CIO SYMPOSIUM

Since 2000, NEOSA has offered the premier CIO conference in northeast Ohio - the annual CIO Symposium. Each year, a committee of volunteers spends tweve months planning this outstanding educational and peer-to-peer networking event.

2008 CIO Symposium Sponsors:

2008 Symposium - Podcasts

Afternoon Keynote: Dr. Mark Sniderman, Chief Policy Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Computing in a Cloud

Evolving role of the CIO and the IT/Business Strategy Connection

Green IT

Shared Services

2008 Symposium - Keynotes and Breakouts
Our content for for the '08 Symposium promises to be as strategic and engaging as ever. We've put together compelling keynotes to provide thought-provoking comments and breakout sessions that will be lively, informative and valuable.

Keynotes
Morning keynote: Dr. Kalle Lyytinen, Ph.D. - Case: Brave New World of Digitaliztion: Issues and Challenges

Afternoon keynote: Dr. Mark Sniderman, Ph.D - Chief Policy Officer - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland: Our Economy Today: Analysis and Forward View of Regional Impacts

Plenary Panel Session

IT Education and Engaging with Universities
Our panel will explore those questions and offer insight into how your organization can not only enhance its talent acquisition, but also plan for the future.

Morning Breakout Sessions

Computing in a Cloud
Overhyped or ready for action? Listen and more importantly, join in on a lively discussion on the present and the promise of one of the most talked about IT technologies of the last three years.

The Evolving Role of the CIO and the IT/Business Strategy Connection
This panel session features thought leaders who have successfully moved their IT organization to the executive suite and have clearly aligned IT goals with business strategy.

Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Green IT Issues and Opportunities
In this panel discussion, we’ll see “Green” vantage points courtesy of three NEOhio CIOs and tech leaders, sharing practical successes at justifying the variety of strategic and operational adjustments necessary to achieving the green benchmark, which might be required as early as next year.

Shared Services: deploying intercompany collaboration
This cutting edge group of public sector CIOs and tech leaders continues to assemble shared service strategies for making the most out of human and equipment capital as well as software and service. Learn firsthand how shared service innovation in the public sector can directly and indirectly benefit NEOhio for-profit organizations.

NEOSA's CIO Symposium attracts many of the best and brightest from the CIO community in the region. Please enjoy pictures from the 2007 Symposium here.

CIO of the Year Awards
Beginning in 2005, NEOSA launched the CIO of the Year award to recognize outstanding CIO's from four industry categories: Large Company, Small Company, Large Non-Profit and Small Non-Profit.

2008 CIO of the Year Winners were:

Large Company: Jon Elsasser, The Timken Company
Mid-Market Company: George Mehok, Revol Wireless
Small Company: Sandra Rapp, OEConnection
Non-Profit Organization: Sasi Pillay, NASA Glenn

2007 CIO of the Year Winners were:

Large Company: George Dufour, CBIZ and Charlie Rau, Forest City Enterprises
Mid-Market Company: Leslie Pochaukas, Electronic Merchant Systems
Small Company: Bala Thangavelu, Tenth Floor
Non-Profit Organization: Jim Sage, The University of Akron

2006 CIO of the Year Winners were:

Large Company: Doug Wenger, Omnova Solutions
Small Company: Tony Filipovic, The Chas E. Phipps Company
Large Non-Profit: Larry Cuy, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Small Non-Profit: Tom Furnas, ideastream and Tom Wojnarowski, R.I.T.A.

2005 CIO of the Year Winners were:

Large Company: Doug Wenger, Omnova Solutions
Small Company: John Schindler, Kichler Lighting
Large Non-Profit: Vince Miller, MetroHealth Medical Center
Small Non-Profit: Len Steinbach, Cleveland Museum of Art