04/28/2010 -- TechExecs CIO Panel Forum -- Breakfast

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TechExecs Atlanta CIO Panel Forum ( Breakfast )
Wednesday, April 28, 2010   8:00am - 11:45am 

WHO

Please join us for a CIO Level Rountable Discussion in a lively, interactive, strategic thinking forum, with attendance by qualification only, where leading C-Level and Executive Peers will discuss key issues related to business strategies & IT Leadership. TechExecs is an exclusive organization and a true network of Senior IT Executives across all regions of the United States. Our open environment encourages awareness, peer-connections, recognition, relationship building, strategic thinking and idea contributions to help shape the success of each other in the community. 

WHAT

TechExecs Atlanta CIO Panel Forum ( Breakfast )

WHEN

Wednesday, April 28th from 8:00am ~ 11:45am

WHERE

Buckhead Club (Private Club)
* please bring your ID *
3344 Peachtree Rd NE, 26th Floor
Atlanta, GA 30326

TOPIC 

"Reflections on being a CIO"

Whether you are a seated CIO, a CIO-want-to-be, or just curious about how a CIO thinks, you will want to attend this panel presentation!  No longer standing for “Career is Over”, the CIO is firmly in place on the corporate executive team.  But how do CIOs characterize the role and how do they continue to develop both professionally and personally?  What is the career path for a CIO?  How do they engage with the community, peers, suppliers, and staff?  What advice would they give to aspiring CIOs?  Come learn more from our outstanding panel of experienced executives as they share with you their reflections on personal branding, on maintaining professional excellence, on developing their successor, and on keeping their seat at the table.  This is sure to be a unique peek inside!!

AGENDA

8:00am ~ 9:00am
Senior IT Executives Networking -Breakfast-
& Tables Solutions Showcase

9:00am ~ 9:15am
Founder's Welcome by Anthony Huang, Founder of TechExecs Network
Honorary CIO Chair Welcome, Sandy Hofmann, CIO-In-Residence ATDC
Honorary Vice Chair Welcome, Kambiz Khadem, Strategic Sphere
Honorary Vice Chair Welcome, DeLois Babiker, Intellectual Concepts
- Quick Note: Member Announcement from Georgia State University -
Sponsors Appreciation by Rick Kinnard, Events Manager of TechExecs Network

9:15am ~ 9:45am
Featured Presenter: Jeff Hinkle, CEO, Global Net Access
"Using Cloud: A CIO's Strategy" 

9:45am ~ 10:15am
Featured Presenter: Nina Buik, VP, 4th Source
"Social Networking: CIO Considerations"

10:15am ~ 10:45am
- Networking Break -
Expo Solutions Table Showcase

10:45am ~ 11:45am

CIO Panel Discussion

"Reflections on being a CIO"

Cigdem Delano, CIO
Morehouse School of Medicine

Thomas G. Werner
Vice President, Information Technology
Norfolk Southern Corporation

Brian Shield, Executive VP & CIO
The Weather Channel, Inc. 


11:45am
Attendees Feedback Form
& Forum Conclusion

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PANEL & SPEAKER BACKGROUNDS:

CIO Panelists (Bios) 

Cigdem Delano, CIO
Morehouse School of Medicine

Cigdem Delano is the Chief Information Officer of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). A  private, historically black, relatively young, institution with a distinctive and largely public mission.

Ms. Delano is an information technology executive with over 25 years in the IT industry.  She is responsible for implementing an information technology strategy that addresses the needs of the school’s academic, research, clinical, and administrative needs.

Previously, Ms. Delano served as the Deputy Executive Director of the Georgia Technology Authority (GTA), an organization responsible for governing and overseeing the effective and efficient use of IT
in state government. 

Prior to GTA, Ms. Delano spent over 15 years with IBM, where her responsibilities ranged from telecommunications and data center operations to quality, project and account management.

She was a recipient of the 2006 CIO Ones to Watch award from CIO magazine and CIO Executive Council, a national honor given to only 20 people. The Women in Technology selected Ms. Delano as
a finalist for its 2006 Women of the Year in Technology Award.  She also was selected by the Project Management Institute’s PM Network magazine as one of 25 Influential Women in Project Management. She was a finalist in the Atlanta Telecom Professional of the Year award in 2009.

Ms. Delano is currently on the boards of Hands on Atlanta and the American Turkish Friendship Council. Other past board responsibilities includes Cobb County Industry Advisory Board, and TAG’s Business and Technology Advisory Board, and Global EXEC Women.

Ms. Delano holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Computer Science from
the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Thomas G. Werner
Vice President, Information Technology
Norfolk Southern Corporation

Thomas is currently Vice President Information Technology at Norfolk Southern Corporation, having served in the positions of Director, Electronic Commerce, Data Warehouse, and Security, Assistant Vice President Technology and Operations, Assistant Vice President Application Development. At KPMG Thomas was the Senior Manager in Information Systems Consulting over the Finance and Transportation Groups.  Prior to KPMG Tomas was a Technology Associate at Bankers Trust and consulted and managed at Arthur Andersen/Andersen Consulting in the  Advanced Systems Group of Management Information Consulting Division



Brian Shield, Executive VP & CIO
The Weather Channel, Inc. 

Brian P. Shield is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of The Weather Channel, Inc., a position he has held since joining the company in 1998. 

As head of the Information Technology (IT) organization, Shield oversees all technology areas responsible for infrastructure, internal systems, content distribution, broadcast and software engineering, implementation of industry leading on-air and digital technology products and services and emerging technology solutions.  He is responsible for setting the strategic vision, technical direction, and financial planning on behalf of the IT organization.

Shield is also responsible for designing and delivery all TWC technology products and services including industry leading digital video solutions for cable, satellite and telecommunication distributors.  Products and content delivery services extend across The Weather Channel’s global marketplace.  Responsibility for  product platforms extend to The Weather Channel’s on-air products, weather.com, mobile platforms, desktop and interactive applications.

Shield is a member of SMPTE, SCTE, Co-Chair of Media/Entertainment, CIO Executive Council, Chairperson of the Georgia CIO Leadership Association, Atlanta CEO High Tech Council board of advisors, SIM and active in a number of industry, community and on the board of a number of non-profit organizations.  Shield was named Georgia CIO of year in 2004 and a technical Emmy award winner for his work in television in 2007.

Sandra Hofmann, CIO-In-Residence
ATDC
Honorary CIO Chair for TechExecs Atlanta 

Sandra Hofmann is an innovative and inspiring executive who understands and drives the value of alignment across the enterprise and has successfully provided leadership to technology and manufacturing professionals for over 25 years. Sandy’s broad management experience, including 14 years with IBM, has enabled her to effectively guide teams to realize goals and deliver desired results.
Particularly adept at addressing issues associated with acquired and merged businesses, Sandy has frequently been recruited to address the most difficult and challenging environments. Sandy has repeatedly demonstrated her exceptional strength of character and leadership, as well as her ability to serve as a change agent. She led the transition activities for one of the first application spin-offs from IBM. She faced the unique challenge of breaking the gender barrier at Simplex, while concurrently transforming the way service was delivered.

She joined MAPICS, their first woman to be a member of the executive team, as the Vice President and General Manager for a newly acquired business unit and was then a lead participant in the company’s re-engineering as a functional organization. She then stepped into the unique dual role of CIO and Chief People Officer and established the company’s organizational model for the “virtual office” which provided extraordinary results in enterprise efficiency and expense benefits. Her introduction of information liberation, a project management office and portfolio management allowed the company to rapidly assimilate acquisitions (doubling in size) and then obtain full integration in less than six months.

Sandy's management philosophy, leadership characteristics and business results have been acknowledged by numerous industry recognitions: Georgia CIO Leadership Association (GCLA) selected Sandy as the Georgia CIO of the Year in the 2003 regional category. The award honors individuals who have demonstrated outstanding technology leadership in Georgia and excellence in managing their organization's enterprise wide information systems. In 2003 she was selected as one of five finalists for Woman of the Year in Technology by Georgia Technology Association and again in 2004 she was one of seven finalists. Articles highlighting Sandy's results have been published in CIO and CFO Magazine, CIO Insight, CIO Quarterly, Workforce Management, Human Resource Executive, and PINK Magazine. Able to present and discuss information and strategies in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains commitment, Sandy is an often requested speaker and panelist for technology and community events. 

Sandy’s influence reaches beyond her professional undertakings and she is very engaged in her community with the promotion of technology and ethical leadership. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for AAA Auto Club South, TechBridge, Women in Technology, and is the past chairman for the Board of Directors for Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM-Atlanta chapter). A member of GCLA and the Board of Directors Network, Sandy participates on numerous advisory boards including Turknett Leadership Group.

Sandy graduated from Georgia State University with a bachelor of science in education, has completed an intensive program for executive management at Stanford University and received Corporate Directors certification from University of Georgia Terry College of Business. A self-proclaimed “biblioholic”, Sandy has an extensive personal library, enjoys herb gardening, weaving, entertaining, and target pistol shooting. Currently Sandy is serving as “CIO-in-Residence” with the Advanced Technology Development Center. Headquartered at Georgia Tech, ATDC is a nationally recognized science and technology incubator that helps Georgia entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies.

Most recently she was Chief Operating Officer at Closets and More, the Southeast’s largest custom closet design, installation, and manufacturer. Prior to that, Sandy served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Turknett Leadership Group.  Turknett Leadership Group is a character-based management and consulting firm that focuses on aligning strategy, leadership and culture by providing services in the areas of Executive Development, Selection Integration; Succession Planning; Team Assessment and Development; Ethics, Retention and Culture Consulting.



Kambiz Khadem,
Strategic Sphere
Honorary Vice Chair for TechExecs Atlanta 
Strategic SphereDr. Kambiz Khadem is the founding partner and Senior Executive Director of Strategic Sphere Corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. He has more than 16 years of experience in Enterprise Strategic Management, Strategic Alignment, Enterprise Software Development, Information Technology solutions, and Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management.During his corporate courier companies such as UPS, Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques (SITA), and AT&T have benefited from his solutions, experience and expertise. As the direct result of his extensive research and real-world experience, Dr. Khadem created the performance Continuum Framework which is a comprehensive strategic management discovery, planning, implementation, execution and measurement system that drives sets of realistic and relevant performance equilibrium factors supporting the organization’s vision, mission and strategic objectives to a comprehensive range of organizational performance indicators, to provide an top-down end-to-end business and operational continuity.Additionally, Dr. Khadem has been teaching corporate and college courses as a professor, mostly in Strategic Management, Information Technology, Project and Program Management, e-commerce and computer science. Dr. Khadem is holding Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, a masters degree in Global Technology Management and a doctorate degree in Strategic Management. He currently continues his post-doctoral education at Harvard University. He has extensive research in the area of Strategic planning and Strategic Alignment in conjunction with his dissertation.

DeLois Babiker
Former Director of Application
Services, Georgia Department
of Human Resources
Honorary Vice Chair for TechExecs Atlanta 
DeLois Babiker has over 24 years experience in executive leadership, software development, project management, and fiscal oversight. Her uncanny ability to anticipate IT trends, coupled with her natural ability as a business development professional, have been met with consistent success throughout her career. DeLois is presently serving as the Director of Application Services for the Georgia Department of Human Resources. As Director, DeLois oversees the daily service delivery of web and mainframe application development and maintenance and database services supporting a 80+ application portfolio. She also manages budgets, schedules, and over 100+ centralized and decentralized staff in Atlanta and Milledgeville Georgia offices. Her ability to manage and grow new and existing businesses while simultaneously designing and implementing technology solutions, enabling business process re-engineering gained the attention of MACROsystems, who entrusted DeLois with the launch of its Washington, DC office. As its Director of Federal Sales, DeLois successfully managed the day-to-day operations of MACROsystems, winning $3.2 million in new business by maximizing her extensive knowledge of the federal IT landscape.Prior to her position with MACROsystems, DeLois served as the Chief Information Officer/Director of Information Management for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. There DeLois daily interfaced with the Executive Management Team and Board of Directors while managing a staff of 28 and a budget of $6.1 million. She also utilized her well-honed project management skills to successfully implement enterprise wide Internet/Web and database applications; enhance the IT infrastructure as well as local- and wide-area networks; and create a responsive user support team. DeLois has also had the good fortune to participate in groundbreaking innovations, having spent eight years at Freddie Mac where she progressed professionally by leading the software development and implementation of its loan origination and REMIC Tax Systems. Eventually DeLois migrated to the Freddie Mac Foundation where she provided technical leadership to the Washington, DC Department of Family Services to resolve the findings of the LaShawn v. Kelly Remedial Order. The result was the design and implementation of Phase I of the Washington, DC foster care State-Wide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS), which is now a federal requirement for all state Departments of Social Services. DeLois Babiker has enjoyed a stellar career that is sure to grow exponentially in the years to come. Hers is a name you will continue to hear as an innovative technology professional and an enterprising business woman.

Paul B. Chen, VP of Research
TechExecs CIO Peer Research Program 
Paul's experience includes designing and leading corporate strategic planning processes, designing and facilitating decision making processes, and crafting a number of business and competitive strategies. Paul has an extensive qualitative research experience – focus groups, individual depth interviews, and online research, and some quantitative experience as well. Research topics include corporate & product branding, product concept tests, feature evaluations, positioning, messaging, won/loss sales, and customer satisfaction.

 
Featured Presenters (Bios)


Jeff Hinkle, Founder and CEO
Global Net Access

Nina Buik, Vice President
4th Source, Inc. 

A 21-year IT veteran, Nina is Vice President of Sales & Marketing for 4th Source, a US-based, international IT sourcing and staffing company providing premier business and technology solutions for industry leading companies and government agencies.   Prior to 4th Source, Nina served as VP for MindIQ, an IT training and consulting firm for 19 years.

Since 2008, Nina has also served as president of Connect, a 50,000 member IT community of HP business technology. Nina also served as president and vice president of Encompass since 2005. As an industry thought leader in the user community, Nina played an integral role in the organization’s marketing, communications, and advocacy efforts.

Nina’s role over the past year has been focused on global user community growth, new social media implementation and working with HP leadership to create a greater and expanded culture of awareness and support of the user community. In addition she writes a community blog for Connect. Nina has been quoted over 35 times in the past year in publications such as ComputerWorld, Network World, Search Data Center and TechTarget. 

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Layered Tech

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His early career allowed him the pleasure of working with American Airlines, ATT, Sprint, US Postal Service, several Republican Party campaigns,, insurance companies, US Postal Service and the Nielson Rating surveys, various religious organizations and Non-Profits such as Special Olympics.
Rick bought out his employer and re-launched as TransTech offering software and systems, and other specialty items, and tripled the customer base to 17,000 nationwide all while still in college.  He quit college to dedicate more time to the business, and transform the internal processes; from sales to shipping.  He mirrored a Xenix system to Windows and created a CRM program from scratch.  He developed “Collision Vision”; a computerized automotive estimating system.  In 1995 finished 8 years with the United States Navy Reserves.
In 1998 he started a web design consultancy RKDIA providing dynamic web design for various web based retailers and web based auction sites.   In 2000 he began providing his telecommunications expertise through Time Warner, Cypress, Birch Telecom, Centric Voice, and XO Communications. He has been consultant to hundreds of businesses throughout the southwest focusing resources for efficient and profitable results. He is proud to have helped Dallas Food Bank and Make-a-Wish Foundation as part of his many successful strategies to increase productivity and profitability.  Rick is most proud of his three boys, two are well on their way to becoming Eagle Scouts and one is a Bear Cub scout. They enjoy weekend adventures throughout Texas.

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