Guest 1: Dr. Nicholas Marko

Title: Chief Data Officer, Geisinger Health System

Guest 1: Dr. Phil Shelley

Title: Former CTO, Sears Holding

With Big Data riding through the hype cycle for a bit, there are passionate advocates, skeptics, and naysayers. Big Data was introduced with a promise to fundamentally change the way we live and do business. Has it lived up to the promise and actually delivered significant tangible ROI?

Guest 1: Gordon J. Gaudet

Title: Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Selective Insurance

Your ability to retain customers and increase lifetime value derived from them is dependent on how you manage the journey. They may pause and restart multiple times as well as change directions. Instead of leading them, we need to be beside them attending to their needs and desires keeping them comfortable. This would need to happen overtime across multiple channels including web, mobile, and store front and in person. How to effectively design and manage such a journey more as a chaperone who is looking to give vs. a salesperson looking to get?

Guest 1: Gary Hayslip

Title: Deputy Director, Chief Information Security Officer City of San Diego, CA

Guest 1: Mark McDonald

Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Vancouver

While the times demand making our cities smart leveraging innovation in water, waste, and infrastructure management using Iot (Internet of Things), what security risks are getting introduced? How vulnerable are these smart cities to cyber attacks and what are we doing to secure them?

Guest 1: Helen Norris

Title: Chief Information Officer, Chapman University

With legacy going out, cloud and third party managed services being embraced, we are essentially handing over our IT lifeline to external entities while still taking responsibility for the outcome. How do we rethink, renovate and/or replace our IT core leveraging partners such that it is more reliable, resilient and effective?

Guest 1: Karen Porter-Wolf

Title: SVP, Chief Information Officer, Assurant Solutions

For as long as mergers and acquisitions have been occurring among businesses, one of the areas that continually eludes those making the investments is the IT department. Those responsible for making the decisions tend to lack the technical expertise necessary to ask the appropriate due diligence questions of current IT capabilities, costs and risks. What's an effective roadmap to integrate IT during M&A and to enable an easy transition? How do you choose what to retain and what to let go? How do you avoid challenges with politics and culture that could derail a transition? And what is IT's appetite for security risk when the department is at its most vulnerable?

Guest : Stephen Elkins

Title: Chief Information Officer, City of Austin, Texas

Striving for leaner business operations, quicker actions and lower costs is an ongoing goal. The drive to always stay ahead of disruptions and degradation and get the most of our assets will never stop being desirable. Getting insight into your operations real time might seem like the answer to all your problems, but how can you truly optimize business operations real time? What is that ideal state, and how can you reasonably reach it? In looking at new solutions and real time data analytics, we explore the drivers behind making this change in your operations and if this update can really give you the quantum leap you need to stay competitive.

Guest 1: Jim Smith

Title: CIO, Office of Information Technology, State of Maine

Guest 2: Jonathan Reichental, Ph.D.

Title: CIO, City of Palo Alto, CA

An important aspect of being a successful leader is to be able to connect well with others at a human level and get them to voluntarily follow your vision. This is social intelligence. Managers are measured on getting the job done vs. interpersonal effectiveness. How do we groom managers who are step up leadership candidates on this vital trait?

Guest : Jon Walton

Title: Chief Information Officer, County of San Mateo, CA

You may be required to have one-on-one difficult conversation with an underperforming employee or even set expectations with an unreasonable boss who is creating impediments,  jeopardizing organization's interest. These conversations are required in boardrooms as well as on personal front in familyrooms with an intention to help correct course for those who matter. As a leader, how are you developing this much needed competency?

Guest : Brian Haugabrook

Title: CIO, Valdosta State University

John Maxwell said "A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way". That's great in terms of getting the work done, but what about the emotional experience for those who follow? What does it take for a leader to not only take the troops to victory but also ensure smiles along the way?

Guest : Bruce G. Schinelli

Title: VP of IT and Chief Information Officer, TTX Company

While the ability to differentiate friends from enemies is a fundamental human trait, stereotyping, prejudices, and hidden biases lead to lost individual and organizational effectiveness and productivity. Unfortunately, we are all infected with this "mental residue"! What is leadership doing to minimize and eliminate this debilitating element from their organizations?