CIO Summit Agenda — Day 1

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Day 1 Agenda—IBM i CIO Summit

9:30 am	Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:45	Welcome — Alan Seiden, Seiden Group
	Introductions and facilitated discussion of opportunities & challenges faced by CIOs. Potential topics include: Skills enhancement/replacement Blending teams from different generations Keeping IT aligned with business needs Managing expectations & dealing with stress Future of open source in IBM i environments Effective modernization strategies How to present IBM i options as an alternative to rip-and-replace Integration challenges—platforms, data, applications, analytics Business Intelligence using IBM i data Cloud/hosted IBM i environments How to prioritize projects and minimize interruptions for developers How to deliver enhancements, integrations, and new applications faster
12:30 pm	Lunch (provided) and Networking
1:30	Heidi Schmidt, leader in IT generational change and knowledge transfer, will share proven methods to spark collaborative learning that leads to increased joy, innovation, and effectiveness of your IT development teams.
2:30	IBM’s Alison Butterill, IBM i Offering Manager, will answer questions and brief us on what IBM is doing to evolve the future of the platform. Non-disclosure agreement with IBM (facilitated by Seiden Group) required.
3:30	Break
3:45	Open Discussion
4:30	Wrap-up and Feedback

SAMPLE DAY 2 AGENDA

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The CIO Summit is a community-building event for IT Directors, CIOs, and CTOs from non-technology-vendor companies. As a result, applications for professionals who do not meet these criteria—including those from development tool and services vendors—will not qualify for attendance.

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