About The CIO Executive Leadership Roundtable

The Transformational Leader
Transforming IT into a Highly Valued Business Partner

Introduction to the Roundtable -

The CIO Executive Leadership Roundtable will attract more than 175 CIOs/IT leaders and C-level executives from the greater Dallas/Ft. Worth area.  The Roundtable is designed to deliver exceptional thought-leadership in a warm and friendly club setting. The attendees receive unique insights into best practices and hears success stories involving leadership, management, technology and career management. Our highly interactive sessions provide many opportunities for the attendees, speakers and panelists to be engaged in both learning and discussion. The end goal for each session, as well as for the overall event, is to give the attending executives quality useful information that they can take back and use in their organizations.

The Roundtable will start at 2:45 p.m. with registration and close at 8:15 pm following dinner and the last session.  Ample time will be allowed for networking.

Bring your CIO/IT Leader colleagues to the Roundtable. There is so much to learn. Together you will be able attend all of the sessions and share your notes!

 

Attendee Feedback -

“Great combination of practical, real world experiences and thought leadership!” Fran Daly, Vice President of IT, Revlon

“This event was excellent.  The content was very practical and clearly communicated.  The format led to an open, intimate dialogue of the real challenges and solutions we're dealing with as a group." anonymous

“For me this was my introduction to SIM and I will definitely join this great organization. Breakout sessions provided for excellent dialogue”. Steven Babat, VP IT, Avery Dennison - Retail Information Services

Some of Our Speakers and Panelists Are:

	Ramon Baez	Vice President of Information Technology Services and Chief Information Officer, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
	Phillip Farr	President, Farr Systems, Inc.
	Victor Fetter	VP for Enterprise Architecture and Testing, Dell, Inc.
	Kay Fuhrman	Chief Information Officer Practice, Heidrick & Struggles
	Richard Gius	Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Atmos Energy Corporation
	M. Steven Kendrick	President, KER Partners, LLC
	Randy Neal	CEO, Randal James Monroe, Inc.
	Chris Patrick	Senior Partner and Global CIO Practice Leader, Egon Zehnder International Inc.
	Mark Polansky	Senior Client Partner & Managing Director, Information Technology Officers Practice, Korn/Ferry International
	Sharon Stufflebeme	Senior VP and Chief Information Officer, RadioShack Corporation
	Mark Urbis	Senior Director, Technical Delivery Services, Carlson Restaurants Worldwide and President, SIM Dallas/Fort Worth Area Chapter
	Karl Wachs	CIO, Celanese Corporation

Subject Areas -

Using the main subject areas being Strategy, Process Improvement and Alignment; Innovation and Technology; and Career, Management and Leadership Development, we have built a program of highly relevant topics for preparing business and IT for the new economy ahead.

The day's program will address topics such as:

Transformational Leadership

Business/IT strategy convergence and governance best practices

The role of the CIO in the eyes of the CEO and C-Suite

Creating revenue and improving profit while creating opportunities for competitive differentiation

Career Management (your own and/or your employees)

Spearheading business innovation. Creating an innovation environment.

Emerging technologies (monitoring and piloting)

Developing the next generation of leaders

Registering for the Roundtable -

To ensure a high quality environment and to maximize the networking experience, all attendees must be:

1. Full time employed C-Level executives (non-vendor) or equivalent, CIOs, Direct Reports of CIOs, or Senior Most IT Professional of organizations with $200M or greater revenue or from not-for-profit or governmant organizations with comparable size, or

2. Full time academicians, or

3. A Dallas/Ft. Worth Area SIM chapter member in good standing, or

4. A Dallas/Ft. Worth Area SIM RLF graduate in 2008 or participant in 2009

We do not allow sales or marketing individuals or consultants from non-sponsoring vendor organizations to attend unless they are a Dallas/Ft. Worth Area SIM member.

For approved attendees meeting the criteria above, there is no fee to attend.

Other SIM chapters' members are invited to attend, however, they must meet the attendance criteria stated above.

Click for more information about registering for the event.

Vendors are encouraged to be sponsors and can find out how to become a sponsor by contacting
HMG Strategy.