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About the Sessions

These are the speakers confirmed for the Your Journey to World Class IT conference February 24th

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Top 10 Concerns for CIOs in 2011 by Ed Yourdon
CIO’s are gradually becoming accepted as true “C-level” senior executives in many organizations, and they play a more and more active role in the determination of business strategies and priorities. But they also continue to be under tremendous pressure, caused by ever-changing technologies, economic belt-tightening, and the need to support and collaborate with numerous stakeholders throughout the organization. Thus, it is crucial for CIO’s to know what the key issues will be in 2011. In addition to hardware/software virtualizaiton, SaaS, governance, and practical use of social networking and related “Enterprise 2.0/Web 2.0” tools, CIO’s will be pressed to exploit “cloud computing” without falling prey to its weaknesses and risks; they’ll be challenged to lead revenue-grown and customer-engagement initiatives; they’ll be expected to have practical strategies for business analytics and predictive analytics; and they’ll be pressed to show that they’ve got a plan for creating a truly “mobile enterprise” with a “mobile mindset” for both the older technology-leery workers and the younger generation of workers who live on texting and Facebook. Yourdon will also briefly review the “top 10” CIO issues for the past few years, and offer a glimpse at what the top-10 issues are likely to be in 2012 and the next few years ahead.

Ed Yourdon is an internationally-recognized computer consultant, as well as the author of over 500 technical articles and 27 books, including Byte Wars, Managing High-Intensity Internet Projects, Death March, Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer, and Decline and Fall of the American Programmer. His latest book, Outsource: Competing in the Global Productivity Race, discusses both current and future trends in offshore outsourcing, and provides practical strategies for individuals, small businesses, and the nation to cope with this unstoppable tidal wave.

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Social Networking & Corporate Productivity
Scott Fabel
Social media have come into their own in the corporate environment! Led by Scott Fabel, this presentation will cover the spectrum of social media. We will start with Social Platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn. Then, we’ll look at Social Content like Blogs, Twitter, and Podcasts. Finally, we’ll see how these can be connected via Social Interactions like Location-Based Media, Status Updates, and Feeds.For each of these social channels, you will be provided with examples of how you can put them to use as well as how they can make your organization more productive. At the conclusion of the presentation, you will also learn a five-step process to enable you to introduce social media into your organization. Filled with plenty of action items and high energy, this presentation will help you sift through the world of social media and use them to increase your corporate productivity.

Scott Fabel is a senior corporate training consultant with Computer Aid, Inc. He has nearly 18 years of experience working with various Fortune 1000 companies on Help Desk Implementations, Microsoft Technologies, Business Analysis, and Project Management. This includes both consultative services and customized training programs. He is HDI certified, PMP certified, CBAP certified, and a MCT. Scott has been teaching others business skills, professional skills, and technical skills for more than 12 years. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in education for which his dissertation will focus on the benefits of corporate training and mobile learning. He speaks three languages and was recently inducted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame. His communication skills, combined with his martial art skills, provide him with a unique combination for keeping his sessions informative, lively, and interactive.

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We’re Making Progress: Trust Me! Measuring Performance Improvement with Software as a Service (SaaS), Part 1
David Herron
This stimulating and thought provoking joint presentation with David Herron and Matthew Peters presents the basic elements of an effective process performance measurement technique and demonstrates how the use of a software as a service tool can be used to measure and monitor on-going process improvement.

David Herron is a Founder of The David Consulting Group. Mr. Herron is an authority in areas such as Functional Measurement and Software Process Improvement. He has over 25 years of experience in software development. During the past ten years he has served as a consultant to Fortune 1000 companies in the areas of software metrics, software process improvement and applications outsourcing management. He is an acknowledged authority in the measurement and estimation of software productivity and quality, specializing in the determination of software project size, effort and cost. His engagements have supported clients on the use of metrics to monitor the impact of IT on the business, on the advancement of IT organizations to higher levels on the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model and on the governance of offshore outsourcing arrangements. Mr. Herron is also the author, along with David Garmus, of Function Point Analysis: Measurement Practices for Successful Software Projects.

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We’re Making Progress: Trust Me! Measuring Performance Improvement with Software as a Service (SaaS), Part 2
Matthew Peters
This stimulating and thought provoking joint presentation with David Herron and Matthew Peters presents the basic elements of an effective process performance measurement technique and demonstrates how the use of a software as a service tool can be used to measure and monitor on-going process improvement.

Matthew Peters is a research associate with Computer Aid, Inc., and doctoral candidate in Information Sciences & Technology at Penn State University. His research focuses are systems design and architecture, knowledge management, decision-making, and learning. Throughout his career Matt has served as a subject matter expert consultant on projects for several major technology corporations in the areas of enterprise systems integration and knowledge management. He has authored several papers and workshops on design research, workforce learning, and the ROI of research. His primary focus at CAI is development of content for the Advanced Management Insight application for executive decision support.

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Is There a Cloud in Your Future?
Larry Dribin
Cloud Computing is exciting and the new “in thing” in the IT community today, but what it is and how will it affect CIOs? This talk will give an overview of what Cloud Computing is. Larry Dribin, our speaker is currently teaching a Cloud Computing Fundamentals course at DePaul University in Chicago. Larry will discuss how Cloud Computing is a different paradigm than traditional distributed computing and requires different programming and support expertise. He will also discuss the business case for Cloud Computing which can be more complex than the business case for traditional IT investments. As vendors re-label their offerings to incorporate the term “Cloud” in their products and services, Larry will discuss what these “Cloud-Washed” solutions mean for the IT organizations. Lastly, Larry will discuss how Cloud computing is empowering business users and enabling them to by-pass their internal IT organizations for major IT solutions. He will talk about why CIOs need to get ahead of the game of “Cloud Computing” before their internal IT organization loses influence in their organizations.

Dr. Larry Dribin is a performance improvement consultant who heads up, the Pearl Street Group, Inc., (PSG). PSG provides performance improvement and measurement consulting services to both Business and Information Technology organizations. Dr. Dribin utilizes industry best practice frameworks such as Six Sigma, CMMI, ITIL and PMBOK to develop solutions tailored to client’s unique needs. He incorporates culture change and organizational change management to speed the change process and make it more enduring. Dr. Dribin holds a Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, an MBA and a BS in Industrial Engineering.
Dr. Dribin is also an adjunct Professor in Software Engineering at DePaul University of Chicago where he teaches courses on Software Engineering and Cloud Computing. He is active in local professional groups including the Chicago Software Process Improvement Network (C-SPIN) & Chicago Quality Assurance Association (CQAA) and is a member of ACM, IEEE and PMI.

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