Guest 1: Dan Lohrmann

Title: CSO, Department of Technology, Management & Budget (DTMB), Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Protection, State of Michigan

Guest 2: Elayne Starkey

Title: CSO, Department of Technology and Information (DTI), Delaware

Even in our modern workplace, we’re still having discussions about gaps in our BYOD security policies or that many companies don’t even have one in place. If you listen to many blogs or vendor white papers, employees are utilizing workarounds, executives are being careless and many organizations are still living in the stone age. Aren’t we just peddling fear at this point? What do we have to do to put these concerns behind us? How bad is the problem really, and what can we focus on so far that’s actually worked as a benchmark moving forward?

Guest : Kevin M. Larson

Title: VP and Chief Information Officer, AAR Corp.

Many qualities define an effective manager, and many people can do the job. But in a day and age where the expectation is not the productivity you can deliver but the value you can generate, those who will become the true leaders of an organization are the ones who can make a real impact. So how do you groom a tactician built on process and productivity into a strategist who lives and breathes ideas and innovation? What personal hurdles does that individual need to get over to reach that next phase of their career?

Guest 1: Deena M. Amato-McCoy

Title: Research Analyst, Retail & Consumer Markets, The Aberdeen Group

Guest 2: Richard C. Hollinger, Ph.D.

Title: Professor, University of Florida in Gainesville, Chair and a tenured faculty member of the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law

As retailers aggressively grow and evolve to fight the threat of digital disruption, one equally prevalent threat is an actual security risk. Retailers need to be able to provide a secure customer experience in order to drive competitive advantage and differentiation, and that means protecting the organization at the store front and the back end. As new forms of payment, mobility and online touch points are being introduced, how are retail CISOs meeting compliance needs and securing the many wide reaching points of entry? How can data driven approaches from other sectors of the organization be used to bolster security efforts, and how conversely can security support retail's revenue-generating ventures?

Guest 1: Adam Hils

Title: Research Directo Network Security, Gartner

Guest 2: Michael P. Wilson

Title: Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer, McKesson

Guest 3: Roy Mellinger

Title: VP and CISO, Wellpoint

In today's security landscape, cases of cyber espionage and advanced persistent threats (APTs) have rendered many traditional cyber security practices and vendor software completely ineffective. Big Data has shown potential in providing deeper insights into these sophisticated attacks, but CISOs need to be able to be proactive, they need to understand the threats of APTs and their impact on the enterprise and they need to share that information among peers, the executive suite and the rest of the organization. So how can we allay some fears about the extent of these threats while also building an information pipeline designed to keep us vigilant?

Guest 1: James L. McQuivey, Ph.D.

Title: Vice President, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Guest 2: Naomi Fried, Ph.D.

Title: Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Guest 3: Richard Roth

Title: Vice President. Strategic Innovation, Dignity Health

The idea behind Digital Disruption is not just an ongoing threat to how business will operate but a mega-trend that will dictate the future of how business operates in virtually every industry. If digital disruption will affect not just communication and worker skills but also consumption, competition and plain market forces, how is the business evolving and making this disruption an opportunity? How will business model new corporate strategies that affect our cost structures and revenue streams? How is business managing the next generation of workers to make this disruption possible? How is business aligning with IT such that IT can help support this effort?

Guest : Colin Brown

Title: Professor, Kanbar Graduate Institute of Film & Television, Tish School of the Arts, NYU; Editorial Director Slated

The movie industry is at a crossroads. Record box office numbers are coming in with each summer blockbuster and the major Hollywood movie studios are posting stock market highs, but attendance is uncontrollably dropping as movie theaters lose audiences to television and on-demand streaming. Online services are seeing success using Big Data as a means to better understand their users. How can Big Data be used to help a movie reach an audience or change the way content is consumed? Can it also change the way the movies are made? If so, to what extent, if any, do we want technology impacting the art of the movies?

Guest : Derek Brink

Title: Vice President, Research Fellow, IT Security and IT GRC, The Aberdeen Group

In the same way that new security measures can help organizations better enable Big Data, utilizing Big Data can help improve and transform enterprise security practices on the whole. If we think about security in the context of Big Data, the proper utilization of data can help organizations achieve better insights and become more predictive and proactive in their security measures overall. So what are the steps to making this security transformation possible?

Guest : Dr. Roger R. Schell

Title: Professor, USC/ISI, University of Southern California

Big Data in its early stages has opened up a world of new opportunities for businesses to derive value. And yet the unexpected consequence of that opportunity is that all the new insight that is now available to you is also available to those looking to do harm. This new data that is not secured in the same way as the rest of your organization could provide hackers deeper insight into when you are most vulnerable or susceptible to take a loss. So in what ways can we go about safeguarding against the loss of this information and enable security throughout the Big Data life cycle?

Guest 1: James Euchner

Title: Vice President Global Innovation, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Guest 2: Professor Eric von Hippel, Ph.D.

Title: T. Wilson Professor of Innovation Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management; also Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT

What if our organization's users had the ability to innovate products, services, customer touch points, customer satisfaction and processes with minimal cost, risk and hand-holding from upper management? Is it possible? To some extent it's already been done, but it's arguably happened by accident. What kind of framework or platform would we need to provide our employees with this autonomous capability to go about their workday? What combination of people, processes and governance would be required such that this ability to innovate from the bottom-up becomes a sustainable norm and not an exception?

Guest 1: Charlie McMahon

Title: Vice President of IT and Chief Technology Officer, Tulane University

Guest 2: David Kuntz

Title: VP Research & Adaptive Learning, Knewton Inc.

Today’s students are struggling with high admission costs, a tough job market and poor graduation rates in an education system that’s failing them. Education reform is currently on the table, but while online courses and new software might be a next step, they’re not the transformative force the industry needs. Big Data on the other hand is designed to be personal, predictive and analytical. Not only can it enable higher education schools to address admissions and financial aid, but it can go a long way to making school count for our kids. So in what ways is Big Data being implemented throughout the education ecosystem, and how can we innovate on the whole?