Arizona Technology Summit 2011

Overview

The 3rd annual Arizona Technology Summit was held at the Phoenix Convention Center (South Building Room 150) on September 14th, 2011 from 8am-5pm.

The conference theme was Moving Forward and Thinking Progressively in IT. Our Governing Body members believed IT is about having vision, thinking progressively and strategizing for future success. It’s also about knowing what's happened in the past, taking into account current trends and intuitively moving forward.

Gold Sponsors

At HP we believe technology can create new possibilities for people around the world—from school students to budding entrepreneurs, government officials, and senior executives. We’re the largest IT company, with 320,000 employees working in approximately 170 countries around the world. And we are able to leverage our size and scope to deliver real value in the products and services we offer.

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information is available at http://www.hp.com.

K2 is a platform for building workflows and process-driven applications to automate and manage business processes - such as document approval or inventory tracking - or pull together business processes, people, services, information and systems into a single application that helps drive business. With K2, the complexity of traditional software development is eliminated and replaced with easy-to-use, visual tools. These tools enable business people and technical people to collaborate and assemble process-driven applications. Everything is visual. Everything is declarative. Everything is reusable. Everything is intuitive. www.k2.com

Lunch Sponsor
		IBM/Rational software helps customers deliver greater value from their investments in software and systems. It enables organizations to seize business opportunities, achieve precision in desired business outcomes, and execute with reduced risk and cost. In order to execute software delivery as a business process, Rational provides a rich series of capabilities delivered as part of a collaborative and integrated software delivery platform – powered by Jazz – and are supported by proven best practice processes and an entire ecosystem of IBM and partner capabilities. The capabilities, the platform and the best practices – customized based on client needs and integrated into an orchestrated workflow between all stakeholders – is what makes Rational’s solution powerful and differentiated. To learn more about Rational solutions visit www.ibm.com/rational.

Reception Sponsor
		Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.

Silver Sponsor
		CenturyLink Business is a choice of Fortune 500 companies, government and education organizations nationwide offering a comprehensive portfolio of data and voice networking communications solutions through its high-quality network and multiple data centers. CenturyLink is the third largest telecommunications company in the United States, and has one of the largest fiber footprints serving customers in local, network and select international markets. http://www.centurylink.com/business/

Presentation Sponsors
		As a global specialist in energy management, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including leadership positions in energy and infrastructure, industrial processes, building automation, and data centers/networks, as well as a broad presence in residential applications. Schneider Electric is focused on making energy safe, reliable, and efficient. www.schneider-electric.com
		Custom Storage Inc. is a data storage solutions company with headquarters in Scottsdale, AZ and offices in Salt Lake City, UT. We help our corporate and government customers create and build highly effective data storage infrastructures based upon the current and future needs of the organization.
		Laserfiche® creates simple and elegant enterprise content management solutions that help organizations run smarter. Since 1987, more than 30,000 organizations—including numerous federal, state and local government agencies—have used Laserfiche to streamline document, records and business process management. To simplify system administration, the Laserfiche product suite supports standard Microsoft® tools and technologies.
		Meraki provides enterprise-class wireless networks at a fraction of the cost of traditional networking vendors, made possible by its unique cloud-based technology. In addition to serving millions of users in over 14,000 organizations throughout 143 countries, Meraki has been the recipient of multiple awards, including PC Magazine's Editor's Choice, InfoWorld 100, and Techworld's Wireless Product of the Year.
		NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that accelerate business breakthroughs and deliver outstanding cost efficiency. Customers around the world choose us for our "go beyond" approach and broad product and service portfolio. Our solutions provide nonstop availability of critical business data and simplify business processes so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before.
		Trustwave is the leading provider of on-demand data security and payment card industry compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations throughout the world. Trustwave has helped thousands of organizations — ranging from Fortune 500 businesses and large financial institutions to small and medium-sized retailers—manage compliance and secure their network infrastructure, data communications and critical information assets.
		WebsView Technologies is an IT Solutions & Services VAR specializing in Virtualization. A Dell Preferred Partner, we utilize the complete line of products (HW, SW and Professional Services) to design implement, & support enterprise wide IT solutions. WebsView Technologies is a registered Small Business and Minority Women Owned Business.

Governing Body

The Governing Body is a union of senior executives that directs the content of the Arizona Technology Summit. Machaon Corporation would like to recognize the following Governing Body members for their leadership and direction:

Neal Puff Security Solutions Architect Verizon Business Security Solutions	Debbie Christopherson ISSA's CISO Advisory Council Chair ISSA International	Kelly Summers Vice President IT and Operations Medicis Pharmaceutical
Colleen Carmean Digital Knowledge Architect Arizona State University	Lisa Maxwell Director of Records Management Division Arizona State Library	Ron Schott Executive Emeritus Arizona Technology Council
Stanton Jones Vice President & CIO ISG/TPI	Chad Palmer IT Director Catholic Healthcare West	Mark Koan Dean of Information Technology Phoenix College
Steven Porter CIO Touchstone Behavioral Health	Leo J. Hauguel, CISSP Founder/Chairperson Sonoran Desert Security Users Group	Mike Kern Director of Technology Mohave Accelerated Learning Center
Joe Hennessy IT Director RideNow	Dee Hathaway IT Director Town of Buckeye	Harvey Shrednick Professor Arizona State University
Jonathan Harber CIO & VP, IT Blood Systems	Wendy Greess IS Director Customer Operations Tucson Electric Power	David Moore CIO Sonora Quest Laboratories
Catherine Rando Vice President Technology First Credit Union	Terry Bright IT Director Noah Webster Basic School	Earl Monsour Director of Strategic IT Maricopa County Community College
David Bear Director of Information Technology Services Arizona State University College of Public Programs	Marc Andrews Past Information Systems Chief Arizona Game and Fish Department	Ken Watson IT Director Mt Graham Regional Medical Center
Stephen Wetzel CIO Maricopa County	Alex Deshuk CIO City of Mesa	Bradley Purdy Associate Dean University of Phoenix
David Velasquez VP of IS Best Western	James Whitfil, MD CIO Scottsdale Medical Imaging	Kevin Sauer President AZ Chapter of SIM
Lee Schnoor CIO Macayo Restaurants	Dave Lee Director Arizona State University	Suzanne Eden Mgrr, Enterprise Systems & Tools Management AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah
Jay Mann Director of Information Services Madison School District	Robert Werhanowicz Director of Technology Services Glendale Elementary School District	Suzanne Eden Mgr, Enterprise Systems & Tools Management AAA Northern California, Nevada & Utah
Ron Hardin Sr. Director, Enterprise Application Services Blood Systems	Andy Nold Chief Information Officer Loan Resolution Corporation	Star Heilman Former CIO Industrial Commission of Arizona

Click Here for the Governing Body Form

Agenda

Phoenix Convention Center Room 150

7:00 am

Registration/Exhibits Open

8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tech Theater I

Emcee

Fred Mapp: President and CEO - Quality Service Solutions LLC

8:00 am - 8:20 am
Tech Theater I

Welcome

Aaron Sandeen: Director & State CIO - State of Arizona

8:20 am - 9:00 am
Tech Theater I

The Impact of Unified Business Process Automation in a World Where ECM, Traditional BPM and Collaboration Technologies are Colliding

Dave Marcus: VP Global Alliances and Business Development - K2

Sponsored by: K2

Synopsis

9:00 am - 10:00 am
Tech Theater I

Managing the Virtualized Environment

Heath Newburn: Business Unit Executive, Integrated Service Management Tiger Team - IBM

Exhibitors

On the Showroom Floor, you will see demonstrations of the latest in IT. We attract the most progressive solutions providers and present attendees with the opportunity to interact with the IT elite throughout the conference.