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| 7:00 am | Behind the Scenes of Crime Fighting Technology in the St. Louis Region | |||||||||||
| Khorassan Ballroom | Until 12:30 pm the Law Enforcement from the St. Louis region will present technology used for Crime Scene Investigations and Special Operations. Come see their displays and speak with highly trained officers in this interactive demonstration. This is a great opportunity to learn about the innovative ways our local law enforcement agencies serve and protect. | |||||||||||
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| 8:00 am | Welcome Message | |||||||||||
| Khorassan Ballroom |  Don Tennant Principal Don Tennant Associates |
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| 8:15 am | The Art of Vision | |||||||||||
| Khorassan Ballroom |  Erik Wahl Professional Speaker & Artist The Wahl Group As the landscape for business continues to change a clear vision is the key to successfully navigating tomorrow’s uncharted waters. The Art of Vision is a program specifically designed to help companies utilize unconventional wisdom and build a vision for their future. No matter what kind of organization – from small companies to large corporations – employees at all levels can better embrace the future by becoming more innovative. By breaking apart traditional thinking, Erik challenges and inspires his audience to redefine commonly held assumptions and misconceptions about “creativity”, “goals”, “success” and “vision”. Discover how you can sharpen your creative skills and identify a personal style for inspiring yourself and others to rethink vision and purpose. The principles in this uplifting and highly practical program will redefine the role of a leader as an artist as well as an architect.The Art of Vision
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| 9:00 am | Award Presentation - Business Innovation | |||||||||||
| Khorassan Ballroom |  Lawrence Casey Senior Manager Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. |
 Elizabeth Desrosiers IT Portfolio Mgmt Lead Monsanto |
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| The award recognizes a company/organization whose IT initiatives implemented in the 2009 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 2009 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:
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| 9:15 am | Networking Break | |||||||||||
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| 9:45 am | Dispelling the Vapor around Cloud Computing | |||||||||||
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Wesley M. Devine
Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor, Member of IBM Academy of Technology IBM Cloud - Isn't this just an old concept with new marketing hype? What is real? During our time together we will dispel the vapor around cloud, discuss how businesses are implementing cloud computing and how you can take immediate actions to build a more dynamic infrastructure to reduce costs, improve service delivery and enable business innovation. CIO Viewpoint of Cloud Computing:
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| 9:45 am | Leading the Way to Greater IT Efficiency through Cost Transparency |
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Debe Gash
Vice President & CIO Saint Luke’s Health Systems IT cost transparency has enabled Saint Luke's Health System to systematically find new opportunities to maximize IT investment, reduce cost, improve IT ROI and provide visibility into the total cost of IT. Objectives:
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| 9:45 am | Improving Business Alignment through Service Portfolio Management | |||||||||||
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Jim Holman
Director, PMO Charter Communications Managing IT for business value starts with understanding what the business needs and why. This is difficult when there are multiple “front doors” to IT – a mash-up of formal and informal ways to request resources through projects (strategic demand), break-fix and changes (operational demand), and everyday requests (tactical demand). Learn how Charter Communications is integrating service and portfolio management processes to funnel business demand and improve service quality, cost, function and benefit. |
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| 9:45 am | "Why Spend on IT, When You Can Save? | |||||||||||
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Director Field Technology Services Advocate Health Care Advocate Health Care is recognized as one of the top integrated health care systems in the country. With over 18,000 users to manage, Advocate Health Care has achieved a growth in company size and ever increasing demands on technology, without growth in IT resources. Join this session to discover how you can improve your organization’s competitive advantage by implementing management best practices, increase customer satisfaction, and eliminate avoidable IT support costs through standardizing of your existing environment. Dan Lutter, Director Field Technology Services for Advocate Health Care will share their success story in achieving simplified management of IT systems; reduction in costs through software distribution, patch management, and process automation amongst other key areas; and how motivated IT staff has boosted improved service levels. Join this interactive session and informative session for an insight into the business advantages to be gained, the latest technologies from LANDesk Software that will enable you to achieve this, and equally importantly the quantifiable cost savings you can demonstrate. |
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| 9:45 am | Think Global: How Bunge Connects Employees Around the Globe | |||||||||||
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Manuel Cerqueiro
eBusiness Director Bunge Limited Bunge is a leading global agribusiness and food company with over 25,000 employees at more than 450 facilities in 30 countries. A Fortune 500 company, with over $52 billion in annual revenue, Bunge is a global leader in fertilizer and food products. In this session, learn how Bunge created a unified yet decentralized intranet portal environment for Bunge's semi-autonomous operating companies around the globe to distribute news, share information, build/run business applications and integrate with Bunge's back-end systems in a centralized environment while overcoming the challenges of serving a global user base. In this session also learn how Bunge’s intranet portal became the default homepage for nearly all employees worldwide and how it has helped Bunge improve employee productivity, reduce operating costs and enable business groups around the globe to quickly create and share agile, low cost business applications. |
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| 10:30 am | Networking Break | |||||||||||
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| 11:00 am | Cost-Effective Measures for a Cost-Conscious IT World: "An Efficient Data Center Model |
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 Jan Stovall Department Leader, IS Enterprise Storage Edward Jones |
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 Jeffrey Kennedy Manager of Computer Operations Brown Shoe Company |
 Kent Hillman Computer Information Technology Specialist State of Missouri Office of Administration SDC |
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Data centers are being challenged from both ends: on one side, demand for more storage capacity is growing; on the other, costs for increased power, cooling and facilities are escalating. Customers are demanding innovative, environmentally friendly solutions to streamline IT operations and control costs. At no time in recent memory is enterprise cost-containment a bigger factor, given our uncertain economic climate.
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| 11:00 am | Mobile Training Reality: Employees Empowered by Learning Solution Delivered via Apple iPod Touch |
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Linda Kurland
SVP Operations - Skilled Nursing Division RehabCare Imagine being able to deliver training to your workforce when they need it, in the palm of their hands! Sound too good to be true? Think again… A leading national rehabilitation services provider needed to train its staff of 15,000 practitioners dispersed across more than 1,280 geographic locations on new practice software and a new mobile point of service device, the Apple iPod Touch. Learn how RehabCare partnered with a learning services organization to create a method for training employees remotely. The learning solution included simulation exercises for delivery on the iPod Touch that allowed the practitioners to rehearse using their application and the Touch device through real-world scenarios which improved their speed and accuracy with the new software. The outcome – a revolutionary, high touch training solution delivered on a mobile platform with quantifiable results! |
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| Lindell Ballroom B |  Robert J. Osborn II Deputy Director U.S. Tranportation Command, Scott Air Force Base In this presentation, Robert J. Osborn II from US Transcom will describe efforts currently underway to use information technology to transform their supply chain systems to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of enterprise resources and functions. They will also discuss their implementation approach as it involves working with various partner organizations. The Joint Deployment and Distribution Enterprise (JDDE) requires a flexible IT framework that reduces the complexity and number of interfaces within the enterprise through the implementation of common prescribed interfaces with authoritative information sources (build once, use by all). The Distribution Process Owner (DPO) Enterprise consists of a resource-constrained environment where funding is diminishing over time, while the number of required capabilities is continuously increasing. The IT computing environment has hundreds of monolithic point-to-point systems with thousands of interfaces that are being maintained at very high cost to the government. To resolve this problem statement, the Distribution Portfolio Manager (DPfM) has established an improved IT portfolio investment decision process (Corporate Governance Process (CGP)). Governance is key in this DPO-wide Transformation, and DPfM is employing a rigorous portfolio management methodology and investment strategy to develop essential services and capabilities for the Warfighter. The DPO CSV is a transformational initiative that aids the DPO with identification, construction, and fielding of core capabilities (i.e. services). These new services are focused around DPO value chains and are used by warfighters and other customers to request, fulfill and track the distribution of people, equipment, and materiel in support of operations.
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Bhavani Amirthalingam
Vice President, Information Technology World Wide Technology, Inc. Access to information is key to any successful business process. At World Wide Technology, we make this a competitive advantage for our Customers and Partners, as well as our Internal Employees. In this session, learn how World Wide Technology uses the latest Business Intelligence Technology to put the consumers of the data in the driver seat. The focus is on the right information, to the right people, at the right time. |
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| 11:00 am | Economic Development Opportunities & Challenges | |||||||||||
| Lindell Ballroom D |  Steve Johnson Sr. Vice President of Economic Development RCGA Steve will describe recent research conducted for the RCGA by Market Street Services, which identifies key industry cluster strengths and challenges, and directions for the region, going forward. There are a number of positive aspects about the region that are attractive for global companies to consider locating their operations to this area. There are also areas where improvement is needed. Steve will review the RCGA’s plans for working with businesses, government and community leaders in the area in order to accentuate the region’s strengths. The plan also considers ways to improve areas where the perception and/or reality of the region may fall short. These initiatives being formulated and lead by the RCGA will have a significant impact on the region’s economy both in the short and long term. |
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| 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 | |||||||||||
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| 12:30 pm | Award Presentation - Community Outreach | |||||||||||
| Khorassan Ballroom |  Johnnie Foster Director CAIT |
 Jonathan Leggs Network Engineer Arch Coal, Inc. |
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| The award is presented to an IT-related company/organization that has made an outstanding contribution to the St. Louis region in the prior year through charitable efforts. 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 2009. 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 • Providing IT hardware/software at reduced prices or no charge • Mentoring others in their IT development • Offering scholarships to IT students |
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| 12:45 pm | Web 3.0: Crowdsourcing the Semantic Web | |||||||||||
| Khorassan Ballroom |  Lloyd Taylor Advisor, Consultant & Investor With the Internet becoming ubiquitous in the third world and reliable in the first, the traditional business impedance of geographic borders has pretty much vanished. Concurrently, the rise of social networks and semantic analysis has provided new ways of extracting valuable business and technical information from the web. This talk covers the foundations of this new world, and shows how cutting-edge companies are starting to realize significant value by embracing the technologies and methodologies that make it all possible. While there continue to be significant risks, the benefits are growing rapidly. |
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| 1:30 pm | Award Presentation - SIM Scholarships | |||||||||||
| Khorassan Ballroom |  Jeff Villmer Business Leader MasterCard Worldwide |
Don Tennant Principal Don Tennant Associates |
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| 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 $12,000 in scholarships. |
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| 2:00 pm | Internal Cloud: Transforming IT Resources to Benefit Your Business | |||||||||||
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Cloud computing is changing the way IT resources are utilized. Users want the ability to access infrastructure resources how and when they choose. IT teams are asked to accommodate this shift in the consumption model, but still deal with the security, compatibility, and compliance issues associated with delivering that convenience to application business owners and developers. Attend this panel session and learn how to transform your datacenter into an internal cloud – a pool of virtualized resources within a datacenter – and how your company can leverage external cloud providers within the private cloud. IT Leaders from several local companies will share their experiences about their journey toward this transformation, including lessons learned and key benefits achieved. |
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| 2:00 pm | Telemedicine: Transforming Health Care |
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| Lindell Ballroom A |  Mary Jo Gorman, MD, MBA CEO Advanced ICU Care Telemedicine is transforming all areas of health care in the US and globally. It can be used to enhance patient health and assist in overcoming shortages in health care delivery. The presenter will review the current status of health care as it relates to telemedicine. The use of inpatient and outpatient technologies will be presented. Future applications and challenges will be reviewed. |
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Kimberly Martin
Vice President, Data Warehouse Solutions MasterCard Worldwide Kim Martin of MasterCard Worldwide is constantly challenged to contain cost while continuing to deliver transformative IT services. An early adopter of rural outsourcing in Missouri, Kim has met this challenge with demonstrated cost reductions in excess of 25%. Kim has expanded MasterCard’s rural outsourcing practice to support several key disciplines: .Net/J2EE development, Data Analysis, UNIX SHL programming, and SQL development, which are provided from Rural Technology Centers in Macon, Lebanon, and Joplin Missouri. In this session, Kim shares her rural outsourcing success story and the niche that this cost-effective, risk-sensitive, LOCAL solution fills within MasterCard’s global outsourcing portfolio. |
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| 2:00 pm | Consumerology: Express Scripts Behavioral Economics Approach to Lower Cost and Better Outcomes in Healthcare | |||||||||||
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| Express Scripts combines proven consumer marketing strategies as segmentation with insights from behavior economics to deliver products and services that effect positive behavior change. In this session, Kevin and Brian will share how behavioral economics is applied to current applications and our member portal. In addition, the discussion will focus on how expectations are changing on the web, the use of additional channels of communication and the future direction of optimized channels. The application of behavior economics and technology have lead greater member satisfaction and a more sustainable pharmacy benefit. | ||||||||||||
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| 2:00 pm | Software Security Assurance: Public/Private Collaboration Efforts in Cyber Security | |||||||||||
| Lindell Ballroom D |  Joe Jarzombek Director of Software Assurance, National Cyber Security Division U.S. Department of Homeland Security Joe Jarzombek addresses DHS Cyber Security initiatives focused on mitigating risks attributable to exploitable software and how public/private collaboration is necessary to improve cyber security. Joe speaks to the relevance of software security assurance in reducing organizational risk exposure. With today’s global IT software supply chain, project management and software/systems engineering processes must explicitly address security risks posed by exploitable software. Traditionally, these disciplines have not clearly and directly focused on software security risks that can be passed from projects to the organization. Software security assurance processes and practices span development and acquisition and can be used to enhance project management and quality assurance activities. Joe explains the critical need for adherence to the practices, guidelines, rules, and principles used to build security into every phase of software development. |
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| 3:00 pm | Looking Back and Looking Forward From a CIO Viewing Point | |||||||||||
| Regency Room |  Darwin John Member Science and Technology Advisory Board to the FBI Darwin will speak to the realities of today and the requirements of the role of CIO going forward which will be both more complex and require more leadership capability. It is about earning ones way into the inner circle of leadership of the enterprise with earned trust, respect and credibility. It is about leading change in ones self and others. It is about asking, therefore what must we do or do differently." |
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| 3:00 pm | Positive Patient Identification and IDN Single Medical Record Number | |||||||||||
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William "Buddy" Gillespie
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer WellSpan Health According to PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Industry Group, 76% of healthcare executives say information in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) will be their biggest asset in the next five years. The key to this information is correct identification of the patient and medical records. This presentation addresses the coordination and standardization of data access for multiple facilities leading toward a singular, corporate medical record identification with consistent and accurate clinical and demographic data. |
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Steve Siress
Sr. Manager Network Services and Communications Ralcorp Holdings Using WAN optimization to achieve the goals associated with Exchange Consolidation, Data Center Consolidation and branch application performance improvements. I’ll review some of our company’s strategic initiatives and the important role that WAN Optimization played in them. |
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Aaron Plaza
Storage Infrastructure Manager Emerson Corporation Virtualization at the server, networking, and storage layers of today’s IT infrastructures are changing the way customers look at backup and recovery as they move to protect their critical information assets. Massive data growth is also transforming the way customers address backup and recovery. This session will explore how customers can exploit emerging technologies that improve backup and recovery windows, reduce redundant data during backup processing and leverage proven technologies to save valuable time and improve business continuity. |
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| 3:00 pm | Innovation, Technology and the Future Role of Zoos | |||||||||||
| Lindell Ballroom D |  Jeffery P. Bonner, Ph.D. Dana Brown President CEO, Saint Louis Zoo Whether it's population management, reproductive services, better health care, GPS tracking of animals in the wild or embracing social media, zoos around the world are finding innovative ways to apply technology to better accomplish their mission to conserve animals and their habitats through animal management, research, recreation, and educational programs. Join Dr. Jeffrey Bonner, Dana Brown President and CEO of the Saint Louis Zoo as he discusses these fascinating developments including ZIMS, the first online, global animal management application and database. |
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| 4:00 pm | Award Presentation - National Impact | |||||||||||
| Khorassan Ballroom | Johnnie Foster Director CAIT |
Elizabeth Desrosiers IT Portfolio Mgmt Lead Monsanto |
 Robert Rouse Professor Emeritus, Computer Science Washington University |
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| The award is presented to a company/organization that has most positively represented the St. Louis IT community on the national information technology/management stage in calendar year 2009. Award Criteria: The National Impact Award winner will have demonstrated significant, prestigious, ongoing recognition in national media such as print magazines and journals, newspapers, radio/TV, published rankings, awards, etc., from January through December 2009. Nominees need to submit the following in addition to the items required for all award categories: • A list of publications/recognitions • Date of publication/recognition • URL (if available) for each publication/recognition • A brief description of each occurrence and how it brings positive attention to the St. Louis IT community |
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| 4:15 pm | Innovation in an Era of Accelerating Technologies | |||||||||||
| Khorassan Ballroom |  Ray Kurzweil Inventor, Entrepreneur, Futurist, Author Kurzweil Technologies User innovation is a turbulent process. Rapid creation and violent destruction. Many winners and many losers, both big and small. Are there patterns of success in the chaos? Ray Kurzweil definitely thinks so. He has been on the bleeding edge of innovation for decades and his track record is something to admire. Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray is an ardent student of technology trends and has developed mathematical models of how technology in different areas evolves. These models show that the pace of innovation itself is doubling every decade. As information technology achieves each new level of price-performance and capacity, new applications become feasible and existing business models lose their viability. The rate of change is now so rapid that even three to five year business plans need to consider that every level of an industry will undergo major changes during that period. Ray will talk about innovation in an era of accelerating technologies and how this will impact business, the economy, and society. |
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| 5:15 pm | Achievement in Information Technology Recognition Gala & Cocktail Reception | |||||||||||
| Khorassan Ballroom | Hosted By Onshore Technology Services 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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