ExecEvent Charlotte 2013

Come hear from Steve O’Donnell, author of “What Every CIO Wants” and an exclusive case study presentation by NASCAR. Plus, one person will leave with a $500 American Express Gift Card!

This special half-day event is for IT end-users who wish to:

Network and learn from their peers;
Gain actionable insights from a truly world-class former CIO, and;
Get an insider look at how NASCAR manages their storage infrastructure.

When: June 11th, 2013

Where: TPC Piper Glen Country Club

Time: 8:30am – Noon. Continental breakfast included.

Registration is free for qualified end-users and space is limited – please click HERE to be taken to the registration page.

Agenda

8:30am – 9:15am – Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:15am – 9:30am – Opening Remarks and Welcome – Scott Kelly and Jeff Hill

9:30am – 10:15am – Nick Franza, NASCAR

10:15am – 10:30am – Break

10:30am – 11:30am – Keynote – Steve O’Donnell

11:30am – Noon – Networking with Peers

Keynote Presentation – “What Every CIO Wants”

Steve O’Donnell an industry executive with a career budget of over $30B (yes, billion) will present his structured approach to running information technology departments. You will learn:

How to best map limited financial and manpower resources to the most important platforms;
How to align business objectives with IT
How to measure the effectiveness of potential IT investments
And More

Steve is author of “What Every CIO Wants” and the initiator of the Green Grid Data Centre Maturity Model. He was Global Head of Operations at British Telecom (with 135 data centers), IT Director at Cable & Wireless and held senior positions at First Data Corporation, Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank. He is currently CEO at GreenBytes a Providence RI based desktop virtualization business and chairman of the board/advisory board for numerous technology companies.

Special Case Study Presentation – NASCAR

Nick Franza, Manager, Production Technology for NASCAR, will share details about their IT infrastructure- including how they ingest tens of TB every weekend, process that data and metadata, then store the data for instant retrieval at a later date. Primary storage and archival storage and retrieval will be discussed and reviewed.