By the CIO, For the CIO, Of the CIO
This article was originally posted on April 16, 2010.
As fate would have it, I’ll be spending a lot of time in the next month at events oriented toward Chief Information Officers. Given that they are generally the internal business sponsors behind KMA’s client projects, that’s not a coincidence, but there’s a real concentration of excellent events coming up that you should know about if you are a CIO or aspire to be one:
April 15 (OK, this one’s in the past) — Society for Information Management, Boston Chapter, (aka Boston SIM) hosted Mark Sunday, SVP and CIO of Oracle Corporation, as guest speaker at the monthly chapter meeting. His topic was “Leading in Times of Transition,” and his presentation was worth a separate blog post which you should see shortly.
May 3 — May 5 — I’m fortunate to be accompanying a few KMA clients to a semi-annual CIO Summit event that Microsoft hosts for clients and selected partners. This will comprise a whirlwind few days of insight, strategy, technology, and a bit of fun in Redmond, and I’ll personally benefit by gaining insight from our clients by being alongside them as we see and hear together where Microsoft is driving their latest enterprise technologies. Some sample content (about SharePoint, by the estimable Arpan Shah) from last year’s CIO Summit is here.
May 6 — Center for Information Management Studies at Babson College (aka CIMS) is presenting a workshop for its members entitled “Leading Radical Change in IT” featuring Dorothy Yu from Gartner and Matthew Dattilo, CIO at ModusLink Global Solutions.
May 19 — MIT’s Sloan School presents their CIO Symposium, an annual one-day conference at MIT whose 2010 theme is “Top Line Growth and Bottom Line Results: Driving Business Value Through CIO Leadership, Innovation, and Collaboration.”
It’s a busy month, even before we factor in the wave of 2010 Launch events that KMA will be right smack in the middle of, exhibiting, speaking, and presenting. Contact me via comment below if you’d like to learn more about any of these events, if you’re planning on attending, or if you have insight to share after attending. Happy learning!
Originally published at https://mikegil.typepad.com.
