Thursday 10 June 2010 – Business strategy

10:00 Chairman’s opening remarks
Daniel Pollick, chief information officer, DLA Piper UK

10:05 Masterclass: Business transformation – helping meet the business profitability for 2010/11
This masterclass will address the fundamentals of how you connect with the right people in the business, who can not only help
with your current challenges but also help you plan for the future. Consideration will be given to:
• creating and communicating value
• from CIO to business leader
• strategic planning in creating business alignment
Rupert Egerton-Smith, head of strategy & business transformation, Linklaters
Abby Ewen, head of business transformation, Simmons & Simmons

11:30 BlackBerry® break

11:50 Panel discussion: Today’s challenges tomorrow’s CIO – what sort of IT strategy should you be putting together?
With the emphasis on firms centering on costs and survival, it is imperative to understand what you and your function can do
for the firm to help with these challenges. This panel will address the key lessons that have been learned in the recession and downturn and discuss what the CIO should be doing to help the firm move forward. What sort of IT strategy should you be putting together for the next five years and how do you drive this process? How deeply should IT be thinking about the overall business strategy and how do you elevate the role of the traditional CIO to that of a business leader? Are tomorrow’s challenges fundamentally different from those of today or is the wheel being reinvented?
Panel chair: Sue Hall, director of information strategy, Linklaters
Panellists:
Tony Cordeiro, chief information officer, White & Case
Simon Kosminsky, IT director, SJ Berwin
Gerard Neiditsch, executive director (business integration & technology), Mallesons Stephen Jaques
Daniel Pollick, chief information officer, DLA Piper UK