Former Southwest Airlines CEO Howard Putnam confirmed to speak at CIOsynergy Chicago

April 23, 2011 - PRLog -- Howard will address an audience of 150 IT leaders who include Chicago based enterprise CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, VPs and Directors of Information Technology. Here they convene for an unparallel networking opportunity in an ultimate learning environment under the umbrella of thought leaders to the likes of Howard Putnam.

The event, which is sponsored by Comcast Business Services, Level3, Angel.com, Acxiom, & Sendmail among others is already playing host to a plethora of CIOs and IT leaders from organizations across Chicago including City of Chicago, Pepsi, Bel Brands, Career Education Corp, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Miller Coors, Allstate, Feeding America, Sidley Austin, AON, Playboy, Tribune Company, Jones Lang LaSalle, WellPoint, and First American Bank among others.

Nepal Patel, Principal, North America at CIOsynergy commented, ‘Leadership and Management skills are very different but equally important; we see many effective paths to attaining key management skills but find effective leadership skills take a more fine tuned approach. The role of the CIO requires an effective leadership model that will incubate a team of forward thinking innovators who can effectively leverage technology to support the goals of the business and its many facets. Who else better to guide these aspiring leaders then world renowned CEOs to the likes of Steve Forbes, Jimmy Wales, and Howard Putnam, all of whom have shared their recipes for effective leadership to 100’s of CIOs and IT leaders through CIOsynergy’.

Sharing strategies, successes, failures, and lessons learned are an important part of the continual education of an effective IT leaders, the speed of innovation is a key challenge that every IT leader must be prepared for. The CIO panel at CIOsynergy looks to explore the path of 5 local CIOs, bridging the gap between industry and size they examine new technologies, implementation methods, successful processes and essential preventative measures to counter the cyber terrorism and digital theft.

For more information visit http://chicago.ciosynergy.com

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CIOsynergy provides a unique platform to bring together the true visionaries of enterprise IT leadership. These are the ‘thought leaders’ that instigate both change and stability within the organizations they serve. Operating throughout the US.

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