Grand Rapids Tech Summit

Register Now and you will be able to watch the speakers remotely (both Live Streamed and On-Demand). You will also get 12 monthly speakers by webinar, monthly benefits, access to the other IT leaders community, plus a FREE pass to next year's in-person Summit.

Association Schedule

A. YEARLY KICKOFF MEETING. at 9:30 am until 12:30 pm (also recorded for later).
9:30 am - Welcome and Introduction by Shelly Fitzgerald.
9:35am -What's Working in Supporting Remote Workers (Panel Discussion)
10:30 am - New and Persisting Cybersecurity Threats During COVID-19
11:00 am - Assessing IT Weaknesses Exposed by COVID-19 (Panel Discussion)
12:00 pm - Conclusion and Upcoming Monthly Speakers Schedule (Included).

B. FUTURE MONTHLY WEB DATES. Please mark these future monthly web dates from 2-3 pm EST for an hour each (again all recorded for you to watch at your convenience as well):.

Dates: Jul 16, Aug 10, Sep 1, Oct 1, Nov 9, Dec 1, Jan 11, Feb 8, Mar 8, Apr 12 2021.
(speakers will be top IT leaders from Southwest Airlines, MOI, Macys, COX, Microsoft, and more listed below).

C. YEARLY GRAND FINALE. Likely at the Grand Plaza Hilton as usual from 2-5pm (exact 2021 date to be announced soon once coordinated with the hotel). This will be our big finale in-person summit a year from now when we can celebrate in safety and get back to sharing ideas in-person. Agenda follows below.

D. ONLINE RESOURCES.
You will find past meetings recorded (also completion certificates if you track your development hours), upcoming dates, key articles, book summaries, mentoring resources and more by logging in (monthly benefits) and your registration includes a full year's access.

Featured Current and Past Speakers (INCLUDED On-Demand) . . .

Join your peers by registering now. Gather the key IT knowledge needed to be indispensible. This year's Tech Summit agenda is carefully designed to provide you with the latest IT trends and knowledge needed to make the best possible decisions on behalf of your organization. It will allow you to see the best practices other leading companies have adopted, key IT challenges they are facing, and new solutions that are solving these challenges. The available seating is limited so be sure to sign up as soon as possible to ensure you will have a seat. You are welcome to invite other key people on your team.

Sanjay Shringarpure
CIO
E.J. Gallo Winery

Mike Wright
Global CIO
McKinsey and Co.

Blaine Hurst
EVP and CTO
Panera Bread

Tom Woehrle
VP Global IS
Boston Scientific

Jason Krever
Director IT
Campbell Soup

Bala Subramanian
CTO
Standard and Poor's

Sean McCormack
CTO
Harley-Davidson

Liz Reich
V.P. IT
Mastercard

David Kepler
CIO
Dow Chemical

Jean Wilson
Sr.V..P. IS
LL Bean

Jay Vijayan
CIO
Tesla Motors

Jon Kirby
CIO
AstraZeneca

Agenda Summary

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9:30 am:	Business Continuity Amidst COVID-19
10:00 am:	Tools to Keep remote workers engaged and productive
10:30 am:	Latest Hacker Strategies and Counters
11:00 am:	New in Disaster Recovery
11:30 am:	Mobile and BYOD Security.
12:00 pm:	Conclusion.

Location: Grand Plaza Hilton (changed to viewing online for safety)
Fee: FREE to Register (Due to COVID-19 changed to viewing online for safety both Live
Streamed and On-Demand, also includes 12 monthly speakers by webinar, online IT
community, monthly benefits, plus a FREE pass to next year's in-person Summit.

Example Past Participants in Our Nationwide Events

• AECOM • Aggreko llc • Ally Financial • Altegra Health • Aramark • Arby's Restaurant Group • BB&T • Bell Flavors & Fragrances • Big Lots • Burrow Global, LLC • Capital One • Catholic Charities USA • CH2M HILL • City of Atlanta • City of Fort Worth	• CVS Health • DC Department of HR • Dept of Veteran Affairs • Detroit Housing Comm • Dollar Tree • Dunkin' Bands • Encore Capital Group • Energy Transfer • Equifax • FEMA • First Green Bank • Florida Blue • Franczek Radelet P.C. • FUJIFILM SonoSite, Inc. • GameStop	• Hilton • Hotel Managers Group • Kelly Moore Paint • Kennesaw State • Luminant • Mansfield Oil Company • Marriott • MARTA • McKesson • Montgomery County Gov • Museum of Art • National Labor Relations • Pasco Co Sheriff's Office • PepsiCo • Petro Hunt, L.L.C.	• Rexel USA • Rutgers University • Santander Consumer • SBM Offshore USA, Inc. • Sharp HealthCare • Southeast Restoration • Starwood • SunTrust • The Container Store • Goodyear Tire & Rubber • The Home Depot • TransCentra • TXU Energy • United Natural Foods, Inc • University of Colorado
(and thousands of other leading companies who have attended our many conferences)

Please Thank Our Sponsors.

Fee: FREE to Register (Due to COVID-19 changed to viewing online for safety both Live
Streamed and On-Demand, also includes 12 monthly speakers by webinar, online IT
community, monthly benefits, plus a FREE pass to next year's in-person Summit.

Detailed Agenda

subject to change without notice

9:30 am - Business Continuity Amidst COVID-19
Business continuity planning involves creating the capability to identify how unplanned disasters could disrupt critical business functions, and having a plan allows the organization to take steps to mitigate a disaster’s impact when people, systems, facilities, suppliers, and partners may be unavailable for an extended period. Learn top crisis management and crisis communications techniques, and offer member training and participation in simulation exercises to become skilled in responding to a disaster. Galvanize C-level champions who supports the goal of operational resiliency and create a team within the operations division. Why determining the best way to prepare crisis communications in order to document procedures is necessary to ensure consistent messaging is presented to internal and external stakeholders.

10:00 am - Tools to Keep remote workers engaged and productive
Learn from this panel of operational experts on the best ways to deal with productivity and engagement within a digital work environment. Hear from top organizational experts on the best practices to reach operational targets and goals with an online workforce. Create a personal environment where people are recognized and create times in which you can be responsive to feedback and questions. Learn top execution strategies for regular check-ins and the best online-building techniques.

10:30 am - Latest Hacker Strategies and Counters
Hackers have cost the global economy billions. Additionally, loss of trust of your users whose data was likely compromised. The costs are even harder to bear for small/medium businesses. Everything from attacks on internet banking customers, denial of service attacks, to ransomware viruses. These attacks are daily and varied. Join this session for best practices and leading trends developed to protect companies of all sizes.

11:00 am - New in Disaster Recovery
IT disasters happen every day, in every company. With the right preparation, no one ever hears about them. Without it, these disasters can make the evening news. The first step is to define what your company cannot live without, otherwise known as a Business Impact Analysis (BIA). Once the mission critical applications have been identified, you must then agree upon what is acceptable downtime or the recovery time objective (RTO). The difference between zero downtime and fifteen minutes of downtime is significant from a cost perspective. This session will then cover the new tools available for the actual backup and disaster recovery process including testing. There's little doubt that bring-your-own-device (BYOD) adoption has profoundly changed the enterprise. By 2017, one-half of organizations will no longer provide devices to their employees, according to industry research. This is another banner year where personal devices are expected to make a bigger leap forward than ever and with the line between personal and business blurring, BYOD technology needs to be able to adapt with the changes ahead.

- Keep usage policies updated.
- Secure the end points.
- Track impact and set device ceilings.
- Plan security around the data/content/holes.

11:30 am - Mobile and BYOD Security
There's little doubt that bring-your-own-device (BYOD) adoption has profoundly changed the enterprise. By 2017, one-half of organizations will no longer provide devices to their employees, according to industry research. This is another banner year where personal devices are expected to make a bigger leap forward than ever and with the line between personal and business blurring, BYOD technology needs to be able to adapt with the changes ahead.