CIO Education Summit Agenda - November 13-16, 2011

Networking Opportunities & Session Breaks

Executive Exchange

CIO Keynote Presentation

CIO Focus Group

A visionary speaker addresses the entire summit audience on a topic determined by the CIO Content Committee.

Led by a vendor, these sessions allow executives to discuss business drivers within a particular area of technology. Presentations are 15-20 minutes followed by 10-15 minutes of Q&A.

CIO Executive Visions

Analyst Q&A Session

A panel of IT executives has an in-depth discussion on a critical IT business topic. Audience members have an opportunity to pose questions to the panelists and moderator.

A high-impact, open-forum session covering the latest technology research and led by a member of our analyst partner community.

CIO Thought Leadership

Vendor Showcase

Led by a member of the vendor community, these sessions will provide an overview of cutting edge technology topics and pressing business concerns.

Presented by a member of the vendor community, these sessions are divided into three 10-minute long elevator pitches on the newest technology solutions and services.

CIO Think Tank

CIO Case Study

Focusing on a specific topic or initiative, these interactive, open-forum style sessions allow the attending 15-20 executives to discuss best practices and have lively debates.

Learn about recent technology implementations from the IT executives who drove the projects at their organizations. Presentations are followed by Q&A sessions.

CIO/CTO Roundtable

CIO Open Forum Luncheon

An interactive, focused session led by either an analyst, industry expert or member of the vendor community.

Led by a moderator, these sessions allow attendees to have informal discussions on pre-determined technology topics.

2:00pm -
5:30pm

6:00pm -
7:00pm

Welcome Reception

7:00pm -
10:00pm

Welcome Address Presented by Master of Ceremonies

Welcome Gala Dinner

7:00am -
8:00am

Networking Breakfast

Part 1: Making Innovation Real

8:10am -
8:50am

Opening CIO Keynote Presentation

Is Cloud Computing a Viable Solution For Your Institution?

While tuition costs continue to rise across the country, educational institutions are looking for any way they can to cut costs. Cloud computing provides computer applications to users without the need to purchase or install any software, etc. Apart from the financial benefits of the virtually unlimited storage capacity of cloud computing programs, there is the invaluable fact that you can literally store files anywhere, instead of just on a desktop or hard drive. However, with the limitless storage power associate with the cloud, comes limitless risk as well. Can educational institution full trust any provider not to lose irreplaceable documents and files?

This opening keynote session will discuss the pros and cons of Cloud computing with focus on the specific challenges that face the Education CIOs.

9:00am -
9:30am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Top-Ten IT Issues in Higher Education

Despite all of the changes taking place in higher education and the world at large, the primary responsibility of IT leaders remains the same: to deliver the essential services that underlie the institutional mission. Thus, keeping the enterprise systems running, maintaining a robust and secure technological, and supporting the learning management systems that provide essential academic support remain the top consumers of financial and human resources within the IT organization, even though these issues may not be of high strategic importance. Clearly, the role of the IT leadership is to keep the technological ship afloat even as the course may be changing. It is a testament to leaders of the IT organization that they are able to continue to do so during a time of uncertainty. This session will discuss the top-ten major issues judged to have relevance to the CIOs and the higher education IT community at large, either for general principles or specific guidelines.

9:35am -
10:05am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Desktop Virtualization in Education - Improve IT Security and Agility, Simplify Management and Reduce Costs

Desktop Virtualization has attracted an immense interest by IT professionals in Education due to the potential it offers for improving security and agility. But with growing school districts and shrinking budgets, educational institutions are also turning to desktop virtualization as a mean to simply keep the machine running. How can CIOs use Desktop Virtualization to increase access while simplifying desktop management and reducing costs?

The topics of this session will address the straight-forward explanation of the various methods available today for Desktop Virtualization, the differences between them, and where each can have their optimal fit within the educational institutions depending on specific user roles, applications and physical environments. It will also focus on the challenges encountered with the schools' desktop infrastructure and ensuring equitable access to technology across multiple campuses.

10:10am -
10:40am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Schools Turning to SaaS for Savings and Security

Rather than building their own IT storage networks, schools are turning to Software-as-a-Solution (SaaS) to provide students and teachers with unlimited storage capacity online. With budgets always an issue in the education system, will this be the next step toward complete virtualization and use of the cloud in institutions across America? Administrators are predicting an eventual paperless environment in some schools as early as 2015, and with the advances in the last decade, that's no surprise.

This session will discuss the latest developments, and what challenges can be expected with the implementation of SaaS.

10:40am -
11:05am

Networking Break

11:10am -
11:40am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Enhancing the Academic Experience

The quest of the CIO to expand the business impact of IT in Education is not so much about ROI as it is a quest to enhance the academic experience using technology solutions. What innovations and tools does the Education CIOs have to their disposal - and how can we measure something as insubstantial as "the academic experience"?

This session will discuss the following topics:

11:45am -
12:15pm

CIO Think Tank

Social Networking and Education

Not all social networking sites are simple "vacuum's" for today’s youth to spend their time. Beyond the connections of Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, there are sites that help prepare students for the "real world" by teaching them the value of professional relationships and connections. With sites like Linkedin.com, Jobster.com, VisualCV.com and JobFox, the web has once again changed the landscape of the way individuals can begin their careers and career searches.

This session will explore the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to social networking in today’s schools and the impact it will have on our youth and young adults in the future.

CIO Think Tank

Encouraging Faculty Adoption and Innovation in Teaching and Learning with IT

As the e-learning age continues to forge new opportunities for today's students, tenured faculty and established educators are still not 100% comfortable with using IT as a learning tool. This session will help to identify the key components of getting faculty members on board with establishing the importance of technology education in the development of today's students.

CIO Thought Leadership

K-12 Education Technology

New approaches on early childhood education and a variety of programs and initiatives in K-12 education, has been focused on using new and innovative technology solutions.

This session will discuss the following topics:

Part 2: Raising the ROI of IT

12:55pm -
1:55pm

CIO Open Forum Luncheon

2:00pm -
2:30pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Advancing Technology in the Curriculum in the Face of Ongoing Budget Cuts

In the face of economic crises and multiple state budgets being cut and re-aligned, public institutions are now challenged with not having the funding to invest in advanced technology programs that will aid in the education process. How can school administrators and technology leaders make their dollars go further during this crucial time when our educators need to be adopting new technologies to keep students from falling behind?

CIO Think Tank

Innovation, Collaboration, and Value Creation in the Academic Community

What are the internal and external IT challenges within educational institutions and the academic community? What leadership and vision needs to be in place to realize the benefits of innovation, collaboration, and joint value creation?

Join this session to discuss new approaches and solutions for education organizations.

2:35pm -
3:05pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Managing Services & Outsourcing in a Challenging Education Climate

Educational institutions must carefully pick the spots where they can cut costs and where to continue - or even accelerate - IT investment. The reality is that much of the infrastructure is non-strategic, non-standard, and lacks the scale needed for operational efficiency.

A new generation of outsourced services that remove these tired assets from the balance sheets and operate them as shared managed services potentially provides a high road for the effective management of resources during the recession, and sets the stage for growth in less encumbered areas once the economy rebounds.

3:10pm -
3:40pm

Executive Exchange

3:45pm -
4:15pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Thank

Confronting Critical Issues

Among the many responsibilities of the academic CIO is the art of confronting critical issues related to ROI and technology in education. This session will discuss a number of these issues and ways to handle them, including:

CIO Think Thank

Why Educators Must Go Mobile

The thought of composing an essay with pencil and paper is not only archaic, but inefficient. That said, the adoption of cell phone use in lesson plans and school work is not the easiest transition to make, especially after many school districts have enforced the "turned off an out of sight" rule. A growing number of educators are asking students to use their personal cell phones to make podcasts, take notes, and plan out their schedules for completing homework, etc. By opening up these lines of communication between educators, students, and more across hundreds or thousands of non-secured devices, school technology executives will need to find ways to ensure that confidential information and files are secure in a mobile education environment.

4:25pm -
5:25pm

CIO Executive Visions

Technology Solutions That Will Transform the Education system in 2012

Join this executive panel for an insightful discussion on new technology solutions for education organizations, with a focus on trends and technologies that will give the education system and the academic community a technology edge in the coming year.

5:30pm -
7:00pm

Reception

7:00pm -
9:30pm

Gala Dinner

9:30pm -
10:30pm

After Dinner Networking

7:30am -
8:30am

Networking Breakfast

Part 3: Expanding the Impact of IT

8:40am -
9:20am

CIO Keynote Presentation

K-12 Education for the Next Generation

The second wave of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's ed-tech grant program, Next Generation Learning Challenges, has been geared toward K-12 education, awarding promising technology tools and applications that help students in grades 7-9 master math and literacy skills.

This session will discuss the $10 million program and some of the more crucial criteria: Modular content easily mixed and matched by teachers and students; Embedded assessment to measure student performance and provide feedback that can be used to improve processes and results; Building ideas based on contemporary research in cognitive and learning science, including various methods of branching learning paths to result in deeper understanding of concepts; and Focusing on student progression through concepts rather than seat time or course hours.

9:30am -
10:00am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Web 2.0 for Administrators

While the majority of the focus on education technology issues focuses on the students and the teachers and their efficient adoption of new resources for effective learning, our school administrators also play a key role in the implementation and understanding of new technology in the institution. The technology that enables connected teaching is available now, but not all the conditions necessary to leverage it are. Many new technologies can make the role of a university administrator much easier, efficient and enjoyable. As technology leaders in the education sector, this session will discuss some options and new strategies around getting administrators on board and educated with new technologies

10:05am -
10:35am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Technology-Based Resources for Professional Educators

To achieve the goal of transforming the American education system, we must rethink and redesign our basic assumptions. We must apply technology to implement personalized learning and ensure that students are making appropriate progress through our P-16 system so they graduate. These and other initiatives require extensive IT investments, while basic fiscal responsibility demand that we get more out of each dollar we spend. This session will discuss how we can leverage technology to plan, manage, monitor, and report spending to provide decision-makers with a reliable, accurate, and complete view of the financial performance of our education system at all levels.

CIO Think Tank

Guide to WLANs in Schools

New standards, quicker speeds, and decreased costs are coming together to make wireless networking an increasingly appealing solution for campus connectivity needs. A WLAN makes it possible for school administrators and CIOs to roam virtually anywhere on campus and still stay connected, and with the increasing use of laptops, PDAs and wireless VoIP devices, this is becoming more and more important. Careful planning and a defined scope are just two of the many things to understand prior to tackling the implementation of a WLAN. With an eye on security, CIOs on campuses nationwide are implementing this technology with positive outcomes.

CIO Think Tank

The Time to Act is Now

The American education is primarily a state and local responsibility. With the National Education Technology Plan 2010 (NETP), CIOs at Educational Institutions are requested to collaborate to redesign structures and processes for effectiveness, efficiency, and flexibility; continually monitor and measure our performance; and hold themselves accountable for progress and results every step of the way. This session will discuss how IT is at the core of virtually every aspect of our life - at home, at work, and at school - and how Education CIOs can leverage it to provide engaging and powerful learning experiences and content for their students.

11:10am -
11:30am

Networking Break

11:35am -
12:05pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Managing Campus Technology: Today's Education CIO

From continuous evaluations to required technology advancements imposed by boards, managing campus technology has become a difficult balancing act for today's campus CIO. How can CIOs be better equipped to face the integration of technology into the day-to-day operations of a university or school.

Executive Exchange

12:45pm -
1:45pm

CIO Open Forum Luncheon

CIO Executive Visions

"No Child Left Behind" - Redefining 21st Century Literacy With Technology

Ten years after the adoption of the "No Child Left Behind" act of 2001, school administrators, teachers and educators are still struggling with implementing effective tactics to achieve the measurable goals set forth by this initiative. Literacy takes on a new meaning when technology is introduced into the playing field. The variety of vehicles that students will now need to understand in order to advance and function in today's society are increasing exponentially and the teachers need training so they can help prepare students for college success. There are an entirely new set of check points to determine how well our students today are developing and none of them have to do with calculus or reading comprehension.

How can today's administrations foster the development of information, digital and visual literacy across their students? With funding increasing nearly each year for this program, school administrators and boards are beginning to ask:

Closing CIO Keynote Presentation

Education in 2012 and Beyond

The pace of change for educational institutions has never been faster or more demanding. Just as the last ten years have seen a transformation of the American education system, the next ten will likely prove to be even more innovative. With technology going from being the new player in the game, to now being the main focus of driving education forward for today's students.

This session will discuss speculation and predictions for the next ten years in education and the options CIOs have with respect to keeping their institutions on their "A" game. How can you be better prepared to take on new technology opportunities and adopt more efficient programs for your staff? Discuss how CIOs can implement smarter processes, reduce costs, increase productivity, and deliver better outcomes for their institutions in 2012 and beyond.