2008-11-5 Techxans Dallas CIO Panel Forum

Next Dallas CIO Panel Forum
>> Wednesday, November 5, 2008 -- Dallas, TX

Topic:   "Trends in Enterprise IT: Portfolio & Project Management,
             Virtualization & Cloud Computing, Web 2.0 and Enterprise Relationship Management."

Date:    Wednesday, November 5, 2008 7:30am - 11:45am
                Continental Breakfast Provided by The Planet

Location:  INFOMART DALLAS
               1950 N Stemmons Fwy, Room 7014
               Dallas, TX 75207

               Please Contact Pam Terry (pam@techxans.org) to inquire
               Attendance Qualifications for this CIO Panel Forum -or- call 832-276-4153
              

CIO PANEL & KNOWLEDGE THOUGHT-LEADERS:

	Will Charnock Vice President, Technology The Planet (CIO Panelist)		Allan Skov Former VP of IT DCP/Duke Energy (CIO Panelist)		Robert Clines CIO Dallas County
	Steve Klein Director Compuware (Featured Speaker)		Carl Meadows Senior Manager The Planet (Featured Speaker)		Michael Dixon Consulting Manager Oracle (Featured Speaker)
	Pam Terry Executive Director & Co-Founder Techxans | TechExecs		Anthony Huang Founder & CEO Techxans | TechExecs		Rick Kinnard, XO Dallas Chapter President of Techxans

  
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  - AGENDA -

7:30am - 8:15am    Check-in, Continental Breakfast and Executives Networking
                                 Breakfast Sponsored by: The Planet

8:15am - 8:20am    Welcome & Introduction of Founder
                                 Rick Kinnard, Dallas Chapter President
                                 Pam Terry, Executive Director of Techxans

8:20am - 8:25am    Founder's Welcome & Inspire Me Program
                                 Anthony Huang, Founder of Techxans

8:25am - 8:30am    Sponsors Recognition & Moderator Introduction
                                 Pam Terry, Executive Director of Techxans
                                
8:30am - 9:00am    FEATURED SPEAKER: Trends in Project & Profolio Management
                                 Steve Klein, Director, Compuware   [DOWNLOAD PRESENTATION]
                                 "Project Management Success:  Measuring Beyond Cost
                                  and Time"

9:00am - 9:30am    FEATURED SPEAKER: Trends in IT Spending
                                 Carl Meadows, Senior Product Manager, The Planet [PRESENTATION]
                                 "Spend Your Capital on Customers - Not on IT"

9:30am - 10:00am   FEATURED SPEAKER: Trends in Web 2.0 & Enterprise Appliciations
                                 Michael Dixon, Sales Consulting Manager, Oracle
                                 "CRM in a Social Networking World"  [PRESENTATION]

10:00am - 10:15am  - BREAK -

                            SPECIAL RECOGNITION & CIO VIDEO SOUNDBITES
                                               "LifeSize" & "Akamai"

10:15am - 11:15am  CIO & Thought-Leadership Panel:
                                        "Emerging Trends in Enterprise IT" 
                                
                                         Allan Skov, Former VP of IT, Duke Energy
                                         Will Charnock, VP, Technology, The Planet
                                         Robert Clines, CIO, Dallas County

11:15am - 11:30am Closing, Diamond Awards & Thanking Our Speakers

11:30am -                 Post-Event Technology Executives Networking

NOTE: This Event is Free to Industry Professionals and current Techxans Sponsors and Paid Members.  Attendance is limited for Sales, Marketing and Recruiting Professionals who are current members or sponsors.  Please contact Pam Terry (pam@techxans.org) to qualify for attending the CIO Panel Forum. * Attendees List will be provided at the event.

 NEW NATIONAL -AND- STATEWIDE SPONSORS

NEW LOCAL CHAPTER SPONSORING MEMBERS

 PANEL & SPEAKER BACKGROUND: 

Allan Skov
Former VP of IT
DCP / Duke Energy
Allan is a CIO with more than 20 years experience in the energy industry in Canada and the United States.  Most recently, Allan was with Duke Energy where he was the Vice President Information Technology of  Duke’s $10 billion joint venture with ConocoPhillips in Denver.  Allan holds a Bachelor of Commerce and MBA from the University of Windsor in Canada.  Allan enjoys spending time with his wife and teenage daughter, skiing, golf, hockey, writing and supporting a number of community activities.
 

Will Charnock
VP, Technology
The Planet
William Charnock joined The Planet in March 2003 and today serves as vice president of technology. In this role, he is responsible for directing the company's technology planning and investments. He previously served as vice president of network engineering with The Planet. Charnock has more than 10 years of experience in senior management with Internet services companies. Prior to joining The Planet, he was director of data network engineering with Allegiance Telecom, where he served in a number of increasingly responsible roles. Charnock was responsible for the architecture and build-out of the company's nationwide Tier-1 IP network, as well as new technology evaluation and development.

He led the network integration team responsible for merging the IBI (formerly Digex) and Allegiance IP backbone networks. Prior to his career with Allegiance, he was chief technology officer and minority owner in FastLane Communication.  Charnock attended the University of Houston.

Robert Clines
CIO
Dallas County
Robert Clines has 19 years experience working for DOD Contractors in mechanical engineering using Computer Aided Design and Modeling.  He Migrated from a user role to a support role which morphed into support of Computer labs and data centers.  His experience includes 2 Years with Flying J Inc. in charge of the Mainframe Application Development in support of Oil and Gas exploration, refining and distribution, 1 Year with FirstPlus Financial as VP of IT Operations supporting the home loan industry, and 6 years with Excel Communications and Vartec Telecom as the Director of IT Operations.  At Excel, he stabilized their existing data center, built a new data center and migrated all production from the old to the new data center.  Robert established five nines operation in support of telecom provisioning and billing.  Currently, Robert has been 4 years with Dallas County as Chief Information Officer.  Prior to his tenure, IT was Outsourced since 1992.  The Outsourcing contract had gone through 4 different vendors and as a result the critical IT infrastructure of the County was in shambles.  They have rebuilt the infrastructure based on industry accepted standards and developed/refined their policies and practices to create a “Repeatable, Predictable and Reliable” IT environment.   They have worked hard to regain the trust of the user community by providing superior Customer Service and consistent support.

Steve Klein
Director
Compuware
Steve Klein has 18 years experience in the Project and Portfolio Management arena.  He has worked in PMOs both inside and outside IT in a variety of industries (Government, Telecom, Software Development, etc…) .  Steve's background makes him a trusted advisors with clients (future and current) looking to implement the PMO discipline and a Project and Portfolio Management solution.  He has Bachelors degree for the University of Texas at Austin in Economics and Finance.  Steve’s presentation today will talk about success rates of projects not increasing and the new challenge of delivering projects in less time at less cost, and how that is putting pressure on PMOs. Learn what project metrics in the IT landscape today are critically important and why.  Topics will include: * defining metrics
* ensuring your projects deliver the most value * SMART metrics * And more!

Carl Meadows
Senior Product Manager
The Planet
The Planet provides on-demand hosted IT infrastructure and is the number 1 privately held dedicated server hosting provider. As Senior Product Manager at The Planet, he is responsible for managing the product portfolio and ensuring that we are effectively developing and taking products to market.

Michael Dixon
Sales Consulting Manager
Oracle
Michael has ten years of CRM experience both as a customer of CRM solutions and as a CRM sales professional for Siebel Systems and Oracle Corporation.  With a focus in Texas and the Southern US, Michael works with companies to understand and address marketing, sales, service and business intelligence initiatives.  As a result of working with organizations across a variety of industries, Michael has the benefit of observing the latest trends in managing customer relationships and will share how Oracle is leveraging social networking to deliver solutions that increase end user community effectiveness and productivity.

    

FORUM MODERATOR:

Name
Title
Company Name
Profile 
 
    
Pam Terry
Executive Director & Co-Founder
Technology Executives Network (Techxans | TechExecs)
pam@techxans.org
866.761.7770 ext. 2
Pam Terry began her foray into the technology industry in 1994 and has a proven track record in sales and marketing in data, voice, collocation, IT consulting, application development, ecommerce, and technology training.  She was most recently an Account Executive with Time Warner Telecom, a Major Account Consultant in the Business Division of Time Warner Cable and VP of Marketing for ERGOS Technology.  During her tenure in the industry, Pam had the pleasure of co-founding Techxans with Tony and even created the “Techxans” name.   Prior to Pam’s technology industry experience, Pam was Executive Director of the Galleria Chamber of Commerce and previously provided marketing consulting in the accounting firm industry.  Throughout her career, Pam has been involved in community and trade organizations, having obtained Accreditation in Public Relations from the Public Relations Society of America, and serving on the boards of several charitable and membership groups such as the American Organ Transplant Association and the Association of IT Professionals.  Pam is currently serving as Houston Regional Director of Powerful Women International, a women’s leadership group.  Pam brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in association management and technology to her role as Executive Director of Techxans and Tech Execs.  Originally from Brownsville, Texas, Pam has been in Houston since 1971. 
    
FORUM WELCOME:

Anthony Huang
Founder & CEO
Technology Executives Network (Techxans | TechExecs)
arh@techxans.org 866.661.0258
As a well known industry icon, Anthony Huang has been a successful entrepreneur with a solid track record of having started and sold four profitable business ventures. Along with two other individuals, Pamela Terry and Laura Ramey, Anthony Huang launched the Techxans organization back in 2000.  Techxans.org has sustained the ups and downs of the Information Technology industry for the past 7 years and continues to strive and grow in size and capabilities.  In 2001, Techxans reached national and international attention for helping to launch EnronX.org which was the largest Ex-Enron contact site and was mentioned on the front page of The Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine.  In January 2007, Techxans formed Techxans InterActive Broadcast providing Internet TV broadcasting, strategic online advisory services for Techxans Corporate Members & Sponsoring companies.  Prior to Techxans, Anthony Huang was the CEO of Rexton InterActive Consulting that led the market in providing strategic web consulting for over 100 major clients across 23 different industries. Anthony also served as the CIO for 2 healthcare ventures.  Anthony began his career with Apple Computers and Ernst & Young and was a recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1998 with The Greater Houston Partnership.  He has been a speaker at numerous conferences including InformationWeek, Gartner Group Midsize Enterprise Summit, and Red Herring Venture Forums. Anthony graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Management Information Systems and lives in Sugar Land with his wife and two children.
 
 
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