Brian has been with Alcatel-Lucent/Alcatel/Xylan for 11 years in systems engineering, product marketing and product management roles. He has been selling, marketing and developing networking products for over 20 years and has been a presenter at the Alcatel-Lucent Forum, Interop and NetWorld+Interop. In Product Marketing and Product Management roles, Brian oversaw the launch of new products and led Alcatel’s workgroup LAN switching portfolio. Prior to Alcatel, Brian was Director of Product Management at Sync Research an industry innovator in frame relay, Director of Product Management at McDATA an industry leader in data center networking products and Product marketing manager for the high-performance computing market at Network Systems Corporate the industry leader in supercomputer and storage networks.

There is growing agreement the student engagement improves education outcomes and can be improved by communications. Improving student engagement is the right thing, but what is the right way to leverage communications? This presentation will suggest ideas on 3 questions. What education applications are maturing? What industry tools may fit? Is the best way to implement these tools based on a cloud based “communications as a service” models or based on more traditional premises-based solutions?

Coy has 15+ years experience in technology, including helpdesk, hardware engineering, and network administration and management. He has worked primarily in the Silicon Valley software development industry, with a focus on highly-available business applications and software-as-a-service offerings for large pharmaceutical and bio-tech customers. His direction for the past 7+ years has been defending corporate and personal data in an ever-changing threat environment, without sacrificing flexibility. At WatchGuard, Coy consults with customers on a daily basis to enhance their business security and responsiveness.

Join Coy Thorp as he talks about the security threat landscape in today’s world, with the inclusion of a live demonstration of how computers are compromised utilizing a popular, well-known and useful attack, the drive-by download. Coy will show exactly how these attacks are implemented, their current use patterns implemented by hackers and criminal organizations, and talk about the best way to prepare your network for these types of attacks.

T. M. Ravi is chief marketing officer for Iron Mountain Digital, responsible for marketing and strategy for the company’s cloud, on-premises and hybrid information management solutions that span data protection, archiving, eDiscovery and compliance. Ravi joined Iron Mountain through the acquisition of Mimosa Systems, the leader in enterprise content archiving, where he was founder, president and chief executive officer. Before Mimosa, Ravi was founder and CEO of Peakstone Corporation, that provided performance management solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Previously, Ravi was vice president of marketing at Computer Associates (CA). At Computer Associates, Ravi was responsible for the core line of CA enterprise management products, including CA Unicenter, as well as the areas of application, systems and network management, software distribution, and help desk, security, and storage management. He joined CA through the $1.2 billion acquisition of Cheyenne Software, the market leader in storage management and antivirus solutions. At Cheyenne Software, Ravi was the vice president responsible for the company’s successful Windows NT business with products such as ARCserve backup and InocuLAN antivirus. Prior to Cheyenne, Ravi was the founder and CEO of Media Blitz, a provider of Windows NT storage software solutions, which was acquired by Cheyenne Software. Earlier in his career, Ravi worked in Hewlett-Packard’s Information Architecture Group, where he did product planning for client/server and storage solutions. Ravi earned a MS and PhD from UCLA and a Bachelors of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India.

Today’s organizations are facing an information explosion. Coupled with growing discovery and compliance requirements, the management of information has become very complex and expensive. Understand how cloud data protection, archiving, and discovery solutions can help you to better manage your organization’s information. Throughout the entire information lifecycle – from creation to destruction – leveraging the cloud can help reduce costs and risks and enable you to realize greater value from your information. In addition, if you are moving away from tape, explore how you can skip on-premises disk-based solutions, and jump directly to the cloud to gain an information advantage.

Randi Levin is a proven leader and manager, with a track record for executing mission-critical corporate information technology projects. Randi believes that the City of Los Angeles should be on the forefront of using smart technology to make government more efficient, accessible and customer-friendly. Levin has 20 years of experience managing information technology departments for leading Fortune 500 companies in Southern California. For the last eight years, she has served as a Vice President for NBC Universal. In that capacity she was responsible for implementing and managing the company intranet, managing a Sarbanes-Oxley program for proper corporate accountability, and creating several new IT programs that improved the entertainment company’s efficiency. Prior to NBC Universal, Levin worked as a corporate executive as well as an information technology consultant and has invaluable experience in project management, system development, strategic IT planning and business process re-engineering. Her previous experience includes work at the Walt Disney Company, L.A. Gear, Inc., Price Waterhouse, Goldman Sachs & Co., Korn/Ferry International, and Hughes Helicopters, Inc. While at Hughes she was able to program technology for the Apache helicopter used in Operation Desert Storm.

Tak Fujii is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for The Olson Company. Tak is a proven leader with over 20 years of experience establishing strategic technologies for high growth companies like Hearthstone, BuildNet, and Wamington Homes. Tak has a long history of delivering transformational enterprise level initiatives like ERP, BI, CRM, scheduling, eBusiness, ITIL, disaster recovery, SOX compliance, outsourcing and SaaS. Taks’ experience spans several industries including institutional investment, commercial banking, software, consulting, real estate development and higher education. A native of Southern California, Tak has a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a MBA in eBusiness from the University of Phoenix. Tak is passionate about teaching and supporting non-profits. He is an Adjunct Professor with the University of La Verne where he instructs courses in management information systems. He is currently a Board member of CIO Executive Network (CEN) and the Center for Information Strategies and Technologies (CIST). Tak has also served on the Board for the Southern California Society of Information Management (SIM)

John has over 30 years’ experience in IT and IT organization management, IT risk assessment, and IT cost benchmarking. He was a senior manager in the Banking and Financial Services practice at KPMG Consulting and managing director at KPMG LLP in Los Angeles, and senior vice president in charge of IT Compliance and the Program Management Office at Washington Mutual in Seattle. John’s motto is “measure to manage” – his recent work has involved encoding banking guidance and best practices on IT governance, data security and privacy of customer data, into a series of interactive questionnaires to assess inherent risk, controls effectiveness, and residual risk. Earlier this year John facilitated a series of CIO breakfast presentations and panel discussions on IT Governance. John is a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, the Association for Financial Professionals (formerly the Treasury Management Association), and the Risk Management Association. He is a past-president of the Los Angeles chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals.

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Tak Fujii is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for The Olson Company. Tak is a proven leader with over 20 years of experience establishing strategic technologies for high growth companies like Hearthstone, BuildNet, and Wamington Homes. Tak has a long history of delivering transformational enterprise level initiatives like ERP, BI, CRM, scheduling, eBusiness, ITIL, disaster recovery, SOX compliance, outsourcing and SaaS. Taks’ experience spans several industries including institutional investment, commercial banking, software, consulting, real estate development and higher education. A native of Southern California, Tak has a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and a MBA in eBusiness from the University of Phoenix. Tak is passionate about teaching and supporting non-profits. He is an Adjunct Professor with the University of La Verne where he instructs courses in management information systems. He is currently a Board member of CIO Executive Network (CEN) and the Center for Information Strategies and Technologies (CIST). Tak has also served on the Board for the Southern California Society of Information Management (SIM)

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Lelah Jenkins most recently served as the Mortgage Servicing Technology Business Executive for Bank of America. She led a division of technology professionals responsible for developing technology solutions for the Mortgage Servicing Operations and Merrill Lynch Mortgage Servicing lines of business. These two lines of business provide customer service, home retention, and other services to Bank of America’s portfolio of over 13 million mortgage and home equity loan customers. Prior to this role, Lelah managed the Countrywide Servicing Systems Development group as Managing Director for three years, and was responsible for growing an off-shore capacity for systems development and support in India, as well as managing application development teams located in several US locations. Lelah has over 30 years of experience in the IT Industry, with 25 of those years in the banking/mortgage sector. During the past fifteen years she served in senior executive leadership roles, including CIO at Downey Savings Bank, Senior Vice President of Technology Strategy at California Federal Bank, CIO at Glendale Federal Bank, and Director of Corporate Financial Systems at The Walt Disney Company. She has an MBA from the University of Southern California in Information Systems, and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from California State University at Northridge. Lelah has been a former guest Speaker for Women in Technology International (WITI), as well as a member of the Advisory Board for the Orange County Association for Women in Technology. She previously served as a Board member for IS Associates, a non-profit that encourages current technology topics/courses in the major Southern California universities, and has been a guest speaker at many leadership events.

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Pandora Ovanessian, CIO PO Enterprises – CIO consultant providing clients with solutions-driven services in the following areas: for IT strategy, enterprise management systems, customer resource management, e-Commerce, and technology planning. As Chief Information Officer, formerly at Golden State Foods (GSF), Ms. Ovanessian managed a global manufacturing and logistic company’s IT operations enabling significant revenue growth of $1.6 to $3.3+ billion and improving profitability. Her responsibilities included strategic planning, leveraging IT for a competitive advantage and implementing technology for quick returns on investments. As CIO at Alpha Therapeutic Corporation, she led a global IT organization supporting enterprise-wide systems for a biotechnology company and six subsidiaries comprising over 3,000 employees. Technology leader in a highly complex enterprise environment where she was responsible for strategic planning, highly reliable systems and the world’s largest testing laboratory and associated clinical systems. In 1996, Ms. Ovanessian joined NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as Division Manager-CIO. She transformed a highly complex business systems environment into the nation’s largest Oracle Applications installation, making it the second largest in the world supporting over 8,000 customers. Ms. Ovanessian is a graduate in Business and Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. She later earned a Master of Business Administration specializing in Information Systems from Pepperdine University. Ms. Ovanessian is published in the May 1999 issue of Oracle’s Profit magazine for her successful launch at JPL. She has also been recognized in the 1999 edition of the International Who’s Who of Information Technology.

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An award-winning author, management columnist and professional speaker Founded C2 Consulting to help technology organizations grow better leaders and help technical managers perform at their best. 20+ years experience delivering and managing IT related products and services. For four years, he was western regional manager for SEI Information Technology, a national IT consultancy. In that role he had full profit and loss responsibility for a $13 million consulting practice including supervision of sales, service delivery, recruiting, human resource management and administration. Prior to serving as the western regional manager, he served as regional manager for SEI’s Oak Brook region in the Chicago area. Author of “Leading Geeks: How to Lead and Manage People Who Deliver Technology” (Jossey-Bass Pfeiffer, 2003, Warren Bennis Signature Series) and “Healing Client Relationships: A Professional’s Guide to Managing Client Conflict” (Professional Service Publishing, 2001). “Leading Geeks” has won several book awards including the 2003 Financial Times Germany International Book Prize naming it the best new book published worldwide on the subject of leadership. Writes a monthly for Computerworld USA which is frequently syndicated around the globe. In 2007, his column was awarded a National Silver Medal for Editorial Excellence by the American Society of Business Publication Editors. MBA from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University with majors in marketing, organizational behavior, and strategy. He received a BA from Cornell University with majors in computer science and mathematics. Taught as a part-time faculty member in the MBA programs at the University of Southern California and Loyola Marymount University. AT USC he developed and taught an e-Business Strategy course. At Loyola he taught a second year MBA course that he authored entitled “Marketing of High Technology Products and Services.” Served in many roles including: project manager, product manager, account manager, and programmer. He has been involved in dozens of software development and deployment projects. He has led two startup product teams, launching both hardware and software products to the quick service restaurant industry. One of only three people worldwide outside Microsoft to be certified a Master Trainer for delivering and adapting Microsoft’s project management curriculum, the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF). He has also consulted with clients on the implementation of MSF. Past president of the Southern California Chapter of the Institute of Management Consultants. He is also a Professional Member of the National Speakers Association. A self-proclaimed geek, during his off-hours, he studies writing, photography, and comedy. He is also a licensed pilot and an FAA certified Advanced Ground Instructor.

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The CIO, the Enterprise and the Ghost Hunter: New Term in Social Media—“Groundswell” (Business Week Bestselling Book): “Is a social trend in which people use technologies to get things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations” (Li, and Bernoff, 2008) … At the October 20th 2010 IT Summit in Los Angeles a second but related term will be released, 11 days before Halloween known as “Ghos(t)”… Ghost Definition: “Ghost” is the secondary value of technology that vanished even though it maintained a useful life to someone or something! Internationally recognized Project Manager, CIO and Keller Graduate School (MBA)Senior Faculty, Ty Howard, PMP speaks to the billions of dollars of technical assets (“Ghosts”) that vanish into thin air annually even though they maintained a useful life to someone or something. He discusses his experience as a CIO in presenting a solution to the Governor’s Office that could save the state over $300 million over a five year window by sharing and filtering technology among 154 agencies and quips how he experienced an awakening after visiting a “Technology Grave Yard” for the first time. Mr. Howard takes a bold stance on proper asset inventory, tracking, management; sharing and disposal of technology around us and creating a “true” pre-owned technology market, in which others could benefit. IT Executives are faced with the challenge of taking a closer look in regards to security risk (Is it doable?) being worth taking as well as weighing and balancing the need to achieve an additional return on assets. The broader question is explored: Do we IT leaders have a greater moral (and business) obligation to society and stakeholders at large? He also ends with the challenge to IT Executives to register now and become part of a transformational movement via Ghostrade.com and team to conquer the digital divide—reduce eWaste and help facilitate small business entrepreneurship around technology and related services. (Preregister at www.ghostrade.com to receive automatic notification of launch and access to begin creating a personal or organizational account).

Stuart McClure is VP of Operations and Strategy for the Risk and Compliance Business Unit at McAfee. McClure is responsible for overall business operations as well as product, sales, and marketing strategies for the BU. Prior to McAfee, he was Executive Director of Security Services for Kaiser Permanente, a $17B Healthcare organization. McClure was responsible for all global security services functions at Kaiser including identity and access management, governance and compliance, security architecture, security consulting, data security, care delivery security, and product development/quality assurance. Prior to Kaiser, McClure was SVP of Global Threats and Research for McAfee Avert Labs where he led an elite global security threats team fighting the most viscous cyber attacks ever seen. McClure was founder, president and chief technology officer for Foundstone Inc., which was acquired by McAfee in 2004. Foundstone empowered large enterprises, including US government agencies and Global 500 customers to continuously and measurably manage and mitigate risk to protect their most important digital assets and customers’ private information from critical threats. Widely recognized for his extensive and in-depth knowledge of security products, McClure is considered one of the industry’s leading authorities in information security today. A well-published and acclaimed security visionary, McClure brought over 20 years of technology and executive leadership to Foundstone with profound technical, operational, and financial experience. In 1999, he published the first of many books on computer hacking and security. His first book, “Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions” has been translated into over 20 languages and was ranked the #4 computer book ever sold — positioning it as one of the best-selling security and computer books in history. McClure has also co-authored “Hacking Exposed: Windows 2000” by McGraw-Hill/Osborne and “Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense” by Addison-Wesley. Prior to Foundstone, McClure held many leadership positions in security and IT management including within Ernst & Young’s National Security Profiling Team, the InfoWorld Test Center, state and local California government, IT consultancy, and with the University of Colorado, Boulder where he holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and philosophy, with an emphasis in computer science applications. He has also earned numerous certifications including ISC2’s CISSP, Novell’s CNE, and Check Point’s CCSE.

Stuart McClure, General Manager of the Risk and Compliance Business Unit at McAfee and best-selling author of Hacking Exposed, will deliver a straightforward approach on how best to secure your environment in a world of ever increasing and more complex threats. He will give an overview of today’s threat landscape (including Stuxnet) and discuss how to isolate and minimize the impact of an attack as well as how to prevent them in the first place. The presentation will include what security metrics make the most sense to measure and how they can help you proactively identify trends, prevent threats, justify existing security investments and provide direction on where to focus your security efforts.