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Agenda - Updated October 7, 2009


Overflow parking will be available at the Holiday Inn, east of the Crowne Plaza

Monday, October 12, 2009

7:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 Vendor Expo Opens
8:45 Opening Ceremony
Posting of Colors
Pledge of Allegiance
National Anthem
9:00 Welcome
Greg Speyrer, CISD President
9:05 Keynote Speaker
Streamlining Government Through IT Service Delivery
CIO Ed Driesse, State of Louisiana
10:00 Break - Sponsored by Microsoft
10:30 Mobility with Smart Phones – Shifting Out of First Gear
Dave Coley, Research In Motion
11:15 Lunch
12:30 Seven Sins of Backup and Recovery
Jerry Gaillard, Unitrends
1:30 Unified Communications - Preparing for the Next Generation of Communications
Brent Byrnes, Cisco
2:15 Break
2:45 Remote Visualization for Cloud Computing and its On Demand Users
Earl Dodd, IBM
3:30 How to Build a National Champion
Paul Mainieri, LSU Baseball Head Coach
4:15 Vendor Area Closes
4:30 Conference Day 1 Ends

Vendor Sponsored Events
4:30 Jazz Reception
Sponsored by CGI, AT&T and Dell
4:30 Poolside Tiki Party
Sponsored by Carrollton Technology Partners
6:00 Vendor Hospitality Suites

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

7:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 Vendor Expo Opens
8:30 Choosing the Right Client Computing Architectures for your Organization
Mark Margevicius, Gartner
9:15 The Impact of Cyberspace to the Regional Business Community
Craig Spohn
Executive Director/President, Cyber Innovations Center
10:00 Break - Sponsored by Cisco
10:30 Google, Cloud Computing, and Innovation
Jeff Roussel, Google
11:30 Lunch
12:15 Registration Closes
12:30 Vendor Area Closes
12:45 Oh no, not another motivational talk on people skills!
Maurice Velasquez, Wolf Creek
1:30 Doing more with less: Are you delivering “the right” IT services?
Reginald Best, Deloitte
2:15 Break
2:45 Windows 7 in the Enterprise
Kepp Andrews, Microsoft
3:30 Closing Remarks
Greg Speyrer, CISD President
Conference Ends