Digital Transformation & Technology Innovation Seminar

Making the Shift to the Digital Enterprise through Emerging Technology & Innovation

Join us as we discuss:

• How area companies define digital transformation, and the strategies they are using to move towards the new, digital enterprise.
  
  
• How area companies have launched and are growing their innovation program and evolving to a more agile, DevOps environment
  
• The New IT Delivery Model
  
  
• The New Technology Stack:What are the building blocks that need to be in place to allow for growth and scale?
  
  
• Aligning Data Strategies to Drive Digital Transformation: How companies are adapting their data strategies and initiatives to support their company’s digital transformation strategy.

Conference note

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Faculty & Agenda:
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	Chad Steighner,  Vice President Information Technology, Power Solutions, Johnson Controls
	Mike Meinolf, EVP-CIO, Associated Bank
	Andy Knauf , CIO, Mead & Hunt
	Mike Koleno, VP of Technology, Solstice
	Pat Cannon, Vice President of Technical Sales, US Signal
	Rich Bentley – Product Marketing Director, Dynatrace
	Edward Dryer, Senior Technology Strategist, Steadfast

Agenda:

Welcome and Introduction

Emcee: Edward Dryer, Senior Technology Strategist, Steadfast With more than two decades of experience in the technology world, Ed’s specialty is turning the 'impossible' into 'the new standard'. When he's not building solutions for you and your clients, he spend his time geeking out over games of all types and teaching his three kids the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek.

Session I: Speed-to-market: the critical ingredient to winning in the digital age

Mike Koleno, VP of Technology, Solstice Mike Koleno makes it his personal mission to ensure Solstice clients have the latest technological advantages at their disposal. He leads the Solstice Cloud and Modern Software Engineering service lines and oversees full stack development efforts across a wide-range of F1000 clients including Redbox, Rockwell Automation, USG, PSCU, Country Financial, and more. Prior to joining Solstice, Mike spent over eight years at JPMorgan Chase in various application development and architecture roles across the Bank's Treasury & Security Services, Card and Corporate Technology lines of business. When he isn't thinking about technology, Mike is spending as much time as he can with his wife and their three wonderful children.

Session II: Cloud First

Pat Cannon, Vice President of Technical Sales, US Signal Pat Cannon is currently the Vice President of Technical Sales at US Signal and brings over 15 years of IT Consulting and Leadership experience to the US Signal team. A seasoned professional, Pat has extensive experience architecting scalable, secure and resilient solutions for customers within a wide variety of industries. Pat’s experience as an IT consultant allows him to look at business objectives and technology options producing solutions that have a meaningful impact for customer operation.

Session III: Traditional monitoring is dead. The new enterprise cloud requires software intelligence.

Enterprise cloud is the platform for digital transformation. However, the aspects of cloud that make it ideal for driving transformation – the agility, dynamic nature, scalability, and flexibility – make it more complex to manage and monitor. The old approaches will no longer work. A fundamentally new approach is required, with automation and AI at the core. In this session, learn about a new generation of monitoring, aka software intelligence, designed to meet the needs of the new enterprise cloud.

Rich Bentley – Product Marketing Director, Dynatrace Rich Bentley is senior director of product marketing at Dynatrace. He has been working in the IT management space for over 20 years, starting as a developer and systems engineer, then moving into product marketing after getting his MBA from the University of Michigan. He lives in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area with his wife, two kids and two dogs

Session IV: Keynote Panel:

Join our panel of area CIOs and Senior Technology, Digital & Innovation executives as they share how they are driving the change to the digital enterprise and a culture of innovation.

Topics include: The new IT Delivery Model, Digital Transformation Strategies, Technology Stack and Evolving to a DevOps Environment and a Culture of Innovation

	Chad Steighner,  Vice President Information Technology, Power Solutions, Johnson Controls Chad joined Johnson Controls in 2007. In his role he serves as Power Solutions CIO directing IT operations and strategic investments totaling $100M+ per annum executed via 150+ internal employees located around the world along with a network of contract staff and managed service firms. He has more than 18 years of experience designing, building and deploying systems around the world in various manufacturing environments. Eleven of those years have been at Johnson Controls and with the Power Solutions business unit. Chad holds an MBA of Strategic Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering & Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a 2017 graduate of Johnson Controls Extreme Learning Program (XLP).
	Mike Meinolf, EVP-CIO, Associated Bank Michael O. Meinolf has been Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Associated and Associated Bank since September 2018. He joined Associated in April 2015 as Senior Vice President, Director of Business Solutions. Mr. Meinolf has more than 20 years of information technology experience. Previously, he held the positions of Vice President, Technology Administration at The Clearing House Payments Company, LLC from February 2012 to April 2015 and Director of Information Technology, PayDirect Government Solutions at FIS from August 2009-February 2012.
	Andy Knauf , CIO, Mead & Hunt  Andy Knauf has been with Mead & Hunt for 28 years, in roles of increasing responsibility and currently holds the title of Chief Information Officer. He he also serves as a member of the company’s Executive Committee. Andy is responsible for providing Leadership and Strategy for all technology operations as well as innovation and cybersecurity. In addition, Andy is heavily involved in ACEC and routinely speaks at the spring and fall conference as well as hosting an event yearly at Mead & Hunt. As an innovation expert and strategic foresight leader Knauf identifies, evaluates, and assesses new technologies that bring value to our clients as well as the company. As a Cloud-First company, we are providing the greatest amount of flexibility to the people that work at Mead & Hunt giving employees the ability to work anywhere.  Knauf also serves on the Customer Advisory Board (CAB) of two different technology companies providing insight and guidance in their software. He is a regular contributing author and spokesperson for Mead & Hunt and has been a speaker at many industry events and webinars.

Who Should Attend:

• CIOs
• Senior IT and LOB Executives
• VPs & Directors
• Any IT Executives and Managers

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