.
Special Pre-Thanksgiving Bonus! The first 100 attendees will receive a Free Turkey Gift card!
PLUS - One lucky attendee will win a new 26 inch Flat Screen TV!
All attendees can receive a Certificate of Completion for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credit.
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| 1:00-1:15 |
Welcome & Introductions |
Rates:
-$175 Members w/o tickets
-$295 Nonmembers
Attend this event for Free!
Learn how.
- Members May Use Their Bundled Tickets by confirming with Member Services call 847-837-3900 X 4
Pre-Registration Required
Thursday, November 12, 2009
1:00–5:00 PM
Union League Club
Main Lounge
65 W. Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL
Professional Business Casual Attire Required
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| 1:15–1:40 |
Adopting the Principles of IT GRC
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Christopher Daugherty, Director Governance, Risk & Compliance Solutions, CA
Christopher Daugherty works with Fortune 500 companies to develop solutions involving both processes and technologies that address the changing business and IT landscape. His primary focus includes working directly with CA's customers on their governance, risk, and compliance activities and helping them to leverage technology to address these critical areas. Mr. Daugherty has over 14 years of experience in consulting focused on technical assessments, ERP implementations, IT infrastructure management, IT governance, and information security. |
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Top Five Compliance Pitfalls for Enterprise IT |
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Daniel T. Graham, Member, Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn Ltd.
Dan has extensive business and commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation experience in the areas of custom software design, non-competition, trade secret and software licenses. He taught "Implementation Agreements for Licensed Software" in 2002 and "Negotiating and Drafting Implementation Agreements for Licensed Software" in 2008 for the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education. In 2006, Dan was appointed special attorney general for the State of Colorado to assist its Department of Education implement a multi-million-dollar college and university student and finance system upgrade and to work toward the amicable resolution of a dispute with its vendor. Dan also has provided opinion testimony in software and licensing disputes. He has been practicing law since 1990 and is a member of Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn Ltd.
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| 2:05-2:30 |
Break
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| 2:30–2:55 |
Information Govenance: How Trusted Information Helps Today's Organizations
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Cynthia Babb, Product Marketing & Strategy, Optim IBM
With over 12 years in the management, sales and marketing of technology products and services, Cynthia oversees product marketing efforts for the Optim ERP solutions at IBM. She is a frequent speaker at Oracle and IBM conferences and regional events on topics from data privacy to application data management. Prior to joining IBM, Cynthia led marketing and sales enablement efforts for Antenna Software, a mobile solutions provider. She has also held a variety of technology, marketing and sales positions at GoAmerica and Wynd Communications.
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| 2:55–3:20 |
Rethinking GRC and IT Governance:
A Board Level Perspective
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Dr. Sridhar Ramamoorti, CPA/CITP/CFF, CIA, CFE
Principal, Infogix Advisory Services, Infogix, Inc.
Sridhar Ramamoorti leads Infogix Advisory Services, a division of Infogix, Inc., a provider of software-based automated information controls. Possessing a unique, blended academic-practitioner background, Sri has had a variety of professional experiences and roles: a Corporate Governance partner of Grant Thornton LLP, Sarbanes-Oxley Advisor for Ernst & Young LLP, Principal in Arthur Andersen's Professional Standards Group, and an Accountancy faculty member at the University of Illinois. Well-known as a thought-leader in the profession, Sri was on the Grant Thornton team that authored the 2009 COSO Guidance on Monitoring Internal Control Systems, is a co-author of the IIA-published textbook, Internal Auditing: Assurance and Consulting Services (2009, 2nd ed.) and is a co-author of The Audit Committee Handbook (forthcoming from John Wiley).
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| 3:20-3:45 |
Break
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| 3:45–4:35 |
Peer Panel Discussion
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Moderator: Steve Susina, Director of Marketing, Laurus Technologies
Steve has more than 20 years of engineering and marketing experience in the telecommunications and IT industries. Previously, he was Senior Product Manager for UTStarcom's fixed/mobile convergence product line, and has also held various sales, marketing and engineering roles at Tellabs and AT&T. His speaking experience includes technology conferences around the world on such topics as IT & business strategy, optical networking, compliance and identity management and mobile communications.
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Larry Kallembach, CIO, MB Financial Bank
Larry Kallembach is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of MB Financial Bank. MB Financial is a Chicago based bank with assets over $10.5 billion.
As CIO, Larry's corporate-wide responsibilities include the direction and management of all information technology systems, bank operations, payments and payment systems, and the bank's enterprise risk management program. His highly effective leadership is a product of his strategic thinking and interpersonal communication skills.
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Marc Groulx,
Director of Product Management,
CashNetUSA, a Cash America Company
Marc has extensive experience leading all aspects of an IT and Development organization in Agile organizations. In the last 2 years he has introduced numerous new products both domestic and international. In addition to being the Director of Product Management at CashNetUSA he is also responsible IT Compliance and has experience with both domestic and international compliance laws. Marc holds Bachelor degrees in Computer Science and Marketing from Michigan State University.
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John P. Dolce,
Director of IT Security & Quality Assurance,
True Value Company
John has over 20 years of Technical and Senior Management expertise within various industries including manufacturing, wholesale, legal, financial and logistics services. He has extensive experience developing risk-based security and IT audit programs. Prior to joining True Value, John assisted Protiviti and Grant Thornton clients with their 2004 internal audit testing and remediation efforts achieving Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. During six years with GE Rail Services, as CSO, he developed and managed the Security and IT Audit Compliance programs and policies.
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| 4:35–5:00 |
Meet the Speakers Networking Reception
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