PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS: A CASE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION
“I don’t understand you,” said Alice. “It’s dreadfully confusing!” “That’s the effect of living backwards,” the Queen said kindly, “it always makes one a little giddy at first.” Not unlike Alice’s first encounter with the Queen, what if, through a twist of modern day corporate fate, you had to take that step through the looking-glass and suddenly found your U.S.-based company doing business in 78 countries. Hear a first-hand account of the trials, tribulations, successes and non-successes, of a company that has taken this journey and survived its step through the looking-glass.
GOING GREEN: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Green is the color of choice these days for many Americans and people around the world. IT infrastructure and operations professionals should begin taking steps to prepare for an increased business focus on green IT. There’s a growing environmental movement across technology vendors, customers and investors that is exerting pressure on CIOs to begin greening operations. This session will examine emerging best practices in green guestroom technologies, and trends in green IT that impact the data center and beyond.
JOLLY GREEN STRATEGY
Join your fellow CIOs in building a green strategy. CIOs will be divided up into teams to build out components of an enterprise green IT strategy. Teams will be given the corporate vision, their mission and a green guru as their team coach.
EXTENDING I.T.’S VALUE PERIMETER
Having substantially cut internal costs while delivering operational efficiencies to business partners, IT leaders now face the urgent task of enabling business value through revenue growth opportunities, as mandated by their executive peers. In order to shift roles from “demand takers” to “demand shapers,” this session will examine three key questions that CIOs should be addressing:
• How can CIOs align IT staff goals and incentives with corporate value drivers?
• What methods are CIOs using to proactively identify IT investment opportunities?
• How can CIOs create accurate, comparable measures of the value of IT investment?
COMPUTER, HEAL THYSELF
Intelligent machines that can fix themselves are part of a growing technology trend known as predictive self-healing. From their very inception, computers have been assigned tasks of critical real-world importance, and the desire to improve their ability to avoid or recover efficiently from faults has grown in proportion to user needs. Technology suppliers are developing machines which are programmed to constantly self-monitor and repair problems before they affect users and guests; if a self-repair is not possible the appropriate technicians are dispatched by the system, thus minimizing potential downtime. This session will look at these new technologies and their impact in the marketplace.
THE REAL VALUE OF TECHNOLOGY
What if someone told you that the value of the technology you have agonized over, fought for and lovingly tended added absolutely no value whatsoever to the market worth of an individual hotel asset? While it is a shocking proposition, we know the person who is courageous enough to make and deliver this argument.
PEER-TO-PEER PRESENTATION
Back by popular demand, a member of the audience will dish and delight with their peers while presenting a real-life case study. *To be considered, please provide a 2-3 sentence description of your current IT project on question #14 of the online registration form.
PAYMENT CARD INDUSTRY REDUX
PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) version 1.2 is scheduled for availability in Oct. 2008. This new update, which is based on extensive feedback from the Council’s Participating Organizations, the PCI DSS will enhance the clarity of its technical requirements, offer improved flexibility and address new and evolving risks and threats. It is also designed to give CIOs mandated to comply with its revised standards sleepless nights and budgetary headaches. This session will examine the new standard and how one industry is fighting back.
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