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CIO SYMPOSIUM

Since 2000, NEOSA has offered the premier CIO conference in northeast Ohio - the annual CIO Symposium. Each year, a committee of volunteers spends tweve months planning this outstanding educational and peer-to-peer networking event.

2008 CIO Symposium Sponsors:

2008 Symposium
Our content for for the '08 Symposium promises to be as strategic and engaging as ever. Our content this year will focus on:

Plenary Panel Session

IT Education and Engaging with Universities
Like the rest of the country, Cleveland Plus is currently challenged with finding an adequate supply of tech workers to fill available positions.  Enrollment rates are down in technology disciplines while demand for workers continues to accelerate.  Universities are working on enrollment issues while some companies are experiencing strong success with direct University engagement.  What are some of these actions, what’s successful and what vision do we have of the future?

Our panel will explore those questions and offer insight into how your organization can not only enhance its talent acquisition, but also plan for the future.

Morning Breakout Sessions

Computing in a Cloud
To those interested in examining the psyche of NEOhio’s CIOs, the term “Cloud Computing” might serve the same function as the classic Rorschach ink-blot test employed by psychologists. For a business that’s most concerned about reducing complexity of common, shared software applications, Cloud Computing probably looks like an opportunity to streamline software acquisition and implementation while saving money on licensing.  If a CIO is in critical need of an application and storage infrastructure to service remote workers around the globe, Cloud Computing might appear to be the ticket to paradise.

But to those CIOs who have been burned before by not-ready-for-primetime technology, Cloud Computing might be a smoke signal, warning of danger for early adopters.

Overhyped or ready for action? Listen and more importantly, join in on a lively discussion on the present and the promise of one of the most talked about IT technologies of the last three years.


The Evolving Role of the CIO and the IT/Business Strategy Connection
The role of the CIO in an organization has clearly changed over time and will continue to change as technology continues to be integrated into virtually all facets of a business' operation.  Handling and controlling day-to-day IT needs remains an important aspect of the CIO's role, but bringing strategic value to an organization's information technology operation has become critical.  Forward thinking CEO's in virtually all industries look to their CIO's as strategic business partners in which their role plays an integral part in the strategic direction/execution of the firm.  This panel session features thought leaders who have successfully moved their IT organization to the executive suite and have clearly aligned IT goals with business strategy. 



Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Green IT Issues and Opportunities

In one crazy week, your CEO, a board member, someone from your staff, a newspaper reporter, and your environmentally conscious daughter all asked you the same question:  “What are you doing to make yours a ‘green’ operation?”  Quick: the answer is . . . ?

Ten years ago, few CIOs faced this question. Today, it’s unreasonable to think that any responsible NEOhio CIO can avoid the issue.  Talking about a commitment to  ‘going green’ is one thing; actually establishing and maintaining a green operation, of course, is quite another. But the payoffs can be significant: improved operating efficiencies and company morale, enhanced employee recruiting, better community relations.

In this panel discussion, we’ll see “Green” vantage points courtesy of three NEOhio CIOs and tech leaders, sharing practical successes at justifying the variety of strategic and operational adjustments necessary to achieving the green benchmark, which might be required as early as next year.

Shared Services: a public sector case study
In most matters, operations in the public sector are expected to perform tasks well but not necessarily to be innovators within their industry segment. In a few key areas, some CIO leaders in NEOhio public sectors are breaking the mold by crafting creative, efficient models for delivering high value services across enterprises.

This cutting edge group of public sector CIOs and tech leaders continues to assemble shared service strategies for making the most out of human and equipment capital as well as software and service. Learn firsthand how shared service innovation in the public sector can directly and indirectly benefit NEOhio for-profit organizations.

In addition to beakout sessions, our content this year will feature multiple keynote presentations as well as the 4th annual CIO of the Year Awards

NEOSA's CIO Symposium attracts many of the best and brightest from the CIO community in the region. Please enjoy pictures from the 2007 Symposium here.

Date and Registration
the 2008 CIO Symposium will be held on Thursday November 20 from 8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Corporate College East in Warrensville Hts.

Attendance at the Symposium is free, but limited to CIO's or the senior IT Executive of a company. For information on attendance, please contact Megan Kim at 216.592.2356 or via email here.


CIO of the Year Awards
Beginning in 2005, NEOSA launched the CIO of the Year award to recognize outstanding CIO's from four industry categories: Large Company, Small Company, Large Non-Profit and Small Non-Profit. Nominate a CIO here.

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