About The CIO Executive Leadership Summit

The Transformational Leader
Transforming IT into a Highly Valued Business Partner

Introduction to the Summit -

The CIO Executive Leadership Summit will attract over 300 CIOs/IT leaders and C-level executives from the greater Stamford, CT area as well as surrounding states.  The Summit 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 Summit will start at 7:00 am with registration and close at 6:00 pm following a cocktail reception.  The event will utilize a combination of keynote sessions and two breakout tracks.  Ample time will be allowed for networking.

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

 

Last Year's 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

View the Pictures from Last Year's Summit.

Some of Our Keynote Speakers and Panelists Are:

	Saad Ayub	Senior VP & CIO, Scholastic Inc.
	Linda Ban	Global CIO Study Director, IBM Institute for Business Value
	Shawn Banerji	Managing Director, Russell Reynolds Associate's Technology Sector
	Larry Bonfante	CIO, United States Tennis Association and President, SIM Fairfield/Westchester Chapter
	Nick Carr	Marketing Director, Red Hat, Inc.
	Dr. Curtis A. Carver, Jr.	Colonel, U.S. Army, Vice Dean for Education, United States Military Academy
	Susan Certoma	Senior VP, COO Brokerage Processing Solutions Division, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
	Craig Cuyar	Global CIO, Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
	Paul D'Arcy	Director, Services Marketing, Dell, Inc.
	Michael Del Priore	VP, Global CIO, Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
	Richard Entrup	CIO, CareOne, LLC
	Michael Fabiano	VP Strategic Initiatives, NBC Universal
	Greg Fell	CIO, Terex Corporation, FWSIM Executive Committee Member and Conference Lead Chairperson
	Victor Fetter	VP IT, Dell, Inc.
	Ursuline Foley	Senior VP and CIO, XL Corporation and Co-Conference Chairperson
	Michelle Garvey	Global CIO, Warnaco
	Jean Hill	Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
	Tom Hoffman	Editor-at-Large
	Tarun Inuganti	Partner, Spencer Stuart
	Norm Jacknis	Director, Cisco IBSG Public Sector
	Matthew Josefowicz	Director, Insurance, Novarica
	Ross Kudwitt	CEO, Nine Summer & Acting CTO, Advanta Corporation
	Kristen Lamoreaux	Senior Director, Jarvis Walker and Founder, SIM Women
	Beverly Lieberman	President, Halbrecht Lieberman Associates, Inc.
	Brian Lurie	VP Information Technology, Stryker Orthopaedics
	Christopher Mayer	Senior VP Circulation & Operations/CIO, The Boston Globe
	Andre Mendes	Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Global CIO, Special Olympics International
	N. Dean Meyer	President, N. Dean Meyer Associates, Inc.
	Anne M. Mulcahy	Chairman, Xerox Corporation
	Michael Pellegrino	Senior VP Information Systems & CIO, Frontier Communications Corporation
	Bill Pelzar	Regional Vice President, Gartner Executive Programs
	Daniel Petrozzo	CIO Enterprise IT, Fidelity Investments
	Mark Polansky	Senior Client Partner & Managing Director, Information Technology Officers Practice, Korn/Ferry International
	Ed Pospesil	Chairman, Technology Executives Networking Group
	Joe Puglisi	Vice President & CIO, EMCOR Group, Inc.
	John Repko	Corporate Senior VP & CIO, Covance, Inc.
	Atti Riazi	Executive Director, CIOs Without Borders
	Dr. Howard Rubin	Rubin Worldwide, MIT CISR Research Associate and Professor Emeritus Hunter College of CUNY
	Peter Schay	President & Chief Executive Officer, The Advisory Council
	Mark Schlesinger	CIO, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.
	Phil Schneidermeyer	Partner, Heidrick and Struggles
	Joseph Seibert	Senior Vice President & CIO, The New York Times
	Lee Steuber	Deputy CTO, Save the Children
	Jim Tosone	Director, Healthcare Informatics, Pfizer, Inc.
	Rob Wylie	Vice President of Tax, Terex Corporation
	Sigal Zarmi	CIO & Quality Leader, GE Corporate Financial Services
	Hank Zupnick	CIO, GE Real Estate

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 opportunities for competitive differentiation

Creating revenue and improving profit while creating 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 Summit -

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 government organizations with comparable size, or

2. Full time academicians, or

3. A Fairfield/Westchester SIM chapter member in good standing.

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

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

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.