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AGENDA

AGENDA

For detailed session descriptions, please download the conference brochure

MAIN CONFERENCE DAY ONE
8:30Registration and Morning Coffee
9:00Opening Remarks
9:15 Keynote:
Running IT as a Business: Delivering a Fully Integrated and Self Healing Enterprise

Andrés Carvallo, CIO, Austin Energy
10:15Agile and the IT Project Portfolio

Pamela Johnson, Manager, Project Management -
Enterprise IT Operations, Scripps Networks Interactive
11:00Networking Break
11:30Your Space Collaboration Session

New This Year: Welcome to YOUR session created by YOU for YOU. No PowerPoint or speakers, just ideas from participants. Registered attendees and speakers will send in their biggest IT portfolio management challenges. The conference organizers will compile a list of the most popular issues and develop roundtables dedicated to these challenges. Then YOU select a topic and engage in discussion, debate, and problem solving at
each issue-specific roundtable. Please submit theme suggestions to kpaulick@iirusa.com
12:30Luncheon
1:30Integrating PPM with ITIL – Alphabet Soup

Jane Walton, IT Portfolio Manager, Schlumberger
2:15*New* Using Accountability and Transparency to Your Advantage

  • Building credibility and a partnership between the customer and IT
  • Helping the Project Champion sleep at night
  • Using "canned" reports to your advantage
  • Resource accountability
  • Ed Cullari, Director, Project Management Office, Amerisure Mutual Insurance

    3:00Networking Break
    3:30Using The Balanced Scorecard to Align PMO Performance to Corporate Strategies

    Art Drake, Director, Global Program Management Office, AIG
    4:15Meeting C-Level Expectations for Portfolio Management and Governance

    Nayan D. Patel, PMP, Corporate Manager, Portfolio Management, Baylor Health Care System
    5:00End of main conference day one
     MAIN CONFERENCE DAY TWO
    8:30Morning Coffee
    9:00Keynote: Where's the Magic? Keeping IT Innovation Alive in Tough Economic Times


    Roger Berry, Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts
    9:45

    So Many Projects, So Little Time and Resources: Now is the Time to Really Optimize Your Project Portfolio

    Herb Strauss, Chief Strategy Officer, Robbins-Gioia

    10:30Networking Break
    11:00My Portfolio Management Office is Established. What Do I Do Now?

    Eduardo Rios, Portfolio Program Manager, Commercial Metals Company (CMC)
    11:458 Components of a Successful Portfolio Management Program

    Tom Westcott, CEO of Project Solutions Group & Instructor, University of Wisconsin’s Executive Education Center will discuss the essential components of a portfolio management program with a focus on PPM industry trends, benefits, technology and organizational readiness. A Chevron case study will be shared.
    12:30Lunch
    1:30Improve Efficiency and Customer Satisfaction Through Enterprise Portfolio Management

    Ernie Nielsen, Managing Director, Enterprise Project Management, Brigham Young University
    2:15

    Optimizing IT: Making IT More Responsive to Your Entire Business  

    Ric Telford, V-P, Integration & Dev., IT Optimization, IBM

    3:00Networking Break
    3:30Application Portfolio Strategies (Reduce HIT Redundancy & Complexity and Improving Strategic Alignment)

    Jeffrey A. Pankow, IT Director, Excellus Health Plan Scott Hendler, Functional Business Process Manager for IT, Excellus Health Plan
    4:15 Conference concludes, see you next year
      


    For detailed session descriptions, please download the conference brochure