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2011 Agenda Under Development

7:00 am	Attendee Check-In; Chase Continental Breakfast Served
Khorassan Ballroom	Fresh chilled orange, cranberry, apple & grapefruit juice, fresh baked croissants, assorted muffins & fruit danish, sweet butter & preserves, chase signature cinnamon roll served warm with vanilla cinnamon icing, sliced seasonal fresh fruit display, vanilla yogurt with berries & granola, freshly brewed regular & decaffeinated coffee, selection of novus hot herbal teas and hot chocolate

8:00 am	Welcome Message
Khorassan Ballroom	Julia King Excutive Editor Computerworld

8:15 am	Digital Past, Digital Present, Digital Futures
Khorassan Ballroom	Michael Hawley Innovator, Pianist, Professional Speaker Life looks different from the keyboard. This talk begins with music, and "digital thinking" in an old-fashioned, analog, human sense. It ends with cities of the future, which embody in some sense the music of civilization. Increasingly we are living on a city planet, and the possibilities for digital invention in that fabric are rich and varied. Computing and communications engineers used to think of "UI" as user interfaces with pretty modest scope. They now include "urban interfaces" and all the ways we can bring information technologies to life, designed to play out in a vastly larger theater.

9:00 am	Award Presentation - Business Innovation (Large Company/Organization)
Khorassan Ballroom	Lawrence Casey Senior Manager Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.	Elizabeth Desrosiers IT Portfolio Mgmt Lead Monsanto
	The Business Innovation Award recognizes a company/organization whose IT initiatives implemented in the 2010 calendar year enabled significant business innovation or improvement. Award Criteria The Business Innovation Award winner will have implemented an IT initiative from January through December 2010 that generated the most significant business results or impact relative to company size among all nominated companies. IT initiatives can include software and/or hardware implementation and IT business processes. Business results can include but are not limited to: Cost Savings Improved Productivity New Products Reduced Cycle Times Improved Processes Competitive Advantage New Business Models Effective Sales/Marketing

9:15 am	Networking Break

9:45 am	MasterCard’s Solution for Unlocking Data Intelligence
Lindell Ballroom A	sponsored by Information Builders Kimberly Martin Group Head, Data Warehouse Solutions MasterCard Technologies Like most big companies, MasterCard’s business users have long been data rich but information poor. While as a global organization, MasterCard’s global data warehouse provided access to volumes of information business managers needed to make wise strategic investment decisions, but harvesting that information has historically been a difficult and expensive proposition for most business teams. In 2010, MasterCard launched a multi-year strategic investment around business intelligence to overhaul and simplify accessing data. The goal of this initiative was to put users of the data in the driver’s seat for harvesting just the information they need, whenever they need it. A big component of the success of this effort has been in choosing the right vendor partners along the way. WebFocus, by Information Builders, was selected as the enterprise business intelligence reporting engine for MasterCard. This session will explain why WebFocus was the right solution for MasterCard and how MasterCard came about learning of the capabilities of WebFocus from the 2010 Gateway to Innovation conference. Through hearing of a similar journey from World Wide Technology at the prior G2I event, MasterCard performed their own proof of concept with WebFocus and came to the conclusion that WebFocus would provide the right level of assisted query power to enable end users to function without needing the assistance of a programmer or becoming a programmer themselves.

9:45 am	Understanding Database Clouds
Lindell Ballroom B	sponsored by Oracle Brent Juelich Senior Director, Managed Services Savvis, Inc. IT organizations are facing increasing pressure to rapidly develop applications that increase the agility and effectiveness of their businesses while being required to reduce costs and improve quality. At the same time, cloud solutions are evolving and specializing to handle specific workloads. One emerging area is around database cloud platforms. This presentation will discuss the business and technology aspects of running cloud databases for both Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.

9:45 am	Insights to Solutions: Partnering for Speed of Delivery
Lindell Ballroom C	Kevin Cohan Senior Director, IT Web/Consumerology Express Scripts	Mark Engel New Solutions Group Strategic Applications Express Scripts
	Kevin Cohan and Mark Engel will discuss the recent launch of The Express Scripts Research & New Solutions Lab. Built on our belief and legacy that greater insights into human behavior lead to greater value for clients, the Lab produces solutions that work today. You will learn in this presentation the tools, technologies and talent in the Lab that allows us to turn data into insights and insights into proven solutions. In addition, you will learn how we rapidly translate our research findings into real-world applications, building products that deliver proven solutions to our clients’.

9:45 am	Cloud Computing Paradigm and The Enablement of Social Networking - Transforming Business, Technology and Industry
Regency Room	sponsored by IBM Maria Azua Vice President of Advanced Cloud Solutions and Innovation IBM Global Technology Services Cloud computing has evolved into a transformational technology model, making businesses more resilient, enabling communication and cognition through new collaboration tools, and providing new innovation for industry verticals. Come hear about the latest cloud technology and insights on adoption trends and the entry points for which clients bring cloud into their business model. Learn how cloud not only has changed the economics of IT but is helping drive business transformation for many successful clients today. Hear compelling examples of cloud solutions in action today and the success behind the implementation.

9:45 am	Centered Leadership - Creating Self-Confident and Effective Leaders
Empire Room	June Drewry Former Global CIO Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Social systems and technologies are creating new organizational models with accompanying challenges for leaders. These challenges make it ever more important to understand what drives personal achievement, and in turn, inspires others to follow. How do leaders actively build the skills to become more self-confident and effective? Explore characteristics successful leaders share as they operate in these demanding environments. Interactive exercises will be used to deepen the learning during this session.

9:45 am	Technology to the Top: Behind the Scenes of the Gateway Arch
Lenox Room	Ed Dodds Chief of Facilities Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (The Gateway Arch) Ed will lead you through the technology behind hosting millions of visitors to the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (The Arch) each year. There is only one gateway Arch in the world which can make even the smallest problems challenging. Come hear how the National Park Service keeps innovating to improve and update this symbol of St. Louis.

9:45 am	The Future of IT under Health Reform
Plaza Room	Protima Advani Practice Manager, IT Insights Program Advisory Board Company This session will cover enabling technologies that will affect healthcare reform and the IT implications on defining “meaningful use” within healthcare. This has applications to business in general because of the increased documentation that will be required to meet meaningful use definition and its effect on reimbursement and healthcare costs. In addition, the use of speech recognition within healthcare has increased significantly and promises to have a tremendous effect on the adoption of the electronic medical record.

10:30 am	Networking Break

11:00 am	How Motorola Reduced the Cost of IT and Improved Business Alignment with Operational Cost Intelligence
Lindell Ballroom A	sponsored by Apptio John Hogan IT Director, Business Management Office Motorola Two years ago, Motorola’s Business Management Office (BMO) struggled to deliver the IT cost transparency that was meaningful to their business consumers. To address this challenge, the Motorola BMO implemented an Operational Cost Intelligence solution to enable a continuous means to accumulate, allocate, assess, benchmark and communicate the costs and consumption of IT services. In doing so, Motorola has: dramatically improved discussions between IT and business leaders by demonstrating credibility and focusing on service consumption (vs. cost allocation); empowered service owners to make informed decisions to adjust costs and/or service levels according to business needs; refocused BMO resources on improving the business by spending less time on report production and more time on analysis; and reduced the overall cost of IT through better insight into the cost structure, benchmarking unit costs, and assessing spending trends.

11:00 am	Leveraging Cross Platform Development without Sacrificing Learner Engagement in Mobile Solutions
Lindell Ballroom B	sponsored by SSE John Moxley Director of Leadership Development Cricket Communications This session will address the myth that cross platform development must equate to boring page turners with little interactivity. Cricket Communications, a national wireless provider servicing over 5.4 million customers determined that mLearning is a delivery method that must be leveraged to need internal and customer needs, provided it is done without significantly increasing development costs while maintaining learner engagement. Working together SSE and Cricket created a plan to overcome this challenge. Mobile Content areas will include leadership and people skills, new employee orientations, sales and product training. Leveraging cross-platform development, Cricket plans to deliver engaging content across its devices to employees and customers when and where they need it, developing content once and limiting the custom builds to page specific content. Participants will learn: how to leverage the power of cross-platform development within mLearning where to start when defining your mobile learning development plan key considerations when leveraging existing content to repurpose for mobile delivery for multiple devices ways to increase engagement while still leveraging cross platform development

11:00 am	Momentum Unites Workforce through Social Enterprise Intelligence
Lindell Ballroom C	sponsored by Fuz1on Doug Pierce CTO Momentum World Wide In 2006, Doug Pierce was challenged by Momentum Worldwide visionary CEO Chris Weil, to come up with new innovative solutions, to help united his 2000+ employees at offices in 51 countries around the globe. After many months of traveling the globe for the right solution, Momentum’s portal team, led by Doug Pierce, delivered their global portal, mySite. mySite is a combination of seven unique software-as-a-service applications , all hosted in the cloud provided by the service providers, all delivered through one user interface, and all federated under one very secure single sign on process, (SSO). In this session, you’ll get to see how they got there and how thanks to global collaboration and by taking some risks, mySite boldly goes where no one has gone before.

11:00 am	Yesterday, Today and the Future as Seen Through the Eyes of the CEO/President of the St. Louis RCGA
Regency Room	Dick Fleming CEO / President St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association Join Dick Fleming as he looks back on his career with the RCGA and shares his insights into his vision for the St. Louis region. As the head of the St. Louis RCGA since 1994 Dick has provided guidance to our community while continually focusing on economic growth for the region. The St. Louis RCGA represents the 16-county, bi-state region comprised of the City of St. Louis, the Missouri counties of St. Louis, St. Charles, Lincoln, Warren, Franklin, Jefferson and Washington; and the Illinois counties of St. Clair, Jersey, Madison, Clinton, Monroe, Bond, Macoupin and Calhoun. Its mission is “To unite the region's business community and to engage dynamic business and civic leadership to develop and sustain a world-class economy and community.” In serving the St. Louis region for nearly 17 years Dick Fleming’s contributions are too numerous to list. A true asset to the St. Louis region, this talk will surely be a popular break out session to attend.

11:00 am	Thinking, Learning and Changing: Three Paths of Leadership
Empire Room	Phil Zwieg Former VP of IS Northwestern Mutual	Bart Bolton Consultant Lifetime Learning	Cliff Higbee Director of Member & Statistical Records Division LDS Church
	Leadership has many facets and as leaders, we are called upon to use many skills acquired in many different ways during the course of life and our careers. As Leadership Forum Facilitators, we consider three of the most important factors to be how we think, how we learn and, thereby, how we bring about change as leaders. Through a series of interactive exercises and participation, we will demonstrate the importance of each of these and, perhaps, rejuvenate how you, as a leader, can more effectively adapt all three to your personal leadership style.

11:00 am	The CIO as Business Transformer: Leveraging IT best practices across the enterprise
Lenox Room	Steve Finnerty Vice President of Technology and Vendor Services Applied Materials, Inc. CIO's and IT departments are increasingly being called upon to broaden the scope of their traditional contributions to include enterprise change agent and business transformation leadership. In this session, Steve Finnerty will highlight how strategic IT leadership can be a lever for driving enterprise-wide transformation, highlighting Applied's own recent experience. In this compelling account of one company’s transformation from within, Finnerty will share the leadership lessons learned and talk about the career development opportunities for IT that arose along the way.

11:00 am	Solving the Health Literacy Challenge
Plaza Room	Julie L. Wolter, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA Assistant Professor, Dept of Health Information Management Saint Louis University	Michael G. Hunt, DO, FACOP, FAAP Physician Informaticist Sisters of Mercy Health System
	Julie Wolter and Dr. Michael Hunt will share insights as to the role Health Literacy plays in Healthcare’s mission of delivering high quality care cost effectively with access to the broadest population. Information Technology (IT) system solutions in the form of Personal Health Records and online education and Healthcare resources have been growing in popularity. This session will highlight the challenges and opportunities associated with a breadth of Health Literacy solutions, ranging from Personal Health Record portals offered by local Health Systems to the innovative efforts required to address the unique needs associated with Health Literacy and Personal Health Information access for the each of the following population segments: aging, handicapped, uninsured, and indigent.

11:45 am	Hot Lunch Buffett Served:
Khorassan Ballroom	Hearts of Romaine, red wine vinaigrette, artichoke hearts, grape tomatoes & asiago, Wild Rice Pilaf with toasted almonds and shallots, Oven Roasted Tilapia, cumin seasoned with a roasted red pepper viniagrette, Grilled Chicken, wild mushroom butter sauce, Fresh Vegetable Medley, Freshly Baked Rolls, Butter, Chef's Selection of Seasonal Desserts, Freshly Brewed Iced Tea & Water, Freshly Brewed Regular &Decaffeinated Tea and Hot Novus Herbal Teas

12:30 pm	Award Presentation - Community Outreach
Khorassan Ballroom	Fred Niederman Professor St. Louis University	Marc Meschke Systems Manager REJIS Commission
	The Community Outreach Award is presented to a company/organization that through IT has made an outstanding contribution to the people of the St. Louis region. Award Criteria The Community Outreach Award winner will have provided the most among all nominees to the St. Louis region through volunteer efforts from January through December 2010. Examples of such efforts include helping local learning institutions, rehabilitation centers, shelters, etc., through efforts that might include but are not limited to: Volunteering employee time to teach IT skills Implementing an IT solution to improve the lives of St. Louis families Providing IT hardware/software at reduced prices or no charge Using IT to enable delivery of not-for-profit services Mentoring others in their IT development Offering opportunities to IT students

12:45 pm	Leadership at 26,000 Feet
Khorassan Ballroom	David Breashears Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Author, Professional Speaker David Breashears' presentation is a spellbinding blend of first person story telling illustrated by breathtaking and rarely seen images from the Everest IMAX filming expedition. Breashears and his team found themselves engaged in what many considered an impossible endeavor: to film an ascent of Earth's highest peak, Mount Everest, in the world's largest film format, IMAX. During the seventy-two day expedition with a veteran team of high-altitude Himalayan mountaineers and filmmakers, a blizzard hit Mount Everest, killing eight climbers from another team that decided to continue their ascent despite unfavorable weather conditions. Breashears and his team, having made a decision to descend earlier, ceased all filming activities to climb back up and courageously assist the exhausted and wind-battered survivors of the storm, including selflessly volunteering their precious resources. In the aftermath of this tremendous setback, Breashears rallied his team and kept them focused on their grand objective, where they reached the summit of Mount Everest to become the first to film with an IMAX camera at the top of the world. The Everest IMAX film went on to become one of the highest grossing IMAX films in history.

1:30 pm	Award Presentation - SIM Scholarships
Khorassan Ballroom	David Berndt Founding Partner DataServ
	The Society for Information Management (SIM) is a not-for-profit organization of information technology experts, including CIO's, CTO's and emerging IT leaders, as well as key professionals within the IT community, such as academicians and consultants. SIM's mission is to support IT leaders in the greater St. Louis area by increasing the knowledge base of members, giving back to local communities, increasing awareness on issues of importance to our local community, developing the next generation of effective IT leaders and establishing a forum to bring together IT professionals across industries. SIM wishes to promote the continued growth and interest in the Information Technology industry by offering scholarships for students pursuing studies in the MIS field. This year, SIM will be awarding $10,000 in scholarships.

1:45 pm	Networking Break

2:00 pm	SOFEA: Increase Reuse, Decrease Time to Market and Improve the User Experience
Lindell Ballroom A	sponsored by Perficient Matt Rhodes Senior Manager, Development Engineering Express Scripts In 2004, Tim O’Reilly coined the term “Web 2.0” and, in 2005, Google showed the world that a web application could provide a rich experience with Google maps. While many companies today are still duplicating logic in multiple languages to support the web, mobile and native applications, Express Scripts is taking full advantage of the latest in web technologies to not only save time and money, but also improve the user experience with a technology called SOFEA. SOFEA: Service Oriented Front-End Architecture leverages the well-known MVC pattern on the front-end decoupling the orthogonal presentation tier processes, allowing for better separation of responsibilities. The SOFEA approach allows for the same assets to be leverage on the browser, on a mobile device and by 3rd party partners, providing for better reuse and improved integration. Come see how one of St. Louis’ leading technology company is leveraging the same technology commonly associated with Google and Facebook in the corporate realm to reduce cost and improve user experiences.

2:00 pm	Next Generation Learning Solutions and Their Implications for Organizations and IT
Lindell Ballroom B	sponsored by Savvis Rob Reynolds, Ph.D. Xplana manager MBS Textbook Exchange The goal of the session is to provide participants with a close-up view of the opportunities and challenges inherent in bringing scalable learning technology to the education market place. The Higher Education market, in particular, offers excellent examples of scaling information, content, and user transactions in a dynamic fashion. The Xplana platform serves as an ideal model for study, as it provides a view into B2C, B2B, and Publishing markets. This session will be divided into three sections: 1) An overview of recent research related to students, institutions, and learning trends in Higher Education; 2) The infrastructure challenges associated with designing and delivering scalable solutions to address those trends; 3) A discussion of the Xplana platform and its deployment as a model solution, and a review of lessons learned to date.

2:00 pm	“Where is my data and where should it reside?”
Lindell Ballroom C	Mike Wehner Senior Technologist I Charter Communications Topics for presentation will be from day to day as a storage administrator perspective. The basics for storage management then and now. Today’s state of storage. The benefits of virtualized storage and thin provisioning. Where do start? How do you implement? What are some of the best practices? What are so of the pit falls? Questions and answers

2:00 pm	Overcoming the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team
Regency Room	sponsored by Xiolink Al Amador Principal Consultant The Table Group CIO’s and Senior IT Leaders Face Challenges that Go Beyond Technology, Frequently Asking Themselves: Is the IT organization on the same page and communicating priorities down? How aligned is the business with the technology strategy for next year? Is the IT leadership working as a team, or advocating for their particular area? Are we viewed as a strategic partner and asset or an unorganized and complicated organization that struggles to deliver? Overcoming the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team is a break out session tailored for Senior IT Leaders. By combining the leadership models of National Best Seller, Patrick Lencioni, with actual technical team examples as well as tangible action items this session will cover: Building trust and open communication within project teams Creating healthy and productive conflict between IT and Business Getting the CIO’s team on the same page, and communicating out effectively Increasing peer to peer accountability on the Sr. Technical Team Making the most out of meetings by separating the tactical from strategic Engaging key staff to increase retention within an improving labor market A host of tools and activities that IT Leaders can put into practice immediately This session is highly interactive and will include a paper based team assessment and several take away resources. Come prepared to ask questions and ready to think about the team you lead.

2:00 pm	Field of Dreams: Outsourcing IT Work to Rural Suppliers
Empire Room	Dr. Mary Lacity Professor of IS University of Missouri-St. Louis	Dr. Joseph Rottman Associate Professor of IS University of Missouri-St. Louis
	In this session, the authors present original research on rural outsourcing, the practice of outsourcing work to suppliers with delivery centers located in low-cost, non-urban areas. The model promises lower costs to clients than urban-based centers and a higher quality of work, superior domain knowledge, a higher cultural compatibility, closer proximity to the customer, and time zone advantages over offshore suppliers. Based on interviews with US rural outsourcing suppliers and customers, the session focuses on the benefits, challenges, and emerging best practices of sourcing IT work to rural suppliers. Interest in rural outsourcing in the US continues to increase as federal and state governments seek ways to create jobs and as government outsourcing contracts increasingly require that work be done onshore. Outside the US, many countries, including China, India, and Israel, are interested in rural outsourcing as these countries struggle to compete in a tough global economy.

2:00 pm	Geospatial Intelligence: A National Security Perspective
Lenox Room	Dr. Robert H. Laurine West Senior Executive National Geospatial Intelligence Agency The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provides timely, relevant and accurate geospatial intelligence in support of national security objectives. The term “geospatial intelligence” (GEOINT) means the exploitation and analysis of imagery and geospatial information to describe, assess and visually depict physical features and geographically referenced activities on the Earth. Geospatial intelligence consists of imagery, imagery intelligence and geospatial (e.g., mapping, charting and geodesy) information. Dr. Robert H. Laurine, current NGA West Senior Executive and former Chief Information Officer, will discuss how NGA is strategically aligning IT to the mission, transforming through IT governance, providing managed services, and measuring IT performance in support of NGA’s vision goals which include: Fundamentally changing the user experience by providing online, on-demand access to our GEOINT knowledge Creating new value by broadening and deepening analytic expertise by providing contextual analysis of places informed not only by the Earth’s physical features and imagery intelligence, but also by human geography

2:00 pm	Lessons from a Leader
Plaza Room	sponsored by CA Denise Callahan PMO Manager The Doe Run Company With executive buy-in, employee input and clear metrics for success, a project management office (PMO) can transform a company’s business results. Denise Callahan, The Doe Run Company’s PMO manager, will share how the company’s award-winning function allows the company to more efficiently complete complex projects on time and under budget. Some of these tips include: Receiving input from employees: A cross-functional team can help identify “what’s in it for me” opportunities that can drive PMO adoption Creating clear metrics for success: Decide how success will be measured, and record baseline measurements to track the company’s progress Understanding organizational culture and structure: End-user adoption of new processes is the key to success. Customizing implementation processes to the organization makes it easier for employees to accept and use them

2:45 pm	Networking Break

3:00 pm	Our Journey to IT as a Service: Flexible, Secure, Cost Effective, and Manageable IT Infrastructure
Lindell Ballroom A	sponsored by VMWare Mike Steimel Sr. Director Architecture Express Scripts Attend this session so you can leverage the experience and lessons learned by Express Scripts over the past several years. Learn how they build and manage a more agile, efficient and secure IT infrastructure using virtualization. Hear about the business benefits they’ve gained by moving toward IT as a Service.

3:00 pm	Benefits of SaaS
Lindell Ballroom B	sponsored by DataServ Bob Byrne Leader, IS and Shared Services Spartech These will be the topics that Bob and Jeff will touch on as they describe/walk thru how Spartech implemented DataServ’s SaaS P2P software to enable the creation of a new Finance Shared Services center at Spartech and how this resulted in significantly lower costs for Spartech as well as enhanced financial control and visibility. How SaaS offers rapid deployment compared to traditional software Is scalable for changing business conditions Highly configurable to your unique business processes Upgrades are included – and simpler

3:00 pm	The Business Benefits of Using Social Media
Lindell Ballroom C	David Strom President David Strom Inc. Do you know when it is appropriate to Tweet and use Facebook at the workplace, and when it isn't? Are you looking for best practices to emulate to promote your own corporate activities using social media? Do you need guidance in how to navigate between LinkedIn and Facebook? Come hear what social media guru David Strom has to say on these issues and his recommendations for how you can benefit from these popular services and be more productive too.

3:00 pm	Leadership Traits of the Computerworld P100 Honorees
Regency Room	Julia King Executive Editor ComputerWorld	Haroon Taqi Global Senior Director of R&D IS bioMérieux Inc.
	Jim Lammers VP of IT Express Scripts Inc.	Mark Showers SVP, CIO RGA Reinsurance Company
	Join Julia King, Computerworld Executive Editor of Events and National Correspondent, as she interviews St. Louis area recipient’s of the Computerworld P100 leadership award. Since the awards founding in 2000 St. Louis has had numerous individuals recognized by Computerworld with this prestigious honor. What qualities do this year’s and past inductees possess that earned them such national recognition? This breakout session will surely be a popular one for current and future technology leaders.

3:00 pm	Realizing the Dream: The Practical Application of Rural Outsourcing sponsored by Onshore Technology Services
Empire Room	Nathan Moore VP of Information Technology Centene Corporation	Raegen Lang Business Leader MasterCard Worldwide	Karen Summers Application Development Supervisor Ameren
	Discover how two Fortune 500 companies in St. Louis are applying rural outsourcing in Missouri as an easy alternative to offshore outsourcing. Learn how these leading innovators are using rural outsourcing as a cost-effective, low-risk lever in their global outsourcing portfolio. This session will provide ample opportunity for Q&A. You will walk away with a clear understanding of how rural outsourcing in Missouri has been applied successfully in these partner organizations.

3:00 pm	Understanding Advanced Persistent Threat Law Enforcement Perspective
Lenox Room	Brian Mize SFO FBI, St. Louis Cyber Squad
	Investigation of computer intrusion is an ever evolving craft that requires constant vigilance. The techniques and tactics used by foreign actors against US based entities to gain access to computer based information, including intellectual property, has been coined “Advanced Persistent Threat” (APT). This presentation will explore current tools, motivation, and characteristics of an APT attack. In addition, it will explore what a victim company can expect from the FBI in the event of a compromise and what will be requested from them in order to facilitate an effective incident response.

3:00 pm	CA:Gen to JAVA: A Large Scale Legacy Modernization at the USDA
Plaza Room	sponsored by Unisys Greg Eschman Branch Chief, Guaranteed Loan Technology Branch USDA Rural Development
	In this session, learn how the USDA Rural Development Agency began to transform their Guaranteed Loan application from aging CASE technology running on a mainframe into agile JAVA based web services hosted in a distributed environment. Learn how all existing logic and business rules were extracted from the existing code base and implemented in JAVA. Follow the project from its inception and planning stages to vendor selection, proof of concept, transformation, and testing. The team will provide a detailed discussion of the as-is and to-be architectures, the transformation process, and analysis of lessons learned. This session will be of great interest to those looking to quickly move large legacy applications from the mainframe platform to a distributed web services based environment.

3:45 pm	Networking Break

4:00 pm	Award Presentation - Business Innovation (Small Company/Organization)
Khorassan Ballroom	Jonathan Leggs Network Engineer Arch Coal, Inc.	Elizabeth Effertz Global IT Audit Lead Monsanto
	The Business Innovation Award recognizes a company/organization whose IT initiatives implemented in the 2010 calendar year enabled significant business innovation or improvement. Award Criteria The Business Innovation Award winner will have implemented an IT initiative from January through December 2010 that generated the most significant business results or impact relative to company size among all nominated companies. IT initiatives can include software and/or hardware implementation and IT business processes. Business results can include but are not limited to: Cost Savings Improved Productivity New Products Reduced Cycle Times Improved Processes Competitive Advantage New Business Models Effective Sales/Marketing

4:15 pm	Human Computation
Khorassan Ballroom	Luis von Ahn Professor, Scientist, Innovator Carnegie Mellon University This talk is about harnessing human time and energy to address problems that computers cannot yet solve. Although computers have advanced dramatically in many respects over the last 50 years, they still do not possess the basic conceptual intelligence or perceptual capabilities that most humans take for granted. By leveraging human skills and abilities in a novel way, Luis von Ahn wants to solve large-scale computational problems and collect training data to teach computers many of the basic human talents. To this end, Luis von Ahn treats human brains as processors in a distributed system, each performing a small part of a massive computation. Unlike computer processors, however, humans require an incentive in order to become part of a collective computation. Among other things, Luis von Ahn shows how to use online games as a means to encourage participation in the process.

5:00 pm	Closing Comments

5:15 pm	Achievement in Information Technology Recognition Gala & Cocktail Reception
Khorassan Ballroom	We invite you to join us for an evening Recognition Gala, “Celebrating the Economic Impact of Information Technology”. The Gala will bring together leaders of business, government, civic, charitable, academic and other organizations to celebrate how Information Technology benefits all industries, the economy and the general public in the St. Louis region. Enjoy this complimentary cocktail reception featuring cocktails, hors d’oeuvres and conversation. Make this an important element of your attendance to the Gateway to Innovation Conference. The ability to network and collaborate with your peers in an open and no-hype environment will prove to provide long lasting value to your key business initiatives moving forward.

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