Topic: Strategic Management

Seminar Topics

Fostering Inclusion in a Remote Work Environment

  Presented by PDX WIT

Underrepresented groups are disproportionately affected by this pandemic and its economic fallout. The requirement to work from home brings its own set of challenges. Employees depend on their immediate managers for support in these unique circumstances, but everyone can play a role. This presentation will explore how everyone on the team (particularly those in leadership roles) can continue to foster an inclusive work environment for their distributed teams.

Presenter:
Molly Lebowitz • Management Consultant at Propeller and PDX Women in Tech Representative

Health and Safety Innovations Lay a Smart Digital Foundation

  Presented by Hitachi Vantara and Converge Technology Solutions

The pandemic has accelerated innovation to protect health and safety, while laying a foundation for broader digital transformation across industries. Learn how automated detection of PPE, social distancing, collision avoidance, thermal scanning, and compliance analytics are helping companies reduce risk while protecting their workers and customers, and how this shift is preparing them to thrive in our digital future.

Don’t Adopt the Monkey: Leadership Secrets for You, Your Team, and Your Projects

  Presented by Saby Waraich • Chief Information Officer, Clackamas Community College

How do you develop an ability to lead from any position in an organization? How can you be more adept in influencing those over whom you have little or no authority? What are the key skills that are needed for a successful leader? Knowing how to influence and lead others, often without direct authority, is critical in successfully managing projects. Most of us aren’t natural leaders. The good news is that leadership skills can be learned. The best makes the journey from manager to leader using their innate talents and through continuous learning and improvement. Don’t rely on the school of hard knocks. Discover the secrets to exceptional leadership and the mistakes to avoid on your own road to success.

Energetic … engaging … lively … enthusiastic … inspiring … words that are often used to describe Saby. A speaker with the uncanny ability to look at the normal and see something quite different, Saby shares his life stories and has a fun way to look at life as well as live life. You are guaranteed to learn a thing or two on your journey from his unique perspective. He is a Technology Leader, Angel Investor, Professor, Mentor, Coach, Project & Program Management Expert, Change Leader and Volunteer Leader with a diverse experience of over 20 years in both public and private sector.

An internationally recognized speaker, trainer and coach, Saby has led multiple diverse clients in their business transformation through project successes, bolstering communications across various departments, and assisted customers in creating effective solutions to complex problems. Saby is currently working as CIO at Clackamas Community College. He speaks four languages, enjoys working with people and brings enthusiasm, inspiration & leadership qualities.

Hacking Exposed: A Look Inside Hafnium

  Presented by BlackBerry

In this session, we will discuss the latest updates in the Hafnium/ProxyLogon exploits that target on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers. We will also help you understand the threat and potential impact on your organization. In true Hacking Exposed style, we will give a first-hand look at how the exploit works with Brian Robison, Sr. Director Product Marketing & Chief Evangelist, as he walks through and shows what can be done by attackers to a vulnerable server.

Unified Endpoint Management

  Presented by Quest Software

This presentation highlights the reasons and need for Unified Endpoint Management in your business strategy. This presentation’s sole purpose is to educate C-level and system administrators of the need for UEM as well as what aspects are important. One of the problems with endpoint management today is the proliferation of endpoints. During this global health crisis especially, we are seeing a large work-from-home movement in businesses all over the world. In order to combat this issue, you must have an endpoint management strategy that works not only on the network but off of it as well.

What Does the Future Hold for Teleworking?

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

With the current pandemic, companies have mobilized to enable employees to work from home. IT departments took on this task in March of 2020. Many security and compliance challenges have been dealt with, but some remain.

Join the INTERFACE- Advisory Council for a look at what lies ahead with remote working. How are you adjusting your security procedures? Do you know if your end-users will return to the office? The dreaded elephant in the room will be addressed as well – BUDGETS! What do you need? What is expected of your IT staff? You will get tips on what has worked and what still is a challenge in keeping your users active and ensuring your business is fully operational.

Also, we will address long term items when it comes to in person working for different industries. How much of a shift in business will we see? We will discuss how IT departments will be involved in decision making and execution of policies.


Panelists:

Raul Carolus • Sr. System Programmer, Mason City Clinic
Nathan Pralle • Manager of Information Technology, Cambrex
Gene Schaff • Director of Information Technology, Tiller Corporation
John Schroeder • Director of IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Integrated DNA Technologies

Unified Endpoint Management

  Presented by Quest Software

This presentation highlights the reasons and need for Unified Endpoint Management in your business strategy. This presentation’s sole purpose is to educate C-level and system administrators of the need for UEM as well as what aspects are important. One of the problems with endpoint management today is the proliferation of endpoints. During this global health crisis especially, we are seeing a large work-from-home movement in businesses all over the world. In order to combat this issue, you must have an endpoint management strategy that works not only on the network but off of it as well.

It’s Time to Reboot!

  Presented by Riaz Yusuff • Chief Information Officer, OHR, University of Minnesota

The changing landscape in IT warrants a different approach on a number of issues. The IT landscape was already changing rapidly pre-COVID-19. But the pandemic has necessitated the need for flexible & robust systems in place, secure remote access to systems, creative policies and procedures in recruiting & retaining IT talent, right implementation methodology between waterfall, agile and dev-ops, and changes in many other aspects in IT. This keynote will leave you with several thought-provoking ideas and questions for consideration to 10X the output of your IT teams.

Riaz Yusuff is a Chief Information Officer for the Office of Human Resources at the University of Minnesota. He has 20 years of experience in Information Technology starting from a developer and later in various leadership roles. Riaz specializes in optimizing IT spend for large organizations.

Riaz regularly presents various topics on IT leadership at conferences, and he has been featured on several leadership panels. Riaz has earned his MBA and MS IT degrees, and has earned several certifications including PMP. His book “The 6-Foot Distance in IT: How to Cope with Fast Changing IT Landscape Post Pandemic. A Guide for Senior IT Leaders” is coming to Amazon this spring.

What Does the Future Hold for Teleworking?

  Presented by INTERFACE Advisory Council

With the current pandemic, companies have mobilized to enable employees to work from home. IT departments took on this task in March. Many security and compliance challenges have been dealt with, but some remain.

Join the INTERFACE Advisory Council for a look at what lies ahead with remote working. How are you adjusting your security procedures? Do you know if your end-users will return to the office? The dreaded elephant in the room will be addressed as well – BUDGETS! What do you need? What is expected of your IT staff? You will get tips on what has worked and what still is a challenge in keeping your users active and ensuring your business is fully operational.


Panelists:
Aaron Baillio • Chief Information Security Officer, University of Oklahoma
Chris Martin • Director, Technical Services, MYCON General Contractors
Shamoun Siddiqui • Vice President & CISO, Neiman Marcus
Craig Broussard • Director, Global Infrastructure, NCH Corporation

Alan Chuang • Director, Information Technology, Trinity Consultants

Digital Transformation in 2020 and Beyond: What’s Changed and What’s the Same

  Presented by Ann Dunkin • Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, Dell Technologies

While our lives have changed dramatically this year, some things, like the need to have a highly capable, well trained and motived workforce haven’t changed. We’ll discuss how the pandemic accelerated government digital transformation and the challenges that still exist.

IT departments worked quickly and efficiently to support remote workforces. While productivity in many departments and industries has been effective, there have been adverse effects from remote working. While technology has been a driving force, it can’t replace some elements. Join Ann Dunkin for a look at the gaps that have been created and what lies ahead.

Ann Dunkin is Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Dell Technologies. Prior to joining Dell, Ms. Dunkin was the Chief Information Officer for the County of Santa Clara. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Santa Clara is the 15th largest county in the United States. Ms. Dunkin also served in the Obama Administration as the Chief Information Officer of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to her time in Washington D.C., she was the Chief Technology Officer for the Palo Alto Unified School District. Ms. Dunkin joined the School District after a long career at Hewlett Packard in a variety of leadership roles.

Ms. Dunkin is a published author, most recently of the book Industrial Digital Transformation, and sought-after speaker on the topics of technology modernization, digital services and organizational transformation. Throughout her career she has served on a wide range of professional boards and committees. She currently serves on the OptimEyes.io Board of Advisors, the WSC Board of Directors, the Agile Government Leaders (AGL) Board of Directors and the Georgia Tech President’s Advisory Board.

She holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering, both from The Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a licensed professional engineer in the states of California and Washington.