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10th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium to Examine CIO's Transformational Role in Architecting the Enterprise of the Future
[April 22, 2013]

10th Annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium to Examine CIO's Transformational Role in Architecting the Enterprise of the Future


CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --(Business Wire)--

The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, a world class one-day conference, will gather over 800 CIOs and senior business executives on May 22nd at the MIT (News - Alert) campus. This premier event will provide engagement and exploration with the globe's top business leaders and academia on technology's transformational role in driving business success and building the enterprise of the future.

The Symposium will take place from 7:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. at the MIT Kresge Auditorium in Cambridge, MA. Registration is still open.

The 2013 Symposium will feature invaluable keynote panel discussions with world leaders in their fields of expertise. All of the day's sessions will help attendees learn how to effectively use technology to improve business performance while sustaining their leadership. Highlights include:

  • CEO Keynote Panel: "The Use of Power and Influence during the Process of Innovation" will discuss the increasingly complex relationship with IT and how to drive change throughout an organization. Featuring Alon Girmonsky, Founder & CEO of BlazeMeter; Dr. John Glaser, CEO of Siemens Health Services; Dr. Tom Leighton, CEO of Akamai Technologies; and Kazuhiro Gomi (News - Alert), President and CEO of NTT America, Inc.
  • MIT Sloan Academic Keynote Panel: "The Reality of Big Data" will explore how it can become the next management revolution, discuss technology developments and challenges, solving operations research problems, and more. Featuring Prof. Erik Brynjolfssonof, Director, MIT Center for Digital Business; Prof. Andrew Lo, Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management; Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas, Professor, Operations Research/Statistics, MIT Sloan School of Management; and Prof. Samuel Madden, Professor, EECS, MIT.
  • CIO Keynote Panel: "The Successful CIO - Driving Innovatin and Managing Expectations" will help CIOs advocate effectively to all constituents. It will explore issues including what leadership skills CIOs need in order to manage conflicting situations and the results from a recent survey which explores how CIOs assess their peers and their potential successors. Featuring Georgia Papathomas, VP and CIO, J&J Pharmaceuticals; Keith Collins, SVP, CIO & CTO, SAS Institute; Oliver Bussmann, CIO, SAP (News - Alert); Sanjay Mirchandani, EVP, EMC; and Simon Bentley, VP, Global Application Development, Avaya.
  • Afternoon Keynote Panel: "The Evolving Cloud Agenda" will discuss the changing value proposition and usage scenarios for cloud services and will help CIOs and other key decision-makers understand what value contribution cloud computing is going to deliver in the foreseeable future. Featuring, Michael Hickins, Editor, CIO Journal, Wall Street Journal; Jodi Euerle, Commercial CIO, GE Oil & Gas; John Roese, CTO, EMC (News - Alert); Richard Dorough, Managing Director, PwC Forensic Services; and Rob May, CEO and Co-Founder, Backupify.
  • The full agenda is available at www.mitcio.com/agenda.

"In this fast paced enterprise, CIO must carefully navigate not only the technology playing field, but the entire changing business enterprise," said Kathleen Tetrault, the 2013 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Chair. "Attendees will leave the Symposium armed with actionable insight on how to embrace changes caused by economic, social, political, environmental and technological forces, to help them as they lead their organizations on an increasing adaptive and upward path."

Other panel sessions that key IT leaders, practitioners, and MIT researchers will drive include: "Beyond Big Data: Big Insights, Big Vision and Big Opportunities," "Healthcare Innovations Through Information and Process Re-Design," "A Technology Vision for 2013: Why Every Business is a Digital Business," "Architecting the Social Enterprise - Realizing the Transformational Potential of Social Business," and "Strategic Agility Through IT: Harnessing the Convergence of Data, Analytics, and the Cloud."


For more information about the 2013 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium visit www.mitcio.com.

About the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium

The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is the premier global event for CIOs and senior IT executives to become better business leaders. In one day, CIOs and senior IT executives receive actionable information that enables them to meet the challenges of today's changing global economy. The annual event offers a day of interactive learning and thought-provoking discourse on the future of technology, best practices, and business that is not available anywhere else. The MIT Sloan CIO Symposium is organized and developed by a team from the MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston, the MIT Center for Digital Business and the Boston Chapter of the Society for Information Management. Visit www.mitcio.com for more information and registration.

To stay connected to the community developing around the Symposium, please join The Global CIO & Executive IT Group (An MIT Sloan CIO Group), which can be found on Linkedin.com: http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation groupID=1719457. Follow Symposium updates on Twitter (News - Alert): http://twitter.com/mitciosymposium.


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