The 2014 IT Summit is a program for Executives and professionals in IT. Once a year the Connecticut Tech Council and Mohegan Sun Convention Center host the IT Summit.

1. 9am - 9:45am (Morning Keynoter)
Tony Pagliarulo, Partner, NewVantage PartnersThe rapid pace of business change and radical innovations in technology have dramatically increased the importance of IT to achieving business goals. In the face of these challenges and in order to seize these opportunities, IT leaders need to transform their organizations or risk being left behind as their businesses evolve without them.
10:00am - 11:00am
(Early Morning Panels)
1. Best Practices for Migrating to the Cloud
Cloud technologies are here to stay. Whether it is applications hosted in the cloud, or Platform Services provided in the cloud, every IT executive must have a game plan for success in delivering these solutions to their customers. This panel will offer insights into best practices for migrating to the cloud solutions and provide feedback on what works,
including pitfalls to avoid.
Moderator: John Holland, SVP of Sales, Xand Corporation
Panelists: David Miner, Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Oracle; Clinton France, CEO, Krystallize Technologies, Mike Pellegrino, former CIO, Sun Products Corporation
2. Baseball Lessons for Business: The Business
Benefits from Applying Sabermetrics.
There is a 130% spread in the cost of-to-win rations in baseball over ten years. In business, the sales cost to generate a dollar is even greater. Just as baseball teams used Sabermetrics to increase their odds of winning for a quarter of the payroll of superstar teams, businesses can manage their odds. This session will explore analytic techniques to provide businesses their competitive edge.
Presenter: Bob Suh, CEO, OnCorps, Inc.
3. IT Security – Preventing Cyber Attacks – Keeping the Bad Guys Out
This panel will span the topic of IT Security across two areas. It will offer advice for preventing cyber attacks, followed by what you should do if you suffer a security breach.
Moderator: Christopher Bernard, Managing Director,
Cushman & Wakefield
Panelists: Julie Fitton, CISO, Cloud Services, EMC Corporation; Scott Cowperthwait, Partner, Shipman & Goodwin; Martin McBride, Supervisory Special Agent, FBI
11:15am - 12:15pm
(Late Morning Panels)
1. Enterprise Mobility: How do Companies Stay Ahead in the Mobility Game?
Most enterprises have either already or are actively working on deploying mobile strategy. What are the key trends and predictions for 2014-2015? Hear from industry watchers about what they see ahead.
Presenter: Mark Lowenstein, Managing Director, Mobile Ecosystem
2. Workforce: Where will Our IT Talent Come From?
Demand for IT talent continues to increase. Specific training and skills will be needed as new platforms, technologies and business expectations emerge. Having talent in house (versus outsourcing) has value and reduces the loss of intellectual capital. In addition, few companies have sustained their formal in-house programs and technical and four-year schools may not be training to the level or skills needed. Consulting firms have been able to fill some of the gaps created but attracting resources from other companies has been expensive and at times, disappointing, while the move to outsourcing may have reached its tipping point. So what are the options?
Moderator: Bill Rucci, former CIO, Hartford Steam Boiler
Panelists: Dr. Marianne D’Onofrio, Professor and Chair of the Management Information Systems Department, Central Con(
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necticut State University; Leo Pellerin, CIO, United Way of Connecticut; Melisa Bockrath, Vice President & IT Product Leader, Kelly Services; Kay Lucas, President & CEO, iTech Solutions
3. Social/Business – Built In versus Bolted On
Social technologies, in all forms, are a way of life inside and outside enterprises. Leveraging social tools can no longer be an after-thought. To evolve to a true “social business” that realizes value from social channels, it needs to be embedded in everything a business does throughout the value chain. This includes integration across enterprise solutions data, and key touch points in the customer, employee, vendor and partner experience. Along with the intrinsic incorporation of social into major aspects of the business, methods analyzing performance is key for measuring value driven by social investments. Learn from experts in the field how companies of all sizes can move from leveraging social media tools to building a social business.
Moderator: Joe Miller, CIO, Flo-Tech
Panelists: Johnny Dranchak, CTO, Dow Jones Digital; Scott Holland, Co-founder, HireCampus; Jamie Pappas, Director, Global Brand Communications & Social Media Marketing, Akamai Technologies
12:30pm - 1:30pm
(Lunch & Lunch Keynoter) Michael Leckie, RVP, Executive Programs, Gartner“Brain-Based Collaboration – Changing Your Relationship Without Even Knowing It”
1:45pm - 2:45pm
(Afternoon Panels)
1. CIO Panel Discussion – Sustaining a Culture of IT Innovation
Hear three prominent CIOs talk about what it means to lead an IT organization providing business value, advising company leadership and managing significant IT infrastructure and application changes in the name of innovation and forward- thinking leadership.
Moderator: Greg Fell, Former Global CIO, Terex Corporation
Panelists: Snehal Antani, CIO, Commercial Distribution Finance & CIO Enterprise Architecture, GE Capital Americas; Len Peters, CIO, Yale University; Joseph Puglisi, CIO, QDMH
2. Insourcing – Two Companies Where the
Economics Made Sense
Social networking tools are changing the way we communicate as a business with customers and employees. People who have grown up in the digital age are entering the workforce and making demands that companies are not always prepared to manage or deal with. Too often compliance issues and legal concerns are used as an excuse to disengage from social media and technological advancement. The panel discussion will focus on how to reconcile the need for security and control with the desire to remain flexible and competitive.
Panelists: Doug Saunders, Senior Director, Information Technology, Republic Services; Shane Edmonds, CTO, etouches
3. Big Data for Small Companies – Two Case Studies
More and more companies are becoming savvy about using big data. There are smart ways to harvest data in order to make better decisions. For those looking to tap into big data, here are two companies who waded through the hype and actually figured it out.
Moderator: Tom Hart, COO, Eliassen Group
Panelists: Niraj Jetly, CIO, NutriSavings; Greg Palmer, Founder, Scalinear, Inc.
2:45pm - 4:30pm
(Networking Options)
Post event networking party with fellow attendees and sponsors in the ballroom. Join us for drinks, hors d’oeuvres, chat with attendees, participate in raffle prizes, and meet some of our presenters.
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Snehal Antani holds dual roles at GE Capital: first, he serves as the CIO for Commercial Distribution Finance (CDF), where he’s responsible for driving digital business strategies; and second, he serves as the Chief Architect and CIO of Enterprise Architecture, where he’s responsible for defining the technology vision, strategy, and architecture for the Capital-Americas business. Prior to GE Capital, Snehal spent over a decade at IBM within the Software Middleware Group, where he held a variety of roles across development, lab services, and product management. Snehal has disclosed numerous patents and technical publications in the domains of enterprise application infrastructure and high-volume transaction processing. He earned a BS in computer science from Purdue University, and an MS in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
Christopher Bernard has more than 20 years of progressive experience in a variety of disciplines, with the last 10 years focused on global IT operations and portfolio/ program management. His experience extends to international team leadership, business transformation, M&A and financial management. Chris is a
Certified Organizational Change Consultant, with a strong passion for the business and a commitment to the development of solutions to complex business
issues to enable successful organizations.
Melisa Bockrath has held a variety of leadership, market strategy and business development positions at numerous, well-respected IT organizations across the country and around the world. With a wide array of experiences in product development and marketing, as well as management and consulting, Melissa specializes in providing innovative go-to-market strategies, branding efforts, and product launches to highly reputable organizations. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing Communication from Michigan State
University.
Scott Cowperthwait is a partner at Shipman & Goodwin and a member of the firm’s Data Privacy and Security Team. Scott represents private and public sector entities concerning cybersecurity, infrastructure protection and national security issues. He advises businesses with respect to economic- and cyber-espionage vulnerability issues involving theft of data and technology, and provides guidance on designing and maintaining effective counterintelligence and compliance policies and programs. He is a former two-term president of the InfraGard Connecticut Members Alliance, a public-private association focused on sharing information and intelligence concerning national infrastructure and technology issues. Scott also serves on the State of Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP) and Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security (DEMHS) Advisory Council.
Dr. Marianne D’Onofrio is Professor and Chair of the Management Information Systems Department at Central Connecticut State University. She is also a faculty member in the Master of Science in Computer Information Technology program. She is published in journals including the Journal of Information Systems Education, Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology, the Journal of Informatics Education Research, and the Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications. Dr. D’Onofrio has been a professor at Indiana University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Utah State University. She was also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota. She earned her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University.
Johnny Dranchak is responsible for WSJ. COM, Barrons.com, eFinancialnews.com and their respective mobile products at Dow Jones. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Johnny was Director of Software Engineering for KPMG Tax. As a consultant he has led Agile transformations for MTV/ Nickelodeon, KPMG, Macy’s, JP Morgan, Mizuho and Subway. Johnny has also been responsible for architecting and building large-scale systems for clients such as Nestle, Bank of America and Microsoft.
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Shane Edmonds has an entrepreneurial software engineering and management background that includes a vast array of experience including managing large-scale multi-million dollar software development projects, growing startups, architecting enterprise applications, and executive management of a $100M+ national corporation. Shane has a proven track record of building peak-performing engineering teams and bringing commercial software products to market. In addition, he is a published author who has also taught at the university level. Shane was recognized and awarded in 2012 as a Top 10 Washington DC CIO/CTO by SmartCEO magazine. Shane’s skills and experience include architecting and delivering B2C and B2B commercial software applications for mobile, browser, and enterprise ERP in addition to Data Warehousing/BI solutions and complex multi-system integrations.
Greg Fell is the Chief Strategy Officer for Crisply, a Go-To-Market Strategy of an internet startup positioned in the hot field of Big-Data analytics. Previously (2006 to 2013) Greg was Global Chief Information Officer at Terex Corporation where he was responsible for IT Strategy and day to day IT operations for a $10B global manufacturer of heavy equipment.
Before Terex, Greg worked at the Ford Motor Company in a senior IT position. Greg is also General Partner, and a member of the screening committee for the InvestorsCollaborative a new type of equity fund - part angel capital, part hedge fund.
Julie Fitton has held a variety of security leadership, governance, risk management, and compliance roles during her career. Julie has been a catalyst for positive change and a driving force in shaping EMC’s Global Security organization. She has spent over 17 years in IT and Information Security, is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and holds additional certifications in ITIL Foundation V3 (IT Infrastructure Library), the Homeland Security Comprehensive Assessment Methodology (HLS/CAMS), and is an ISO27001 Lead Auditor. Prior to EMC, Julie spent 10 years with the Hanover Insurance Group.
Clinton France is the founder of Krystallize, a company that offers a cloud comparison and audit tool and runs customer proofs of concept. As founder, Clinton has self-funded the enterprise during its beta stage, having previous experience in running large IT infrastructures for the likes of HP, Microsoft, Boeing and BP. The company has 11 employees and its tool measures the performance of platforms (cloud and on-premises) and compares them to an expected baseline performance.
Tom Hart holds the COO, CIO and CMO titles at Eliassen Group. Tom has deep expertise in building leadership teams, designing and implementing solutions to complex problems, restoring profitability to underperforming companies, driving sales performance, developing software products for financial services companies, and building and launching commercial software solutions. Eliassen Group is the 20th largest IT staffing firm in the U.S., according to the annual rankings compiled by Staffing Industry Analyst Magazine.
Scott Holand is the co- founder of HireCanvas, a start-up dedicated to creating a better campus recruiting experience for recruiters, universities and students by managing data at campus recruiting events. Scott is responsible for business development and relationship management. Prior to HireCampus, he held a variety of roles at Accenture. Scott is a graduate of New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
John Holland is the Senior Vice President of Sales at Xand Corporation where he leads the company’s direct sales and channel sales efforts, connecting customer requirements with appropriate IT infrastructure solutions and guiding partner development strategies. A veteran of the hosting, co-location and availability services industry, John previously served as Vice President of Sales for SunGard; managed the New England and Canada sales teams for Internap Network Services; and held various management and sales positions at Broadwing Communications, Mirror Image Internet and MCI. John is a Saint Anselm College graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business and Economics.
Niraj Jetly serves as Chief Operating Officer and CIO of NutriSavings. NutriSavings is building the first nutrition eco-system where retailers, consumer packaged goods companies, and growers join forces with large employers to get employees healthy. In his capacity, Niraj is responsible for strategic planning, client services,
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product planning and technology strategy for the entire organization. Prior to NutriSavings, Niraj was CIO of Edenred USA, a leading provider of commuter benefits. Niraj was named as a 2013 CIO 100 Honoree.
Michael Leckie is a Vice President of Service Delivery, managing the Northeast U.S. for Gartner’s Executive Programs. Michael leads a team of highly experienced former CIOs and IT executives. He is responsible for service delivery excellence and strategic business development across the region. Before joining Gartner, Leckie worked in consulting, focusing on change enablement, strategy and business transformation (including IPO and M&A). He also held global executive HR and OD roles in Gartner and industry-leading organizations. Michael has an extensive background in talent management and professional development, as well as coaching skills. He speaks regularly on the art and science of leadership, change and influence, in addition to the changing role of the technology leader.
Mark Lowenstein is a leading wireless industry executive, advisor, and commentator. Most recently, Mark was a member of the senior leadership team at Verizon Wireless, where as Vice President of Strategy, he led the company’s efforts in product and business planning, market segmentation, national pricing, and customer intelligence for both consumer and enterprise markets. Prior to his role at Verizon Wireless, Mark was Managing Director of consulting firm Mobile Ecosystem, where he advised companies and C-level executives on market, product, and industry strategy. Prior to Mobile Ecosystem, Mark spent ten years at the Yankee Group, where he founded and led the company’s wireless practices on a global basis. He also managed Yankee Group’s overall research activities in Canada, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. During the course of his fifteen-year career as an industry consultant, Mark has advised major players across the mobile value chain, as well as top advertising agencies, media/entertainment firms, and industry associations. Mark has also had advisory roles with several leading venture capital and private equity firms. He has appeared as an expert witness on wireless industry proceedings, and has been engaged in several prominent cases with the FCC.
Kay Lucas is a staffing industry veteran with more than 20 years experience. She is also proud of the fact that she was one of the frontrunners with the virtual work environment concept and has managed her core staff virtually since 2000. Prior to joining iTech, Kay held varied consulting management roles where she was responsible for technology practices including client- server, business intelligence, data warehousing, enterprise architecture and application development, as well as support projects in the insurance, manufacturing and banking industries. Kay holds a BS in Computer Science from Merrimack University. She is an active member of the Connecticut Technology Council, the Staffing Management Association of Southern New England, WBENC, and the TechServe Alliance.
Martin McBride, FBI Supervisory Special Agent, is assigned to lead the Cyber Squad of the FBI’s New Haven Field Office.The Cyber Squad is responsible for investigating both national security and criminal computer intrusion and other high-tech activities that are in violation of U.S. federal laws and where prosecution of such violations would have venue within the U.S. District of Connecticut.
Joe Miller has guided the development of Flo-Tech’s technology and application infrastructure to support Flo-Tech’s high volume transaction environment. Joe has implemented technologies and best practices in data security, disaster recovery and business continuity to deliver the highest service levels to the company’s clients. Joe has also been instrumental in the development of a number of key Managed Print Services applications that provide added value to clients. To support these and other IT initiatives, Joe has recruited experienced programming staff with expertise in business applications and process automation, business-to-business web portal technologies, accounting applications and service delivery automation.
David Miner has been a senior principal software engineer in Oracle’s Solaris engineering group as an architect for deployment technologies since February 2010. Prior to Oracle’s purchase of Sun, Dave held similar positions at Sun, where he worked for 19 years. Dave’s background is in networking and system administration. During his 19 years at Sun, he worked on the original Solaris admintool and sysidtool, a product related to PC-NFS called SolarNet PC-Admin, the SoSpeaker
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laris DHCP server and DHCP Manager management tool, and the Service Management Facility (SMF). Dave is also a co-author of the book, OpenSolaris Bible.
Tony Pagliarulo leads the IT Transformation practice at NewVantage Partners. Tony was most recently IT Chief Operating Officer and senior vice president for EMC Corporation, the $22B global leader in information infrastructure solutions, where he held senior IT executive positions since joining the firm in 2001. Tony led the firm’s IT transformation, and defined and delivered the company’s IT cloud, big data analytics and mobility strategy. He was named a Premier 100 IT Leader by Computerworld magazine in 2014 and under his leadership, EMC was honored with CIO Magazine’s CIO 100 Award in 2013 and Information Week 500 Award in 2012. Tony was previously CIO for Smith and Nephew, and director of global systems for Boston Scientific. He holds a BS from Providence College, and masters’ degrees from the University of Massachusetts and Bentley University.
Gregory Palmer has 29 years of experience in the enterprise software industry and in that time has helped large corporations and government agencies enhance their data warehouse, ETL, and business intelligence environments to maximize the value of their data. Greg is a certified Hadoop developer and Hadoop administrator and has spent the last four years helping IT organizations plan, develop and deploy Hadoop clusters in their data centers and in the cloud. Greg founded Scalinear, Inc. to provide turn-key big data hardware and cloud solutions to IT organizations that don’t want to build their Hadoop environments from scratch.
Jamie Pappas has been in the marketing and communications field for nearly 15 years, with over a decade of experience transforming the way B2B and B2C brands communicate with their target audiences through the use of digital and social media marketing. Jamie is the Director of Global Brand Communications and Social Media at Akamai Technologies, where she leads the organization’s digital activities across their digital properties and social media. Prior to Akamai, Jamie held leadership roles at AMP Agency and EMC Corporation, where she led the development and execution of award-winning social media campaigns for global Fortune 500 brands. A regular on the social media and enterprise 2.0 speaking circuit, Jamie has been interviewed and quoted by industry analysts, publications and authors worldwide. She holds a Bachelors Degree in English Literature and a Masters in Business Administration with a concentration in Leadership.
Mike Pellegrino was most recently the CIO of Sun Products Corporation where he was responsible for all IT application development and support, integration, infrastructure, architecture and security, and outsourced IT services and program management. Before that, he was the former SVP and CIO at Frontier Communications where he helped transform the IT organization to absorb a large-scale acquisition with Verizon. Prior to joining Frontier Communications, Mike was responsible for leading the information technology department for Fujifilm Holdings America. Mike also spent more than 18 years in a variety of business and technical managerial roles at divisions of Unilever U.S., including IT Director Applications and Director of Integration and Service Development for the global infrastructure team.
Leo Pellerin is currently the CIO of the United Way of CT, an organization that provides the state of Connecticut with 24 hour multilingual 2-1-1 service providing referrals and help for those in crisis. Prior, Leo was the IT Director at Nerac, Inc. where he built a hardware and software infrastructure to support the company during its fast growth cycles. During Leo’s 25 year career in IT he has developed a long list of experience including: infrastructure design, Open Source initiative, Microsoft deployments, Sharepoint, Help Desk implementation, VMWare, Cloud Computing and SAAS, outsourcing, IT cost reduction, HW and SW consolidation, disaster recovery, VOIP, green technology implementation, dB Design, high availability system design, Web technologies, leveraging Web 2.0 Social Networking for business, and transaction processing.
Len Peters is the CIO and Associate Vice President at Yale University. Prior to taking this role, Len served as Associate Dean and CIO at Columbia Business School in New York City. Peters earned his MS in technology management from Columbia, where he wrote his thesis in cloud computing, and completed the Senior Executive Program at Columbia Business School. He has also held IT leadership positions in companies including Merrill Lynch, General Electric, Berkshire Hathaway and Cendant.
Joseph Puglisi is a senior business and technology professional with extensive experience managing complex business and technical environments across industries. He recently joined QDMH as Vice President and Chief Information Officer with responsibility for technology
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Big Thank You to the 2014 Planning Committee
Barbara Deloureiro, Adjunct Lecturer, Babson College
Greg Fell, Chief Strategy Officer, Crisply
Adam Fisher, CTO, JANUS Associates
Tom Lang, Sr. Director, Delivery Management, Fiserv
Jill Mastrianni, Chief Marketing Officer, Shipman & Goodwin LLP
Bill Rucci, Principal, Business Solutions Delivered
Mike Scricca, Membership Director, Connecticut Technology Council
Ron Vernier, SVP & CIO, Hartford Steam Boiler
throughout the global operations of the company. Prior to this, Joe was VP and CIO for EMCOR Group Inc., a leader in specialty contracting and facilities services. Puglisi was responsible for technology strategy and direction for over 75 operating companies throughout the U.S., Canada and the UK. Prior to joining EMCOR, he served as VP and CIO at Chartwell Re, a major insurance and reinsurance company. Before that, he was Corporate Director of IT for Lehrer McGover Bovis, one of the largest Construction Management firms in the world. Joe has a BS and MBA from the Stern School of Business at NYU. He is a frequently sought after speaker and writes a column on technology.
Bill Rucci retired at the end of 2014 as Global Chief Information Officer for Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB) where he had served in that role since January 2000, leading this specialty lines insurance & engineering firm’s IS organization. He managed the IS due diligence and integration with AIG in 2000 and with Munich Re in 2009. Prior to joining HSB, Bill spent many years with Aetna Life and Casualty where he focused on Information Systems management and leading application development, directing IT technical services, and setting IS strategy from a corporate perspective. Bill is a long time member of the Society for Information Management (SIM). Through this organization he and the other members share effective solutions, and spend time investing in the community (developing student’s career interest in IS at the high school and college level). Bill has also served as board member of the Connecticut Technology Council since 2006.
Doug Saunders has 17+ years of demonstrated achievements in delivery of superior technical and program improvements for multibillion-dollar companies. At Republic Services, Doug provides leadership to a team of over 90+ individuals (26 FTE’s including 4 managers) that oversee all Infrastructure and Unified Communications. He manages a 50 million-dollar+ budget and 10+ project portfolio that provides services to internal and external customers. Aligning with Republic’s business strategy, Doug and his teams have architected highly available, resilient infrastructure to support customer and business applications. He is responsible for all data center operations, cloud (public and private), storage, mobility, contact center technologies, collaboration and unified communications strategies for Republic Services.
Bob Suh is Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at OnCorps LLC a company specializing in computer and data science. Previously, he served as the Chief Technology Strategist at Accenture and was responsible for setting its strategy in software, technology, systems integration, and global delivery. In this role, he served as the chief strategist for its $11 billion global software, systems integration, and technology consulting business. Bob was also a group president of Perot Systems. He is a director and investor in several software companies and received a Masters from Harvard University.
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