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Provinces Ballroom II, 4th Floor, Westin Hotel
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
8:30 am - 4:00pm

CIO Boot Camp is an intensive one-day program that helps senior IT professionals understand the issues involved in getting the top IT job—and the best practices to employ once you are there. You'll be exposed to the best thinking in the world of today's technology and hear examples from CIOs who are outperforming in their industries.

Panelists

Private Sector CIOs:
Elizabeth Hackenson, Senior VP and CIO, Alcatel-Lucent	Mircea Mihaescu, Director, CIO Office, IBM	Fred Grigsby, Sr. VP and CIO, Canadian National Railways
Public Sector CIOs:		Moderator:
Ken Cochrane, CIO Government of Canada	Janet Harris–Campbell, CIO, City of Ottawa	John Pickett, Editor, IT World Canada

CIO Boot Camp Pass $150.00
Please note that in order to qualify for the CIO Boot Camp you must have pre-registered for the Conference.

Program Agenda:

8:30 - 9:15
Opening Session: Being an Innovation Champion – Engaging your Organization in IT Innovation
Elizabeth Hackenson, Senior VP and CIO, Alcatel-Lucent

As a seasoned CIO, and one of the top 200 female business people in the United States, Elizabeth Hackenson will provide a unique and insightful position on how the CIO plays a key role, internally and externally, as a champion for success.

• For the Government IT executive, the ability to rationalize the overall objective of the combined departments and not just their individual branch is a key skills requirement. Converging networks, processes, and tools will facilitate such collaboration.
• Regardless of public or private sector one consistent pressure comes in the form of budget. CIO’s are always challenged to gain efficiencies by making the right investments in the right priorities (Collaboration, Security, Identity management…) Models such as SOA and SDE are proving to be effective in reaching these goals.
• A CIO must posses the ability to promote innovations to senior executives, to line managers and staff, and to the public. He or she must have the ability to "evangelize" the value of tools and services.

9:30-10:45
Participate in Keynote Industry Panel Discussion: 'Citizen-Centered Services in the Web 2.0 World'

11:00 – 12:00
CIO Play Book: The First 90 Days in CIO Role
Speaker: John Pickett, Editor, CIO Canada Review

John Pickett will draw from two CIO Canada initiatives to address the role of the CIO within the first 90 days of assuming the role, as well as the key issues facing CIOs today.

First is the “Running Start” initiative of the CIO Executive Council. 67 practicing CIOs contributed to this report, which provides guidance to newly-appointed CIOs and experienced CIOs moving into a new job and focuses on the first 90 days on the job. However, its content is relevant to incumbent and to aspiring CIOs. Issues include:

• Understanding the corporate strategy
• Identifying key success factors for IT in the context of the business
• Building relationships
• Allocating your time – learning, short- and long-term planning
• Creating early wins
• Understanding and negotiating success factors with your boss
• Pitfalls and how to avoid them

The second CIO Canada initiative is the 2007 CIO Insider Survey, which identifies current issues and challenges for CIOs:

• Where their time and effort is focused;
• What types of initiatives are in vogue;
• Spending plans, etc.

John will do a brief introduction touching on these points followed by reactions from CIOs on Panel

12:00-1:30
Working Lunch: The Evolving Role of the CIO Through Innovation
Mircea Mihaescu, Director, CIO Office, IBM

Government departments are not the only organizations to face the challenges of transformation and innovation. IBM recently underwent an internal transformation to an aligned business management model for IT shared services globally. In this presentation, Mircea Mihaescu will present a case study on IBM's experience and lessons learned, including a discussion of:

• The CIO as Chief Innovation Officer
• Managed Innovation Technology Adoption
• IBM's technology Adoption Program
• IBM's Workplace Transformation
• The On Demand Workplace and the collaborative workplace

(session followed by reactions from CIOs on Panel)

1:45-2:30
Participate in GTEC Keynote:
Don Tapscott; Wikinomics: "How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything"

2:45 – 3:45
CIO Panel and Round Tables

The final portion of the program will focus on key issues facing the CIO, and mostly follow a round-table format where questions are brought forward to the CIO Panelists from the Floor. Each table will be asked to discuss a topic and identify the common challenges that delegates around the table face in their roles. The Moderator will ask tables to bring forward their reactions and have the Panelists respond. Each table will be a self-facilitated working group.

Questions:

• Question 1:
  Engaging your clients – While much has been accomplished to engage the program/service delivery side of organizations, what has been your greatest challenge in engaging program leadership in IT/IM projects?
• Question 2:
  Building your personal network – What should you be doing to engage community networks, internally, within peer groups and inter-jurisdictionally?
• Question 3:
  Building your team – What is required to build capacity in public service IT/IM teams? Is your team equipped with the right tools to meet public and internal expectations around service delivery?

3:45 – 4:00
Wrap-Up

• Reflections from the Office of Organizational Readiness and discussion of post-event mentoring by Nikolas Florakas, Director General, Organizational Readiness Office, Public Works and Government Services Canada.
• Group Photo