Past Meetings

SIM FALL GALA Featuring Thornton May
SIM Chicago is pleased to present a very special evening event with noted futurist Thornton May. Thornton May is one of the premier 'communicators' in the information technology industry today. He combines a scholar's passion for empirical research, an entrepreneur's capacity for opportunity identification and a stand-up comic's gift for storytelling to assisting executives figure out what comes after what comes next. He is a superior noticer and picks up on things that others overlook. Sometimes referred to as the "Robin Williams of I.T.", you will undoubtedly remember Thornton as being one of the most entertaining presenters you have ever seen.

Come join your Chicago technology peers and bring your favorite office colleagues to this memorable event. Enjoy a fabulous meal, camaraderie, networking and prepare to be entertained by Thornton May.

SIM Chicago Special Summer Event
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Microsoft, A SIM Sponsor will demonstrate Microsoft Silverlight and the next generation web applications.  The showcase application will be the site that is delivering the 2008 games from Beijing.

SIM Chicago Summer Social Event

SIM Chicago's fall program schedule is right around the corner, so let's get it started with an evening of socializing and networking with your fellow members.

SPEAKER: Lewis Cardin, Senior Analyst 
              Forrester Research, Inc.

TOPIC:   Organizational Deisgn

Neil T. Brigham
Partner - KPMG

People, Process, Technology, what about Risk? -  The Leadership Role of the CIO

CIOs can take an executive leadership role as companies are looking to risk and controls management to become more strategic and forward-looking, with a focus on creating as opposed to merely preserving value. This session presented by Neil Brigham, Midwest U.S. IT Advisory Services Leader, will address the CIO's leadership role in: 

Mary Beth Watson-Manheim
Associate Professor
Information & Decision Sciences
University of Illinois, Chicago

The prevalence of global alliances, offshore outsourcing and international trade has changed how work is done in organizations today. Increasingly, people work in multiple virtual teams distributed over different geographical locations, major time zone differences, internal business units, and national cultures.  As a 21st Century IT professional, you will likely work on virtual teams as well as provide technology to support the performance of these teams across your organization.  She will discuss barriers to effective performance of the teams and the role of technology, which can be both an enabler and a constraint.

The Taste of RLF is a one-day experience for IT executive, managers and professionals who are interested in exploring their own or their employees’ leadership development. It is a very interactive session based on the learning model of the highly successful Regional Leadership Forum (RLF) sponsored by the Society of Information Management for the past fifteen years.

Don't expect to be part of an "IT Department." As a 21st Century technology professional, your future -- and most likely your desk -- will be deeply rooted in the business, and your title will likely be scrubbed of any and all hint of computers, databases, software development languages or data networks. 

Speakers:      
Ian Foster, Arthur Holly Compton Professor of Computer Science at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago.

Jason Liu, CEO of Univa UD

SIM in the Suburbs Event
Northern and Northwestern Suburbs
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

The Ram
700 N. Milwaukee
Wheeling, IL

The event is provided at no cost to SIM Members
Guests will be charged $30.00
Appetizers and Soft Drinks will be served
Cash Bar

As announced at the February 19 SIM members meeting, the SIM Board is pleased to announce the launch of a “SIM in the Suburbs” initiative.  This program is intended to extend SIM’s presence in targeted, suburban regions of Chicago (i.e. northern and northwestern suburbs, western and southern suburbs) through scheduled meetings and programs.  You are invited to help inaugurate the first “SIM in the Suburbs” event for the northern and northwestern suburbs.

 

HARRY M. JANSEN KRAEMER, JR 

HARRY M. JANSEN KRAEMER, JR. is an executive partner with Madison Dearborn, a private equity firm based in Chicago, Illinois and also a Clinical Professor of Management and Strategy at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois.

GAIL HOLMBERG, FORMER CIO OF BALLY TOTAL FITNESS
and
MIKE HUGOS, CIO AT LARGE, CENTER FOR SYSTEMS INNOVATION

Traditionally the CIO had to decide whether to buy or build new applications.  Over time the choices have exploded (hosting, outsourcing, DBMS, security, programming language).  Now, new options such as open source, Software as a Service (SaaS) and agile programming approaches drive more questions.  What are the opportunities and implications of these choices?

 

Annual December Holiday Social

Complimentary event benefiting the Arts & Business Council of Chicago.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Under the dynamic leadership of Artistic Director Jim Vincent, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (HSDC) is among the most original forces in contemporary dance.  Critically acclaimed for its exuberant, athletic and innovative repertoire, HSDC’s dancers display unparalleled versatility and virtuosity in performances that inspire, challenge and engage audiences worldwide.  Continually expanding its eclectic repertoire with work by leading national and international choreographers, the company also contributes to the art form’s evolution by developing new choreographic talent and collaborating with artists in music, visual art and theatre.

 

Padmasree Warrior, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer,
Motorola

Deemed as "Sharp as a RAZR" by the Chicago Sun Times, Padmasree Warrior, Motorola's executive vice president and chief technology officer, is responsible for the company's $3.7 billion research and development investment. An engineer at heart with a true knack for business, Padmasree's charter is to drive innovation, prioritize technology programs and accelerate creative research to commercialization. Padmasree's operational responsibility is to lead Motorola's global team of 26,000 engineers and direct Motorola Labs, Motorola's software, emerging early-stage businesses and the corporation's intellectual property portfolio.

Bruce Rogow, Odyssey Consulting 

Since 1992, Bruce has been a private counselor for CIOs and CEOs related to the management of information technology. His practice is based on over 120 face-to-face, one-on-one Odyssey visits he makes annually with senior executives that are involved with the management of IT. The visits are designed to determine what is happening in the industry, what is working, what isn’t, how executives are increasing IT yield and what management challenges are emerging. He combines these up to date findings with his nearly forty years of IT management observation to create a unique perspective on what it takes for IT to continually enhance its business contribution. His presentations, workshops and counselor work are focused on how the IT landscape is changing and what leading executives are doing to meet the challenge.

Jeff Stiers, VP of Technology, Chicago 2016 Olympics
John Murray, EVP and Chief Bid Operations, Chicago 2016 Olympics

As we all know, Chicago is making a big push to host the Summer Olympics in 2016.  Significant global competition has emerged from such leading cities as Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, and Rome.  Living here, we all know that Chicago is a world class city second to none.  How then will Chicago prepare its bid to win this against this stiff competition?  First step, assemble a group of dynamic, creative, and innovative business leaders that will showcase Chicago as the ideal host for the Olympic Games.

John Sviokla, Vice Chairman
Diamond Consulting

Dr. John J. Sviokla is vice chairman of Diamond Consulting International, leads the firm's Digital Strategy practice and is an expert in business strategy for the digital age. He combines the understanding of technology, economics, finance and organization necessary to successfully unleash the power and wealth of the new economy.

CAROLYN G. WALTON
Vice President, Information Systems
Wal-Mart

"Leadership in the 21st Century:  Partnering for Success."

Carolyn Walton joined Wal-Mart in 2004 and currently serves as Vice President, Information Systems. Her responsibilities include developing strategic partnerships with leaders in government, industry and academia, focusing on the development of solutions for global initiatives such as healthcare and sustainability.  She has overall leadership in a number of broad areas that include the development of standards for health information technology as well as the development of global standards and fostering collaboration with a number of partners in Wal-Mart’s pace-setting initiatives with electronic product codes and radio frequency identification.  Carolyn is actively involved with EPCglobal, the non-profit international standards organization, in their efforts to facilitate adoption of electronic product codes.

Mike Hugos, Partner
Effective Systems, Inc.

Moving Towards the Agile, Real-Time Enterprise

Building the Real-Time Enterprise
The greatest innovation since the assembly line is staring us in the face.  Yet we miss it because it is based more on a new business process than on any new technology.  By analogy, an innovative process called the “assembly line” was introduced at the beginning of the 20^th century.  Industrial technology had been in use for more than sixty years prior to this.  Yet it was the assembly line that created the real wealth of the industrial age.  Information technology has been in use for a similar period; and at the beginning of the 21^st century, we are seeing the introduction of another process innovation called the “real-time enterprise”.  It will be the great wealth generator of this century.

The relentless pursuit of efficiency no longer yields the profits it once did because it requires a level of business predictability that no longer exists. In our high change, global economy responsiveness trumps efficiency.  The real-time enterprise is an organization that uses responsiveness to make profits from a hundred small adjustments every day, every week, and from some occasional big wins.  Those companies that cannot make money from a hundred small adjustments and some occasional big wins will soon hardly be profitable at all.

Learn the three essential business processes employed by the real-time enterprise and see how they work together to deliver the responsiveness that generates profits in a high change economy.  Appreciate how technology can be used to enable the real-time enterprise to develop.  Case study examples from the presenter’s own experience are provided to illustrate how companies are now becoming real-time enterprises and the benefits they are experiencing from doing so.

Speaker Biography
Michael Hugos has 24 years of corporate management and consulting experience in business and information technology.  He is a regular columnist in Computerworld and CIO magazine and is author of Building the Real-Time Enterprise: An Executive Briefing and co-author of CIO Best Practices: Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology; both published by John Wiley & Sons.

Hugos recently spent six years as Chief Information Officer at Network Services Company, an $8 billion distribution cooperative. He guided development and rollout of a suite of e-business and supply chain systems that changed their business model from an old-line distributor to a value-added provider of products and supply chain services. In 2003 and 2005 he was awarded the CIO 100 Award for this work and in 2006 he was awarded the Premier 100 Award for career achievement. Prior to this he was a practice director in e-business and supply chain management for Covansys, a global IT services provider. He holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Eric Yablonka,
CIO
University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System

Doctors on the Go: Wireless as a Mobility Enabler
Like many other industries, healthcare is also rapidly embracing new technologies.  Since hospitals deal with critical life issues in the normal course of business, they in particular have a great need to develop, manage, and deliver critical information flow to their users.  This is complicated by the fact that their users; doctors, nurses, and other healthcare providers, are constantly on the go and mobile within the facility treating patients.  Rarely do these healthcare professionals get the chance to sit at a desktop to receive and analyze their patient information.  Therefore, it is vital that hospitals deliver information to healthcare professionals on the go with devices that are able to make the rounds with them.  Having this information at the point of care will dramatically improve the quality of healthcare delivered to their ultimate customers, their patients.  Obviously, the answer is a wireless utility.
SIM Chicago is therefore pleased to present a wireless best practice case study featuring CIO (and SIM Chicago member) Eric Yablonka from the University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System.  Eric will present a wireless case study focusing on how U of C Hospitals has implemented wireless within their hospitals and clinics.  He will also share his experiences in getting their wireless network up and running.  The recent addition of the new Comer Children’s Hospital has made this effort even more critical to the U of C Hospital system.

 

United States Secret Service: 
Special Agents Jason Chapman and Ryan Moore.

Speaker Biography
Jason Chapman, Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, has been with the agency for over 7 years.  He is currently assigned to the Chicago Electronic and Financial Crimes Task Force in the Chicago Field Office.  Jason is responsible for investigating crimes involving the Internet including: credit card fraud, identity theft, hacking, network intrusions and other various forms of electronic crimes.  Jason is A+ Certified and has completed the Treasury Computer Forensics Training Program.  Jason is a member of the Secret Service’s Electronic Crime Special Agent Program (ECSAP).  Jason is responsible for investigating electronic crimes, performing forensic examinations on evidence seized by investigators and running the forensics lab.

Ryan Moore, Special Agent with the United States Secret Service, has been with the agency for over 4 years.  He is currently assigned to the Chicago Electronic and Financial Crimes Task Force in the Chicago Field Office.  Ryan is responsible for investigating crimes involving the Internet including: credit card fraud, identity theft, hacking, network intrusions and other various forms of electronic crimes.  Ryan has received training in network intrusion investigation from SEARCH, the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Secret Service.  Ryan is a member of the Secret Service’s Electronic Crime Special Agent Program (ECSAP-NI). 

HOLIDAY SOCIAL

Joan Gunzberg, Executive Director of the Arts & Business Council of Chicago.

Anchor Graphics was founded in 1988, and became operational in 1990.  Its purpose is to advance the fine art of the printmaking tradition by providing educational and art-making opportunities for both young people and professional artists, and by educating the public about the printmaking process.  Since 1990, Anchor Graphics has consistently maintained their mission of offering free printmaking opportunities to Chicago youth, adult evening courses, access to the facilities for artists, exhibitions of artists' works that push the boundaries of printmaking, and community programs, including free public lecture/demonstrations by exhibiting artists, tours, and afternoon workshops.  Past and current collaborative relationships include the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Marwen, Gallery 37, Daniel J. Nellum Youth Services, the Chicago International Artists Program, and Chicago area high schools and community groups.

Jonathan Hill
Senior Executive
Accenture's Global Business Solutions

The Transformational Impact of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
No technology advance on the horizon will have a more profound impact on information technology than the emergence of service-oriented architecture (SOA). That is one of the primary conclusions arising from the 2006 technology forecast conducted by Accenture Technology Labs, the technology R&D organization within Accenture.  Jonathan Hill, Senior Executive with Accenture’s Global Business Solutions practice, will share some of the conclusions from Accenture’s rigorous assessment of 150 technologies and 17 major impact areas for IT, drawing on examples from Accenture’s latest R&D activities.  With an eye toward helping organizations prioritize their investments in and use of technology innovation to achieve high performance, Jonathan will explore SOA’s role as a catalyst for revolutionary change in IT, and as a critical enabler of organizational agility and competitive advantage in the future.

 

Kris Hammond, Co-Director, Intelligent Information Lab
Northwestern University

World Without Friction: The Social and Business Implications of Proactive Information Systems

Dr. Kristian Hammond, Professor of Computer Science
Northwestern University

Kris will present “Getting to Your Heart’s Desire: Stories from the InfoLab.”  At the InfoLab, students and faculty work closely creating technology that bridges the gap between people and the information they need. The InfoLab has focused on frictionless information systems that make use of a wide variety of user contexts to support and radically transform user experiences in the areas of information retrieval, media delivery, speech recognition, collaborative environments, news gathering, intelligent browsing and personalized recommendation.
The problem with the computer is that it only does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do. But few of us can actually describe what we want at the level of detail required to communicate with the machine. As a result, our interactions with the machine seem like conversations with an idiot savant. So, while the primary role of the machine in our lives is communication, there exists a huge gap between our wants and the machine’s ability to understand.
Bridging this gap is the mission of the InfoLab.
Building systems that track the context of a user’s activities, both on line and off, and then use that context to figure out and retrieve what they need, the InfoLab is dedicated to creating a man/machine dynamic in which the machine itself vanishes and is replaced by a helper and trusted aide.
In this talk, he will outline the problems people have with getting to information and describe some of the InfoLab systems that help them. We’ll look at a range of systems that capture user contexts as people edit and browse online, check books out of the library, and even watch TV. We’ll then look at how these systems use this information to provide relevant services to people no matter where they are, what they’re doing or what they are thinking