CIO Energy Summit Agenda - TBD

Networking Opportunities & Session Breaks

Executive Exchange

CIO Keynote Presentation

CIO Focus Group

A visionary speaker addresses the entire summit audience on a topic determined by the CIO Content Committee.

Led by a vendor, these sessions allow executives to discuss business drivers within a particular area of technology. Presentations are 15-20 minutes followed by 10-15 minutes of Q&A.

CIO Executive Visions

Analyst Q&A Session

A panel of IT executives has an in-depth discussion on a critical IT business topic. Audience members have an opportunity to pose questions to the panelists and moderator.

A high-impact, open-forum session covering the latest technology research and led by a member of our analyst partner community.

CIO Thought Leadership

Vendor Showcase

Led by a member of the vendor community, these sessions will provide an overview of cutting edge technology topics and pressing business concerns.

Presented by a member of the vendor community, these sessions are divided into three 10-minute long elevator pitches on the newest technology solutions and services.

CIO Think Tank

CIO Case Study

Focusing on a specific topic or initiative, these interactive, open-forum style sessions allow the attending 15-20 executives to discuss best practices and have lively debates.

Learn about recent technology implementations from the IT executives who drove the projects at their organizations. Presentations are followed by Q&A sessions.

CIO/CTO Roundtable

CIO Open Forum Luncheon

An interactive, focused session led by either an analyst, industry expert or member of the vendor community.

Led by a moderator, these sessions allow attendees to have informal discussions on pre-determined technology topics.

Sunday, CIO Energy Summit

Registration & Greeting to the CIO Energy Summit

Executive CIO Think Tank
*An exclusive invitation only, pre-summit think-tank for CIOs

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Welcome Reception

7:00pm - 10.00pm

Welcome Address Presented by Master of Ceremonies

Welcome Gala Dinner

Monday, CIO Energy Summit

7:00am - 8:00am

Networking Breakfast

8:10am - 8:50am

Opening Keynote Presentation

Information Management: Data Security & Integrity for the Energy Sector

Data security is a fundamental issue for all successful businesses. What can organizations do to secure big data and applications? What strategies and methods can they use to maintain control over who has access to what? The concept of the next-generation network means designing and building network architecture and processes with consideration taken to security from stage one. Built properly, your network can be resilient to threats and adaptable to the changes that an agile business demands when handling large amounts of data.

This session will discuss a number of crucial enterprise-focused security solutions, including:

9:00am - 9:30am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Marketing Analytics - Success Through Analysis

Marketing analytics is the practice of measuring, managing and analyzing marketing investments to maximize its effectiveness and optimize ROI, with a complete, up-to-the-minute picture of customer preferences, buying behavior, and profitability. It allows enterprises to be more efficient and minimize the amount of wasted marketing dollars. Beyond the obvious sales and lead generation applications, marketing analytics can offer profound insights into customer preferences and trends. Despite these compelling benefits, a majority of organizations fail to ever realize the promises of marketing analytics.

This session will discuss how marketing analytics can help you to develop closer, more valuable customer and prospect relationships, which in extension will increase the revenue for the enterprise.

9:35am - 10:05am

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

IT Organizational Transformation

Strong company growth and increasing competitive pressures require a new level of scale and agility from executives and the IT organizations. Companies that manage a transition to a contemporary IT delivery model - anchored in business services and standard practices - achieve greater effectiveness. By eliminating redundancy and improving decision-making speed, the value of each IT investment dollar increases. The faster the enterprise can adapt its organizational structure to the new demands, the higher its capacity to survive is. Consequently, the flexibility of the organizational structure becomes an essential condition for enterprises.

This session will discuss the challenges and pitfalls encountered in the transition.

CIO Think Tank

Leveraging Business Intelligence

The numbers of organizations that are expanding or upgrading to new Business Intelligence (BI) solutions are increasing, while at the same time there is a misalignment between the business's requirements and expectations vs. IT's understanding of the needs. This session will discuss how agile BI could rebuild the connection and establish an alignment between business and IT and how agile BI solutions could be implemented in a reasonable time frame and at affordable costs.

Topics to be discussed include:

CIO Thought Leadership

Tight Gas Assets: Challenges & Solutions

Working with tight gas assets, it's crucial to first and foremost have a profound understanding of the reservoir, but it's equally important to have a skilled talent pool and operational excellence executors. The optimal solution: from formation evaluation challenges to those posed by assessment, horizontal drilling, stimulation and production - all the while driving efficiencies throughout and delivering operational excellence in relation to health, safety and environment issues.

This session will discuss the many and complex challenges for energy companies working with tight gas assets, with solutions, strategies and best practices.

10:40am - 11:10am

Networking Break

11:15am - 11:45am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Custom Business Processes - Moving to the Cloud

Cloud application services or "Software-as-a-Service" (SaaS) deliver software as a service over the internet, eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer's own computers and simplifying maintenance and support.

This session will examine the following key characteristics: Network-based access to, and management of, relevant software - Processes and activities that are managed from central locations rather than at each customer's site, enabling customers to access applications remotely via the Web Application delivery that typically is closer to a one-to-many model (single instance, multi-tenant architecture) than to a one-to-one model, including architecture, pricing, partnering, and management characteristics - Centralized feature updating, which obviates the need for downloadable patches and upgrades.

11:50am - 12:20pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Next-Generation Deepwater Reservoir Testing Technologies

Deep water is the most challenging and expensive play in the world today. New reliable equipment, resourceful people and innovative technologies are helping energy companies to become more cost effective. This session will discuss next-generation deepwater reservoir testing technologies that can provide improved economies to operators by enabling more efficient and reliable reservoir testing.

CIO Think Tank

Establishing a Business-Driven Enterprise Architecture Program

The purpose of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is to align organizational strategy, business processes, and information technology. An effective EA practice can lead an enterprise on the road to greater collaboration, innovation, and agility. However, with these ambitious goals, many organizations face challenges in delivering or recognizing real business value from EA.

Topics to be discussed include:

CIO Think Tank

Remaking the Enterprise with Innovative IT Solutions

Technology is playing an increasingly important role in today's highly competitive global marketplace. More and more energy companies are seeking innovative IT solutions to provide higher levels of client and customer service, while dealing with the realities of limited IT budgets and in-house resources.

This session will discuss the following IT challenges and topics:

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Networking Luncheon

2:05pm - 2:35pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Building a Comprehensive Information Security Plan

An information security plan ensures that the business requirements are captured and related risks and controls are addressed. Critical for the plan is to have an established security baseline. This is to ensure that the minimum requirements are met in any given specific area, and should be considered while developing the plan. Building an information security plan requires a detailed understanding of the business as well as the related requirements.

Key components of a comprehensive information security plan:

2:40pm - 3:10pm

Executive Exchange

Roundtable

Roundtable

3:15m - 3:45pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Leveraging Clean Energy Initiatives for a More Profitable Business

Clean energy can be defined as energy resources that meet the energy demand with less pollution than that created by conventional, fossil-based generation. This session will discuss how you can leverage clean energy initiatives for a more profitable business.

Topics to be discussed include:

CIO Executive Visions

Risk Management for the Energy Sector

Disruptive technologies and climate change are two wildcards with the potential to quickly change the delicate balance of energy demand and supply in the future. Companies in the energy sector also face an array of political, legal, and regulatory risks. Those with international operations are particularly susceptible to commercial and security threats arising from currency inconvertibility or transfer restrictions, breach of sovereign contracts, nationalization, confiscation or expropriation of energy assets, and war and civil unrest.

Energy companies should instill practices that reinforce effective risk governance and oversight. Risk management must be supported by people and business units throughout the organization. Authority and accountability for risk decision making must be clearly communicated and enforced.

This executive panel session will discuss risk management for the energy industry, with strategies and best strategies for risk management policies and other guiding documents.

5:00pm - 7:00pm

Reception

7:00pm - 9:30pm

Gala Dinner

9:30pm - 10:30pm

After Dinner Networking

Tuesday, CIO Energy Summit

7:30am - 8:30am

Networking Breakfast

8:40am - 9:20am

CIO Keynote Presentation

IT Management & Cost Optimization

Beyond just reacting to the latest security threats, the CIO need to approach security from the standpoint of risk management, at the same time as growth remains a top priority for most enterprises and IT executives are challenged to provide sustainable management support to increasingly complex business models.  When addressing the challenges becomes a survivor factor, it is crucial for IT leaders to be more effective. Developing an IT organization that successful can deliver innovative solutions, efficient risk management and pervasive cost optimization, is a key success factor for any operator. We will touch on some of these issues and explore some alternatives adopted by energy companies in North America.

9:30am - 10:00am

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Securing the Smart Device -
Do you have a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Strategy?

The convergence between information technology and mobile technology provides opportunities for more effective communication and more efficient management, but it also presents a range of new communications and security challenges. Understanding the advantages and challenges of mobile technology and personal smart devices is crucial. Used wisely, enterprise mobility can improve the services offered, and more powerful solutions can link you directly into the office network while working remotely, for instance to access your business/mission critical data.

This session will discuss how these new device platforms create opportunities for energy businesses to embrace the enterprise mobility in a controlled way, increase enterprise productivity, improve collaboration and reduce the overall mobility spending. The key to taking advantage of these opportunities is bridging the gap between the personal and protected, and securing the smart device.

CIO Think Tank

Using EA to Drive Transformation and Enabling Business Success

Enterprise architecture (EA) governance has important roles to play on the demand and supply sides of IT governance. Strengthen your strategic and transformational position by incorporating enterprise-wide architectural processes. Leverage the techniques and perspectives of EA and increase your chances of success.

This session will discuss the key characteristics of EA governance to improve the business/IT relationship, as well as important considerations for designing effective EA governance.

10:05am - 10:35am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Understanding Heavy Oil: Optimizing Your Reservoir

Energy companies have been extracting and producing heavy oil for over 100 years. Today, rising frontier exploration risks, access to resources challenges, lower gas costs, and low pricing differentials are helping to make heavy oil regions increasingly attractive to producers. However, the main challenge for energy companies is not in finding the resources, but in their ability to extract, produce, and sell heavy crudes within economic guidelines and with minimal environmental impact.

Under stable market conditions, heavy oil reservoirs have the potential to generate many years of steady cash flow. Typically, these fields have the potential to generate ROI for over 50 years. However, when the energy ratio needed to produce and upgrade a barrel of heavy oil can be as high as 40%, the trick is to ensure balanced economics throughout the entire length of the workflow. This session will discuss challenges and innoviative solutions for companies who wish to optimize their heavy oil reservoir.

10:35am - 10:55am

Networking Break

11:00am - 11:30am

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Information Overload: The Data Driven Enterprise

Data comes in different formats, from different sources, and resides in many, many different places. Business intelligence (BI) and predictive modeling (PM) tools can help you remove complexity from your data acquisition process and ultimately present critical information in a way that is helpful and clear. If you are uncertain how to create a concrete data strategy that makes getting results from BI and PM tools possible, this session will help you get a payback from your company's investment in these tools and technologies, and confirm ways of using these tools to their utmost capacity.

11:35am - 12:05pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Think Tank

Technology as a Value Provider -
The Satisfying Customer Experience

In order to attract customers and forge consumer loyalty, every organization must be able to provide a fast, secure and convenient transaction. In addition, even the most vibrant business operate on thin margins, and wrong guesses about trends and customer tastes can have an immediate and devastating impact on profits and ultimately, viability. As a result, CIOs must devote the utmost attention to planning and analysis.

This session will discuss how companies can create value and advance business with technology. How can we use technologies and business intelligence to gain a deeper understanding of customer responses across multiple and converging channels?

CIO Think Tank

Extending the Life of Ageing Assets

This session will discuss how energy organizations can align their goals as a user/operator with industry best practice to extend the life of their ageing assets.

Networking Luncheon

1:15pm - 1:45pm

Executive Exchange

CIO Thought Leadership

Business Database Management: Dealing with Big Data

The relational database (RDBMS) has long been the dominant model for database management, but recently the non-relational database (NoSQL) has gained momentum as an alternative model for database management. What is NoSQL? What are the advantages and what are the limitations? This session will discuss some of the challenges with NoSQL and best practices for businesses dealing with big data.

Topics to be discussed include:

1:50pm - 2:20pm

Executive Exchange

Roundtable

Roundtable

2:30pm - 3:30pm

CIO Executive Visions

The Future of Offshore Production

An increasing portion of oil & gas production is coming from offshore resources, and although advancing technologies now permit production from deepwater and marginal fields, there are increasing concerns over space, weight, stability, safety and reliability. Technologies must be adapted to more restrictive operating conditions and harsh environments.

With decades of global experience in various offshore conditions, this executive panel will discuss solutions and best practices that optimize production, efficiency and safety for a wide range of semi-submersible platforms and floating production units.

Topics to be discussed include:

Concluding Remarks

4:00pm - 6:00pm

Recreation & Relaxation Time

6:00pm - 9:30pm

Farewell Dinner & Networking