Efm Events

provided by CIO Executive Council

At the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) the customer is at the heart of their mission. Providing a life-saving stem cell transplant is often a final chance at living a healthy life for a patient suffering from a cancerous disease. The NMDP is so committed to its customers that it is changing their entire business model to serve them in a more optimal manner. IT is an integral part of this business transformation given its role in supporting the intricate network of participants involved throughout the world in the transplant process, and the need for better, more sophisticated systems that provide the functionality to serve ever-growing needs. IT is also the steward of the most central component of NMDP’s success – a matching algorithm which predicts the best cellular match for a patient.

This keynote will share the journey Michael Jones and his organization have taken to truly understand their customers and how they plan to use technology innovation to drive a better, more efficient business model.

The Cloud: Real, Secure and Practical, What Exists Today and How Your Business Can Take Advantage Now

sponsored by IP Pathways

sponsored by CSS Staffing

Roger Mellman
Sr. IT Engineer
Kingland Systems

Richard Medina
Principal Consultant
Doculabs

Effective management of content has become increasingly critical for organizations facing litigation, as they seek to manage potentially discoverable information.  Additionally, organizations face heightened oversight from both internal audit and external regulatory bodies.  The technology to manage content has become a key part of how an organization approaches its ability to capture, store, manage and produce information.

Today, an estimated 85 to 90 percent of the content created within an organization now exists electronically. Business operations are generating vast volumes of unstructured data – ranging from the content created in desktop applications to the web content and digital assets that are created and used in the course of business. Add to this the growing volume of digital communications – email, as well as the increasing use of instant messaging, PDAs, and voicemail – and it’s clear that today’s organization has many more sources of information to manage than the organization of even just five years ago. This presentation will share best practices and recommendations for how your organization can leverage investments in ECM to manage information for compliance, specifically:

• Where does Records Management fit into the discovery process for litigation, audit, and regulation?
• How does technology serve as the foundation for discovery initiatives?
• Why do we need a program to address discovery issues?
• What does it take to develop and implement a compliance program?
• What is the business case for these programs in the absence of large scale litigations

Matthew Marsh
President
Paktronix Systems LLC

With the update of Massachusetts’ 201CMR17 in August of 2009 and the passing of Nevada’s SB227 NRS 603A update in May of 2009, 2010 becomes the Year of Security Standards. In this session we discuss what security standards best cover the entire scope of data privacy law. We start with a brief overview of the security standard landscape, extract from current laws the relevant legal directions, examine the interactions between the landscape and the direction, and summarize with recommendations regarding high impact actions you can take to maximize coverage of your liabilities under these laws. Along the way we illustrate common gotchas along with hidden overlaps in structure. You will exit this session with a solid understanding of how to safely navigate your company through the coming legal and technical minefield.

Michael Geppert
CIO
HDR, Inc.

Creating a productive partnership between IT and the business is becoming more and more of a critical success factor for the overall organization. This transition requires IT professionals at all levels to change the way they think about everything. Organization, business models and I.T.’s ability to “speak the language of the business” all play important roles in building a sustainable partnership.

sponsored by Emineo Group

sponsored by Affinity

sponsored by Cox Business

sponsored by Information Builders