About The CIO Executive Leadership Roundtable

The CIO as a Transformational Leader

Introduction to the Roundtable -

The CIO Executive Leadership Roundtable will attract over 130 CIOs/IT leaders and C-level executives from the Chicago 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 7:30 a.m. with registration and close at 1:30 pm following the luncheon keynote session.  Ample time will be allowed for networking.

 

Bring your CIO/IT leader colleagues to the Roundtable.

 

Attendee Feedback From a Prior Roundtable -

"Excellent, brilliant, magnificent..."

"Excellent opportunity to share best practices and network with peers."

"Great selection of speakers! Relevant and excellent program."

Some of Our Speakers and Panelists Are:

	Steven Bailey	Director, Portal & Content Applications, Accenture
	Roger Berry	Senior VP & CIO, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
	Tim Crawford	Independent Consultant, Board Member and IAB Chair at Data Center Pulse
	John Ellis	Director, Worldwide Business Development, Motorola Mobile Devices
	Katie Graham	Partner, Heidrick and Struggles
	Jan Mark Holzer	Office of the CTO, Red Hat, Inc.
	Mark McDonald	Group VP, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner, Inc.
	Mark Polansky	Senior Client Partner & Managing Director, Information Technology Officers Practice, Korn/Ferry International
	Brad Wright	Director, Collaboration & Communications Services, The Boeing Company

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

Contributing to Business Success Through Innovation

Social Media and Social Networks

The Cloud's Potential Impact and Opportunities

Mobile Platform Computing

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-service provider) or equivalent, CIOs, Direct Reports of CIOs, or Senior Most IT Professionals of organizations with $75M or greater revenue or from not-for-profit or government organizations with comparable size, or

2. Full time academicians, or

3. An IT professional currently in transition so long as their immediate past position meets criteria 1 or 2. (Please note that for this category of registrants, there is a attendance cap of 15% of the total combined number of criteria 1 and 2 attendees.)

We regret that sales or marketing individuals or consultants from non-sponsoring service provider organizations may not attend.

Chicago and other SIM chapters' members are invited to attend, however, they must meet the attendance criteria stated above. Chicago SIM Board members are all invited to attend regardless of the attendance crititeria.

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

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

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