"Great selection of speakers! Relevant and excellent program."
"The networking opportunities with CIOs are endless. It was wonderful to hear the Xerox story."
"Great job by HMG on all aspects - terrific speakers, good agenda and very relevant to current content."
"I was looking for direction in IT along with great networking opportunities. I found both." Nathan Langston Enterprises
"Great topics and interaction" American Integrity Group
"Fantastic, must do again!" Fossil
"HMG and SIM certainly know how to run, manage and make a conference fun and meaningful!"
"I just wanted to congratulate you on running a top notch event yesterday. The growth and progress of HMG Strategy is obvious and you folks ran a great event. Thanks for inviting me to be a part of this exciting summit." Larry Bonfante, Chief Information Officer, United States Tennis Association
“The CIO Summit of America was a world-class event with top CIO speakers and panelists covering technology innovation and business leadership issues as well as career management.” Mark Polansky, senior client partner and managing director of the information technology officers practice at Korn/Ferry International.
The June 8th event "provided an open and honest forum for Chief Information Officers to connect and discuss their most pressing issues in respect to innovation and genuine business value creation." Shawn Banerji, managing director at Russell Reynolds Associates.
"I received insightful info and understanding of the challenge facing CIOs today. The networking opportunities are excellent."
To get "...[a] better understanding of where my colleagues are and those hot points. Howard Rubin was excellent." Claude Phippe, Vice President IT, Health Management Systems
"Very timely topics - generated very interactive sessions."
"I learned a lot to take back to my IT organization."
“The summit gave me the knowledge of current issues and trends. This
information is critical to deliver quality service and solutions to the business”. Tony Farah, CTO/VP, Price Chopper Supermarket
“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
“Lots of excellent, informative, current topics and content. Very worthwhile
- time well spent!”
“Networking - these men and women are full of great advice and experience."
“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
“Great combination of practical, real world experiences and thought leadership!” Fran Daly, Vice President of IT, Revlon
"I am very happy that our second annual Fairfield/Westchester SIM CIO Executive Summit event was
a HUGE success! The comments received from many people who attended were very complimentary
and positive. Everyone said it was “well worth their time”, “gathered lots of nuggets”, etc. Our
event partners at HMG Strategy did a wonderful job that made the whole event run seamlessly and [it
was] highly professional."
Michael Pellegrino, President, Fairfield/Westchester SIM and Vice
President Information Technology
Fujifilm Holdings America
"[Most valuable experience for me was]...seeing the other peoples' experiences! Ideas about the economy and how to handle those changes in my company."
Ed Charbonnet, Director, ACH Food Companies
"Thanks for helping us put on a great Strategy Series event. It was the kind of high-quality experience that SIM Memphis is proud to host, as it successfully extends our twenty-year history of bringing together local IT and business professionals once a year to talk with each other and hear ideas, case studies and lessons learned from both national and local thought-leaders and practitioners. Thanks for all the heavy lifting your team did in planning, organizing, selling and executing. Your attention to detail was evident in the numerous extra touches that our attendees experienced. Great job." John Oglesby, Director IT Strategy, ACH Food Companies, Inc.
"I came away with good advice and guidance on upgrading our IT strategy and practical advice on high priority initiatives."
[Most valuable aspect of the event was]…”Gain an understanding of what/where CIOs are focused.
Challenges for adapting new technologies - these were articulated very well - In short took away many"nuggets". Paul Gubitosa, Director IS,
The Dannon Company
“I personally found that the content really resonated with the needs of today’s CIO’s and heard many
similar comments from other participants. The panel discussions were engaging, the keynote sessions
insightful, and the venue was accommodating. I know how much effort it takes to put together a CIO
Summit and believe that you truly held a quality event and should be proud of your efforts." Global
CIO,
Commercial Real Estate Corporation
"Wide range of subjects was useful, kept to the time schedule very well, high quality speakers were presenters."
"Networking and thinking about new career directions, definitely met my expectations." Jacquelyn Jacobs, Director of Technical Support Services, Christian Brothers University
“Well worth my time, gathered lots of nuggets.”
“This forum defines thought leading technology across a broad spectrum of industries, fantastic!”
"It was a wonderful event with lots of interesting presentations and great chances for people to interact. Everyone I spoke with was impressed.”
“Great event! Timely and meaningful topics. Excellent mix of speakers and panel members. Job well done!!!”
“This was my first time at a SIM meeting. Everyone is open and friendly, great networking and the information in the sessions were very pertinent.” Sharon Dewitt, Sr. Director Acquisition Integration, Zebra Technologies
“Hope to use this to evaluate how myself, team and business is doing. Very interesting and helpful."
"Excellent event - very engaging and enlightening" Imad Aboukheir, CTO, Global Dynamic Solutions
“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.
“In today's challenging economic times we owe it to our organization and customers to look at others successes and where possible bring these home, translate as necessary, and realize similar improvements in our companies." Frank Kovacs, Vice President Global Technology, Planning and Sourcing, The McGraw Hill Companies
“[The] panels did an excellent job focusing on key current issues facing IT executives today. We need to be agile in our transformation of business and technology.” |
