CIO Manufacturing Summit Agenda
August 26-28, 2012

Networking Opportunities & Session Breaks

Executive Exchange

CIO Keynote Presentation

CIO Focus Group

A visionary speaker addresses the entire summit audience on a topic determined by the CIO Content Committee.

Led by a vendor, these sessions allow executives to discuss business drivers within a particular area of technology. Presentations are 15-20 minutes followed by 10-15 minutes of Q&A.

CIO Executive Visions

Analyst Q&A Session

A panel of IT executives has an in-depth discussion on a critical IT business topic. Audience members have an opportunity to pose questions to the panelists and moderator.

A high-impact, open-forum session covering the latest technology research and led by a member of our analyst partner community.

CIO Thought Leadership

Vendor Showcase

Led by a member of the vendor community, these sessions will provide an overview of cutting edge technology topics and pressing business concerns.

Presented by a member of the vendor community, these sessions are divided into three 10-minute long elevator pitches on the newest technology solutions and services.

CIO Think Tank

CIO Case Study

Focusing on a specific topic or initiative, these interactive, open-forum style sessions allow the attending 15-20 executives to discuss best practices and have lively debates.

Learn about recent technology implementations from the IT executives who drove the projects at their organizations. Presentations are followed by Q&A sessions.

CIO/CTO Roundtable

CIO Open Forum Luncheon

An interactive, focused session led by either an analyst, industry expert or member of the vendor community.

Led by a moderator, these sessions allow attendees to have informal discussions on pre-determined technology topics.

Sunday, August 26th, 2012 - CIO Manufacturing Summit

Registration & Greeting to the CIO Manufacturing Summit

Exclusive CIO Think Tank
Pre-summit introductory discussions

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Welcome Reception

7:00pm - 10.00pm

Welcome Address Presented by Master of Ceremonies

Welcome Gala Dinner

Monday, August 27th, 2012 - CIO Manufacturing Summit

7:00am - 8:00am

Networking Breakfast

8:10am - 8:50am

Opening Keynote Presentation

High Performance Manufacturers - Building World-Class Value

The global manufacturing industry is undergoing a transformational shift that will reshape drivers of economic growth, wealth creation, national prosperity, and national security. This session will discuss the key drivers of manufacturing competitiveness and explore why the push for top talent, advanced IT capabilities and globalizing sales/marketing capabilities will truly set your organization above the rest.

9:00am - 9:30am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Marketing Analytics - Success Through Analysis

Marketing analytics is the practice of measuring, managing and analyzing marketing investments to maximize its effectiveness and optimize ROI, with a complete, up-to-the-minute picture of customer preferences, buying behavior, and profitability. It allows enterprises to be more efficient and minimize the amount of wasted marketing dollars. Beyond the obvious sales and lead generation applications, marketing analytics can offer profound insights into customer preferences and trends. Despite these compelling benefits, a majority of organizations fail to ever realize the promises of marketing analytics. This session will discuss how marketing analytics can help manufacturers to develop closer, more valuable customer and prospect relationships, which in extension will increase the revenue for the enterprise.

9:35am - 10:05am

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Coping with a Changing Market - Merging Supply Chain and Manufacturing

Are you changing your business model from a high-volume, consumer-focused provider, to a provider that serves primarily business customers? That means your organization might need to adapt to a new business-focused model, which is more agile and adaptive when dealing with customers. This session will discuss the challenges and benefits, and how to deliver top result in the new global manufacturing environment by consolidating your supply chain and manufacturing organizations.

CIO Think Tank

Avoiding Supply Disruptions when Outsourcing

This session will be an open forum discussion around the topic of outsourcing and spinning production operations into a separate company. Should manufacturers with very short product lifecycles and complex production processes avoid spinning out or outsourcing production? What happened when the outsourced production run into manufacturing problems? How can manufacturers protect themselves from disruptions when working with contract manufacturers?

CIO Thought Leadership

Dealing with Fake Pharma - Traceability and Authenticated Drugs

WHO recently estimated that up to 25% of the medicines now being consumed in the underdeveloped countries are fake - i.e. "deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled with respect to identity and/or source." But not even in the western world are we safe from what is rapidly turning into big business. Worldwide, counterfeit pharma is projected to be worth around $200 billion, and the profit margins are high.

India's $12 billion pharma industry is expected to grow four-fold in the next decade, with thousands of drug-making plants, including 125 FDA-approved facilities. To deal with the fake pharma, the Indian government is planning to introduce various forms of 2D barcode labeling, supported by cloud and mobile computing networks, to help ensure authenticity.

This session will discuss traceability, not just in terms of medicinal content, but also across global supply chains. What is your company doing to meet the fake pharma challenge? What supply chain technologies and techniques are you using to ensure the pills people take around the world are your genuine products?

10:40am - 11:10am

Networking Break

11:15am - 11:45am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Navigating a Sustainable Supply Chain Management

Manufacturers and retailer are setting the bar for a new and greener supply chain management. With the focus on monitoring, measurement and verification, U.S. manufacturers has made major efforts to engage, collaborate and track supplier/vendor sustainability efforts, especially those involving overseas operations. Central to each of these efforts is the impact of the large companies' carbon footprint, in addition to other major value chain concerns such as material and water resource use, waste management and labor/human rights issues.

Manufacturers and retailers stand so much to gain from collaboratively strengthening each other's performance and sharing cost of ownership and social license to operate. Supply chain sustainability and corporate governance must first be driven by the originating product designers and manufacturers that rely on deep tiers of suppliers and vendors in far-away places for their products.

Topics discussed in this session will include:

11:50am - 12:20pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Open Source Solutions for a Competitive Edge

Increasing competition in the global market place has sharpened the focus on leveraging the best technologies available. The need to not only win new customers, but also maintain existing customer relationships and grow revenue, is greater than ever. This session will discuss how open source are defining the next generation of innovate IT solutions. Learn how you can leverage your talent to grow your competitive edge today!

CIO Think Tank

The Flexible Organizational Structure

The significance and the influence of the market, clients and competitors are crucially important for manufacturers. If an organization aims to be successful in the future, it has to react quickly. The faster you can adapt your organizational structure to the new demands, the higher your capacity to survive is. Consequently, the flexibility of the organizational structure becomes an essential condition.

CIO Think Tank

Remaking the Enterprise with Innovative IT Solutions

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in today's highly competitive North American marketplace. More and more manufacturers are seeking innovative IT solutions to provide higher levels of client and customer service, while dealing with the realities of limited IT budgets and in-house resources. This session will discuss the following IT challenges and topics:

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Networking Luncheon

2:05pm - 2:35pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Manufacturing as Part of the Innovation Process

High-tech manufacturing is knowledge work. The view that the U.S. should focus on R&D and services, completely misses the incredibly knowledge-intensive nature of many manufacturing activities. Where product designs are complex, process innovation and manufacturing competence are as critical to innovation as R&D. The idea that it is possible to specialize in R&D and let others do the manufacturing ignores the very nature of innovation. This session will be an animate discussion about innovation and why we shouldn't let our U.S. manufacturing capabilities wither away.

2:40pm - 3:10pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Enterprise-Focused Security

Security is a fundamental issue for all successful businesses. Not only is it important for the enterprise itself, but ensuring that client information and transactions are secure from both inside and outside threats is crucial to building a loyal client base. The list of security threats includes both direct (physical) and indirect (digital) theft, as well as accidental loss and product diversion. This session will discuss a number of crucial security solutions focused on manufacturing, including:

3:15pm - 3:45pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Executive Visions

The Real Costs of Outsourcing

The hidden costs of outsourcing are often underestimated and/or dismissed. Many manufacturers could realize the cost savings they expect from outsourcing, by applying Design for Manufacture (DFM) and related principles to design their own products, and produce them domestically. Not only do many manufacturers tend to underestimate such outsourcing costs, which may lead to an increased overall cost with 20-25% - they also tend to overestimate the potential value of outsourcing by overestimating the labor component of their cost structures.

Topics and underestimated outsourcing costs to be discussed by this executive panel include:

4:55pm - 7:00pm

Reception

7:00pm - 9:30pm

Gala Dinner

9:30pm - 10:30pm

After Dinner Networking

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012 - CIO Manufacturing Summit

7:30am - 8:30am

Networking Breakfast

8:40am - 9:20am

CIO Keynote Presentation

Manufacturing IT Risk Management and Cost Optimization

Beyond just reacting to the latest security threats, the CIO need to approach security from the standpoint of risk management, at the same time as growth remains a top priority for most manufacturing industries and IT executives are challenged to provide sustainable management support to increasingly complex business models.  When addressing the challenges becomes a survivor factor, it is crucial for IT leaders to be more effective. Developing an IT organization that successful can deliver innovative solutions, efficient risk management and pervasive cost optimization, is a key success factor for any operator. We will touch on some of these issues and explore some alternatives adopted by North American manufacturers.

9:30am - 10:00am

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Securing the Smart Device -
Do you have a BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) Strategy?

The convergence between information technology and mobile technology provides opportunities for more effective communication and more efficient management, but it also presents a range of new communications and security challenges. Understanding the advantages and challenges of mobile technology and personal smart devices is crucial. Used wisely, enterprise mobility can improve the services offered, and more powerful solutions can link you directly into the office network while working remotely, for instance to access your business/mission critical data.

This session will discuss how these new device platforms create opportunities for manufacturing CIOs to embrace the enterprise mobility in a controlled way, increase productivity, improve collaboration and reduce the overall mobility spending. The key to taking advantage of these opportunities is bridging the gap between the personal and protected, and securing the smart device.

CIO Think Tank

Talent Retention and Development - The Growing Skills Gap

Encouraging and developing new talent is a vital issue for manufacturing companies around the world. In times of demographic change, retiring baby boomers, scarcity of the right skills, a shortage of new graduates with practical knowledge, and a lingering impression that manufacturing is an "old-world" industry, recruiting competent staff and retaining them in the company for the long term is a challenging task.

This session will discuss how companies' best might deal with the growing skills gap and how to best attract and retain top talent in company in the long term.

10:05am - 10:35am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Adapting to the New Economy

The development of the global information society is characterized by evolving policy and regulation, ever-changing technologies, unpredictable market dynamics and a slow economy. These conditions call for companies and those who define the rules of the game, policy makers and regulators to constantly adapt in order to ensure they can meet whatever challenges the IT revolution throws at them.

There is no doubt that the hardest part of any revolution is adapting to and living with the changes, but it is the success of this adaptation that ultimately will decide whether an organization is competitive - or not.

10:35am - 10:55am

Networking Break

11:00am - 11:30am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Do More with Less: The New Manufacturing Strategy

A common issue for many manufacturers is how to increase revenue and grow their business without significantly rebuilding their internal processes or hire new staff. This session will discuss how manufacturers can take a proactive approach to improving internal processes, and how it not only helps you to improve your ability to grow as an organization, but also can help you to maintain the current level of business as well. Learn how you can do more with less!

11:35am - 12:05pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Manufacturing and Mobile Apps

It has been suggested that by 2016, manufacturing will be the number one generator of enterprise mobile app sales worldwide. This session will discuss what apps your company is using today, and where your mobile investments might go in the future.

CIO Think Tank

Do We Need a National Manufacturing Strategy?

Recently, a new bill called "The National Manufacturing Strategy Act 2011" was introduced to the Senate, in which a comprehensive strategy to boost U.S. manufacturing at home and abroad was called for. This would require the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a full analysis of our manufacturing sector and submit to Congress a "National Manufacturing Strategy" to increase manufacturing jobs, identify emerging technologies to strengthen our competitiveness, and strengthen the manufacturing sectors in which the U.S. is most competitive.

This session will discuss the new bill and whether the U.S. manufacturing sector really need more direct help from the government?

12:10pm - 12:40pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Capitalizing on Complexity

Avoiding complexity is not an option - the choice comes in how we respond to it. Will we allow the complexity to become a stifling force that slows responsiveness, overwhelms workers and customers, or threatens profits - or do we have the creative leadership, customer relationships and operating dexterity to turn complexity into a true advantage? CIOs are learning to master complexity in countless ways. They are redesigning operating strategies for ultimate speed and flexibility. They are embedding valued complexity in elegantly simple solutions, services and customer interactions - and they are carefully considering how best to take advantage of global efficiencies while addressing local needs. In this session, we will learn how CIOs can simplify their IT operations to better manage complexity.

CIO Networking Luncheon

1:50pm - 2:20pm

Executive Exchange

2:25pm - 2:55pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Increasing Manufacturing Revenues While Minimizing Resources

Comprehensive Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) features help U.S. manufacturers to handle increased business with fewer resources. Companies gain a clear view of what is happening on their shop floor, since shop floor operators themselves monitor and track the data. Manufacturers can achieve continuous improvement by emphasizing defect-prevention, reducing variation and waste, and extend these benefits to their suppliers by implementing supplier management and subcontractor solutions.

This session will discuss how manufacturers can benefit from a range of comprehensive, integrated functions that include bill of materials, purchasing, receiving, inventory, manufacturing, basic quality, planning and scheduling, shipping, key measures, EDI, engineering change tracking, financials, and document control.

3:00pm - 4:00pm

CIO Executive Visions

Re-Mapping the Supply Chain Model

The North American manufacturing industry is focused on reducing costs, supporting the ROI objectives and protecting its brand reputation, which - of course - is at the very core of the business. However, new targets will be introduced, such as a reduction in the energy consumption and meeting targets to reduce traffic congestion, leading to a crucial modernization of the supply chain model.

CIOs becoming involved in the development of the new supply chain will need to develop an information architecture that enables collaboration - a service-oriented architecture (SOA) with the ability to share data. Historically, manufacturers and retailers used separate supply chains, but as the need to improve efficiency is greater than ever, we will need a new model than enables and encourages collaboration. Discover how the successful implementation of an interface between manufacturers, suppliers and logistics people, utilizing different technologies and architectures, can lead to improved timeliness and accuracy for capture of information; increased and more consistent visibility into the supply chain; greater compliance with operating procedures; better overall quality and customer service; and lower operating costs in capturing and responding to data.

Topics to be covered in this insightful executive panel discussion:

Concluding Remarks & Takeaways

4:10pm - 6:00pm

Recreation & Relaxation Time

6:00pm - 9:30pm

Farewell Dinner & Networking