May 15, 2007
The Ritz Carlton
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

At Computerworld’s upcoming IT Executive Summit on Reducing IT Cost and Complexity, a select group of senior IT executives like you will explore and discuss the issues, and will get an up-to-date education on where grid, SOA and virtualization are headed. Through a concise, morning-long program of analyst/industry expert and end-user presentations concluding with a rich, interactive panel discussion, participants will gain a fresh perspective from presenters and each other.

Why You Should Attend
You’ll learn from formal presentations and moderated discussion that will surround how today’s enterprise environments are pushing the envelope with grid, SOA and virtualization. From the morning’s program, you’ll rapidly gather answers to the following questions:

• How can reducing IT cost and complexity via grid, SOA and virtualization offer businesses more cost effective, flexible and available applications and infrastructure?
• What techniques are businesses using to deploy grid, SOA and virtualization to lower the time and cost of server farm and storage management?
• What are the pitfalls to avoid?
• How have some businesses maximized on the promise of improving IT service quality and productivity while reducing IT cost and complexity?

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Agenda

8:00-8:45 a.m.	Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:45-9:00 a.m.	Introduction and Overview Julia King, Executive Editor of Events, National Correspondent, Computerworld
9:00-9:40 a.m.	IT Infrastructure for the Agile Enterprise Michael Hugos, Computerworld Columnist, CIO at Large and Author of CIO Best Practices: Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology and The Greatest Innovation Since the Assembly Line
9:40-10:20 a.m.	2007: A Grid Odyssey Peter A. Covitz, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer, National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB)
10:20-10:35 a.m.	Refreshment and Networking Break
10:35-11:15 a.m.	Enabling a Dynamic IT Infrastructure Al Zmyslowski, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Fujitsu Computer Systems
11:15-Noon	Moderated Panel Discussion Moderator: Julia King, Executive Editor of Events, National Correspondent, Computerworld Panelists: Peter A. Covitz, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer, National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB); Michael Hugos, Computerworld Columnist, CIO at Large and Author; Al Zmyslowski, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Fujitsu Computer Systems; Paul Turner, Senior Director, Network Appliance; Thomas Gronbach, Principal Director, Oracle
Noon	Program Concludes

 

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Presenters

Peter A. Covitz, Ph.D., Chief Operating Officer, National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB)
Peter Covitz is currently the Chief Operating Officer of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Bioinformatics in Rockville, Maryland. He previously led the Core Infrastructure group at the NCI Center for Bioinformatics, and was responsible for developing the NCI’s platform for interoperable information systems, a model-driven, service-oriented architecture called caCORE. Prior to joining the NCI, Dr. Covitz was Vice President of Professional Services at InforMax, Inc. where he ran the bioinformatics service and support division of the company. Earlier in his career Dr. Covitz worked as a research scientist and manager at Incyte Pharmaceuticals and Molecular Applications Group. Dr. Covitz did his graduate work on transcriptional regulation at Columbia University, and post-doctoral training in genomics and bioinformatics at Stanford University.

Michael Hugos, Computerworld Columnist, CIO at Large and Author of CIO Best Practices: Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology and The Greatest Innovation Since the Assembly Line
Michael Hugos is CIO at Large and a coach in business and IT agility with the Center for Systems Innovation. He recently spent six years as the CIO of a multi-billion dollar distribution organization where he built the suite of supply chain and e-business systems that transformed the company’s business model and now drives its growth. Prior to this he was a Practice Director at a publicly traded global IT services firm.

In 2003 and 2005 he was awarded the CIO 100 Award for bold and resourceful use of information technology and in 2006 he was awarded the Computerworld Premier 100 award for career achievement. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. Mr. Hugos is an author whose books include The Greatest Innovation Since the Assembly Line and CIO Best Practices: Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology. He writes a column for Computerworld, a blog for CIO magazine, and speaks at business and IT industry conferences.

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Julia King, Executive Editor of Events, National Correspondent, Computerworld
Julia King is Executive Editor, Events and National Correspondent at Computerworld. Ms. King is an award-winning business and technology journalist whose coverage has spanned a wide range of beats, from technology management and labor issues to electronic commerce, IT return on investment issues and offshore outsourcing. Ms. King was the founding executive editor of the award-winning Computerworld ROI magazine and spearheaded Computerworld's coverage of information economics. Prior to joining Computerworld in 1994, Ms. King worked for nearly a decade as a reporter and writer for national business and technology magazines. She also worked for five years as a daily newspaper reporter and later, as a features writer and editor. Her IT reporting has earned her several awards form the American Society of Business Press Editors and she is a frequent presenter and panel moderator at industry conferences. She is editor of a book titled Executives' Guide To The Wireless Workforce, which was published by John Wiley & Sons in July, 2003.

Ms. King holds a Master's Degree in International Relations and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, both from University of Pittsburgh. She is based in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania.

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Al Zmyslowski, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Fujitsu Computer Systems
Al Zmyslowski is Vice President of Engineering for Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation. His responsibilities include engineering support for enterprise servers and mobility products and hardware and software development for mobile platforms. In addition, Mr. Zmyslowski directs engineering pre-sales support, conducts interoperability and performance testing, and manages proof of concept work within the Fujitsu North American Competency Center.

Mr. Zmyslowski has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He began his career at Amdahl Corporation in 1979 where he worked on CPU design and development. Mr. Zmyslowski held various management positions before being named Vice President of the Integration and Solution Center in early 2000. In this role he successfully integrated three engineering organizations into a combined group that was responsible for pre-sales support and engineering support for PRIMEPOWER servers.

Mr. Zmyslowski is the inventor of 12 U.S. patents. He holds a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) and a master of science in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan.

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