New York CIO Academy | Leading in Tough Times

"The 2009 New York State Public Sector CIO Academy is designed to focus on strategies that shape the leadership of New York State and local government. The participation from our vendor partners is crucial to making the 2009 New York Public Sector CIO Academy a success."

- Dr. Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, CIO, State of New York

MORNING KEYNOTES

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 | 8:45 AM

Woody Norris

Woody Norris is a visionary. He looks into the future, gathers insights into how life could be improved, and applies what he finds to the problems of today. In the world of invention, only one in 2,000 patent applications actually issues as a patent, the rest are rejected. Yet Woody holds more than 50 U.S. patents and 300 around the world - and the number grows each year. He has won numerous awards including the prestigious $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, which is the inventor's equivalent to an Academy Award. He is perpetually in the midst of multiple wide-ranging projects, all of which involve technology. Early poverty and the lack of a college education were never barriers to Woody. He has always found ways to innovate by using technology to "do more with less." In this fascinating keynote, he will describe why he is convinced that the future holds unimaginable wonders in store for us. His enthusiasm is infectious, and as he often says, "It's a great time to be alive!"

Thursday, April 9, 2009 | 8:45 AM

David Pogue

New York Times Personal-Technology Columnist, CBS News Tech Correspondent and Best-Selling Author

David Pogue, Yale '85, is the weekly personal-technology columnist for the New York Times and an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News. With 3 million books in print, he is also one of the world's bestselling how-to authors. He wrote or co-wrote seven books in the "for Dummies" series (including Macs, Magic, Opera, and Classical Music); in 1999, he launched his own series of complete, funny computer books called the Missing Manual series, which now includes 30 titles.

LUNCH KEYNOTES

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 | 12:30 PM

Pieter Poll

Pieter Poll is the Chief Technology Officer at Qwest. In this role, he facilitates the strategic technology direction of the company. Additionally, he is responsible for network planning and engineering functions.

After a long and distinguished career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Dr. Poll joined the former U S WEST Advanced Technologies organization in 1994 to develop switching and network intelligence evolution plans for Qwest. In 1997, he was appointed Director - Core Network Evolution, and in 1999, he was appointed General Manger - Network Architecture, Technologies, and Services.

In 2000, Pieter formed Qwest Emerging Technologies and was responsible for identifying strategic network direction for Qwest. He was appointed head of Qwest Technology Management, in 2001. From 2003 through 2004, Pieter served as Vice President - Technology & Network Architecture at Mahi Networks, a provider of optical core transport infrastructure. Pieter returned to Qwest at the end of 2004, where he was responsible for the technology evolution of Qwest's voice and data platforms.

Dr. Poll earned a B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics (1982) from the University of Toronto, in Toronto, Canada, and a Ph.D. in Physics (1987) from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Pieter serves on the Board of Directors of ATIS (Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions) and the Board of Advisors of the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado.

Thursday, April 9, 2009 | 12:15 PM

Anne M. Mulcahy

Anne Mulcahy, a 33-year veteran of Xerox Corporation, was named CEO of Xerox on Aug. 1, 2001, and chairman on Jan. 1, 2002. She has reinvented Xerox into an innovative technology and services enterprise with $17.6 billion in annual revenues. Building on Xerox's rich heritage of social responsibility, Mulcahy ensures that the company's business decisions and actions are aligned with a clear set of corporate values.

Mulcahy credited with Xerox's remarkable turnaround has been honored for her leadership and being a visionary. In 2008 she was recognized as "CEO of the Year" by Chief Executive Magazine. Named by peers Mulcahy became the first woman to win the award, an honor previously bestowed on the likes of Bill Gates and Jack Welch.

Mulcahy also this past year was named to Fortune's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" list, Forbes magazine's "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" list, Ethisphere's ranking of the "100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics", and among the "10 Most Influential Leaders in Business Technology" by online information technology publication TechRepublic.

In addition to the Xerox board, Mulcahy is a board director of Citigroup Inc., Target Corporation, The Washington Post Company and is the chairman of the corporate governance task force of the Business Roundtable. She is also a board member of Catalyst, a nonprofit organization supporting women in business.

This invitation-only event brings together the C-level community unlike any other conference!

Developed in collaboration with a prestigious Advisory Board of over a dozen top technology leaders, the CIO Academy is designed to help standardize and elevate the business capabilities, and provide the states leadership with actionable information and peer discussion to drive effective IT governance. Attendance at the CIO Academy will include over 150 New York state government, local government, and higher education CIOs and their management teams.

SESSION TOPICS INCLUDE

• Thinking Like a Leader
• A View from the Other Side: What You Need to Know about Leading the New Workforce
• The Role of the CIO
• Learning your Leadership Style
• Communicate or Die: The Communication Imperative
• Governing in a 2.0 World - The Impact of New Technologies
• Managing Through Performance Measures
• Planning in the Context of the Political Environment
• Aligning IT and Business
• Data Classification and Control: More than Just another Mandate

REGISTRATION

Government Registration - $0

NOT OPEN TO PRIVATE-SECTOR REGISTRATIONS

CONTACT US

If you are interested in attending the New York CIO Academy 2009, please contact lvang@govtech.com, Registration Coordinator, 877.482-6657 ext. 1407.

If you are interested in sponsoring the New York CIO Academy 2009, please contact Stacy Ward-Probst, Vice President of Sales, 916.932.1396.