We've had some excellent speakers for our chapter meetings over the past several years. Listed below are a few of the topics and speakers we've enjoyed.
2012 Date | Speaker | Topic | Sponsor | January 17 | Dr. Bill Rollwitz, Executive Coaching & Leadership Development | Achieving and Exceeding the CIO Level |
| February 21 | Steve Finnerty, SVP Applied Materials | CIO as a Business
Transformational Leader |
| March 27 | Scott Braden, SVP, NET(net) | Contracting with Microsoft |
| April 17 | Mark Settle, CIO, BMC Software | Critical Competencies for 21st Century IT Organizations | EMC Consulting | May 15 | Ty Harmon, Gartner Industry Analyst | Big Data Trends and Future | Genuent | June 19
| Executive Networking | Summer Function | Ratify, Inc. | | September 18 | CIO Panel | Moderated by Hunter Muller | Comcast Business Services | | October 16 | Diane Slaughter | Tracking Social Media Strategy and Implementation at Cameron | Quest Software | | November 13 |
| CIO Perspectives Forum
7:15 AM - 5:30 PM
Renaissance Houston
Greenway Plaza Hotel
| SIM Houston is co-sponsor
for the CIO Perspectives Forum
with CIO magazine. | | December 18 | Holiday Party | Executive Networking | Bill Arend
Regional Manager
Oracle USA
(Office) 713-658-7786
(Cell) 713-203-7642 |
2011
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Date | Speaker
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Topic
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Sponsor
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January 18 | Roger
Berry, Retired CIO, Disney
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·
Managing Your Career…What’s Next
|
Open
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February 15 | Twila
Day, CIO Sysco
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·
Leadership & Mentoring
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SAP
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March 8 | Peter
Vogel, Trial Partner, Gardere, Wynne,
Sewell LLP
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·
Social Media Legal Update
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Modis
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April
19 | Peter
Stewart, SVPCollaboration Technology,
PGi
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Collaboration in a Virtual World
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PGi
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May 24 | David
Willis, Chief of Research for Communications Area, Gartner
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·
The Future of Mobile Apps: Context Aware Computing
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Accuvant
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June 21 | Summer
Social and Networking
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·
Executive Networking
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Cisco-IronPort
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September 20 | Larry
Frazier, CIO, Kraton
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·
ERP Implementation Success Strategy: On-time and under Budget
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Idea
Integration
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October 11 | Gregg
Farris, CIO, Oceaneering
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·
Cloud
Computing: Focusing on the thought process, methodology,
implementation and results of Oceaneering’s recent migration to Google Apps
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Sogeti
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November 8 | Jim
Stikeleather, Chief Innovation
Officer, Dell Services
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·
Holes in the Whole: Crafting Security for the Pervasive
Web
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Extreme
Networks
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December 13 | Holiday Social and Networking
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·
Executive Networking
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CiscoSecureX
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2010
|
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
| January 12 |
Walter Ulrich, President & CEO, Houston Technology Center |
The Strategic Implication of Emerging Technology and the Role of IT Leaders in Houston’s Future |
| February 16 |
Wallace Wood |
Diginomics |
| March 16 |
Troy Matherne |
Your IT Report Card: Are you making A’s or C’s? |
| April 13 |
Jim Strikeleather CTO Dell Perot Systems | Trends and Directions |
| May 11 |
Gene Pfeiffer |
Innovation: Web 2.0 Emerging Technology |
| September 14 |
Dr. Keri Pearlson, President KP Partners |
"The Six Conversations the CIO Must Have about Social Business" |
| October 19 |
Jack Dowling, President and CEO Votum Technology Group |
Mobility Computing |
| November 16 |
Dave Levitt, Salesforce.com |
Cloud Computing |
| December 14 |
SIM - Houston Holiday Party |
Real Social Networking |
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DATE |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
| January 13 |
Panel |
What Keeps CIOs Up at Night? |
| February 17 |
Rick Watson |
Green IT |
| March 26 |
Mark Settle, CIO, BMC Software
Mark Polansky, Senior Client Partner & Managing Director for Korn/Ferry International |
What CEOs Want From The IT Organization |
| April 14 |
Zain A. Ali
The Hackett Group, Sr. Director, Southwest Region |
Benchmarking Data |
| May 12 |
John Kresovsky
Gartner, Executive Partner - CIO Services |
Top Priorities CIOs are facing in 2009-2010 |
| September 15 |
Dutch Holland |
Should you be Promoted or Fired as the CIO?
What Should I Do Tomorrow Morning? |
| October 20 |
Steven Zolman |
Supplier Negotiation Best Practices |
| November 17 |
Pete Hanik |
Innovation: This presentation will discuss what innovation is, how to bring structure to innovation and how to install and propagate a culture of innovation in your organization |
| December 10 |
Holiday Party at Bistro Calais |
Sponsored by L&T Infotech |
2007-2008
|
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TOPIC |
LOCATION |
| 9/18/07 |
Bobby Cameron
VP & Senior Analyst at Forrester |
The CEO’s Expectations of the CIO |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
| 10/24/07 |
Peter Vogel
Attorney with Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
|
Avoiding IT Disasters with Good Contracts |
8:30 – 11:15 am
Shell Auditorium in McNair Hall at Rice U |
| 11/13/07 |
Phillip Farr
Past President & CIO of the year for Dallas SIM Chapter |
The New CIO |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
| 1/22/08 |
John Sweney
CEO of Brookwoods Group |
Pillars of Professionalism |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
| 2/19/08 |
Caroline Gormley
President of Project Management Institute Houston |
Current & Future Trends in IT Project & Portfolio Management |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
| 3/25/08 |
Larry R. DeBoever |
A Pragmatic Approach to Demonstrating Business/IT Alignment |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
| 4/22/08 |
Carter White
Senior Legal Counsel at M-I Swaco |
eDiscovery |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
| 5/20/08 |
David Ferdman & Nicole Aguillard
CyrusOne |
Cost/Benefit Methodology for Data Center Co-Location |
5:30 – 8:00 pm
Rice Faculty Club |
2006 – 2007
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September 26th-"Generating Trust and Loyalty: Motivating and Retaining Today's IT Professionals" present by Ian Rose
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October 24th-"IT Outsourching: Trends and Experiences in How and What to Outsource" present by Mark Peacock and Dave Van Horn, Archstone Consulting
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November 28th -"The Role of Service Manager" present by Mart Rovers, president of InterProm USA. [Members Only]
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December 14th -Holiday Dinner Party with spouses at the Bistro Callais in River Oaks. [Members Only]
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January 31st -"The Ten Commandments to IT Contracts" by Peter Vogel
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Wednesday, March 7th-"People Issues of IT" by Samuel Bright
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SIM Houston chapter Golf outing
2003 - 2004
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June 2nd: Best Practices in IT Service Management Delivery (ITIL) (Ken Wendle, HP, and President itSMF, USA)
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April 20th: IT Really Matters (Warren McFarlan, Harvard Business School)
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February 24th: Leading Geeks: How to Manage and Lead People who deliver technology) (Paul Glen, author and columnist)
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October 30th: Think Customers to Drive Profit (CRM) (Ami May, Oracle)
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September 30th: Best Practices in Quantifying IT Value (Paul Wise, Turnbuckle Consulting)
2002 - 2003
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April 29th: Trends and Futures in IT Outsourcing (Edward Emig, Lockheed Martin)
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March 24th: Technology Futures: the Agile Enterprise in the Innovation Economy (Jeff Wacker, EDS)
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February 24th: Mobile Business Computing (Lee Church, Mobitech)
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