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 130 CIOs/IT leaders and C-level executives from the greater 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 1:00 pm following luncheon keynote session.  Ample time will be allowed for networking.

 

Bring your CIO/IT leader colleagues to the Roundtable.

 

Attendee Feedback From February '09 Roundtable -

"Excellent event - very engaging and enlightening" Imad Aboukheir, CTO, Global Dynamic Solutions

“I came to touch base with fellow practitioners. I came to hear ideas about where IT is going - the Howard Rubin keynote was a great, insightful presentation.” Michael Hugos, CIO at Large, Center for Systems Innovation

“Networking - these men and women are full of great advice and experience."

Some of Our Speakers and Panelists Are:

	Willard Evans, Jr.	President, Peoples Gas and North Shore Gas
	Mark Jeffery	Director of Technology Initiatives, Center for Research in Technology and Innovation, Kellogg School of Management and Managing Partner, Agile Insights LLC
	Debby Johnson	Director of Retail Transformation, True Value Company
	Leslie Jones	Senior VP & CIO, Motorola, Inc.
	Timothy Kasbe	CIO, Sears Holdings Management Corporation
	Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr.	Executive Partner, Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC and Clinical Professor of Management & Strategy at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
	Mark Polansky	Senior Client Partner & Managing Director, Information Technology Officers Practice, Korn/Ferry International
	Leslie Weber	Senior VP & CIO, True Value 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

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.

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-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.

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.