Day 1: Systems, Strategies and Architectures
8:30a.m. - 4:00p.m.
Dress Code: Business Casual

Topics Covered on Day 1 Include:

e-Business and e-Insomnia

dot.com vs. not.com

Centralized vs. Distributed Computing

IT Success and Failures

Thinking Strategically

System/Vendor Strengths & Weaknesses

Computing Economics, Cost of Ownership

Special Presentation: "IT Strategy in the Trenches"

Presenter: David Hines, Director, Business Operations and Support Services ( BOSS Organization), Progressive Insurance

David Hines manages so many areas at Progressive that its hard to keep count. That is why sound IT strategy is key to staying productive and keeping the organization responsive and nimble. Come and hear David share lessons learned in managing the diverse and complex IT challenges that his company faces daily. He'll provide practical tips on how to look at a situation from all sides, then apply a common sense, get-back-to-the-basics approach to almost any issue. Dave has been in the computer industry 43 years. Most of those years were on the vendor side of the fence; Control Data Coproration, Amdahl, Fujitsu ICL in various Sales, Marketing, and Services functions. After seeing the light, he crossed over to the light side of the FORCE and became a customer. He has a background in Supercomputing (both Vector and Parallel processing), and has run the gamut of working with systems from PC's to mid-range to mainframes.

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