Realizing the promise of IT Innovation Panel

Realizing the promise of IT Innovation Panel Session in Conjunction with Interop 2010 Las Vegas

Calling all IT Professionals, Entrepreneurs and Innovators!

What: Special Interop Event Session: Realizing the promise of IT Innovation

When: April 27, 2010

Where: Interop Las Vegas taking place at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Las Vegas NV.

Registration: Visit the Interop website

Session Description: Many of the most significant corporate success stories have been because of IT innovations. Leading executives understand that IT innovation is a major factor for their companies’ bottom lines and future growth. Unfortunately, not all organizational decision-makers understand or do a good job evaluating or implementing the strategic importance of IT. It is not enough to just sell or buy a well designed equipment or software package. To realize the strategic, mutual advantages of technology solutions, it is also necessary for organizations to have a competent technical and business savvy IT workforce, which can implement, integrate, manage, maintain and support users of the solution. This session presents industry and education perspectives on these issues

Specifically you will learn:

* Which IT growth barriers are most relevant to your business
* Why Technology Innovation projects fail
* How business requirements are transforming IT departments worldwide
* How to improve operational efficiencies, enhance innovation and value
* Issues affecting the IT profession
* How do a better job raising awareness and understanding of IT by key organizational, educational and governmental decision-makers.

Panelist:

Bob Haas. Partner and Vice President A.T. Kearney

Bob Haas is an A.T. Kearney Partner and Vice President as well as Leader of the firm’s Strategic IT Practice. With more than 20 years of industry and consulting experience, he has global clients in the Consumer Goods, High Technology, Financial Services and Healthcare industries. Key issues on which Mr. Haas has focused include customer strategy and relationship management, IT strategy and IT transformation, enterprise restructuring and shared services, IT innovation, and merger and acquisition integration.

Prior to A.T. Kearney, Mr. Haas held senior positions at Information Resources Inc. and Metaphor Systems, an IBM subsidiary. Mr. Haas has an MBA from Rutgers University, Graduate School of Management and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Rutgers College of Engineering.

David Leip, Chief Technology Officer and Agile Methods Advocate at ibm.com.

David Leip is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM where he has been a web technology leader for over 15 years. He is currently the Chief Innovation Officer for ibm.com, focused on driving new innovation in IBM’s own web presence. Over time David has focused on many areas including:agile development and delivery, web standards and governance, high availability web delivery infrastructure, web speed enhancements through application architecture, compression and caching, personalization, syndication and social media. He is on the board of directors for the Internet Strategy Forum, and on the advisory board for the World Organization of Webmasters. David has a Master’s degree in Computing and Information Science from the University of Guelph. Online he can be foundat www.Leip.ca

Moderator:

Bill Cullifer, Executive Director WebProfessionals.org and Chair of the WhyITNow.org initiative.

Bill Cullifer is founder of the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW), a non-profit professional association established in 1996, providing community, education and certification for Web professionals worldwide. As the organization’s executive director, Cullifer participates in a variety of industry, government and educational advisory boards that assist WOW in developing and delivering professional standards and improving communication between all Web professionals and business and industry. He acts as the organization’s chief evangelist to stimulate the continued growth and opportunities of the Web. He also provides daily podcast regarding a variety of Web professional topics.