CSO

The CIO 100 showcases this year's winners of our prestigious awards – the industry's most respected professional honor -- as we bring together some of the nation's most talented CIOs and executive leaders. From rebuilding corporate cultures and leveraging new IT resources that strengthen the connections between innovation and financial success, to examining evolving business models and customer-centric IT strategies, the CIO 100 Symposium will deliver valuable, actionable ideas to ensure that your organization continues to thrive in these times of economic upheaval and change.

Digital ID World is your source for the straight talk, hard-won lessons, and practical insight derived from real-world deployments. Our focus is simple: putting enterprise IT professionals onstage to give you their unvarnished views on what it took to achieve for learning how to help manage your business with identity.

With the June 30th deadline fast approaching to secure applications and protect credit card holders from data breaches with full PCI compliance, the majority of companies are still struggling to successfully meet the demands of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Requirement 6.
The CSO Executive Seminar Series on PCI Compliance and Application Security will provide an intensive one-day overview of the solutions, hurdles and successes encountered by security executives and IT professionals implementing compliance and application security solutions. Though an outstanding lineup of user presentations, technology briefings and town-hall-style interactive discussions, this seminar will deliver in-depth coverage of how the current industry, regulatory and legislative environment will affect your company's compliance future.

Experience the new IT executive event series from CIO magazine and the CIO Executive Council. A one-day regional forum to meet, collaborate with and learn from your regional peers on the most important topics of the day. This unique series packs maximum value in a single-day, multi-format, conveniently located package. CIO Perspectives is the best way to connect and collaborate with your regional peers in one day that's all business and all value.

Using a focused and intensive approach, The CIO Pocket MBA provided attendees with the benefits and advantages of an MBA degree that was uniquely structured for IT executives. Students studied:

• Best practices for creating value through information systems
• Methods to identify, weigh and communicate the strategic competitive advantages of IT
• Effective strategy implementation practices
• Capabilities assessment tools

Professors for the program are distinguished Boston University School of Management faculty and recognized professionals in both the educational and IT forums.

• Lloyd Baird, Professor/Chairman/Faculty Director, Leadership Institute
• Michael Lawson, Senior Associate Dean, Professor, Information Systems Department
• Fernando F. Suarez, Associate Professor, Information Systems Department
• N. Venkat Venkatraman, David J. McGrath, Jr. Professor in Management

The CIO: Year Ahead '09 Summit this year underscores the vital importance of managing the forces of rapid technology change and business disruption with its theme of "Re-Architecting the Dynamic Enterprise." That process of rebuilding and enabling an ever-faster-moving enterprise calls for CIOs who are experts at managing technology for maximum value delivery. This conference agenda will deliver all that and more, through a series of expert presentations, interactive discussions and workshops run by IT/business leaders from around the nation.