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Ziff Davis CIO Summit To Include Symantec CEO
SecurityProNews
Staff Writer
2005-04-19
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Ziff Davis Media announced that it will hold its first annual CIO Summit from June 26 to 29, 2005 at the prestigious Inn at Spanish Bay, in Pebble Beach, California.
The invitation- only event, produced by the editors of Ziff Davis Media's award-winning enterprise technology publications, Baseline and CIO Insight, will feature an all-star line-up of Chief Information Officers, CEOs and senior-level technology officers.
The three-day interactive conference, "Thriving in the Age of IT Vendor Consolidation," will provide CIO's from global 2000 companies with strategies to protect and maintain their technology investments during a period of unprecedented consolidation within the IT industry. This unique summit will address urgent challenges related to mergers, acquisitions and the shifting technology landscape. One hundred CIO's from Global 2000 companies will hear from the very executives who are driving consolidation in Silicon Valley and across the globe. Prominent corporate CIO's will also describe their own experiences with mergers, acquisitions and IT partnerships. Esteemed speakers will include:
* John Thompson, CEO, Symantec Corporation
* Atefeh Riazi, CIO and Senior Partner; Ogilvy & Mather
* Richard K. Jones, CIO and Sr. Managing Director; Countrywide Financial Corp
* Stacy Smith, VP, Finance & Enterprise Services/CIO, Intel Corporation
* Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President and General Manager Adaptive Enterprise, Hewlett-Packard Company
* Doug Kehring, VP of Mergers & Acquisitions, Oracle Corporation ;
* with a special guest appearance by Borland founder Philippe Kahn, describing how CIO's can navigate the consolidating IT landscape
"The most pressing issue for CIO's today is industry consolidation," said Sloan Seymour, President, Ziff Davis Media Enterprise Technology Group. "There has never been a time of more strategic vendor analysis and partnerships than now. CIO's are managing their information systems integration resulting from M&A, as all industries consolidate. This has created a tremendous need for strategic information on how to best manage vendor relationships and manage the complex business and technology integration challenges that exist."
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